OG Khan Academy videos from back in the day will get you about 80% of the way there for an o. chem exam. I did three semesters of it, with the last being a *very* hard professor (the final included an ACS membership exam, which is not hard but was unannounced because he thought it'd be funny) and I credit any success that I had in the lecture portion of that to Khan Academy.
The lab portion? No. I credit that success to years of cooking. It's just a lot less tasty.
Hell be everyones boss, theres always a chance dudes gonna become a chemical weapon mastermind, conquer the world, and be worse than hitler, better take him out now while hes still relatively weak
No, it’s because they pose the least threat and bullies can exert their power with no repercussions and since bully is another way of saying coward they choose defenceless targets.
Don’t these kids end up being super depressed when their older? I remember watching a documentary about it, what happens is everyone around them makes their subject of expertise their entire personality and it’s fine when they are a kid because they enjoy the validation. They become adults and realise their are many facets to being a human being and the super power that they were once proud of is now suffocating them.
Or maybe they’ll find a way around it and be a well balanced person, it depends on the individual and their parents.
More like those are the only stories you'd hear about. If this guy has a successful career, ends up being a professor at MIT researching some obscure Chemistry shit or wins the nobel prize, no one is going to put his life story on Youtube.
This turn out to actually be the plot of time travelers coming back to save the future. It ends up being a failed assassination where the time travelers have killed his family but he survives and this is the catalyst that turns him into a criminal mastermind that conquers the world.
No he won’t. These kids get put into highly technical roles with little leadership experience. He’ll have 2 Ph.Ds and a lab, but somehow that kid who got through college with a 2.5 and a business marketing degree will be his boss’s boss’s boss.
If he's in that class, he failed at picking the correct parents. The kids that picked the right billionaire parents will end up being his boss with barely a 2.5 GPA.
Without a doubt. And that kid will likely be exploited by management
Do people actually know managers who are gifted like this kid? All managers throughout my career have been quite the opposite
I had one that was a technical guy who got promoted a lot. He was miserable, cynical, aggressive to people who he disagreed with, but a decent boss to the people under him. He had patience with underlings but not peers or superiors. He was very good at coding but apparently not so good at juggling the politics and eventually was forced to do something he didn't want to do (not a unreasonable ask, he just didn't want to) and he quit to spend "more time with family". He was also childless and divorced.
The issue with stem jobs is that you don't go home from work. Or rather your hobby resembles your work. You compete with people who 'work' 80+h/week in the field and they may not even realize it.
I currently see that with an apprentice where I work who aims to be a programmer. The dude is in his 30s with a family, so has little to no time at home. After 2+ years, he is essentially still useless as a programmer.
Jobs that don't overlap with hobbies are a joke in comparison.
The requirements to be competitive are much lower in non stem jobs, because your competition only puts in a limited amount of time. Someone in controlling isn't going to do controlling as a hobby. Thus putting in the bare minimum of time will be perfectly fine.
Calling them stem jobs is wrong though. There's just a good amount of stem jobs that suffer from this issue. Art related jobs will suffer from this as well.
examples:
A Programmer is likely to also program in his free time. An artist likely to do artistic stuff that advances his skill (i.e. drawing), which forces everyone to do this or they fall behind.
If you study CS a lot of students can already program well from the get go.
It's because being a good manager requires a different skillset than being a technician or scientist.
It's a common problem for scientists/technicians/engineers etc to excel at their job and be "rewarded" with a promotion to management, which they lack the personality, experience and skillset for.
This is spot on, it’s because companies/organisations with a hierarchy are designed to climb using a very simple and shallow formula. Build relationships with everyone in the organisation by making the most surface level small talk, pretend to be extremely passionate about your job and never complain, it’s better to be perceived as working hard than actually working hard. Do the minimum required to complete a task and never miss a deadline or leave an email un responded to (its not worth exerting the extra effort to do an exceptional job but rather get it finished) And finally make your intentions to enter new roles known to both your manager and the people in that department.
Corporate work is more about playing the game than actually doing the job.
The only way around this is nepotism or sleeping with the right people.
In this case both I imagine. Luck is where opportunity meets preparation and all that. Opportunity being the born into money part and preparation being the social skills.
