16 year old graduating college, headed to Harvard for PhD

arabrab
Wed, 01 May 2013 22:03:42 +0000

I was in college with a fellow student who was 13, and in a club with him. He wasn’t resented, though at times we laughed at some of the weirdnesses of brilliance combined with the the awkwardness of being a (young) teen.

He became one of the youngest (perhaps the youngest) tenured professors at the university, and has had a brilliant career. His work is very heavily cited, and you’ve probably seen him on TV at one time or another.

I think he did just fine, academically and socially. In terms of being a social outcast, my guess is that he would have been far more of an outcast spending five more years in junior high school and high school.