My cousin went to university at 14 years old to successfully study medicine (also in Belgium…) he is extremely socially challenged now he’s 40, a bit of an oddball and comes across as unhappy and was very unhappy with the relationship he had with his parents. (He is a kind person and “wicked smaht”)
I’m sure a lot of that is nature but I feel a large portion is nurture. You are an outsider with no ability to make friends with people your own age.
From my limited knowledge I understand that IQs over a certain level are no more successful than people who are in the top quarter of intelligence.
My bf studied at TU/E, where Laurens also applied. They wouldn’t let him bend the rules so he went to another uni where they did 🤷🏼♀️
His parents didn’t want mandatory things like working on projects in groups (that take time!) so he could finish as quickly as possible.
This kid is a prodigy and incredibly smart, but I wonder how much his diploma is actually worth if we subtract all the things his parents made him skip to become this prodigy
You know as impressive as I find these stories it always feels a little disappointing too, like it’s wonderful that he’s such a smart boy but college is much a social experience as it is an academic one, it’s a great time to experiment with independent decision making and connect with new peers and I imagine that’s not really something he can fully do at fifteen. Hopefully he gets to go back at 18 so he can dorm and network and do the fun parts of college too.
Belgian child prodigy Laurent Simons has officially become a doctor in quantum physics at just 15 years old.
On Monday, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Antwerp, VTM Nieuws reported.
“After this, I’ll start working towards my goal: creating ‘super-humans’,” he told the broadcaster shortly after the milestone achievement.
According to VTM, Laurent believes he may be the youngest person ever to obtain a PhD. His latest success marks a new peak in a trajectory that has fascinated the scientific world for years, a journey that began long before his teenage years.
I never know how to feel about these kinds if things. To me it seems difficult for a kid in that situation to properly develop. There is so much more to growing up than intellectual development. I was definitely no prodigy but just a regular very fast learner and I probably could’ve skipped a couple of years in school but I’m really glad my parents did not want me to. That gave me the time to develop a bit more socially, which was far harder for me than any subject in school. I was constantly bored as shit but there are ways around that if it is properly picked up. Intellectual skills are far less important for being happy or succesful than social skills are. I guess it really depends on the parents and the kid. I have just seen too many pushy parents that seem to care a bit too much about the status that their prodigy gives them.
I kinda feel like these super genius kids are the brains equivalent of the jock who peaked at high school, only to become mall security… Do any of them go on to achieve greatness, or does the crushing weight of reality catch up to them at some point?
Welcome to academia … where everyone believes they are smarter than everyone else.
Now push those ten proposals, funding is tight these days. Don’t forget to lick the right butts, and of course forget about doing any research, you are now a money seeking machine.
And please don’t get me started on the whiniest people on earth: grad students.
Literally child abuse, I don’t care how absurd it sounds it’s true. It’s just socially acceptable because it’s not physical labour and it’s “for the greater good”. He was robbed of a normal childhood, social connections with his peers, and put to work down the intellectual mines while his mind was still developing, and a literal small child. He will have extensive psychological damage and it will take him years to process. Hope it was worth it to get this headline for your university, dickheads.
My wife is a substitute kindergarten teacher. about a month ago she told me about a kid in the class she had that day. He was 2 years old (almost 3 but still) and could already read and write a little while his classmates could barely talk.
She told the parents she thinks their son might be gifted, but the parents had heard that already from every other teacher the kid had had. He was still too young to officially test him they said, and they hoped he wasn’t.
“The youngest person to obtain a PhD is Karl Witte, who received his doctorate from the University of Giessen, Germany, on April 10, 1814, at the age of 13 years and 283 days.”
Meanwhile kid says that he “thinks” he’s the youngest in the world to obtain a PhD. If he didn’t have the skills to google that, idk how he got a PhD.
And he comes off as arrogant, or the journalists warped his words in the article.
Clearly one of those where the parents push the kid. Just look at the picture, why are they in it? Because it’s not about the kid it’s actually about them.
No offense but unless your Karen mom goes to every single teacher and politician responsible for your advancement to suck them off or otherwise bribe them YOU WILL NOT get a PhD in Quantum Physics no matter your IQ at 15 PERIOD.
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Big deal! I have a theoretical degree in physics myself
My cousin went to university at 14 years old to successfully study medicine (also in Belgium…) he is extremely socially challenged now he’s 40, a bit of an oddball and comes across as unhappy and was very unhappy with the relationship he had with his parents. (He is a kind person and “wicked smaht”)
I’m sure a lot of that is nature but I feel a large portion is nurture. You are an outsider with no ability to make friends with people your own age.
From my limited knowledge I understand that IQs over a certain level are no more successful than people who are in the top quarter of intelligence.
Edit – I just remember where I paraphrased this from:
[Freakonomics Podcast: Can You Be Too Smart for Your Own Good?](https://freakonomics.com/podcast/can-you-be-too-smart-for-your-own-good-and-other-freak-quently-asked-questions/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
Just let children be children
My bf studied at TU/E, where Laurens also applied. They wouldn’t let him bend the rules so he went to another uni where they did 🤷🏼♀️
His parents didn’t want mandatory things like working on projects in groups (that take time!) so he could finish as quickly as possible.