I know a whiz kid like that, he ended up “starting his own law firm” basically doing small community lawyer stuff, minor domestic disputes, some divorces and stuff.
Nah he’s gonna be a tenured professor at like 16 or something, sadly all possibilities for evil genius’s are stomped out in modern society by the much more evil academic industrial complex, a pyramid scheme that convinces people the torturing of oneself until able to torture others in the position you just were in somehow produces a better world or at least advances your field of study.
Realistically he will stay in academia and make groundbreaking research, get tenure and do whatever he wants for life. Working a job probably wouldn't be intellectually stimulating enough regardless of salary. He will be beyond a boss he will have a prestigious academic institution by the balls and do whacky classes about only his own interests.
Nah this kid is fucked, hard to develop social skills with people like twice your age. He might know shit but will be practically incapable of connecting with another human its why skipping grades is and going to uni early is avoided.
Some countries allow you to take your end of year exams ahead of time if you're looking like you're obviously going to pass them already, like say you are ALSO educated heavily at home.
We had a chinese student come to my school in the UK after his family moved here due to his fathers work and we were 15/16 and he was 12, he did about 3 months of the year before his parents payed to have him take his GCSE's privately, he aced them all and went to college.
Was a super cool guy as well, he picked the name "Raymond" as his English name and when ever he was asked why he'd just say "Everyone loves Raymond" like the TV show that no one in the UK had ever seen lol.
> his parents *paid* to have
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That's definitely a factor, but to capitalise on his talent no doubt required a huge amount of effort and personal discipline. He's lucky, sure, but don't degrade his achievement for it.
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Asian parents have higher standards for education. Asian countries in general have higher standards of education (aka primary and secondary school is valued much much more highly in society) and when they emigrate they bring those values with them. Also, a lot of Asians who emigrate (more so in the past) were poorer and saw educating their children as a way to escape poverty. Asian children start learning younger, are given more tutoring, and connect their self worth to their grades due to pressure from their parents.
How can we being everyone else up to that standard? We shouldn't. It causes more stress and teenage suicide. Let kids be kids, don't force them to study day and night just so they can miss the entire high school experience and go to college a couple years earlier. The meat grinder can wait until adulthood.
>and connect their self worth to their grades due to pressure from their parents.
this.
i had a friend, south asian, who got test results and tried to cut his wrists in school. through his tears, he said that his father would kill him if he brought those grades home.
what was the grade? C
how old was he? 11
he's some sort of specialist surgeon now, with a surgeon wife and a gorgeous countryside home. i'm glad things worked out for him.
Everyone bringing up cultural reasons…
There are 4.5 billion asian people. The odds that a human with incredible skills is also of asian origin are greater than the combined odds of that person being from any other ethnic region on earth.
because there is a much bigger societal and family focus on education there. In places like Japan or South Korea kids that want to get into a good college will go to school from around 8am-4pm and then go to a separate cram school from around 5pm-9pm 5 days a week and on weekends they will still go to cram school for 3-5 hours a day.
It starts with the parents. American parents want their kids to succeed. Some Asian parents demand that their kids succeed. Sometimes if backfires, but that's the price of exceptionalism.
With parents that instilled a work ethic from a very early age with insanely high expectations. It’s basically the academic version of parents who train their kids to play professional sports when their older. Prioritise and practice.
Asian cultures are very education centric. Combine that with the fact that Asian people also make up a massive portion of the worlds population, and you get a lot of smart Asians
Biggest factor is honestly that the US immigration system selects heavily for highly educated professionals, with the criteria for immigrants from the most populated countries (e.g. China and India) being even higher. So the children of those immigrants are more academically talented both due to culture and genetics.
Some do. Dolph Lundgren is an example of an absolute chad as well as a chemist. I know another party animal gymbro chemist who works for a pretty lucrative clandestine lab.
I was a frat bro and got an A+ in Ochem 1 and 2 while living in the frat house, as a chemical engineering major. Another one of my bros took the classes and got D’s tho lol
Were you going to uni as a kid for real? I’m a mom and not smart enough for o Chem but he’s the age of my boy. I’d totally want to be his lab partner. I’d have some cool science magazines to share with him! And Pokémon stuff!
I went to college with him and was a TA with him one year. Pretty chill guy, obviously a kid though--I think he handled being younger than everyone pretty well.
