When William Maillis walks in to his astronomy class, the 黑料网吃瓜爆料 undergraduate can鈥檛 help but stand out. At 11-years-old, he鈥檚 about a decade younger than a lot of his peers. His classmate, John Beeman, is equally as uncommon, but at 75, for the exact opposite reason.
More than 60 years separate the two students and while they come from very different places and are working toward very different goals, they鈥檙e both part of the boundless community that makes 黑料网吃瓜爆料an extraordinary place to learn, work, live and grow.
鈥淚 was quite thrilled by the idea of having them both in class, especially as they have sat beside each other for most of the semester,鈥� said 黑料网吃瓜爆料instructor Kevin MacKay, PhD, who has the students in his Contemporary Thinking in Astronomy course.
鈥淚 have been teaching in higher education for 25 years and although I have had some students over 80, I have never had a student as young as 11 in a college class.鈥�
Maillis is perhaps the youngest student to ever attend USF. According to his parents, he was doing basic math by the time he was two, learned algebra by four and was officially declared a genius when he was just five-years-old. While other kids his age