It’s _finally_ summer, which means it’s graduation season. From eighth grade promotions to Mizzou’s own graduation a few weeks ago, it’s the end of school for a lot of students. Or, if we aren’t fortunate enough to be graduating just yet, at the very least it’s a 12-week break from class for the rest of us. Hallelujah.

By the end of April it feels like I’m crawling towards finals feeling preemptively defeated and really cranky. With good reason too, because school is hard.

Like, really hard.

And sometimes it’s easy to get lost in the stress and commotion of life and forget how important education is. Especially when we take a look at the price tag of a college education, which personally kind of makes me want to cry whenever I think about it. So when we forget the importance of higher education, or when we think that dropping out sounds appealing (such as during every all-nighter ever and before/after every major test), we need to look towards Emma Watson to remind us to carry on.

In addition to being an extremely successful actress and model, Emma Watson can now add “college graduate” to her resume. Watson graduated from Brown University on May 23 with a bachelor’s degree in English literature, proving to the world just how perfect she really is. Between temporarily transferring to Oxford, taking a year off and starring in four movies, she still managed to get a degree in only five years, a feat that is difficult even for students without movies to film and premieres to attend across the world.

Unfortunately, we can’t all be Emma Watson. Trust me, if I could be any celebrity in the world it would be her, because she’s pretty great. But even if we can’t be the awesome British actress, we can add a little Watson into our daily lives.

When it comes to college, we need to start thinking, “What would Emma Watson do?” And Emma Watson would channel her inner Hermione Granger and work her butt off trying to get her degree even though it’s difficult and time consuming, so we should follow her lead.

Now I know we all don’t — or at least I don’t — have the financial stability or the ability to go to an Ivy League school like Watson does. She did have an advantage against us average unknown students in that regard, but if she can graduate from a top-notch school like Brown University while still filming several movies and attending awards shows across the country and becoming a certified yoga instructor — because what _doesn’t_ she do? — without so much as a Time-Turner all while still looking fabulous, then we regular human beings can also channel that inner Hermione and graduate from college.

We can do it. Even if it sucks sometimes. It sucked for Watson, who had to deal with being famous while just trying to go to class without getting her picture taken, and it sucks for Mizzou Tigers, who have to go to class in negative temperatures and get really irregular annoying schedules (darn you, my one class at 1 p.m. on Fridays! Why are you necessary?) but we shall persevere. If Emma Watson can do it, we can too.

Besides, who doesn’t want to have something in common with Emma Watson? Even if it’s just something like a college degree in a different field of study and from a different school, that’s still one more similarity than we had before.

Now, I realize that my overwhelming adoration for her might make me a little biased, but I think Emma can be seen as a role model for high school and college students. If you’ll excuse me, I have to go change my major to English literature so I can be more like her.