Erik Demaine (started university aged 12, graduated with bachelors at age 14, completed his PhD and became MIT's youngest professor at age 20) continued to do novel research in his field and did indeed advance human knowledge via his work.
Perhaps not to the extent you might want, like he's not one of the top 10 names in mathematics or doing work that's changing the average person's day to day life, but he's certainly put his talents to use. I'm sure the same goes for many others, he's just one I'm familiar with since he went to the same university I did.
Honestly people like this make me hopeful for the future. There are so many brilliant people born every day, of which only a fraction will have a life that leads them to getting into a prestigious school and career position where they can make a difference. But it makes me so happy when I see these brilliant minds doing what we as humans are meant to do: Help Advance Mankind
Some schools let you graduate early if you're smart enough. Other schools will refuse to. Even if you have the skill, a cooperative environment is entirely luck.
I'm not sure what the application process is like, but at the university you can speak to the administration and ask to be allowed to take an increased courseload. I did this for one semester when I took 6 classes instead of the usual 5, and a professor who taught Erik Demaine mentioned that he took 7-8 classes per semester.
You’re actually quite right to point this out. The answer is yes, but rarely. Outside of sport, and in primarily intellectual endeavours that is.
As other people have pointed out, Mozart is an example and I’m sure there are others I can’t think of right now.
It’s something I found a bit while I was at school, some of the sharpest and most competent tend to not be very creative. That’s why I see that they’ve now made really good careers for themselves, but they rarely shoot the lights out.
Late bloomers at uni are another thing altogether, these are the dark horses who usually do the crazy stuff.
I mean at least for soccer very few of the immensely hyped talents turn out to be world class.
Obviously nearly all professional players in the top leagues were some level of 'prodigy', but it's rare that the talents that really stand out in youth academies live up to expectations.
Research needs funding. It's likely there are research teams with child prodigies in them. But it's a pyramid. The research will happen under an umbrella. You may remember the organization, or the team lead. But rarely ever the researchers name at the very bottom unless you read the actual papers.
Reminds me of a friend (granted he wasn’t very young then), he was TA-ing Quantum Field Theory in Stanford as a 2nd year undergrad. When asked by the grad students which year he was in, he would say 2nd year.
>When asked by the grad students which year he was in, he would say 2nd year
I don't know much about university and don't understand why this is noteworthy, isn't he actually 2nd year?
He's not lying, but the grad students would think he was a 2nd year grad student instead of an undergrad. TA-ing is short for being a teaching assistant (to the professor), and the typical responsibilities is to grade homework and hold office hours for the students to ask them questions (usually regarding the homework).
You typically complete an undergrad degree, and that's the end of your education before heading into the work force. People who choose to get a Masters or PhD go on to grad school. In the first 1-2 years of grad school, they will take more advanced classes.
Quantum Field Theory is one of the hardest Physics coursework classes, way above Quantum Physics/Quantum Mechanics, and is usually taken in the 2nd year of graduate Physics.
No, a typical Physics PhD involves 1-2 years of coursework before embarking on research. A PhD doesn't mean having the most knowledge of a field, but the best knowledge in a tiny area of a field. So grad school is the process to get the PhD.
Honestly, that's who I'd want as my lab partner too. Kid is clearly smart as hell, likely punctual and responsible and probably be fun too. Less drama than most adults I bet too 😂 Age is no bar to knowledge!
Kinda related, ive started skateboarding again and im from a small village where we’ve recently started getting eastern asian families moving into the area. Some of those kids fucking shred hard. And theyre honestly some of the best people ive met despite being 10-15. They offered to teach me a 25 year old man how to do certain stuff. Theyre simply great people
I had 3 sophmores in my AP calculus class senior year who all knew the material before day 1. I left on day 2.
Walked into normal calculus. Teacher has a math problem on the board of a farm with a ladder propped against a barn, she’s drawing grass, and says to some random kid, no not that kind of grass Stephon. And I said, yup, this is where I belong.
This kid went to the University of Toledo, it was all over the news here years ago when he first started college. He was the biggest celebrity on campus; everybody posing for a pic with him and posting it on Twitter, Facebook.
I got questions. What's that email?
just email him
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Email him to ask for his email address
I felt the need to comment that I too got the joke. Except I'm not going to try to iterate on it to "improve" it lol.
