I saw a new article on MSN today- a 19 year old woman becomes a college professor and breaks a 300 year old record as the youngest college teacher in history.
I know I wouldn't be able to break that record because I'm 19 already and still in college. This is my second and final year at my community college before I go to Towson U.
I wonder... how can a girl graduate from elementary school, go to college at age 10, and finish a bachelor's degree at 14? Really, how is that possible? According to the article with a video clip from the Today Show, Alia Sabur started reading and talking at 8 months old- a baby- jumped to college at 10 (the same time I graduated from Carney Elementary School), and was the youngest woman in US history to finish a bachelors of science at a university.
I remember Christopher Paolini as the boy who graduated high school at 15 and published his first book Eragon at that age. (Eragon is one of my favorite fantasy books that's very much similar to Lord of the Rings, only it's about dragons and dragon riders.) I thought he was the youngest person to leave high school.
But how did this girl get through her secondary school education in five years? That seems to be near impossible. It's like she spent only one year in middle school and finished high school at age ten. Or the other way around: three years of middle school and one year in high school. And how does someone put up with other students in the classrooms? Other classmates must have made fun of her because she was so young to finish school. I know I was teased all the time in school- from elementary school up until my junior year of high school when I suddenly got popular (for no reason whatsoever. I guess it was because I was dating my first boyfriend at the time. Does getting a new beau count as getting popular in school these days?)- because I was different. Everyone used to think I was crazy until I started seeing a therapist, fell in love with my first mega crush, Jack, and took a stand.
I couldn't imagine myself going to high school at age 11. Most kids go to high school at fourteen or fifteen. But 11 as a freshman? No.
Or she might have been home schooled. I can imagine her having rich and well educated parents. She grew up in New York, after all.
Seriously, I don't get it. That's the craziest news I've ever heard.
While I do think it's an accomplishment to say that you're the youngest professor ever in the history of the world, what about your life? The girl finished high school right about the time when boys are still nasty an ahcky, so what kind of a life could she have possible had? While I am amazed that anyone can make this feat, I would feel bad because it seems like she missed out on what it means to be a kid.
yeah, i agree with you. she barely had any time to spend being a kid. i know i wouldn't try something like that for my kids, if i ever have any. i highly doubt i'll get married by the time i'm 35 cuz men keep dumping me in less than seven months.
i tend to wonder about other people's lives like that. what's it like to live in new york? or at least in washington dc, which is only an hour away from my home. then again, i don't think i would want to know about the lives of celebrities because they're constantly trampled and ambushed by the paparazzi. the tabloids are always splashing out the celebrities' personal lives as if it's entertainment. it sucks and i don't like it. if i'm going into the journalism field of work anytime soon, i don't want to be a celeb or entertainment writer for a paper or tabloid. i hate that. it's someone else's personal life.
While I love to know what's going on in my FRIENDS lives, I'm not too concerned about J Lo and her new twins, Brad and Angie's bedroom problems, or even the new prophecies for the next year (remind me again: how many have actually happened?!). Just a tip - If' you're going into journalism, please write about things that NORMAL people would care about, not people who have no friends so they make other peoples' lives national news.
yeah, i don't really care about those things either. just as long as i write something that matters, i'll be fine.
There's a boy that was getting his MD/PhD, starting medical school at like 12. If I'm remembering the age right, he could theoretically beat her record, though his goal isn't to become a professor.
I just think it would be weird to teach people your age or older.
~C
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