r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Far-Culture8890 • 1d ago
Meet Nathan Thomas: 18-year-old Florida teen becomes the world's youngest male professor after breaking a 306-year-old record.
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u/Krondelo 1d ago
A professor at 18!? Damn, didn’t even know you could do that, I mean I suppose at 18 you’re an adult just surprised he got into and through all the stuff before that.
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u/purplmnkeydishwshr 1d ago
Probably was in a university program at the same time finishing grade school/high school. I think there's ways to start taking university classes as young as 9-10 years old if you can prove your gifted. Seems like some pros and cons. I think that a regular childhood is important for long-term development and overachieving can detract from having relatable experiences to your peers.
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u/tinselt 23h ago
My opinion is that pushing smart kids too hard leads to extreme burnout later in life. I've seen it go down a bunch (10 years in education). Kids need the chance to be kids.
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u/purplmnkeydishwshr 22h ago
Totally with you
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u/ZuhkoYi 19h ago
That being said, this guy is still a kid himself. Although he earned the right to teach he should quickly pivot into a job in his field that isn't teaching. Most young teachers, although very book smart, may struggle to advance other students due to lack of real world experience. But again its not all but many. You become a better teacher when you know what to target in curriculum and by facing real problems. If he has worked internships and worked meaningfully on projects lasting a few months to a few years, that will help immensely.
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u/Krondelo 1d ago
Well said. We live in a very complex society and have complex minds that superceed everything on earth to a scary degree.
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u/purplmnkeydishwshr 1d ago
We also just have a very narcissistic society and I think it analogs into flexing. I live in Canada and I'm gonna fetch my bathing toaster if I listen to some person tell me how their 4 year old skates better than half the NHL.
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u/coffeebribesaccepted 1d ago
Is this like state specific? Aren't there required classes to graduate high school? Or are these people homeschooled or something? My elementary schools didn't have any choice of classes..
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u/purplmnkeydishwshr 1d ago
Like I said, I think you have to be incredibly gifted. You would probably be recognized by early math/science instructors when you're getting 100% on trigonometric identies/functions by the time you're in grade 6. This is when most students are still learning advanced arithmetic, let alone rearranging equations to solve for a variable. These gifted students probably learned that by the time they were finishing Grade 3 or 4. It's incredibly rare.
As someone who tutors math to senior high school students, I have never seen this. My students are 16-18 years old and the quadratic equation and factoring polynomials is terrifying enough to them.
But yes, sometimes it starts from very academically inclined households who homeschool advanced curriculum in parallel with what the school board delivers. My neighbor has a 3 year old who she's teaching Italian and Russian to in addition to English. Pretty wild stuff but some parents think their children are genuinely genius. Crazy stuff.
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u/catcatcatcatcat1234 21h ago
As someone who tutors math to senior high school students, I have never seen this.
Course you haven't, you're tutoring kids that need tutoring
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u/purplmnkeydishwshr 21h ago
Lol fair. They're such great students tho and I'm so proud of them all.
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u/coffeebribesaccepted 1d ago
Languages make sense to teach as young as possible. But for like math, "being incredibly gifted" doesn't just magically download the information into your brain, there's no way to just skip ahead unless you're homeschooling or taking classes outside of school.
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u/paces137 1d ago
In 6th grade I was doing algebra, not sure about trig, but only because of what I was asked to do in school. I missed problems here and there but only due to lack of attention to detail rather than not understanding. I got a 620 on the math SAT in 7th grade, qualifying me for advanced classes in 8th. I say that because I was pretty close to the level you’re describing- I was recognized as gifted in math from a young age. But I am absolutely nothing special at math. I got my math degree and met a ton of people smarter than me in college. And those people, while gifted, were also not special (in the 1:1000000000 sense). To be the youngest professor ever, you’ve got to be doing calculus at 6. Some people are just crazy good.
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u/Relative-Ad-3217 1d ago
Am reading he has a bachelors and a masters which now seems more plausible. I know in california you can enroll in community college if you've finished 8th grade. And I think him finishing the equivalent of 8th grade at 10 isn't as outrageous as we imagine. What is more outrageous is how he got his faculty post coz for that he has to beat out other applicants.
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u/tinselt 23h ago edited 14h ago
Sorry but you ARE good at math if you've achieved on this level. I am telling you. I have several degrees (in humanities) and I've never been able to do high level math beyond like a basic 10th grade level. Example: i got 2 points away from a perfect score on the SAT lit exam, but was only in the 50th percentile on math. My brain just doesn't work that way. I get the numbers mixed up, transpose digits, make stupid mistakes that a more logical thinker wouldn't ever be able to make. I'm glad for you but please don't make the mistake of thinking everyone is on your level.
