TCU's first little genius graduates with physics degree at 14 years old

[TexasTowelie]

The youngest student ever to attend TCU threw on a pint-sized graduation robe Saturday and walked across the stage to get his physics diploma.

Since enrolling in 2013 at Texas Christian University, 14-year-old Carson Huey-You also double minored in math and Chinese, Noelle Walker of KXAS-TV (NBC5) reports.

"It didn't come easily. It really didn't," he told the station. "I knew I wanted to do physics when I was in high school, but then quantum physics was the one that stood out to me, because it was abstract. You can't actually see what's going on, so you have to sort of rely on the mathematics to work everything out."

Carson will begin graduate school at TCU in the fall.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/higher-education/2017/05/13/tcus-first-little-genius-graduates-physics-degree-14-years-old

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