Posted on 03/14/2021 12:53:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Now, she's off to Arizona State University.
She plans to major in astronomical and planetary sciences and chemistry.
Her passion for building started as an infant with LEGOs.
Her goal is to build rovers like the one sent to Mars in the Perseverance mission.
"It doesn't matter what your age or what you're planning to do. Go for it, dream, then accomplish it."
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Go into medicine. We’ve only scratched the surface on the inner workings of the body.
We had a 14yo EEP (Early Entrance Program) in my ENG101 class at uni. He got a B on his first paper and freaked out in class. Never saw him again.
Sometimes it doesn’t take pressure.
Sometimes all it takes is encouragement and support.
Let's see what her SAT scores look like. Oh wait...they're "racist" now! Never mind. Off to NASA.
Good for her, and good for her parents. They’re raising a child who expects to achieve and expects to study hard for it. That’s a characteristic that’s become more Chinese and Indian than American in 2021.
Here’s hoping she didn’t do Common Core math.
I’ve been seeing reports of these genius kids all my life. We get the initial news reports, then see nothing of them again. Why is that?
Well, that’s 2.4 billion people vs 330 million.
That said, I have a suspicious feeling she is no “genius”.
I hired a 14 year old College Freshman for summer work and it was delightful to have him in the office. He ended up going to Carnegie Melon to get his PhD at the same time my own son was getting his 2 Bachelors and a Masters degrees so we got to see both of them at the graduation ceremony.
She looks like she’s “woke”.
So woke that she never sleeps.
What a waste!
Because they aren’t geniuses, and they’re pushed too far by their parents.
Depends on whether your kid wants to put the small toy in their mouth or use it to build a quantum temporal flux.
Plenty of genius-level people went to ASU, especially for undergrad. It has a strong Honors College, decent engineering school, etc.
The real issue is that 12 is too young to attend university and the elite schools understandably aren’t big into accepting kids whereas state universities often will if the kid has a HS diploma or equivalent.
If she is really that advanced, there are plenty of ways to challenge her without throwing her into a university environment. Bad decision by the parents.
NASA will have a Muslim outreach position in Dubai for her.
It will be in line with lifting Muslim horizons.
“Plenty of genius-level people went to ASU...”
Name some.
I guess it depends on what the definition of genius is.
I agree with your assessment that she isn’t prepared for University.
I wish her well. A deciding factor in how they end up is whether the child thinks their parents would still love them even if they didn’t get an “A”.
Sheer and perpetual panic can motivate a child to do amazing things in the present tense. Eventually, that existential panic cloud is often replaced with resentment or cynicism.
Heck,at her age I was living for my skate board and still climbing trees. What’s wrong with kids these days anywho?
Stories about these prodigies come along every so often, and then you never hear about them again. It would be interesting to know what the usual trajectory is for them.
Right, Musk is doing all the exciting innovation.
“...Her goal is to build rovers like the one sent to Mars in the Perseverance mission....”
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Then she should plan on studying engineering instead of chemistry. This aspiration and her planned studies tells me she really doesn’t understand how things get done in the real world.
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