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11-Year-Old Graduates With Degree In Astrophysics
Gotenosente writes "11-Year-Old Moshe Kai Cavalin has graduated from East Los Angeles Community College with a degree in astrophysics. 'At a time when his peers are finishing 6th grade, this only child of a Taiwanese mother and an Israeli father is trying on a cap and gown preparing to graduate with a 4.0 from community college.' The article continues with a quotation by the boy, hinting at his modesty, 'I don't consider myself a genius because there are 6.5 billion people in this world and each one is smart in his or her own way.' Daniel Judge, Cavalin's statistics professor, says, 'Most students think that things should be harder than they are and they put these mental blocks in front of them and they make things harder than they should be. In the case of Moshe, he sees right through the complications.'"
Its not rocket science after all
Think you're smart, kid? Well, I can still kick your ass at teatherball. (I hope.)
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NERD!
I got laid at the age of 14. I doubt anyone with a degree in astrophysics is going to beat that.
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If I was too young to buy booze and be interested in chicks I probably could have got an A+ too. Show off....
And around here you can't even get higher than 5.
I guess he was reading /. when he was 3 weeks old, just like I am doing.
com'on now, dont you get 30 points automaticlly for writting your name? Maybe an extra 10 if you spell it correctly....
But why can't he be an evil genius? The world needs more evil geniuses so that we can get more super heroes.
I sure hope not. They'd have an unfair advantage in Business Administration, where the best that most can do is simply act like 11-year-olds.
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com'on now, dont you get 30 points automaticlly for writting your name? Maybe an extra 10 if you spell it correctly....
"your name". "it".
Ha! 40 points, bitches!
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Oh yea... Well I bet he hasn't been laid. ...
Oh wait neither have I. fuck!
Olympic grade platitudinous pandering politically correct aphorism.
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But why can't he be an evil genius? The world needs more evil geniuses so that we can get more super heroes.
Wow, I never thought of super-villainy from the supply and demand curve viewpoint. If each superhero kills or incarcerates one super villain every month, each super hero is going to go through a dozen evil geniuses annually. And they can't all be super-duper evil geniuses, because any super-duper evil genius will recognize that mortality rate right quick and is likely to make a different career choice, such as stock trading.
I think an associate's degree at age 11 is just about the right time for something horrible to happen that will corrupt him into turning evil. Perhaps there's a super-duper evil genius right now who is plotting to kidnap his mother to turn him into a revenge-motivated evildoer! Maybe the super-duper evil genius is seeking out dozens of these smart kids in advance, hoping to create enough evil geniuses to serve as cannon fodder for the future superheroes, and for them to serve as a distraction for when he puts his ultimate plan for world domination into motion.
John
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Hey, if a kid that smart tells me I'm just as smart as he is, who am I to argue?!
No. He is simply smart enough to know that no one will like him unless he is modest about his accomplishments.
What do you think people would say about him if he said "Im the greatest of all time. Divide like a butterfly, add like a bee. Your all stupidheads!"
This is so obvious that my brain hurt when the GP didn't realize it.
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Yeah, but it's -10 points for misspelling automatically when there's a spell-check function in the browser...
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Actually that would probably be a better choice as long as he doesn't get board.
He's only 11 and you want him to starve through college like the rest of us?
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Of the ones you mentioned the only real degree is journalism.
You haven't read a newspaper lately have you?
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Unfortunately, the words that only cost $5 when our parents were young now cost $20. Inflation sucks.
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is a second degree in maths and he's well on his way to waiting at the dole queue on monday.
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You should probably have left eligibility as a boolean; casting to int might imply something illegal.
"there are 6.5 billion people in this world"
The real number is much closer to 7 billion by now.
Is this the kind of idiot we're handing out degrees to these days?
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You should probably have left eligibility as a boolean; casting to int might imply something illegal.
Not in Utah!
Didn't your mother ever teach you never to pass on an opportunity to alliterate?
... um ... stuff.
My mother made me master multi-syllabic meta-mutterings merely to modify my meandering mental malapropisms and to manipulate my meager mix of mangled messages into a more magnificent maelstrom of mightily meaningful
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I think an associate's degree at age 11 is just about the right time for something horrible to happen that will corrupt him into turning evil.
He will discover girls.
missives...the word you were looking for was missives
He still won't be able to get a job, though. Once he graduates in 2011, he will see all the job listings requiring 12 years of experience with Microsoft Office 2010, and he will just give up to do drugs.
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you should have disrobed.