re: A 14 year old is about to graduate from Southern University

Great job young man.


It all starts at home.

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know his real name and found him online but forgot his screen name. Dude had the most outrageous threads about college and degrees and shite.

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He’s now posting under sugar71

LSU is in Baton Rouge

Go to spellman or Howard or whatever for grad school

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I never understood “skipping” a ton of grade levels. It creates socially awkward people and what in the grand scheme of things does it help the person? Traded 10 years of being around his peers and developing social skills that he can still get a phd later.

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I don't think it is the skipping of grades "creates" social awkwardness. A percentage of people are just socially awkward without regard to how they function intellectually. My experience has been that some are also as much advanced in their social skills as academic skills. As a parent of a gifted child who also first attended classes at a university at 11, she just preferred to interact with adults by the time she was 9 or 10. By 18 she was participating in presentations of research projects of her university at national conferences. Other bright kids we knew were building wind tunnels at 12 and using them to measure the energy created by passing automobiles, but also socially gregarious.

The pertinent issue seems more about whether academics becomes the sole focus of their lives. The push to graduate college very early feels like a bragging rights thing.

Outstanding !

So he graduated high school when he was 10 ?
Think about that for a minute.
Part of me wants to commend him.
Another part laments that he probably did not date any high school girls.

Now he will most likely go to grad school and wind up working for NASA at Goddard or Huntsville.

I hope he cures cancer.
Good luck to him.

now do school shootings lol

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It creates socially awkward people

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Of ALL the ways to create socially awkward people, skipping grades is NOT the worst way.

O-T Lounge graduates will attest to this

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He said they were required to do so, and that SUNO students who missed three classes were dropped a letter grade.

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I had a history prof at A&M that pulled that bullshite.

It was a 300+ person class and the fricker made us have assigned seats so his dickhead TA could count heads.

Probably better than I would.