LaBettyBoop
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Damn, this is ashame 😱 ......I mean I'm happy for the kid but to read this when I can't even find a job. lol......It's really not funny. 🙁 He's going to be making money at such a young, young age! Younger than others.
12-year-old starts med school in Chicago
Associated Press
CHICAGO--Sho Yano's mother hands him his lunch for school in a brown paper bag, a turkey sandwich and cookies included.
"You don't need any bones today? No bones?" Kyung Yano asks her quiet, spectacle-wearing 12-year-old, who shakes his head "no" as they head out their apartment door. She wants to make sure he isn't supposed to take his samples of spinal bones and a human skull to class, where he's learning about human anatomy.
It's the kind of morning many young students and their parents experience, except for one thing. Sho isn't in junior high. He's a first-year medical school student at the University of Chicago, where he's the youngest ever to attend one of the university's professional schools.
If he weren't also getting his Ph.D. along with his medical degree, pushing his age at graduation to 19 or 20, he'd also be on course to become the youngest person to graduate from any medical school. According to the Guinness Book of Records, a 17-year-old graduated from medical school in New York in 1995.
But Sho is utterly uninterested in setting records. He also shuns the labels often used to describe him, "prodigy" and "little genius" among them.
Yes, he has an IQ over 200. Yes, he graduated in three years from Chicago's Loyola University, summa cum laude. For him, though, going to school is about learning as much as he can.
"And there's a lot of stuff to know," he says as he thumbs through one of his extra-thick medical books.
While many children his age spent their summers at camp or the beach, Sho was dissecting a human cadaver and learning the intricacies of the 12 cranial nerves. So far, having scored A's on his first few quizzes, he's handling the course work better than some who are a decade or more older than him.
Some of his classmates were wary at first. That included Luka Pocivavsek, a 22-year-old medical student who shared a room with Sho at a retreat for new students in the M.D.-Ph.D. program.
At first, he wondered how such a young student could handle the emotional and social rigors of being a doctor.
But Sho quickly won him over.
"He has surpassed my expectations in every imaginable way," Pocivavsek says. "His initial shyness has given way to a very sociable guy. And his understanding of complex social and political issues is very keen and observant."
In some ways, Sho is still a typical 12-year old. He sometimes squabbles with his little sister Sayuri. While he's not a fan of Harry Potter, he adores books by best-selling children's author Brian Jacques.
At school, he's more of the little-brother figure. His classmates tease him, for instance, about finding a girlfriend. But they also go out of their way to include him, often socializing in their homes instead of bars.
The medical school has adjusted Sho's schedule a bit, delaying his clinical work with patients for his last two years in the program.
12-year-old starts med school in Chicago
Associated Press
CHICAGO--Sho Yano's mother hands him his lunch for school in a brown paper bag, a turkey sandwich and cookies included.
"You don't need any bones today? No bones?" Kyung Yano asks her quiet, spectacle-wearing 12-year-old, who shakes his head "no" as they head out their apartment door. She wants to make sure he isn't supposed to take his samples of spinal bones and a human skull to class, where he's learning about human anatomy.
It's the kind of morning many young students and their parents experience, except for one thing. Sho isn't in junior high. He's a first-year medical school student at the University of Chicago, where he's the youngest ever to attend one of the university's professional schools.
If he weren't also getting his Ph.D. along with his medical degree, pushing his age at graduation to 19 or 20, he'd also be on course to become the youngest person to graduate from any medical school. According to the Guinness Book of Records, a 17-year-old graduated from medical school in New York in 1995.
But Sho is utterly uninterested in setting records. He also shuns the labels often used to describe him, "prodigy" and "little genius" among them.
Yes, he has an IQ over 200. Yes, he graduated in three years from Chicago's Loyola University, summa cum laude. For him, though, going to school is about learning as much as he can.
"And there's a lot of stuff to know," he says as he thumbs through one of his extra-thick medical books.
While many children his age spent their summers at camp or the beach, Sho was dissecting a human cadaver and learning the intricacies of the 12 cranial nerves. So far, having scored A's on his first few quizzes, he's handling the course work better than some who are a decade or more older than him.
Some of his classmates were wary at first. That included Luka Pocivavsek, a 22-year-old medical student who shared a room with Sho at a retreat for new students in the M.D.-Ph.D. program.
At first, he wondered how such a young student could handle the emotional and social rigors of being a doctor.
But Sho quickly won him over.
"He has surpassed my expectations in every imaginable way," Pocivavsek says. "His initial shyness has given way to a very sociable guy. And his understanding of complex social and political issues is very keen and observant."
In some ways, Sho is still a typical 12-year old. He sometimes squabbles with his little sister Sayuri. While he's not a fan of Harry Potter, he adores books by best-selling children's author Brian Jacques.
At school, he's more of the little-brother figure. His classmates tease him, for instance, about finding a girlfriend. But they also go out of their way to include him, often socializing in their homes instead of bars.
The medical school has adjusted Sho's schedule a bit, delaying his clinical work with patients for his last two years in the program.