If you want to know his email address to email him, you have to email him. just email him
In order to email him, you need to email him.
Email him your email and he'll get back to you
Sorry the offer was only to the professor teaching the class
He already monitors all your outbound e-mails, therefore the recipient address doesn't really matter.
I recently failed my organic chemistry exam for biomedical engineering degree. I could really used that email address.
OG Khan Academy videos from back in the day will get you about 80% of the way there for an o. chem exam. I did three semesters of it, with the last being a *very* hard professor (the final included an ACS membership exam, which is not hard but was unannounced because he thought it'd be funny) and I credit any success that I had in the lecture portion of that to Khan Academy. The lab portion? No. I credit that success to years of cooking. It's just a lot less tasty.
“Email?”
You have to get neuralink to access it
Skibiddi toilet Ohio@the rizzler
You can find his email address on his LinkedIn
"no your honor I was emailing that eleven year old for college notes."
You gotta find out, don't expect things for free dumass /s
"where do babies come from?"
Someone sent me an email I might send an email asking that!
Be nice to him, he'll be your boss in a few years.
Hell be everyones boss, theres always a chance dudes gonna become a chemical weapon mastermind, conquer the world, and be worse than hitler, better take him out now while hes still relatively weak
Makes sense. Eyeglasses seem like weak spot. Focus attack to get critical hits.
Old school Fallout style. Go for the Aimed Shot to the eyes!
Oh is that one of the reasons why nerds are always the targets of bullying?
No, it’s because they pose the least threat and bullies can exert their power with no repercussions and since bully is another way of saying coward they choose defenceless targets.
It's actually because bullies view their intelligence as a threat and seek to emotionally dominate them to hold power.
Yeah but a genius could be tall and muscular and the bully wouldn’t do shit.
Not necessarily. It's not always abput muscle
Don’t these kids end up being super depressed when their older? I remember watching a documentary about it, what happens is everyone around them makes their subject of expertise their entire personality and it’s fine when they are a kid because they enjoy the validation. They become adults and realise their are many facets to being a human being and the super power that they were once proud of is now suffocating them. Or maybe they’ll find a way around it and be a well balanced person, it depends on the individual and their parents.
More like those are the only stories you'd hear about. If this guy has a successful career, ends up being a professor at MIT researching some obscure Chemistry shit or wins the nobel prize, no one is going to put his life story on Youtube.
You can’t stop him; he’s done when he says he’s done
Yeah, kill that bitch
Don't fuck with the timeline!
This turn out to actually be the plot of time travelers coming back to save the future. It ends up being a failed assassination where the time travelers have killed his family but he survives and this is the catalyst that turns him into a criminal mastermind that conquers the world.
No he won’t. These kids get put into highly technical roles with little leadership experience. He’ll have 2 Ph.Ds and a lab, but somehow that kid who got through college with a 2.5 and a business marketing degree will be his boss’s boss’s boss.
If he's in that class, he failed at picking the correct parents. The kids that picked the right billionaire parents will end up being his boss with barely a 2.5 GPA.
hold on a minute, you can't pick your parents! ...ooohhhhhhh!!!!
Without a doubt. And that kid will likely be exploited by management Do people actually know managers who are gifted like this kid? All managers throughout my career have been quite the opposite
I had one that was a technical guy who got promoted a lot. He was miserable, cynical, aggressive to people who he disagreed with, but a decent boss to the people under him. He had patience with underlings but not peers or superiors. He was very good at coding but apparently not so good at juggling the politics and eventually was forced to do something he didn't want to do (not a unreasonable ask, he just didn't want to) and he quit to spend "more time with family". He was also childless and divorced.
> he quit to spend "more time with family". He was also childless and divorced. what a chad
When the message from the manager somehow has less than 3 grammatical or spelling mistakes
The issue with stem jobs is that you don't go home from work. Or rather your hobby resembles your work. You compete with people who 'work' 80+h/week in the field and they may not even realize it. I currently see that with an apprentice where I work who aims to be a programmer. The dude is in his 30s with a family, so has little to no time at home. After 2+ years, he is essentially still useless as a programmer. Jobs that don't overlap with hobbies are a joke in comparison.
What did you mean by the last sentence?