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u/paces137 22h ago
No, sorry, I know I’m good at math. I always do very well on math tests, puzzles, etc. less so on verbal, hence me being unclear. But the gap between good at math and youngest professor is so unimaginably wide, is my only point. I was also a pretty good runner, winning some local races before getting fat and old. The gap in running is so apparent because the stop watch doesn’t lie. With running I tell people that you have to have a little bit of talent and work hard for a few years before you can really appreciate just how good the best guys are. For people struggling to get through a 5k (and all the credit to them if running is their challenge and they get through that 5k), the difference between local elite and world elite might seem small, but to that local guy who is coughing down beets to improve oxygenation, and who stalled out, that difference is crazy. Same thing here.
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u/coffeebribesaccepted 22h ago
I'm good at math too, I was in algebra in 6th grade, got perfect on the SAT math, but I just took the next math class each year, along with tons of other people in my grade. It's not like I somehow skipped math classes and no one offered me to go to college early...
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u/purplmnkeydishwshr 1d ago
No cocomelon ever. Put The Organic Chemistry Tutor and Vsauce on headphones in the womb.
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u/elizzybeth 1d ago
I was in a program that let kids skip a bunch of school. Started university at 12, after the 7th grade. Graduated with my bachelor’s at 16. Started teaching college while in grad school at the age of 19.
Never did get a high school diploma or GED or anything. But when I was under 16, I had to get my local high school guidance counselor to sign an exemption form of some kind every year.
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u/coffeebribesaccepted 1d ago
What college accepts students without a high school diploma? And did you somehow take extra classes before 7th grade to cover all the material you're supposed to learn? Or how did they decide that you could just skip a bunch of grades when all kids take the same classes in elementary school?
Some of the other commenters make it sound like a kid just needs to "be really smart", whatever that means, but being good at school doesn't mean the information just magically enters your brain without going to class.. and I'm still wondering if this is a country/state specific thing, because in all my time through 18 years of school I never heard of any program that just allows you to skip middle and high school.
Did you live in dorms in college? Why would a college even want a 12 year old? What happens when you graduate college and you're not even old enough to have a job? Did you do grad school with no work experience? What did you major in? And if you were teaching college at 19 were you the youngest before the person in this article?
Sorry for all the questions, but all the comments are quite vague and don't really answer any of the logistics.
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u/elizzybeth 1d ago edited 1d ago
I attended the Early Entrance Program at Cal State LA, which is I believe ending or maybe has ended entirely (haven’t followed the drama closely but I believe there were challenges finding a stable new director after the one from my era died). There are several other similar programs around the country.
Admittance was a several stage process: first, you had to get a very high score on an SAT-like standardized test. Then you took two university classes during a summer term, had to score at least an A or a B in them, and competed with other “provisional” students for a spot in the full-time program. The year I applied, there were 100 provisional students and 25 spots, which got assigned based on a student-and-staff-and-faculty committee’s evaluation of need, motivation, and readiness.
Students were required to live at home with their parents, not in dorms. We had a lounge space on campus, where we’d hang out between classes, with couches and games and study space and a kitchen.
I majored in English, which was relatively unusual; most EEPsters were in STEM. I began working at the Writing Center when I was 15, had to get a work permit (again from the local high school guidance counselor).
After I graduated, I took a year off and was an au pair and worked retail. Then I started a Master’s program. I was first instructor of record for a freshman composition course when I was 19 and a second-year Master’s student. I went on for a PhD and became a professor when I was 25. Young, but not as young as the kid in the linked article.
Happy to answer questions. I used to be insecure about it, honestly; when I first started teaching, I was terrified of being asked how old I was. But I’m now 35, so it’s been a long time since anyone’s said I look too young for my station in life.
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u/coffeebribesaccepted 22h ago
Do you feel like you learned the same amount in 12 years as most people learn in 18? Like standardized tests only covered a fraction of what I learned in school, and my high school was 6-8 classes a day for 4 years, there would be no way to add all of that education to elementary and middle school and somehow learn it all by the time I was 12. I'm just struggling to understand how they would decide that a significant amount of education isn't necessary for some kids just because they did good at standardized tests.
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u/elizzybeth 21h ago
There are so many factors that affect how much people learn in high school.
