Pharrell Williams Joins Mob of Famous People Affiliated With NYU

Former Victoria's Secret angel Karlie Kloss was nervous on her first day of school this year, proving that celebrities really are just like us. (If we were taller, perfectly toned, and our hair looked like spun gold.)

Power teen Tavi Gevinson supposedly started at NYU this year, but how she added school to her life of producing a magazine endorsed by Jane Pratt and Ira Glass, starring on Broadway, speaking to massive crowds like a tiny cult leader and hanging with her friends and taking selfies like a mostly average teen is mystifying.

The son of New York City's almost-mayor/grocery store mogul/oil baron John Catsimatidis graduated from NYU just last year, and is now stumping for Jeb! as the chair of the New York Federation of College Republicans.

Film director Spike Lee is a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts. Maybe he and Pharrell can hang.

Dakota Fanning was reportedly a senior last year, majoring in women’s studies with a focus on the portrayal of women and film in culture.

James Franco got an Masters in film from NYU, after apparently snoozing in class and allegedly getting a professor fired for giving him a D. He also at one point taught a class on adapting poetry into short films.

Gigi Hadid, daughter of everyone's favorite Real Housewife of Beverly Hills, is in her junior year at NYU where, she told the New York Post, her classmates don't notice her because "I kind of go to school in, like, a sweatshirt and sweatpants."