At the young ripe age of 18, I learned to calculate a 15% tip in my head. It was a neat parlor trick that I’d use to show a date that I wasn’t cheap, pretty smart and try to score points. Today, my greatest mathematical achievement is knowing exactly how many gallons of gas I’m getting for the $4.00/gal. in and around New York City based on my current salary, my scientific findings: not nearly enough.
All of these don’t mean shit.
Jacob Barnett is a 12-year-old boy with Asperger’s that began solving 5,000 piece jigsaw puzzles at age 3 and taught himself Algebra, Calculus, and Geometry in two weeks at age 8. Jacob entertains himself with trying to decipher the origins of our universe and otherwise just whooping Einstein’s smarty-pants theories ass.
In summary, Jacob is a 12-year-old wiz kid that is being courted by the University of Indiana as a researcher and is trying to unlock the greatest mystery of all – where the universe came from. Yeah, just stop trying to do whatever it is you’re doing; you’re just not that smart (and I’m just a blogger).
Source: Yahoo! News
Wow, I’m finding myself feeling jealous of a 12-year-old. I guess I’ll just go back to doing, um, whatever it is I do.
I thought when the microwave went off he was gonna want his damn pizza pockets.