BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — A 19-year-old suburban-Detroit resident is on track to graduate from The University of Michigan after just a year of study.

Nicole Matisse, of Bloomfield Hills, is to officially graduate in the summer with a bachelor's degree in psychology.

As a student at Lahser High School, Matisse had exhausted the curriculum by her junior year. Between the exams she passed on eight advanced placement courses and the eight classes she took at Oakland Community College, she had amassed enough credits to enter the university last fall as a junior.

"When I got to U-M, I only took 19 credits, and I was bored and craved more credits," she told The Detroit News for a Wednesday story. "So even when I took 27 credits this semester, I felt I could have added even more."

'Determined young lady'
It's unclear whether any other students have done what Matisse will accomplish this year, but Donna Wessel Walker, assistant director of the honors program, said she's never seen it happen.

"She's taking in one semester the course load that most people take in two," Wessel Walker said. "She is one determined young lady."

Matisse's next step is to start as a first-year student at the Wayne State University law school in Detroit.



Wow! shes' smart

I envy her... hahaha... j/k

I know she's from over here in Michigan baby!

You know, not anybody can do that, but then again, who would want to waste all that time? I admire her achievement, but I'm sorry that she did that to herself. = /

All I have to say is wow... now that one overachiever! I'd be waayyy too lazy to ever want to do that... I mean if I pass all my AP test i can start as a sophomore, but that's about it... I'm not smart enough to pass enough to become a junior, plus I'm what you would call a minimalistic overachiever, i.e. I only do enough so i can get what I want.

that's crazy !
i'd like to graduate as quickly as her

me too... but my bitchy school don't do that

i would like to do that too

FAILURE.

Wut exactly have you gotten? LAID? NOPE.

How is it wasting time when she now can enter - at 19 - into the workforce and probably get a very high paying job while she gets her law degree? I'd LOVE to be done with undergrad at 19!

i wish i can do that

She's giving up the college experience.
Thats what its all about --- SCRAPE THROUGH EXAMS! BOOZE! PARTIES! SEX! haha

She's clearly a loser, she wouldn't do any of that anyway.

She can now get pregnant.

^

Cool.. must be nice to crave education when you're bored, rather than mindless entertainment.

I'm sure, but it just seems like she's missed out on the whole experience of being a kid, a teenager, and even a college student. There's plenty of time to be an adult later.

Getting an education does not mean you are missing out on enjoying life. There are many people who enjoy learning and for all you know, this was only part of her experience. It is possible that she had a life after class or even met great people in class. Not to mention, she can still do everything after graduate school, it is not like she has completely limited her life. As for the experience a college student gets, she can still get that in graduate school.

Kudos to her for being so determined.

I wish I was that determined