11-Year-Old Graduates From LA College
June 5th, 2009 | by admin |
Moshe Kai Cavalin, 11, graduates with honors from an East Los Angeles Community College with an Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Studies this week, but just don’t call him a genius.
“I consider myself a regular kid with a terrible first name, who is just smarter than most grown-ups out there,” says this only child of a Taiwanese mother and a goat herder father.
When Cavalin started college at the age of 8, he may have barely been out of diapers, but he ended up tutoring some of his 19- and 20-year-old classmates in math and science. Cavalin was one of 3 in the school graduating with a 4.0 GPA. Another was a 19-year-old MIT dropout and the other was Jerome Struthers, Sally Struthers’ mentally challenged 24-year-old nephew who insists on dressing up like his semi-famous aunt.
Astrophysics is his passion. Albert Einstein and Bruce Lee are among Cavalin’s idols. Struthers’ idols, on the other hand, are Elmo from Sesame Street fame and the chair from Pee Wee’s Playhouse.
Like a twist out of a Hollywood action flick, Cavalin combines his exceptional smarts with fearsome martial arts abilities: The preteen has won a few East LA martial arts championships.
Up next for the tireless boy wonder: In the next take six months to a year he plans to devote himself to TV and VCR repair, write a book for pre-teens on how to pick up women, and take up scuba diving.
Not on the agenda: having fun with video games.
“I feel it’s a waste of time playing video games because it’s not helping humanity in any way,” says the 11-year-old, who wants to use his knowledge to let everyone know that he is much smarter than they are.
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