I’m Only 9, and I’m Already in College. Here’s What Life Is Like for Me

Re:I’m Only 9, and I’m Already in College. Here’s What Life ... by mjfl on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @12:27AM (#18918472)

If you're a 9 year old genius, don't go to college. Take another 9 years, spend your time building cool stuff or publishing papers, and play sports with kids your age. It's important to learn how to socialize, to have a normal youth.

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Re:I’m Only 9, and I’m Already in College. Here’s What Life ... by tropo on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @01:29AM (#18918693)

It might be nice to socialize as a normal youth (debatable) but that ship has sailed. It simply isn't possible to have normal peer conversations. The mismatch for vocabulary and sentence structure is huge. It would be like a normal adult trying to socialize with 3-year-old kids. ("We should use Robert's Rules of Order." --> "You're a poopyface.")

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Re:I’m Only 9, and I’m Already in College. Here’s What Life ... by mac01021 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @03:19AM (#18919125)

>It would be like a normal adult trying to socialize with 3-year-old kids.

I think, at worst, it would be like a normal adult trying to socialize with 9-year-old kids?

And this particular kid says he has lots of normal social interaction with kids his own age.

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