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.

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!

Doogie Howser, PhD

[Anonymous Coward]

"Dude, did Doogie Howser just steal my fucking car?!"

/Harold and Kumar...

Re:Pointless

[ravenspear]

Well I would hope not, he's fucking 8 years old.

That would be disturbing.

Bit early

[ivan kk]

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

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:Blow Job

[Anonymous Coward]

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

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.

Re:Bit early

[Luke Psywalker]

Either has his penis.

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

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.

Re:Pointless

[Mingco]

Well I would hope not, he's fucking 8 years old.

No, it would be his girlfriend who would be fucking 8 year-olds.

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.

Re:Blow Job

[Hognoxious]

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

Re:Prediction:

[xSauronx]

unless he becomes the craftiest womanizer ever.

Re:Flying cars are nice but..

[Mike Savior]

Flux capacitors anyone?

[OT] Ate the cat, possibly

[kanweg]

Well, it is Korea, so perhaps the cat got eaten.

Bert

i've been there- i know what its like

[Anonymous Coward]

I went to university on my 8th birthday, started in computer science.
I taught at teachers college when I was 12.

I was a CA (Course Assistant) for many years inbetween,
and a TA (Teaching Assistant) for many years inbetween too.

I "ran" the whole department for an entire term one year.

I was labelled "borderline genius/insanity". the IQ test registered me at an
insane (literally) level of "497". I was labelled emotionally unstable.

I was in and out of psych groups for many many years, even in the hospital with various doctors, etc

I never had a childhood, I never really had friends. I have been completely inept socially. I have no idea how to meet people, how to make friends, etc.

I don't understand feelings or emotions at all. I don't understand basic humor even.

My university records were destroyed by the chairperson of the university, because her son was in the same classes as me (he wasn't smart - she just put him there, he was the same age), but he couldn't do it, always failed.

I also took psych in university, although only for a year or two. I got a score of 78 on the final exam even though I had missed about 2.5 years of classes.

I feel the psych course has hurt me more than it has helped. I over-analyze everything.
I am rational to the point of hair-splitting.

I don't "get" basical linear concepts. I can't wrap my head around them. But complex non-linear things, wow those ae easy!

I understood the nature of black holes when I was 8. I really "got" it. it was all so simple really.

I've spent years unemployed. I've been on welfare more than once.

I've never known what to do with my life, what I'm supposed to be doing, or why...
I've never fit in anywhere, in any situation.
I'm an introvert, quiet, shy, bashful, etc.

I don't know how to talk to people. i don't "muck" or "mud" or do online games.

I'm not fat, i don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs. But I've known a LOT of prostitutes...
When I was in high school (I went to high school AFTER university), although the first few years of HS I was doing both at the same time.

I wrote my HS exams remotely via computer from the university. I crashed the HS computer systems writing my exams - it wasn't intentional. No one had done this before, or since, they really weren't designed for it.

During high school, the owner of the pinball place across the street also owned a strip joint, I knew the owner, got in free (due to constant visiting of the pinball place), a guy from school was a cook in the kitchen at the strip joint. so free entry and free food, plus lots of naked women, what more could a young geek want?

Strippers would sit at my table, in large groups, and talk about their problems, some about their boyfriends, but mostly about their "female problems", like their periods, even hysterectomies (so I can't spell it), within a few months I knew more about female anatomy than any man had any right to know (or desire for that matter).

and yet, I am still a stranger in this world. I really feel like an "alien", I don't fit in, I don't belong. I don't have friends, I have no clue about how to make friends, totally completely socially inept.

I spenty decades, literally with counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, you name it. I never got anywhere. I was always told they can only help people who can help themselves. I can't help myself.
And being a psych major from university, I know all the common answers, I know all the questions, I over-analyze what I'm asked and what I say. it really doesn't help.
and I can't turn it "off"...

And I have no idea what to do about it. or how. etc etc.

I'm SCARED! yes, scared shitless. Because I don't know. and I don't know if I'll ever be able to relax, and be stable, and happy. I know being normal is over-rated, but still I need SOMETHNG...

so I really don't know what to do. so here I post for help. maybe someone out there has the

Re:Pointless

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, the university does have a Seminary...

Re:OK I give up

[Kadin2048]

since they rarely if ever amount to anything other than an average person... just faster.

And in other news, your AMD Athlon64 3000 is no better than my Intel 8080, because it just does the same thing, only faster.

Re:OK I give up

[abradsn]

Playing four square and video games mostly. Pretty much the same now, minus the four square.