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As a child, Mike Wazowski tours the Monsters, Inc. factory and slips after scarer Frank McCay into the human world, and is later given a Monsters University cap. Years later he enrolls in the university's scaring program, where Randy Boggs is his roommate and Dean Abigail Hardscrabble warns that anyone who fails the final exam leaves the program. Sulley, the son of a famous scarer, joins the top fraternity, Roar Omega Roar, which turns Mike down. Mike studies hard while Sulley coasts on his family name. On exam day the two of them damage Hardscrabble's prized scream canister, and she fails them both; Sulley is dropped from his fraternity. Mike enters the Scare Games with Oozma Kappa, a fraternity of misfits.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Monsters University (2013)
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- Screenwriters Rob Muir and Bob Hilgenberg wrote and storyboarded an early draft of Disney's Monsters, Inc. sequel, but Disney's January 2006 purchase of Pixar canceled their version and shut down Circle 7.
- Kelsey Grammer was announced to voice Henry J. Waternoose III, taking over from James Coburn, who died in 2002, but the character was cut from the finished film.
- Monsters University was the first Pixar film to use global illumination, a new lighting system brought in with an overhaul of the rendering system used since the first Toy Story.
- Monsters University has Mike and Sulley meet in college, contradicting a line in the original film where Mike tells Sulley he has been jealous of his good looks since the fourth grade; Dan Scanlon said he had a dilemma with that line during pre-production.
- Monsters University was the first Pixar film not to be nominated for either an Academy Award or a Golden Globe Award.
- To research the film's campus setting, the filmmakers visited Harvard, Stanford, Cornell and MIT, and many of the film's producers spent several weeks at a fraternity house to study fraternity life.
