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Comments: 7 +-   11-Year-Old graduates with degree in astrophysics. on Saturday June 06 2009, @12:42AM Gotenosente

Submitted by Gotenosente on Saturday June 06 2009, @12:42AM
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Gotenosente writes "Articles at WoodTV and Fox News state that an 11-Year-Old boy, Moshe Kai Cavalin, has graduated from East Los Angeles Community College with a degree in astrophysics. According to WoodTV, "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." Fox News, in their article, quotes Daniel Judge, Cavalin's statistics professor, "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.""
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  • "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."

    If he's able to understand things so clearly, it would certainly be nice if he wrote some popular science books then, that help others to be able to understand stuff like astrophysics.
    As his father is Israeli, I wonder if he's an Ashkenazi Jew. So many world class intellectuals ha

  • Isn't that the network that's like the Onion, only not as funny?

  • Sounds kind of dumb to me (if the story is true). I mean if he picks up things that fast why go to community college instead of a big university where he could eventually do some research, would have access to better teacher, possible mentors, etc. He might not beat the record for youngest college graduate though.

    • From Wikipedia:

      ELAC offers high school students that did not acquire the GPA, grades, or missed the college/university deadlines an opportunity to acquire and/or further develop the necessary Math, English, study and discipline skills, explore majors and career fields, and be able to research four year colleges and universities that grant B.A./B.S. degrees.

      So it sounds like graduating from ELAC is a bit like graduating from high school. Sure, the kid's advanced for his age, and I guess the sooner he can get out of East LA the better. I'm not sure what to make of a community-college "degree in astrophysics", though.

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