(For those who missed this story: would you believe that the world's youngest professor can't legally drink?)

Quite a feat!

"Knowing is not enough, we must apply" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That could serve as explanation for what prompted the 19-year-old to become the youngest college professor in history.

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She started talking and reading when she was just 8 months old. She had elementary school finished at age 5.

She made the jump to college at age 10. And by age 14, Sabur was earning a bachelor’s of science degree in applied mathematics summa cum laude from Stony Brook University — the youngest female in U.S. history to do so.

Her education continued at Drexel University, where she earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering.

With an unlimited future ahead of her, Sabur directed her first career choice to teaching. She was three days short of her 19^th birthday in February when she was hired to become a professor at Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea.

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She is indeed a brilliant girl to be a  professor at such a young age and a very good role model for young kids.
Loote ,do you believe that she started reading and talking at 8 months?, for me its kind of hard to believe since most baby starts growing teeth from 5 or 6 months. It looks like little bit of exaggeration for me.

I heard about her somewhere. She is brilliant ,indeed .

Amazing!! It's a great feat. This achievement reminds me of another child prodigy who exchanged her pathaway for a vicious noteriety.

From the Telegraph.

Child maths prodigy 'working as a prostitute' By Megan Levy Last Updated: 2:18am BST 02/04/2008 A child prodigy who was one of the youngest students to be admitted to Oxford University is now working as a prostitute in Manchester, it has been claimed. Sufiah Yusof's ex-husband talks exclusively to the Telegraph Sufiah Yusof was just 13 years old when she was admitted to the prestigious university to study mathematics.   Sufiah Yusof at the age of 15 But 10 years on, Miss Yusof now earns £130 an hour working as a prostitute from her flat in Salford, Manchester, according to the News of the World. The newspaper claims it sent an undercover reporter to the 23-year-old's home, where Miss Yusof, who allegedly works under the name Shilpa Lee, described the services she reportedly offered. On her website, she is alleged to have described herself as a "very pretty size 8, 32D bust and 5'5'' tall - available for bookings every day from 11am to 8pm." The website has since been shut down. The gifted student sparked a massive police hunt in 2001 when, at the age of 15, she ran away from Oxford after passing her end-of-term examinations at St Hilda's College. At the time she sent her family an e-mail, accusing her father of making her life "a living hell" and of putting her through "15 years of physical and emotional abuse". Mr Yusof denied that he had pushed Sufiah too hard and implied that she was being told what to say by those controlling her. Police later found her living in Bournemouth, posing as a student among the 30,000 foreigners who go to the seaside resort each year to study English.

Loote ,do you believe that she started reading and talking at 8 months?

Hi SS!
Well, to me getting into the college at 10, graduating summa cum laude when barely 14, and getting an MS degree at 16 are more astounding achievements than starting reading and talking at 8 months. She is exceptional and everything about her is unbelievable. I am more curious to know what all she is gonna achieve in the future apart from perhaps thousands of journals and myriad other publications. Something out of the world really to even conceive...

hope alls well :)

Bhakunde bro!
Indeed. Strange world it is.

http://www.sajha.com/sajha/html/OpenThread.cfm?forum=2&ThreadID=57896

PS. Mind editing your posting to make it fit in the screen? :)

My bad, Loote.

I missed that posting.

The advertisement are scripted and I can't help myself. Tried changing  the HTML codes  but  got lost in the translation.

 

that's alright BB. it looks better than before.

I think, we also have extra ordinary briliant children in Nepal. I remember a girl, who was denied for admission due to her young age when she went India for higher study. She then met Indira Gandhi, and impressed PM Gandhi with her fluent and wise talks. Indira Gandhi helped her to enroll in university and got her bachelors at very young age (may be 12 or so). She delivered numerous speech in Sanskrit during World Hindu Conference in Nepal. 

I do not know where she landed up later on, but I have heard she is a news reader in Nepal TV these days. Will be happy to know about her further success stories.

Maybe the person chanaa is talking about is Alaka Atreya, now at Deptt. Of South Asian, Tibetan & Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna. Don't know details for sure, though.

ohh,I didn't see you already posted this articles. My bad.

I am proud of being a Drexel student. Yes, Chana was talking about Alka Atreya. I also read and saw (on TV) an Indian boy who was pursuing PhD at the age of 13. His name is Avtar Tulsi......... All are born equal but some are more equal than other.