RyaNtheSlayA wrote:Anyway, these people always die early after inventing something spectacular from drugs etc. I bet he will have a breakdown in the next 5 years.
That's too late. Let's trap him in a bin and roll it down a hill.
Then we blame videogames for it
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I'm really just wondering what kind of field an 11 year old can get into with an Associate of Arts degree... I think lots of people with Bachelor's degrees and real work experience have a better chance of a career and they are all having a tough time right now. Perhaps someone will take him on because of his celebrity, but I don't think so. Otherwise what is he going to do now that he graduated? If he's such a prodigy why doesn't he go on to get his PhD?
It's great that this kid is putting such an emphasis on education, but I believe we are putting far too much credence into the opinion of someone who decided that going to community college at the age of 11 was fun. I graduated college and I played lots of games throughout my years... And I bet if each and every one of us had given up the hobby we love we all could have achieved what he did.
His hero Albert Einstein did research on splitting the atom. That research ultimately made it possible for the atomic bomb to be created. If an atomic blast happens, who will be more prepared to pull humanity back together-- a kid who really likes Albert Einstein, or a kid that that has clocked over 100 hours into Fallout 3 to prepare themselves for surviving in a post-apocalypitic wasteland? Obviously the kid that played Fallout 3.
Heh, just kidding. Good for this kid. He wants to save the world. That's noble. I'm sure the anti-videogame message wasn't meant to be his major point, but that the media wanted to really stick that in people's faces. "See! This kid doesn't play videogames! And he's a GENIUS!" (as if there were some sort of causal relationship there). But when your goal is to graduate by the age of 11 with a 4.0, pretty much anything that doesn't help plow through schoolwork is a waste of time- videogames, girlfriends, music, television, walking on the beach, reading for fun, playing with the family dog, having friends. Depending on what I wanted to do with my life, I could even say school work and astrophysics are a waste of time. People are just too "progress" focused and they equate having fun with "wasting time." But when life ceases to be fun, what is the point of all of that progress?
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I dont get why all of you want to beat this 11 year-old up. Maybe video games do make us more violent and disregard laws - i.e. beating up a minor. Anyway, I think this is cool to a point. I agree that there is still much of the world this kid needs to see. About the video games... think about it. He is 11 and took college level courses, add that to an 8pm bed time and when would he play video games? As for the helping humanity thing, again he is 11. When I was 11 I would always say some bullshit to try to impress whoever was talking to me - if it was kids I said that I could beat SMB in 30 minutes, if it was adults I said that I was going to go to college and find a cure for cancer. Chalk it up to adolescence.
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PharmaceuticalCowboy wrote:I'm really just wondering what kind of field an 11 year old can get into with an Associate of Arts degree... I think lots of people with Bachelor's degrees and real work experience have a better chance of a career and they are all having a tough time right now. Perhaps someone will take him on because of his celebrity, but I don't think so. Otherwise what is he going to do now that he graduated? If he's such a prodigy why doesn't he go on to get his PhD?
It's great that this kid is putting such an emphasis on education, but I believe we are putting far too much credence into the opinion of someone who decided that going to community college at the age of 11 was fun. I graduated college and I played lots of games throughout my years... And I bet if each and every one of us had given up the hobby we love we all could have achieved what he did.
Wow, I completely skimmed over that part. Who the hell goes to college at 11 and only goes to community college, as opposed to a real college?
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PharmaceuticalCowboy wrote:I'm really just wondering what kind of field an 11 year old can get into with an Associate of Arts degree... I think lots of people with Bachelor's degrees and real work experience have a better chance of a career and they are all having a tough time right now. Perhaps someone will take him on because of his celebrity, but I don't think so. Otherwise what is he going to do now that he graduated? If he's such a prodigy why doesn't he go on to get his PhD?
It's great that this kid is putting such an emphasis on education, but I believe we are putting far too much credence into the opinion of someone who decided that going to community college at the age of 11 was fun. I graduated college and I played lots of games throughout my years... And I bet if each and every one of us had given up the hobby we love we all could have achieved what he did.
Wow, I completely skimmed over that part. Who the hell goes to college at 11 and only goes to community college, as opposed to a real college?
Money? Location? Parent's concern for the smaller atmosphere versus the more exposed universities? It could be lots of reasons, not because he's got some flaw that kept him from going to "the big boy" colleges. If he had some flaw, SO WHAT?
SpaceBooger wrote:I dont get why all of you want to beat this 11 year-old up. Maybe video games do make us more violent and disregard laws - i.e. beating up a minor. Anyway, I think this is cool to a point. I agree that there is still much of the world this kid needs to see. About the video games... think about it. He is 11 and took college level courses, add that to an 8pm bed time and when would he play video games? As for the helping humanity thing, again he is 11. When I was 11 I would always say some bullshit to try to impress whoever was talking to me - if it was kids I said that I could beat SMB in 30 minutes, if it was adults I said that I was going to go to college and find a cure for cancer. Chalk it up to adolescence.
