NICK EICHER, HOST: Like most other kids in his neighborhood in Amsterdam, 9-year-old Laurent Simons says he enjoys things your typical 9-year-old boy enjoys: playing with his dog, go-karting, and watching Netflix.
But he also enjoys—his words—“designing [electrical] circuits and things like that.”
That’s part of the course work for the degree he’s set to earn from Eindhoven University of Technology in Holland.
SIMONS: [Speaking in Dutch]
If you don’t speak Dutch, he just said he’s studying electrical engineering.
You remember I said he’s 9?
His goal one day is to create artificial organs to help save lives.
Young Mr. Simons started school at age 4 and breezed through primary school, secondary school, and university in just 5 years.
One of his teachers called him “the quickest student we’ve ever seen. And he’s not just hyper-intelligent, but very nice.”
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