11-year-old student in her university chemistry class makes everyone feel bad

You think you’re doing pretty well in life. You’ve made it to uni. You’re in your organic chemistry class and you kind of understand it. And then you look to your left and there’s an 11-year-old sat next to you. And you wonder what you’ve been doing your whole life. Cigdem Kahyaoglu, 19, is a second year maths and pre-med student at the University of Toledo, Ohio. Yesterday, she shared a picture of a kid called Daniel. He’s 11-years-old and he’s in her chemistry class at university. ‘He said if we have questions to just email him,’ Cigdem wrote alongside her picture of the child genius. The tweet has now been shared and liked over 230,000 times in less than 24 hours. Daniel is in secondary school (or high school if you’re American), but takes some classes at the university at the same time. Daniel is not on Twitter (Cigdem plans to tell him about her tweet in class today) but, it seems, he’s already used to the limelight. He was the youngest ever Chemical Educational Foundation’s National Challenge Champion in 2015. The challenge encourages pupils aged between 10 and 16 to to explore chemistry concepts and their real-world applications. He picked up his prize – a $10,000 scholarship to help fund their higher education expenses – at the White House Science Fair in April. ing. | Metro News via IFTTT

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