We Americans are a celebrity obsessed race. Last night I was surfing the internet and found something that will certainly pump you guys up for no reason whatsoever. It’s just that “feel good” factor. When you unexpectedly find yourself having something in common with your favorite celebrity, you feel ecstatic, don’t you? But I don’t, I feel uncomfortable, I blush out of inflated pride (ohh my good God!).
Last night I found out I stand in line with Shaq, Hillary Duff, and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jennifer Love Hewitt…
Man!
Such cool bits of knowledge genuinely charge me up and make me feel on top of the world, as if I was close to wining an Oscar nomination. I am so inspired, so taken-in by my decision to take the online route for education that I doubled my effort, my hard work to score high so that I can later brag about it. That’s precisely what celebrity syndrome does.

All these shining stars of Hollywood (Shaq included) have spent sometimes of their ultra precious lives as online students at some of the leading online schools in the country , in other words they lived like us (humans, and not stars) for a few hours! I am sure you understand it’s no small achievement for us.

While browsing over the internet, I found out Hilary Duff is studying currently at Harvard Extension School. Arnold the hunk and now the Governor of California finished his Bachelors in International Marketing and Business from Wisconsin-Superior in 1979. And Jennifer Love Hewitt, the Sarah Jeeves of Party of Five at Fox completed her high school through a corresponding course.

I was wondering, what difference did it make to them? Say if Shaquille O’Neil the millionaire slam-dunker had never got himself an online degree, what would have happened? Did it change his life? I don’t think apparently it did. But perhaps there is something he gained out of that ‘piece of paper’ that he claims would solidify his stature as a businessman, which we mortal living hand-to-mouth people would never get to know. We can only guess – bigwigs weave big dreams and make big plans. So there is no point in trying to figure out what they gained out of it, just be happy about the fact we are in the same club!