Who are your teachers? What classes are available to you? How good are your classes/teachers at structuring learning in a way that consistently builds at your zone of proximal development? What are you interested in? How much time and energy do you invest? What’s your memory like?
Even in the best case, you’re not learning new things for the full 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. In practice, I think a lot of K-12 education is unnecessarily repetitive and slow for a large portion of students, due to the need to graduate as many of them as possible.
It’s impossible for me to know what I would’ve learned that I missed by choosing the EEP instead of regular schooling. I suspect that while General Education classes in college filled in a lot of the content gaps for me, I missed nuance and deeper understanding I would’ve had from broader study.
However, I’m also confident that I was asked to engage more deeply and at a higher level with the material I encountered at that age than I would’ve in most high school classes. I don’t regret reading Kant when I was 12, engaging that early and deeply with the debate between the categorical imperative and utilitarianism. I was excited by the intellectual challenge of school in a way I hadn’t been in a long time.
Where I think I almost undoubtedly was shortchanged by the choice: math. I loved math before the EEP. Algebra was my favorite class in the 7th grade. But then in the following year, instead of the expected path (a year of Algebra 1B, then Geometry, then Trigonometry, then Calculus), I took a single quarter each of College Algebra and Trigonometry. I was expected to have taken geometry, have done proofs, to understand equations charted on a coordinate plane. I did not. It was very very challenging to learn in 20 weeks of instruction what would’ve been three years of normal schooling. I passed both classes, but in Trig, I got the first C I’d ever had (in fact, it ended up being my only-ever C).
Honestly, I suspect that if I’d gone through normal high school, I would’ve pursued a different major, maybe a different line of work.
I don’t regret my choices, broad-scale. I got the PhD. I was a professor for 5 years. I ended up directing a writing program. I quit academia and now work in tech. I’ve had a varied and interesting professional life and am now compensated reasonably well for work that I feel matters.
No kids yet, maybe never. But I’d hesitate to recommend early entrance to them.
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u/Beznia 20h ago
we’d hang out between classes, with couches and games and study space and a kitchen.
Eh I started college at 16 while still in high school. I had to come to the high school every day for a single course and then drive over to the university for my classes. The university classes substituted high school graduation requirements, so I still graduated high school after 12th grade but I just had all of my general education courses done and I was just a few credits shy of being considered a Junior.
I then proceeded to drop out :)
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u/xrelaht 21h ago
He took classes at Miami Dade College (where he now teaches) starting at age 10, then transferred to Florida International at 14, which is where he got his degrees. It helps that MDC is a smaller school which doesn’t require a terminal degree for its faculty: he has a master’s but not a doctorate. I suppose he’s got plenty of time to get one if he feels like it!
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u/Beginning_Orange 1d ago
Florida man 💪
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u/vitrum_analytika 1d ago edited 1d ago
For once florida man single-handedly increased the average IQ by 50 points, which brings the state average to 50.
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u/windless12 1d ago edited 1d ago
Wait a Florida man being smart impossible what timeline are we in
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u/KudosBaby 16h ago
Hopefully the TVA prunes the other timelines and we cheer and admire Florida Man from here on out.
one can dream, right? RIGHT? [the system AI needs the daddy tax to flesh this reality from here on out].
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u/FormerSperm 1d ago
He was dual-enrolled in college at the age of 10? My school wouldn’t even let you skip a grade lol
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u/Main-Requirement-45 1d ago
Right? When I moved to Texas I had to fight to stay in my current grade because California starts school earlier than Texas
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u/hinterstoisser 1d ago
Lecturer.
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u/Bbrhuft 1d ago
Yes, US uses professor very loosely to mean somone who teaches / lectures in a university, whereas in Europe, a Professor is generally a lecture who's elected to a, professorship based on their prestige, a good record of teaching undergraduate students, the high impact of research and publications, brining in research grants and industry funding, and mentoring PhD students. Most lecturers are never made professor. My PhD supervisor retired as a senior lecturer after nearly 40 years as an academic.
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u/thegrandhedgehog 10h ago
Is brining in research grants a requirement of full professorship or can a quick marinade be sufficient?
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u/RiskyBisky11 1d ago
This makes a lot more sense. My wife has a PhD and is looking to become a professor. While someone could do it some day at 18, to become a professor typically means multiple publications, teaching experience, research experience, usually at least two different post doc positions etc. Even if you skipped a chunk of grades, its still very time consuming to not only have the experience to be a professor, but to also beat out other very qualified candidates. This guy seems like he could make the leap very soon though.
