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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I We often read in the news when a particularly young student gets into college and that is seen as an achievement. [/quote] But in the long-run, their lives aren't any better. When these students are 40, nobody will care that they started college so young. I have a friend who started college when he was 11, graduated at 15, and got his PHD at 20. He was indeed in the news for it, and everyone who knew thought he was pretty smart. Now, he's 38 and though he has a good job, so do a lot of people we know; people who didn't start college at 11. All the praise and glory he was getting 27 years ago has died out. But do you know what hasn't died out? The shyness and social awkwardness he acquired by being so much younger than his classmates. He says that he feels like he missed out on his childhood for nothing.[/quote]
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