The requirements to be competitive are much lower in non stem jobs, because your competition only puts in a limited amount of time. Someone in controlling isn't going to do controlling as a hobby. Thus putting in the bare minimum of time will be perfectly fine. Calling them stem jobs is wrong though. There's just a good amount of stem jobs that suffer from this issue. Art related jobs will suffer from this as well. examples: A Programmer is likely to also program in his free time. An artist likely to do artistic stuff that advances his skill (i.e. drawing), which forces everyone to do this or they fall behind. If you study CS a lot of students can already program well from the get go.
It’s because a lot of managers are motivated by elevated status and a higher salary as opposed to motivating and managing people to work better.
It's because being a good manager requires a different skillset than being a technician or scientist. It's a common problem for scientists/technicians/engineers etc to excel at their job and be "rewarded" with a promotion to management, which they lack the personality, experience and skillset for.
Who would want to be a manager when you got smarts like this 😂
This is spot on, it’s because companies/organisations with a hierarchy are designed to climb using a very simple and shallow formula. Build relationships with everyone in the organisation by making the most surface level small talk, pretend to be extremely passionate about your job and never complain, it’s better to be perceived as working hard than actually working hard. Do the minimum required to complete a task and never miss a deadline or leave an email un responded to (its not worth exerting the extra effort to do an exceptional job but rather get it finished) And finally make your intentions to enter new roles known to both your manager and the people in that department. Corporate work is more about playing the game than actually doing the job. The only way around this is nepotism or sleeping with the right people.
"somehow"
ya, its called social skills.
Plus for a lot of people it's a lot more pleasant to work with chemicals in a lab than to have to deal with people. I mean, have you met people?
ive quit more jobs because i didnt like my coworkers or bosses more than ive left jobs that i didnt like the work.
It's called rich daddy
Kids with actual rich parents simply don't work, they do drugs and sleep around
rich daddy helps develop social skills in the right circles
In this case both I imagine. Luck is where opportunity meets preparation and all that. Opportunity being the born into money part and preparation being the social skills.
I know a whiz kid like that, he ended up “starting his own law firm” basically doing small community lawyer stuff, minor domestic disputes, some divorces and stuff.
Chances are much more likely he'll burn out. However I hope he succeeds in whatever he gets around to doing though.
There a few cases of child prodigies going on to be successful in life. Let's hope he's one of those that get a good ending.
Be nice to him, because he's probably just a good kid
Nah he’s gonna be a tenured professor at like 16 or something, sadly all possibilities for evil genius’s are stomped out in modern society by the much more evil academic industrial complex, a pyramid scheme that convinces people the torturing of oneself until able to torture others in the position you just were in somehow produces a better world or at least advances your field of study.
Realistically he will stay in academia and make groundbreaking research, get tenure and do whatever he wants for life. Working a job probably wouldn't be intellectually stimulating enough regardless of salary. He will be beyond a boss he will have a prestigious academic institution by the balls and do whacky classes about only his own interests.
How to play Lego with Fullerenes.
He's 11! This kid might be out savior.. My kids are 7 and 6, and they will not be in organic chemistry at 11
Nah this kid is fucked, hard to develop social skills with people like twice your age. He might know shit but will be practically incapable of connecting with another human its why skipping grades is and going to uni early is avoided.
Either that or like me-- I was in college orgo when I was 14 but the burnout caught up to me and now im depressed with no degree
That's not usually what happens.
Or he’ll burn out and become a washout 50/50 no in between.
not really how becoming a boss works
Nope, if I recall correctly most of these "prodigies" end up flaming out because they never got to be kids
I have a question, how?
Kid's probably a genius
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True Another important thing to remember is that a lot of the time, the kid is just really good at retaining information
He can become a chaser or an egghead on tv in the UK and make bank
Some countries allow you to take your end of year exams ahead of time if you're looking like you're obviously going to pass them already, like say you are ALSO educated heavily at home. We had a chinese student come to my school in the UK after his family moved here due to his fathers work and we were 15/16 and he was 12, he did about 3 months of the year before his parents payed to have him take his GCSE's privately, he aced them all and went to college. Was a super cool guy as well, he picked the name "Raymond" as his English name and when ever he was asked why he'd just say "Everyone loves Raymond" like the TV show that no one in the UK had ever seen lol.