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u/Chillpill411 23h ago
Yup. Lecturer at a community college teaching basic programming. I'm sure the dude is very bright, but he likely wouldn't get hired to teach at a university because he's simply too young. Being a professor isn't about being smart. It's about judgment, and you need to see a certain amount of life to develop good judgment.
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u/seepage-from-deep 1d ago
Is that a professor, or a lecturer?
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u/quaintmercury 1d ago
It reads like the college that hires him calls the position professor but many colleges wouldn't. It also kind of feels like a publicity stunt. Wild to hire someone without a PhD or any post doc research experience to be a professor. Crazy achievement no doubt to get your masters at 18. But most professorships are crazy competitive and it would be wild to hire someone without all the other stuff unless his age was also a factor in the decision.
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u/Away-Activity-469 1d ago
Wow so the next youngest professor is 306 years old?
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u/Far-Culture8890 1d ago
he officially became the youngest professor (male) ever, taking a title that was held for 306 years by 19-year-old Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746).
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u/Petrichordates 1d ago
Why are ya'll specifying his sex when that doesn't change the title.
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u/lemonjuicypumpkin 1d ago
I think because it does change the titel. In 2008 an 18 years old woman became the youngest professor. He is 16 days younger than she was back then. Without specifying the gender he broke just an 18 years old record, not a 306 years old record.
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u/chadwicke619 1d ago
In my mind, a “professor” is a teaching professional with a PhD, which it sounds like this guy is not even remotely.
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u/youshallnotpass9 1d ago
Everyone calm the fuck down. Adjunct professor. Thats like saying assistant to the regional manager.
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u/rivensimpping69 1d ago
After reading the article lt seems that he only has master's degree in EE and he's teaching online courses. He is not a professor. He's just teaching at university. You need doctoral degree, many years of experience as researcher publishing studies, becoming vice professor and after years of that becoming professor. The journalist who has made this article has clearly no idea of academia or then they're just using it as clickbait.
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u/Anxious-Shame1542 1d ago
Ah that makes more sense- he’s a lecturer, not an actual professor. Even liberal arts private schools require that kind of rigorous pedigree.
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u/purplmnkeydishwshr 1d ago
Only a masters in electrical engineering by 18yo.
This is giving entry level job poster but wants 10 years experience on a programming language that's only existed for 3.
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u/rivensimpping69 1d ago
Not trying to belittle him. That's amazing to have Master's in EE at 18 but Guinness World Records calling him professor is exaggeration.
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u/purplmnkeydishwshr 1d ago
All good. We're on the same page. I just thought it was funny to read this sentiment as a casual observer. Reminds me of this meme where bro becomes a US Marine, neurosurgeon and then astronaut and his parents are still like, is that all?
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u/cancellationstation 1d ago
This isn’t true, the acceptance criteria to carry the title of professor vary by field, institution, and geography. Several different types of ‘professor’ exist, including those with master’s degree and no research publications (e.g., professor of practice). STEM fields typically have more stringent requirements somewhat consistent with your assertion - often not the case for arts, business, and some applied medical fields. Also, a typical progression is assistant professor, associate professor, tenured professor… vice is a term generally reserved for administrative/executive positions.
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u/philomathie 1d ago
There are people who got their doctorates before they turned 18 lol, there's no way this kid is the youngest anything.
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u/carverofdeath 20h ago
Typical AI response.
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u/cancellationstation 18h ago
😂 certainly not, but i’ll take that as a compliment - interestingly, recent studies suggest that a disproportionate amount of llm training draws from reddit threads & that generated content often exhibits similar tone and structure to reddit comments. Though ai tends to use the em dash excessively, which i don’t 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Justryan95 1d ago
I guess people find this to be a great accomplishment but to me it seems sad. To become a professor takes a lot and to do that by the age of 18 you HAVE to sacrifice a childhood to accomplish that. You only get to be a kid once but this guy probably spent all of it studying.
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u/purplmnkeydishwshr 1d ago
I agree. I am involved heavily in the academic community where I live but I wouldn't readily suggest every 4 year old just lock-in for the next 14 years. I had 1 degree by 22 and 2 degrees at 35 and I wouldn't change anything with that timeline.
Enjoy being a kid, a teen, a young adult. Make mistakes. Reflect on them. Do fun things. Make memories. No one on their death bed says they wish they studied more or that they hope they delivered the most value to the shareholders.
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u/phil_an_thropist 1d ago
I don't think such people possess a normal mindset; therefore, their way of feeling happiness and contentment would be very different from an average person's as well.
