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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.

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  1. Pointless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  2. OK I give up by guardiangod · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Blow Job by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

    1. Re:Blow Job by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    2. Re:Blow Job by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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      Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  4. Bit early by ivan+kk · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  5. with all due respect by dermusikman · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:In Korea only old people? by marcello_dl · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  7. Re:Like many other kids... by HappyEngineer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being socially well adjusted is overrated.

  8. I see.. by deep44 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  9. Flying Cars? Or rushing Zerglings... by Mingco · · Score: 5, Funny

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