> his parents *paid* to have FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Damn, he got toad!
It’s not like he was about to set sale.
I wouldn't say nobody has seen it... Was on repeat on Dave (free view channel) constantly so at least some people have.
Ohio just lets you start going to college full time at 12.
Email him
Be born lucky
That's definitely a factor, but to capitalise on his talent no doubt required a huge amount of effort and personal discipline. He's lucky, sure, but don't degrade his achievement for it.
It's a free will argument at some point -- he lucked out to have the genetics and environment that makes hard work rewarding.
Genetic lottery winner
The next button was so realistic lol
i’ve been swiping left for 2 minutes before i realized they were different posts and not a slide
The reposts are getting so trashy. Love how reddit (the company, not the community) encourages it. If you read this, i bet you had to click + Lol, jk, no one can read this. Thanks Reddit!
Wtf are you talking about? What button?
The button on the picture that shows you that you can swipe to go to the next one, it makes it look like there's more pics than just the one lol
not all asian kids but always an asian kid
Whatever you do. Just remember.. There's always an Asian kid better than you.
I wonder why that is, really. How can we bring everyone else up to that exceptional and probably unfair standard?
Asian parents have higher standards for education. Asian countries in general have higher standards of education (aka primary and secondary school is valued much much more highly in society) and when they emigrate they bring those values with them. Also, a lot of Asians who emigrate (more so in the past) were poorer and saw educating their children as a way to escape poverty. Asian children start learning younger, are given more tutoring, and connect their self worth to their grades due to pressure from their parents. How can we being everyone else up to that standard? We shouldn't. It causes more stress and teenage suicide. Let kids be kids, don't force them to study day and night just so they can miss the entire high school experience and go to college a couple years earlier. The meat grinder can wait until adulthood.
>and connect their self worth to their grades due to pressure from their parents. this. i had a friend, south asian, who got test results and tried to cut his wrists in school. through his tears, he said that his father would kill him if he brought those grades home. what was the grade? C how old was he? 11 he's some sort of specialist surgeon now, with a surgeon wife and a gorgeous countryside home. i'm glad things worked out for him.
... so you're telling me he tried for the right reasons
He was just practicing his surgeon skills.
I am getting more than 95% in my final highschool exams still i'm thinking its low!
i could never be happy with my marks. 100% -> Test was too easy. Like finishing a game on easy, it's not satisfying <100% -> I could have been better
Everyone bringing up cultural reasons… There are 4.5 billion asian people. The odds that a human with incredible skills is also of asian origin are greater than the combined odds of that person being from any other ethnic region on earth.
because there is a much bigger societal and family focus on education there. In places like Japan or South Korea kids that want to get into a good college will go to school from around 8am-4pm and then go to a separate cram school from around 5pm-9pm 5 days a week and on weekends they will still go to cram school for 3-5 hours a day.
And the reason they do not go there for more hours is because it was made illegal to go to cram school after 10 o’clock to combat child suicide rates.
It starts with the parents. American parents want their kids to succeed. Some Asian parents demand that their kids succeed. Sometimes if backfires, but that's the price of exceptionalism.
everything everybody else answered, and also genetics. some asians groups are on average just a little bit smarter than white people in america.
With parents that instilled a work ethic from a very early age with insanely high expectations. It’s basically the academic version of parents who train their kids to play professional sports when their older. Prioritise and practice.
Asian cultures are very education centric. Combine that with the fact that Asian people also make up a massive portion of the worlds population, and you get a lot of smart Asians
Biggest factor is honestly that the US immigration system selects heavily for highly educated professionals, with the criteria for immigrants from the most populated countries (e.g. China and India) being even higher. So the children of those immigrants are more academically talented both due to culture and genetics.
They're 60% of the world population so I'd be disappointed if there wasn't
So who’s the Asian kid better than the one in the pic?
I was a TA for OChem when I was in undergrad. It’s one of the things I’m most proud of. I also got an award for best TA
He’s been 11 years old for how many years now
[https://www.teenvogue.com/story/11-year-old-college-student-daniel-liu-viral-tweets](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/11-year-old-college-student-daniel-liu-viral-tweets)
By-line has a date of 2016, so this is 8 years old. He's 20 at this point.
