This Child Genius Shot To Fame When He Went To College Aged 10 Here’s What Happened To Him Since

[Music] this child genius shot to fame when he went to college at age 10. here's what happened to him since the son of a microbiologist father and art center director mother greg smith became something of a media sensation when he was accepted into college before he'd even reached his teens here's a look at how the young brain box has fared in the 16 years since born in 1989 smith set off on a path to child genius fame at a blistering pace indeed at the age of just seven months he'd already learned to walk at 14 months meanwhile he'd begun learning books off by heart and reciting them from memory and when smith was just five years old he took an iq test in which he tested off the bell curve undoubtedly then he was unusually gifted and while his classmates read the cat in the hat smith was studying jules verne's journey to the center of the earth furthermore the youngster had immersed himself in wordsworth mozart and plato before he'd even stepped foot into kindergarten smith continued his lightning speed development by jumping six school grades in the space of just 12 months incredibly the youngster went on to finish his high school studies before he'd even celebrated his 11th birthday the boy's parents had initially been resistant to allowing their son to fly through his education so quickly but they eventually relented and in fact moved twice to find the best schools for greg's unique educational needs meanwhile janet gave up her job to become his full-time advocate what's more smith inevitably attracted the attention of the national media and went on to appear in the likes of 60 minutes today and the late show with david letterman there was so much interest in his story in fact that when his email address was shown in an interview with oprah winfrey his school servers crashed under the way to demand once the media circus had died down though smith was accepted into randolph-macon college in ashland virginia at the tender age of 10. advanced physics french three calculus one and an honors course named warfare in antiquity were just some of the academic subjects greg studied along college freshman years his senior and although anyone's first day at college is scary enough smith had to face it while in the media spotlight indeed as well as having to pose for the camera alongside college president roger h martin the child prodigy also had to speak at a news conference in which he claimed he dreamed of such a day since he was aged four greg's parents have said that they chose randolph-macon because of its peaceful atmosphere and student-centered tuition furthermore the college helped fund smith's education with a four-year scholarship worth some seventy thousand dollars though it no doubt also benefited from the child genius students national exposure of course unlike the rest of his classmates who lived on campus smith returned home to his parents every night that didn't however stop him from forming friendships there in 2016 greg explained on oprah where are they now i had lots of friends in college and hung out with a lot of people there in my programs in fact smith appeared to have the best of both worlds later adding i had lots of friends my own age too and i think that was really important i mean sure we were in different grades but we still liked a lot of the same things we like sports we like going out just having a good time but smith also rubbed shoulders with some of the best known people in the world as well as meeting with presidents mikhail gorbachev and bill clinton he was mentored by bishop desmond tutu and northern irish peace campaigner betty williams both of whom have received the nobel peace prize and as you'd expect smith certainly had some lofty ambitions while attending college motivated by his mother's successful breast cancer battle he planned to tackle diseases with a degree in biomedical research meanwhile he also hoped to build space stations with a degree in aeronautical engineering plus if all that wasn't nearly enough smith also had his eye on bill clinton's job at the time i know that the president has a lot of power and can make a lot of decisions he said to richmond virginia magazine style weekly i would like to have that influence to work hard for peace and non-violence and to give voice to the children by the age of 13 moreover smith was offering words of wisdom as a motivational speaker and was a two-time nobel peace prize nominee he went on to receive three further nobel nominations for his charitable efforts towards children's rights and safety but has so far never won the honor and smith's educational achievements didn't end with his bachelor of science and mathematics from randolph-macon he also went on to earn a master's in mathematics at the university of virginia at age 16 the youngest ever student to do so however though he continued to run as non-profit international youth advocates smith kept a low profile once reaching his teens in 2007 his mother janet told the virginian pilot that security concerns had convinced her that this was wise because of this then no pictures of greg had been released in the three years prior to the interview and after graduating from the university of virginia smith continued to add to his resume not only did he study computational biology at carnegie mellon but he then also earned his phd at the same college so what did smith do with this incredible list of qualifications after completing his education well he's currently studying stochastic gene expression as a postdoctoral researcher at the icann school of medicine at mount sinai working to develop better drugs what's more smith has had several scholarly articles with titles that would probably stump the average joe published in scientific journals modeling effects of rna on capsid assembly pathways via coarse-grained stochastic simulation and a mechanistic beta-binomial probability model for mrna sequency data are just two of the papers to which greg has put his name as to whether he will ever fulfill his childhood goal of finding a cure for cancer smith remains cautiously optimistic he told oprah winfrey i think it's certainly possible in my lifetime that we'll be able to develop really effective targeted treatments for people's individual versions of cancer that they have and that's incredible what's more given his genius and his not inconsiderable accomplishment so far perhaps no one would be surprised if smith played a part in developing them please don't forget to share this video with your friends below please don't forget to subscribe and activate the bell to receive everything that's new

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Length: 7min 14sec (434 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 31 2018