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What A 9-year Old High School Graduate Wants To Study Will Shock You by qtx(m): 8:54am On Sep 30, 2016 |
William Maillis is 9 years old, very unlike most other kids who will prefer to learn more about movies, sports, games, technology and so on, rather he wants to study Astrophysics, a course he believes will allow him to prove the existence of God. But the 9-year old proves not to be an ordinary kid when it comes to academics. In May, he graduated from high school and is now a college student already working on his own theories of how the universe was created. Most other 9-year-olds are in fourth grade. William, who lives in Penn Township, Pennsylvania, is among the youngest people ever to attend college. He’s currently taking a full slate of classes at Community College of Allegheny County as a way to ease into life as a college student and plans to enroll next fall at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, according to his father, Peter Maillis, a Greek Orthodox priest. “It doesn’t bother me” being the youngest student in class by far, William tells PEOPLE. “I’m used to it by now.” William, who wants to study the physics and chemistry of space, earn a doctorate degree and work as an astrophysicist, is at ease tossing around concepts like “displacement of space-time” “singularity” and “pure gravity” as he patiently attempts to explain why black holes aren’t “super massive” as theorized by such other brilliant minds as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Bottom line, according to William: “I want to prove to everybody that God does exist,” he says, by showing that only an outside force could be capable of forming the cosmos. Maillis said he and his wife, Nancy, who also are parents to a daughter, 29, and son, 26, – “[William] was our 17-year-surprise,” Maillis says with a laugh – realized their young son was advanced when he started accurately identifying numbers at 6 months old and speaking in complete sentences at just 7 months old, he said. “William was just very sharp,” Maillis says. “William remembers everything he sees.” He followed with a range of impressive academic feats, including doing addition at 21 months; multiplication, reading and writing at 2 years old; algebra, sign language and reading Greek at age 4; geometry at 5 and trigonometry at 7. After finishing third grade last year, William then simultaneously attended fourth grade and high school while also taking some college classes and this year enrolled in college full-time, his dad says. Despite his obvious prowess, William was originally turned down when he tried to enroll in kindergarten at age 4 after failing an entrance readiness test when he couldn’t, for example, identify gray as a color (“gray is a shade, not a color,” his father explains) or recognize a thermometer (“we don’t use that kind, we use the kind that goes in your ear,” he says). Maillis then consulted with a college psychologist who studies whiz kids and she declared him a “pure genius” after administering IQ tests, he says. The elementary school reconsidered and allowed him in. [url]http://www.robminds.com/2016/09/30/9-year-old-high-school-graduate-wants-study-course-will-enable-prove-god-existphoto/ [/url] |
Re: What A 9-year Old High School Graduate Wants To Study Will Shock You by busterr(m): 9:01am On Sep 30, 2016 |
pics? 1 Like |
Re: What A 9-year Old High School Graduate Wants To Study Will Shock You by docmoses(m): 12:12pm On Sep 30, 2016 |
Re: What A 9-year Old High School Graduate Wants To Study Will Shock You by oglalasioux(m): 12:46pm On Sep 30, 2016 |
It'll also be a relief if he can mathematically explain tithes, proliferation of churches, pastors' dubious and promiscuous tendencies etc. |
Re: What A 9-year Old High School Graduate Wants To Study Will Shock You by Nobody: 2:10pm On Sep 30, 2016 |
This is wonderful.while oyinbos are giving birth to geniuses and genetically advanced offsprings.Africans are giving birth to...complete am if you know. |
Re: What A 9-year Old High School Graduate Wants To Study Will Shock You by falcon01: 2:40pm On Sep 30, 2016 |
kyap |
Re: What A 9-year Old High School Graduate Wants To Study Will Shock You by Marvel1206: 4:12pm On Sep 30, 2016 |
1KINGKYLE: 1 Like |
Re: What A 9-year Old High School Graduate Wants To Study Will Shock You by dedons: 5:09pm On Sep 30, 2016 |
whereas a Nigerian Graduate is still applying for one fake police job and N-power scam. |
Re: What A 9-year Old High School Graduate Wants To Study Will Shock You by Nobody: 8:16pm On Sep 30, 2016 |
Most atheists started like this. The moment you start finding ways to prove God exists, the moment your journey to atheism begins. Speaking from experience here. 1 Like |
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