Eight Year Old Physics Student Admitted to College

paris writes to tell us that The Korea Herald is running a story about Song Yoo-guen, the youngest university student that Korea has ever seen. At eight years old Song is already talking about building flying cars and defying Newton's law of gravity while others his age are attending the first grade. He completed his elementary, junior-high, and high school curricula in just nine months, something that usually takes 12 years, and has been admitted as a freshman to the physics department of Inha University.

Comments

Pointless

[Anonymous Coward]

He's so nerdy that he won't be getting laid at all in college.

OK I give up

[guardiangod]

He surprised professors by explaining the Schroedinger equation, which is of central importance to the theory of quantum mechanics.

Oh my god, to think that a 7 years old best me when it comes to learning the good old Schrodinger equation...

Someone please bury me.

Blow Job

[Anonymous Coward]

Did he get a blow job when he graduated high school? I did. If you grow up too quickly you'll miss the best things in life!

Re:Blow Job

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you really have to tell us what your mother gave you as a graduation present?

Re:Blow Job

[Hognoxious]

It's no secret - she gives the same to everyone.

Bit early

[ivan kk]

8 is too young, the liver hasn't fully developed yet.

Re:Bit early

[Luke Psywalker]

Either has his penis.

Or as he still refers to it, his "tallywacker".

with all due respect

[dermusikman]

At eight years old Song is already talking about building flying cars and defying Newton's law of gravity while others his age are attending the first grade.

i was dreaming up flying cars and defying gravity in first grade. and riding dinosaurs... oh ya.

Re:In Korea only old people?

[marcello_dl]

You kinda wasted the joke, that way... let's see:

"In Korea only old people don't understand the superstring theory"

or

"Imagine a beowulf classroom of these!"

You insensitive clod.

Re:Like many other kids...

[HappyEngineer]

Being socially well adjusted is overrated.

I see..

[deep44]

He's just getting all this school mumbo-jumbo out of the way so he can concentrate full-time on playing Starcraft once he turns 14.

Let Me Guess...

[Anonymous Coward]

You're the guy behind that time cube thing, aren't you?

Flying Cars? Or rushing Zerglings...

[Mingco]

Give a year, two max. He'll be a master StarCraft player, and all that physics education will go down the drain.

while others his age are attending the first grade

[frovingslosh]

while others his age are attending the first grade

Really? That would have them getting out of high school school 12 later at age 20. I suspect there are not really many Korean first graders at age 8. But then this is /. and it's not like the editors check for any accuracy.