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Eight Year Old Physics Student Admitted to College

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the so-much-for-a-social-life dept.

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. Dang! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dang!

  2. In Korea only old people? by hobotron · · Score: -1, Troll


    Looks like you trolls need to get with the times.
    heh.

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  3. Stupid Kid by sljgh · · Score: 0, Troll

    I could totally kick his ass. Man, that would be fun - just pushin' him down over and over again. And don't give me any of that Korean martial arts crap, I'd just spend all day pushin' him down. Maybe kicking him some, yeah kickin' sounds good too.

  4. Stupid Mods by sljgh · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'll push you down too. One push to a mod, one push to a korean. Laugh, laugh, laugh then repeat.

  5. Re:Annoying by HappyEngineer · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you're saying that everyone should become a hippy because 0.001% of the students are committing suicide? Perhaps it would be more productive to just get the depressed kids some counseling and Prozac?

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  6. Re:Say what? by DoctorHibbert · · Score: 0, Troll

    Shuddup Nerd. (stuff stuff)

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  7. Re:OK I give up by Shaklee39 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Shut the fuck yup you liar.

  8. Re:Flying cars are nice but.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Gauss was a child prodigy... As well as Erdos, Pascal, Euler, Neumann, Maclauren, etc.

    I don't know who those people are, but what about the guys who made significant scientific contributions? Were any of them child prodigies?