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11-Year-Old Graduates College with Astrophysics Degree

by Kendra Cunningham on June 10, 2009 at 06:01 AM

Eleven-year old Moshe Kai Cavalin wants to be an Olympic martial arts master and an actor -- as soon as he has proven the existence of wormholes. The California youngster has already obtained his Associates degree in astrophysics with a 4.0 GPA. FOX News recently reported on this real-life astro boy, and while he's not an android, the East Los Angeles Community College pre-teen stands at 4 foot, 7 inches, significantly shorter than his voting-age classmates.

Denied acceptance to a private elementary school at the age of six because teachers insisted he wasn't being sufficiently challenged (Fox says Moshe was worried he looked bored), Moshe was home-schooled until the age of eight, when he enrolled in college. Moshe's parents don't call him a genius and he doesn't like the term either; he just thinks of himself as a kid who likes to study, along with watching Jackie Chan movies, baseball caps with embroidered tigers and playing soccer. The humble youth also plans to write a book to help other kids do well in academics, because he attests that everyone has their own type of intelligence. But for now, he'll be taking a break from school to be a normal kid... before heading off to a traditional four-year university. [From: FOX News]

Tags: astrophysics, college, genius, kids, prodigy, science, top, wormholes

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