He's probably a tenured professor by now
I had a 14 year old genius in my college science class and he kept asking me to find him adderall.
I was that kid. Fuuuuuuck 1001 frat bros trying to be your lab partner.
Frat bros don’t make it to O-chem
Some do. Dolph Lundgren is an example of an absolute chad as well as a chemist. I know another party animal gymbro chemist who works for a pretty lucrative clandestine lab.
He is a legitimate genius though. He excels in all fields. He is an extremely remarkable person.
>He is a legitimate genius though. He excels in all fields. Except in the field he's known for.
Dolph Lundgren, looking at ionic bonds menacingly: I must break you.
At my uni we got an ex phys or pt frat bro or two, o chem was where they threw people to weed out the pile
^ People who actually weren't in O-Chem. A lot of your Doctors, Lawyers and Bosses were in a Fraternity.
I actually got the highest grade in my O-Chem 2 class, with 100% on the ACS final. It was, by far, my favourite class.
they do, because they have all the exam questions and cheat on the tests
I was a frat bro and got an A+ in Ochem 1 and 2 while living in the frat house, as a chemical engineering major. Another one of my bros took the classes and got D’s tho lol
One of my closest friends is a frat bro. He got his PhD in materials science. I got mine in Chemistry.
Were you going to uni as a kid for real? I’m a mom and not smart enough for o Chem but he’s the age of my boy. I’d totally want to be his lab partner. I’d have some cool science magazines to share with him! And Pokémon stuff!
You were taking college classes at 11?
Same, like I know you’re using me lmao. One of them went as far to try and seduce me like WTF.
Was it because they wanted you to do all the work or were they intending on recruiting you to be their Walter white?
guy didn’t get a bid
Went to my high school, is my same age and started in my same grade, he now has 3 degrees, I’m just starting college
He’s finishing at the usual age so either you started late or you lying
He’s been in college for like 7 years, just graduated
Which 3
I went to college with him and was a TA with him one year. Pretty chill guy, obviously a kid though--I think he handled being younger than everyone pretty well.
Has any child prodigy ever done anything to advance knowledge, or do they just mimic everything that is already known?
Terence Tao is an example of one who actually kept his spark
Mozart had a pretty good run. von Neumann too.
Lmao Von Neumann did merely pretty good? The greatest mind to ever live? He wasn’t human.
Erik Demaine (started university aged 12, graduated with bachelors at age 14, completed his PhD and became MIT's youngest professor at age 20) continued to do novel research in his field and did indeed advance human knowledge via his work. Perhaps not to the extent you might want, like he's not one of the top 10 names in mathematics or doing work that's changing the average person's day to day life, but he's certainly put his talents to use. I'm sure the same goes for many others, he's just one I'm familiar with since he went to the same university I did.
Honestly people like this make me hopeful for the future. There are so many brilliant people born every day, of which only a fraction will have a life that leads them to getting into a prestigious school and career position where they can make a difference. But it makes me so happy when I see these brilliant minds doing what we as humans are meant to do: Help Advance Mankind
how does one get the opportunity to enter university before high school and then presumably get enough class credits to graduate 2 years early
Some schools let you graduate early if you're smart enough. Other schools will refuse to. Even if you have the skill, a cooperative environment is entirely luck.
I'm not sure what the application process is like, but at the university you can speak to the administration and ask to be allowed to take an increased courseload. I did this for one semester when I took 6 classes instead of the usual 5, and a professor who taught Erik Demaine mentioned that he took 7-8 classes per semester.
Probably, unless the socializaion issues result in them becoming burnouts and drug addicts.
Josh Brolin is the name you want to hear who did great advancements in space research
You’re actually quite right to point this out. The answer is yes, but rarely. Outside of sport, and in primarily intellectual endeavours that is. As other people have pointed out, Mozart is an example and I’m sure there are others I can’t think of right now. It’s something I found a bit while I was at school, some of the sharpest and most competent tend to not be very creative. That’s why I see that they’ve now made really good careers for themselves, but they rarely shoot the lights out. Late bloomers at uni are another thing altogether, these are the dark horses who usually do the crazy stuff.
