Current Events > Mike Wimmer, 12, graduating high school and college in the same week

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/27/us/12-year-old-graduating-high-school-college-trnd/index.html

Wow, good for him. His family must be incredibly proud, hopefully he puts that rare genius brain to good work in the future.

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Kids going places

He's not just graduating both within a week, he's actually graduating college first and then high school 7 days later.

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He's a smart guy

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What a depressing future he's got ahead of him. Too young to enter the work force and going to have a hard time keeping his skills honed in the meantime. Plus it's not like he's got friends he'll stay in contact with his entire life from college, maybe colleagues but they would mostly be professors I reckon.

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now pay your debt

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All he needs now is a Bar Mitzvah and he can officially join the work force.

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wow what a nerd

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But he still can't make a gamefaqs account

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gunplagirl posted...

What a depressing future he's got ahead of him. Too young to enter the work force and going to have a hard time keeping his skills honed in the meantime. Plus it's not like he's got friends he'll stay in contact with his entire life from college, maybe colleagues but they would mostly be professors I reckon.

I'm pretty sure places make exceptions for people like him.

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How is it possible for Kids to graduate early? Do they work on school work all year round and have never taken a summer vacation?

Masterclass in how to ensure one never gets laid.

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Sucks to be him. He's missing out on all the awesome drinking and sex from being an adult in college tho!

Terrible life choice imo

Yeah, I'm jelly as fuck that the kid is wicked smart >_> Good for him lol

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NeonOctopus posted...

Sucks to be him. He's missing out on all the awesome drinking and sex from being an adult in college tho!

Terrible life choice imo

That's the lie they told current pandemic college students to convince them not to graduate at 12.

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he can get his PhD by age 20, then he'll be qualified to run the self checkout lanes at Walmart.

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I'll still dunk a basketball on that lil nerd

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Don't get me wrong, the kid is clearly brilliant, but "getting a 2-year degree from a community college" and "graduating college" are not the same thing.

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I always wonder what happens to these kid prodigies after these stories come out. At first you think they're gonna change the world but they just vanish lol

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Scotty_Rogers posted...

I always wonder what happens to these kid prodigies after these stories come out. At first you think they're gonna change the world but they just vanish lol

Probably building up a resume at first and then they become one of those scientists/doctors that do their jobs but aren't recognized at large. Or they completely burn out but I'd think stuff like that would be noted if it happened often.
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what college degree did he get? computer engineering?

I've heard about a handful of kids who graduate highschool and college before 18 but I never hear about them afterwards.

HMMMMMMMM

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No one likes a showoff, Mike.

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I remember seeing an interview with one of these child prodigies once where they asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up and he said a game show host lol

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gunplagirl posted...

What a depressing future he's got ahead of him. Too young to enter the work force and going to have a hard time keeping his skills honed in the meantime. Plus it's not like he's got friends he'll stay in contact with his entire life from college, maybe colleagues but they would mostly be professors I reckon.

He'd probably go to grad school and get a PhD.

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Most of the time I imagine this to be the product of child abuse.

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I hope he has reliable support from family and friends. I can't imagine the immense pressure one could feel after achieving so much at such a young age.

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Scotty_Rogers posted...

I always wonder what happens to these kid prodigies after these stories come out. At first you think they're gonna change the world but they just vanish lol

I believe there was some article from like ten years ago about one notable one from twenty years ago and he was doing quite well. I think part of the problem is a lot of people assume they're going to go on to be famous rather than simply exceed really well in their field of choice.

These stories always come off as sad to me. Many child prodigies don't do well in adulthood, or sometimes before they even get there. It always reminds me of Brendenn Bremmer.

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gunplagirl posted...

What a depressing future he's got ahead of him. Too young to enter the work force and going to have a hard time keeping his skills honed in the meantime. Plus it's not like he's got friends he'll stay in contact with his entire life from college, maybe colleagues but they would mostly be professors I reckon.

Well he's still better off than a stereotypical CEman. >_>
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I don't understand the point of this, like people are saying. Are they really so bored in school they can't just take a normal path? Is it worth it to miss out on all of the social development? Even if they go on to get a PhD maybe they're like 16-20 years old, that's so young to be jumping into the workforce.

CoorsLight posted...

I don't understand the point of this, like people are saying. Are they really so bored in school they can't just take a normal path? Is it worth it to miss out on all of the social development? Even if they go on to get a PhD maybe they're like 16-20 years old, that's so young to be jumping into the workforce.

These kinds of kids are typically able to advance so fast that they'd be doing essentially nothing in school each day. There is an argument from a social development standpoint, but going to school while being extremely bored at rehashing stuff you could do blindfolded also isn't really healthy either.

Hes got eight years to screw around before actually having to get a job.

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All I can think about when I hear these kinds of stories is how sorry I feel for the kid. They will never have anything even remotely resembling a normal life.
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