Leelee Sobieski on College

What do you do when, at age 18, you pocket a cool million dollars for a movie role?

"I bought a few new posters for my dorm room at Brown University," the now-19-year-old Leelee Sobieski says. "I have two Matisses and a Picasso - but not real ones! They're just posters."

Still, Sobieski isn't just another college freshman - not with three films and a major miniseries this fall. That list includes the current films "Joy Ride" and "The Glass House" - for which she landed that $1 million check - plus "My First Mister," opening nationwide during November, and the NBC miniseries "Uprising," airing Nov. 4-5.

"I'm afraid people will get sick of me," she admits. "Hey, I don't like watching myself. It's like looking in a mirror."

Actually, Sobieski says, of all her current endeavors the one that most concerns her is ... school.

"There were some people who said, 'You're nuts, you don't have time for school,'" she says by telephone from her dorm room in Providence, R.I., "but it's very important to me. There are always two or three more movies. But this time in my life will never come again, and I want to have a college experience."

Yes, she has a roommate - a randomly assigned fellow freshman named Cara.

"She has been great," Sobieski says. "She could care less that I'm in movies. It's more about, 'Do you have any turkey left in our little fridge? I'm starving.'"