This kid is a prodigy and incredibly smart, but I wonder how much his diploma is actually worth if we subtract all the things his parents made him skip to become this prodigy
You know as impressive as I find these stories it always feels a little disappointing too, like it’s wonderful that he’s such a smart boy but college is much a social experience as it is an academic one, it’s a great time to experiment with independent decision making and connect with new peers and I imagine that’s not really something he can fully do at fifteen. Hopefully he gets to go back at 18 so he can dorm and network and do the fun parts of college too.
Belgian child prodigy Laurent Simons has officially become a doctor in quantum physics at just 15 years old.
On Monday, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Antwerp, VTM Nieuws reported.
“After this, I’ll start working towards my goal: creating ‘super-humans’,” he told the broadcaster shortly after the milestone achievement.
According to VTM, Laurent believes he may be the youngest person ever to obtain a PhD. His latest success marks a new peak in a trajectory that has fascinated the scientific world for years, a journey that began long before his teenage years.
Full story
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1846332/belgiums-15-year-old-prodigy-earns-phd-in-quantum-physics
All these prodigies just get their phds at (less than 18 years old) and then we never hear from them again
Great achievement!
Also, I hope they’ve set up an amazing mental heath team around him!
I never know how to feel about these kinds if things. To me it seems difficult for a kid in that situation to properly develop. There is so much more to growing up than intellectual development. I was definitely no prodigy but just a regular very fast learner and I probably could’ve skipped a couple of years in school but I’m really glad my parents did not want me to. That gave me the time to develop a bit more socially, which was far harder for me than any subject in school. I was constantly bored as shit but there are ways around that if it is properly picked up. Intellectual skills are far less important for being happy or succesful than social skills are. I guess it really depends on the parents and the kid. I have just seen too many pushy parents that seem to care a bit too much about the status that their prodigy gives them.
What was the thesis?
If he’s so smart then maybe he can explain why my mother in law looks like a gorilla.
I kinda feel like these super genius kids are the brains equivalent of the jock who peaked at high school, only to become mall security… Do any of them go on to achieve greatness, or does the crushing weight of reality catch up to them at some point?
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“After this, I’ll start working towards my goal: creating ‘super-humans’,
Figures, you can be genius, but you’re still 15.
Where I live, you have to take every grade no matter how smart you are
Welcome to academia … where everyone believes they are smarter than everyone else.
Now push those ten proposals, funding is tight these days. Don’t forget to lick the right butts, and of course forget about doing any research, you are now a money seeking machine.
And please don’t get me started on the whiniest people on earth: grad students.
Your stardom ends now, should have stayed as kid.
Yeah super humans that’s what the world needs. Real smart kid.
Literally child abuse, I don’t care how absurd it sounds it’s true. It’s just socially acceptable because it’s not physical labour and it’s “for the greater good”. He was robbed of a normal childhood, social connections with his peers, and put to work down the intellectual mines while his mind was still developing, and a literal small child. He will have extensive psychological damage and it will take him years to process. Hope it was worth it to get this headline for your university, dickheads.
My wife is a substitute kindergarten teacher. about a month ago she told me about a kid in the class she had that day. He was 2 years old (almost 3 but still) and could already read and write a little while his classmates could barely talk.
She told the parents she thinks their son might be gifted, but the parents had heard that already from every other teacher the kid had had. He was still too young to officially test him they said, and they hoped he wasn’t.
Man, I didn’t realize that everyone on Reddit is a child psychologist
Hopefully he will find a way to defeat burnouts before he burns out.
“The youngest person to obtain a PhD is Karl Witte, who received his doctorate from the University of Giessen, Germany, on April 10, 1814, at the age of 13 years and 283 days.”
Meanwhile kid says that he “thinks” he’s the youngest in the world to obtain a PhD. If he didn’t have the skills to google that, idk how he got a PhD.
And he comes off as arrogant, or the journalists warped his words in the article.
Apparently no one really understands quantum physics anyways
How do you even do that? Do they just let you skip grades? And how do you even take collage classes as a child? Ive never heard of this beeing allowed
Last week I learned that “no one understands quantum physics” here. Is he the one who does?
The whole skiping classes is so weird. Who even came up with this system
He is gifted, but unfortunately also has very pushy parents.
I have seen interviews in the past and something is not right.
I really hope everything will go well and healthy in his future.
Clearly one of those where the parents push the kid. Just look at the picture, why are they in it? Because it’s not about the kid it’s actually about them.
Sad to see really.
Just let yourself be a child. That parents have to exploit something like this in the media. Abnormal
God he’s going to have so much depression.
As one professor of qp said he has no idea what he is about to teach similarly this guy did phd while knowing nothing about qp
He may know how the universe works but does she know how life works?
No offense but unless your Karen mom goes to every single teacher and politician responsible for your advancement to suck them off or otherwise bribe them YOU WILL NOT get a PhD in Quantum Physics no matter your IQ at 15 PERIOD.
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