11-Year-Old Graduates From LA College

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[LottieDah]

Moshe Kai Cavalin, 11, graduates with honors from East Los Angeles Community College this week, but just don't call him a genius.

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Moshe Kai Cavalin, 11, is graduating with honors from East Los Angeles Community College this week.

"I consider myself a regular kid who works hard and does his best," says this only child of a Taiwanese mother and an Israeli father.

When Cavalin started college at the age of 8, he may have been the youngest person in class, but he ended up tutoring some of his 19- and 20-year-old classmates in math and science.

Astrophysics is his passion. Albert Einstein and Bruce Lee are among his idols.

Yet like a twist out of a Hollywood action flick, Cavalin combines his exceptional smarts with fearsome martial arts abilities: The preteen has won numerous national 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 martial arts, write a book for kids on how succeed in school, and take up scuba diving.

Not on the agenda: playing 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 change the world.

[robomatik]

awesome post! thanks.

[exist]

"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 change the world.

Apparently he's never played Grand Theft Auto.

[rom]

Amazing! I STARTED College at 12, and people think that’s impressive. Youngest kid I went to college with was 10.

My hat’s off to this kid, may he go far in life.

[twigs]

I don’t think 11 year olds are supposed to be worrying about changing the world. That’s his parent’s job. I hope this child is being encouraged to be a kid, a very special one to be sure. I went to high school with one of these very young geniuses. He wasn’t very happy, I thought.

[LottieDah]

I’ll bet this kid is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy smarter than Obama and any of the others in his cabinet.

[Crolis]

Hmm, astrophysics, martial arts...he just needs a rock band and a medical degree and he can be the next Buckaroo Banzai. He may just invent the Oscillation Overthruster.

[TChris]

Albert Einstein and Bruce Lee are among his idols.

Beating the living crap out of difficult physics problems, all without a stunt double.

[Scythian]

Me fail english? That unpossible ...

[robomatik]

as some FReepers say, “true ‘dat!”

[tired1]

How was he allowed to get through the system? By my senior year I had finished my freshman year at UConn, they wouldn’t let me leave! I had half days of study hall and got a part time job. That was my first inkling that there was something structurally wrong with the system.

[M203M4]

child of a Taiwanese mother and an Israeli father.

He is fortunate the genders were not reversed! /ducking

I am always leery when I read someone has an urge to "help humanity" - not because it isn't an honorable goal, but because reality almost exclusively ends up showcasing a more unfortunate legacy for those both harboring these intentions and being so able to effect wide-scale change.

[ChicagahAl]

The NEA let this kid fall through the cracks. I’ll bet they are really upset about it.

[autumnraine]

Alright, where is the appropriate Doogie Howser pic?

[robomatik]

"...he can be the next Buckaroo Banzai. "

if you've ever seen that movie, you just dated yourself. i'm 39, and remember seeing that flick as a young teenager. :^)

[BerryDingle]

Hope he turns down an invite to the White House.

[robomatik]

dude! a little sarcasm here. if you want to “help humanity,” and are studying how to kick the living crap out of another person, the only question i have, is “how do you reconcile the diametrically opposed ideals?”

[Political Junkie Too]

...Cavalin combines his exceptional smarts with fearsome martial arts abilities...

To paraphrase Milton Berle, "I'll kill you one times ten to the seventh power times!"

-PJ

[wintertime]

Wow! My kids started college at the age of 13, 12, and 13. The two younger graduated with B.S. degrees in math at age 18. ( Homeschoolers, of course.)

[Joe 6-pack]

Moshe Kai Cavalin sounds like the next Dr. Buckaroo Banzai...

Born in London in 1950, the son of two scientists: Masado Banzai, a brilliant Japanese research physicist whose work in theoretical quantum mechanics is reported to have "rattled" Albert Einstein, and Sandra Willoughby, the daughter of the eccentric Scottish-born Texas mathematician Edward McKay Willoughby. Sandra Willoughby fell in love with Masado Banzai when she was sixteen and married him twelve years later, after becoming an expert in her own right in the field of negative mass propulsion. The couple fled Japan at the outbreak of World War II and eventually settled in Texas. Their son grew up in Colorado and Arizona and was named "Buckaroo" because of his father's love for the American West.

In 1946 Masado Banzai and Sandra Willoughby joined forces with Masado's old friend and colleague, Professor Toichi Hikita, who shared their belief that one day man would be able to pass unharmed through solid matter. Their researches culminated in 1955 in the Texas desert, when Dr. Banzai took the controls of a jet car equipped with an early version of the Oscillation Overthruster. But the experiment ended tragically: Buckaroo Banzai's parents were killed in an explosion (caused by sabotage planned by criminal mastermind Hanoi Xan) as the five-year-old child looked on. Hikita raised young Buckaroo, using the entire world as his classroom, and the boy grew up to be, among other things, an extraordinarily skilled neurosurgeon.

Dissatisfied with a life devoted exclusively to medicine, Buckaroo Banzai perfected a wide range of skills. He designed and drove high-powered automobiles. He studied bujutsu and particle physics. His skill with a sixgun was reputed to eclipse that of Wyatt Earp. He spoke a dozen languages and wrote songs in all of them. His band, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, was one of the most popular, hard-rocking bar bands in east New Jersey (Buckaroo plays electric guitar and english horn), though its members (bearing names like Rawhide, Reno, the Swede, Perfect Tommy, Big Norse, and Pecos Bill) were not professional musicians at all, but rather cartographers and botanists, linguists and propellant engineers, an entomologist and an epidemiologist. All of them experts in their fields of endeavor, they were drawn to Buckaroo.