Sort of.

When the actress was asked during a recent event in Cambridge why she had quit Yale after only two years of enrollment, Danes facetiously replied, “I just couldn’t stand the school.” To make clear that all was in good humor, the starlet graciously backtracked, saying, “Nah, school just wasn’t for me. I had too much on my plate.”

Claire Danes, the winner of several Golden Globe and Emmy Awards for her versatile on-screen roles – from fifteen-year-old Angela Chase in My So-Called Life, to CIA agent Carrie Mathison in Homeland – was named The Hasty Pudding Theatrical’s Woman of The Year for 2012.  The actress accepted the honor on January 26 with an appearance at Harvard and participation in a cadre of raucous Hasty Pudding-themed events.

Harvard's chosen drag queens, ready to usher their Woman of The Year 2012.

Posing with the ladies.

Huge crowd along Dunster Street.

After first being paraded along Mass Ave. in an open Bentley with a couple of Harvard’s best drag queens, Danes was ushered into the New College Theatre (oh wait, Farkas Hall?) to attend The Roast of Claire Danes. The actress was called on to the stage to respond impromptu to a selection of Hasty Pudding shenanigans, two of which involved the actress competing in a dance showdown with a mock human-computer and reciting a poem about a certain feminine body part.

The roast was followed by a preview of The Hasty Pudding Theatrical’s upcoming show There Will Be Flood, as well as a Q&A and photo session with the Pudding team.

Danes’ closing thoughts about our fair institution? “I think I would have been happy to go to school here.”

Damn straight, you would have.

Danes' husband, actor Hugh Dancy, in the background

Q&A with the Hasty Pudding.