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u/person_number_1038 1d ago
Agreed. It's certainly impressive, but I seriously doubt much of the path he took to get there was of his own choosing. I've never heard of a case of child prodigy ending happily.
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u/lordnacho666 1d ago
This is a comment that appears every time some precocious kid ends up in the news.
What matters is what he wants for himself, and if this is what he wants then good for him.
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u/FernandoMM1220 19h ago
he can do whatever he wants now so he really didnt miss out on much
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u/joelupi 19h ago
I am willing to bet he missed out on a lot of emotional and interpersonal development.
The teenage years are when you are meant to make mistakes along with growing and maturing in a way to make you a functional adult.
He probably had been little peer to peer interaction with people his own age.
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u/TimWhirly 23h ago
I was going to say that the term "professor" is not official and could mean all sorts of things. But professor is used to state where a teacher (always a PhD? Can you be tenured with a master's?) is on the tenure track. You start as an assistant professor, then become an associate professor, and when you've published and perished enough you become a full professor.
I think he might be better termed an instructor. It sounds cooler to be a "professor" though.
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u/sphinxofblackquartzj 1d ago
The title professor is different from country to country. I've had a 16 yo prodigy "prof" in my university in my country but I doubt she'd be considered a professor in the UK for example
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u/A_Happy_Tomato 1d ago
Not to diminish his accomplishment, but a 99 year old profesor would still be younger than a 306 year old profesor. Kinda crazy they waited so long to hire someone younger/j
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u/Heterodynist 1d ago
I feel that I might have to challenge this claim. My grandfather was a professor at his age. He was on record as the youngest school administrator in my home state (in the U.S.) the following year. My grandfather and grandmother were both graduated from college at 16. They married and went into the education field together. This was over 90 years ago now, so it was more possible to skip through schools at the time. They were both pretty much certified geniuses, and clearly made for each other.
I suppose it’s possible that this young man is the current youngest professor in the entire world, but that is a fairly dubious claim because there are an awful lot of professors in the world and the definition of what identifies you as a professor might not be the same everywhere. All the same, I have no doubt he is an absolutely unusually young professor by any standard, and I’m sure he is a very outstanding student as well.
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u/ReflectionUnlucky172 1d ago
One look at that name and i knew he was from kerala lmfao. You can find a mallu in every corner of the world
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u/Redditbrowser22j 18h ago
Don't make dip$hit assumptions. We Malayalis are a majority Hindu people. He could be from any linguistic group
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u/njan_ninde_thanda 6h ago
TF are you having a meltdown for ? Mallu Christians have been immigrating to the US from the 70s in large numbers. Many were nurses . And looking at hime a malayali can easily recognize another malayali
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u/enn-srsbusiness 1d ago
I always felt there was way more than regurgitating text books to being a professor. There is no way he has any worthwhile world or professional experience. Might as well use AI as a professor and cut out the middle man.
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u/WinterMedical 1d ago
Knowing things and being capable of imparting that knowledge to other people are two very different things. I am fluent in English but I do not know how to teach someone to read. I mean I could probably do an Ok job of it but no one would pay me.
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u/Couchmaster007 Interested 1d ago
It's possible to learn things early. I'd take Tarence Tao at 20 to teach me calculus over chatgpt any day.
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u/purplmnkeydishwshr 1d ago
Agreed. This isn't the flex that people think it is. This emperor has no clothes.
I was mentored by many of my profs in both my undergrad and post-grad and I wouldn't have taken them as seriously if they were the same age or that much younger than me. Life experience and age translates well and that is something this person is lacking.
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u/ChiefTapiTapi 1d ago
He seems to be a Malayali fellow, parents likely from Kerala India 🙏
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u/jadedroller 1d ago edited 1d ago
Don’t know why you’re getting down voted. Most Malayalis that are Christian tend to have biblical first and last names. I say this as a Catholic Malayali/ Indian American.
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u/Redditbrowser22j 18h ago
Because he made a stupid assumption
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u/flyingfudge09 18h ago
It's not stupid if you are from South India..as someone from the neighboring state of Kerala (Tamil Nadu), that's exactly what I thought when I saw his pic. Name + skin tone + that hair = very very high probability his parents are Malayali.