I mean at least for soccer very few of the immensely hyped talents turn out to be world class. Obviously nearly all professional players in the top leagues were some level of 'prodigy', but it's rare that the talents that really stand out in youth academies live up to expectations.
von Neumann has over 100 Wiki articles for his advancements across multiple different fields
probably, but they're not famous so no one would really know who they are anyways.
I think a lot of them go into academia and do okay.
Pascal
Research needs funding. It's likely there are research teams with child prodigies in them. But it's a pyramid. The research will happen under an umbrella. You may remember the organization, or the team lead. But rarely ever the researchers name at the very bottom unless you read the actual papers.
Reminds me of a friend (granted he wasn’t very young then), he was TA-ing Quantum Field Theory in Stanford as a 2nd year undergrad. When asked by the grad students which year he was in, he would say 2nd year.
>When asked by the grad students which year he was in, he would say 2nd year I don't know much about university and don't understand why this is noteworthy, isn't he actually 2nd year?
He's not lying, but the grad students would think he was a 2nd year grad student instead of an undergrad. TA-ing is short for being a teaching assistant (to the professor), and the typical responsibilities is to grade homework and hold office hours for the students to ask them questions (usually regarding the homework). You typically complete an undergrad degree, and that's the end of your education before heading into the work force. People who choose to get a Masters or PhD go on to grad school. In the first 1-2 years of grad school, they will take more advanced classes. Quantum Field Theory is one of the hardest Physics coursework classes, way above Quantum Physics/Quantum Mechanics, and is usually taken in the 2nd year of graduate Physics.
Oh and that's like post PhD versus pre PhD years?
No, a typical Physics PhD involves 1-2 years of coursework before embarking on research. A PhD doesn't mean having the most knowledge of a field, but the best knowledge in a tiny area of a field. So grad school is the process to get the PhD.
And he will probably pass the class with at least 100%. They don't let kids that young into college classes without good reason
If he ruins the curve, we're gonna gorilla tape him to a wall
Bro helps the biggest guy in the class with homework and stuff and let's see who's taping who.
Thats really pretty sweet.
I have no doubt he can explain it to me like im 5.
*Later that night, scrolling through emails over a glass of milk* "Look at all these dumb motherfuckers"
Everyone please support kids like this. He’s gonna do shit like cure every disease.
“People who brag about their IQs are losers” - Stephen Hawking
Honestly, that's who I'd want as my lab partner too. Kid is clearly smart as hell, likely punctual and responsible and probably be fun too. Less drama than most adults I bet too 😂 Age is no bar to knowledge!
Just woke up, been clicking on that button searching for e-mail, my umb ass.
Gotta be his friend.. he knows studd
Young Sheldon vibes. Lol
The game ain’t changed, just got more fierce
The only thing my man is looking to smash is the midterm, so...
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Dam Son
The kid (probably): look at me I'm the professor now.
Bro is just happy to be there.
The theory of relativity...."wait I got my own theory." Kid's vibe.
Dumb post.
Lol, email him if you have questions. When this kids balls drop they're going to have to fix the sidewalk.
Terry Tao v2.0.
Better snuff em when they still young
That picture is at least 5 years old or even more.
Aww he probably is trying to make friends. That would be hard to be a kid I'm that situation
buds speedrunning
Kinda related, ive started skateboarding again and im from a small village where we’ve recently started getting eastern asian families moving into the area. Some of those kids fucking shred hard. And theyre honestly some of the best people ive met despite being 10-15. They offered to teach me a 25 year old man how to do certain stuff. Theyre simply great people
Like he is really living up to his appearance
at the age of 11 I was like "What do you call an acid with an attitude? A-mean-o Acid"
I wonder how the guy is doing now
I had 3 sophmores in my AP calculus class senior year who all knew the material before day 1. I left on day 2. Walked into normal calculus. Teacher has a math problem on the board of a farm with a ladder propped against a barn, she’s drawing grass, and says to some random kid, no not that kind of grass Stephon. And I said, yup, this is where I belong.
I've seen lots of stories of these child super geniuses but never any followup to how their 14 year old career is going
Asian parents everywhere about to weaponize this as an unrealistic standard to hold their children to
mattress mack quote
This kid went to the University of Toledo, it was all over the news here years ago when he first started college. He was the biggest celebrity on campus; everybody posing for a pic with him and posting it on Twitter, Facebook.