"At age 28, ten years after dropping out, Franco decided to go back to college…he threw himself back into his education with crazy abandon. He persuaded his advisers to let him exceed the maximum course load, then proceeded to take 62 credits a quarter, roughly three times the normal limit [while still acting]…He graduated in two years with a degree in English and a GPA over 3.5. He wrote a novel as his honors thesis…[And now] he’s enrolled in four graduate programs at once…[commuting between] Brooklyn, Greenwich Village, Morningside Heights, and occasionally North Carolina."

EXCERPTED FROM THE JAMES FRANCO PROJECT in New York Magazine (via Blankenship)