Belgian boy on track to become world's youngest university graduate

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With an IQ of 145, the Belgian boy wonder - Laurent Simons - is on track to become the world’s youngest university graduate

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands - As he cradles his young puppy in his arms, Laurent Simons looks much like any other 9-year-old boy. Then he starts describing his work at a university in the Netherlands, developing a computer circuit that will replicate a part of the brain.

“I’m planning to start my PhD and study a little medicine, but before that vacation,” he said of his post-graduation plans, as 9-week-old puppy Sammy dozed in his mother Lydia’s arms. “The speed of his mind - we cannot imagine what is happening in his head. He’s maybe three times smarter than the smartest student we’ve ever had.”

 

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He is just 9 yrs old, but already smiles like an adult. He will probably be missing a lot about his fellow himan, which is a really bad thing...

Hope he finds a cure for the stupid right wing people

indeed , Awesome

It’s a shame that guy isn’t smart enough to know it’s not a good idea to say, in front of the child, “he’s maybe three times smarter than the smartest student we’ve ever met in our career”.

fuck this kid stop shaming us all

Smart boy :)

But prolonged human life will only add to the miseries of this planet.

Privileged kid is really smart. K.

Don’t let the institute get him 😳

i'd vote for this child before trump any day

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This is a clever boy to be sure, but having an IQ of 145 at 9 does not mean you’re cleverer than someone who has an IQ of 145 at 49, that’s just not how IQs work - they take age into account. Completing a degree at 9 is very impressive indeed though.

all the best wishes and good luck little edison, we need some paradigm shifting pretty soon!! enjoy being a kid as well❤️

Just let him live in peace to achieves his own goals...

Yeah, but I could probably take him in basketball

Make sure if he ever gets anywhere in life we tax the crap out of him for daring to be aspirational and achieve anything. Much better to not bother and sit around taking freebies off the state.

We chose to have our two children with IQs of 145 and 157 simply enjoy a normal life. They had great accomplishments, like perfect SAT scores in 7th grade, symphonies they wrote performed in public, Stanford Phi Beta Kappa degree, and etc. But they led completely normal lives.

El día que yo mandé voy a traer a todos los niños genios del mundo le voy a dar estudio otra casa y un futuro único requisito investigación de nuevas tecnologías ya que los gringos se la guardan todos

I hate him already

And hes white. 😀😀😀😉

fake news

We had that earlier. The end wasn’t funny

The Liver can still self 'regenerate' if damaged to a certain extent; Best this 12 year old young one choose what he believes is best to pursue first. Since the Liquid body is my venue I don't mind keeping up to speed with this one through his journey in life.

Kidney Please The need is great

Good luck kid! Livers first please!

IQ of 145 seems way too low for someone getting an engineering degree at 9 yrs old.

RolandXSweden Let's hope the parent has made many siblings for him or have plans on more children because all else would be a wasted opportunity for the parents and for all of humanity.

He is blessed by God. A gift Laurent will ask why me?

Genius genes

The body language of his parent doesn't show any willingness to make that boy's life 'balanced'.

3D printing is ready for supporting your dream, youngest doctor in the future 😁

And the media is on it's way to messing up the kids life

dchif Sheldon Cooper in the making

Kids engineer. The world shook with his presence. The perfection of knowledge is in him. He goes beyond logic.

Poor kid is gonna miss out on so much...

Poor kid

could be real-life sheldon cooper except he's an engineer

145 is probably a little low....

So he didn’t Major in The Impacts of Underwater Basket Weaving on Modern Feminism? Huh. I bet he won’t have a problem finding gainful employment...once he’d old enough to do so.

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