Tiny College Tyke Works Harder Than You

Tiny College Tyke Works Harder Than You
Alia SaburSho YanoGregory Robert Smith received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Randolph-Macon College at age 13classes in East Los Angeles College in Los Angeles, Calif.East Los Angeles College Math instructor Daniel Judge, teaches statistics to student Moshe Kai Cavalin, age 10.The ten-year-old East Los Angeles College sophomore has an A-Plus average in his classes.
Moshe Kai Cavalin is, in all other respects, pretty normal. He likes tigers, soccer and Jackie Chan. It's just that he also likes statistics...

Cavalin is now an A+ sophomore at East Los Angeles College; he hopes to transfer to a more prestigious four-year school within the year "if he keeps his grades up" (um, I think he'll manage). He wants to study astrophysics so that he can prove the existence of wormholes and wormhole-black-hole-tandem-time-travel, which is so exactly the kind of thing you'd expect from a bespectacled little child prodigy. Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and call him a genius.

But he's hardly the only one. Michael Kearney, now 24, earned his BA from the University of South Alabama at 10; he's often cited as the world's youngest college grad. 

Sho Timothy Yano is close on his heels: Yano enrolled at Loyola University Chicago when he was 9 and graduated summa cum laude three years later. He's now working towards a medical degree and a freaking PhD at the University of Chicago. 

And yes, it's not all guys! Alia Sabur, now 19, graduated summa cum laude from SUNY Stony Brook at 14; she got her masters from Drexel University at 17.

If you're not feeling stupid and/or lazy yet, just read up on Cavalin, and how he's going to probably ace his piano final -- even with a broken arm.
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