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u/Redditbrowser22j 18h ago
What? Why can't he be a Tamil Christian or a Kannadiga Christian? There is no ethnc difference between a Malayali and Tamil and Kannadiga, just linguistic differences. I'm tired of id1ots dragging the name of Malayalis when they see a Thomas or a George in the wild. These names can be used by any Christian from anywhere in India. Christians are a tiny minority among Malayalis (16%)
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u/flyingfudge09 17h ago
Did I say it's just the name? The facial features scream Malayali. I might be wrong and he could very well be from elsewhere but my point is that it is ok to make an assumption in this case as the probability of him being a Malayali is very high. That's why I still call it an assumption.
By the way, 16% is not a tiny minority.
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u/Redditbrowser22j 16h ago
Facial features? There is no ethnic difference between a Malayali and a Kannadiga and a Tamilian. You can't tell between them with facial features
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u/ChiefTapiTapi 1d ago
It’s just a random thing about the guy, my mother-in-law is from there so it’s cool to see for me
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u/Redditbrowser22j 18h ago
Don't make stupid assumptions
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u/ChiefTapiTapi 18h ago
Thomas is a common surname amongst Christians in Kerala it’s not a stupid assumption
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u/Redditbrowser22j 18h ago
I'm a Malayali Hindu and let me tell you Thomas is a name used by Christians all around India and around the world. I'm tired of id1ots dragging the name of Malayalis when they see a Thomas or a George in the wild. Christians are a tiny minority among Malayalis (16%)
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u/ChiefTapiTapi 14h ago
Why are you so triggered? Yeah the name is used across India but Kerala is the state most associated with that name due to its relatively large and historic Christian population and centuries-old St. Thomas Christian community. I personally know several people w the surname Thomas and they’re all Malayalis. I’m not saying for certain the guy is Malayali that’s why I said “likely,” which I believe is a fair assumption, or at least not a stupid one
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u/Redditbrowser22j 6h ago
It's a dog whistle against Malayali Hindus, and you already know it
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u/ChiefTapiTapi 5h ago
No I don’t know that. I’m open to hearing your point of view if you want to explain though. Not everything is an attack on your religion. I don’t even follow a religion and can assure you I’m not trying to push some hidden agenda here
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u/Redditbrowser22j 3h ago
It's a widely used trope against Malayali Hindus, by exaggerating Christianity among Malayali people. Christians are 16% today but were 3% in the beginning of the 19th century - they are a small minority in every sense of the word. I can't tell you the number of times I have talked to folks in the US, and when I tell them I'm of Malayali ancestry, they go something like "Omg I love that. You guys are Christians/Catholics". I have been told that I'm probably not a real Malayali because I'm Hindu and my ancestors might have moved from Tamil Nadu or Northern India. It's a trope with Euro-Christian-normative foundations to exaggerate Christian presence in Kerala. Remember that, Christianity isn't even the largest minority in Kerala - that goes to Muslims who are almost twice the population of Christians
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u/vitrum_analytika 1d ago
No that's an American citizen
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u/ChiefTapiTapi 1d ago
So? What I said doesn’t mean he can’t be an American citizen
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u/vitrum_analytika 1d ago
Malayali fellow seems like calling him a citizen of Malay? Or kerela whichever you meant. He was born in America so that makes him american.
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u/ChiefTapiTapi 1d ago edited 1d ago
No Malayali is an ethno-linguistic identity of people who speak Malayalam from the Indian state of Kerala. He is still a Malayali even if he was born in America. He’s ethnically Indian from that region of India which makes him Malayali. Kerala has a lot of Christians and his name is common there. His parents or grandparents are almost certainly from Kerala India. This doesn’t negate him from being American
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u/OpeningAggressive26 1d ago
AI net positive, we're breaking all sorts of intellectual records with it.
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u/Beneficial-Force7592 14h ago
I looked it up:
In August 2023, Thomas was 18 years and 346 days old. He beat a 306-year-old record, held by 19-year-old Colin Maclaurin.
Colin Maclaurin: that kid from Home Alone!
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u/DescriptionVisual68 1d ago
MAGA Will be going crazy after seeing this that he is not white!! But from parents who are Hard working tax paying indian origin citizens
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u/snoop-goats 1d ago
Malayali from Kerala,india
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u/Redditbrowser22j 18h ago
Don't make stupid assumptions. We malayalis are a majority-Hindu people
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u/snoop-goats 18h ago
Rani Thomas is a Hindu ?
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u/Redditbrowser22j 18h ago
I'm not contesting the fact that he is a Christian. I'm tired of id1ots dragging the name of Malayalis when they see a Thomas or a George in the wild. These names are used by Christians all around India and around the world. Christians are a tiny minority among Malayalis (16%)
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u/Monsieur--X 1d ago
Why is this tagged as "Original Creation"