A boy with a plan

If you have a nine year old at home, he or she is likely to be a middle schooler.  Not Laurent Simons.  He may become the world’s youngest college graduate when he receives his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at the age of nine from Eindhoven University in the Netherlands.  But, says the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC], Laurent is not one to sit on his laurels; he is already busy on a quest to earn a doctorate in engineering.  He wants to study medicine, too, and then embark on a mission to invent artificial organs.  Will he succeed?  Sjoerd Hulshof, his school’s education director, has faith in this child prodigy.  Hulshof describes the lad as “hyper intelligent” and “the fastest student we have ever had here.”