13 Year Old Takes Morehouse By Storm– Black History Month!

My sister Turkey haaaad to bring this to my attention.

There is now another reason besides math-doing Asians or

that you should feel stupid.

Presentingggg

*Drumroll Please*

13 year old Stephen Stafford!

Not only is he completely adorable, he is Morehouse College’s youngest pupil.  A whiz kid at the age of two, he said while his older sister was 6 years old, she would play school with him– not realizing that he was actually learning what she was teaching.

By the time Stephen was in Kindergarten he’d mastered multiplication.  Most of us didn’t begin learning our “times tables” until 2nd grade.

You know what? I’ll let you read some more of this article yourselves, via Rockdale Citizen:

A year later, he had completed his first Algebra course. He finished Geometry at age 7 and Algebra 2 at 9.

When his mother could no longer home school him, she called Morehouse. The college agreed to allow Stafford to audit a couple of math classes.
“I made a 105 in College Algebra and a 99 in Precalculus,” he said. “That was sort of the test to see if I could stay.”

Are you aware of what this means? He got smarter than his own mother who was homeschooling him. Her translation:

“Can you put please this little smart ass somewhere?? He’s starting to outhink me.”

Today, Stafford is majoring in pre-med, mathematics and computer science. He plans to graduate from college at the age of 16 and continue his education at the Morehouse School of Medicine.

“I’ll probably be a doctor by the time I’m 24 or 25,” he said.

Stafford enjoys speaking at schools and hopes his enthusiasm for learning will inspire teenagers to go to college.

“College students are no different than high schools students,” he said, “It’s just the next step in school.”

When asked how the other Morehouse students reacted to him, he said, “At first they were pretty freaked out. They thought I was the professor’s son or something, like it was ‘bring your child to work day,’ but then I started answering questions in class and helping them with their math and I fit right in.”

My favorite line? “I’ll probably be a doctor by the time I’m 24 or 25″.

He doesn’t even admit that he’s a child prodigy The fact that he’s a sophomore is even better– he’s gotten the swing of this stuff while his peers are playing in the sandbox and his superiors are cheating off him during midterms.

May I remind you, I, myself, have run into this issue before:

http://msofficer.com/2008/09/13/only-by-the-grace-of-god-did-i-make-it-past-the-7th-grade/

May God Bless this little man because this is quite rad, even though I firmly believe that a college campus is no place for a child.

What are the ingredients to growing a super genius kid? I want to make one.

Hopefully this story has warmed you hearts on this snowy winter night )

Love,

*Ms. Officer