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9-Year-Old Genius To Graduate College With Engineering Degree: He's 'Simply Extraordinary'

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Is this Belgian-Dutch boy the next Einstein? Laurent Simons is only 9 years old but will graduate from the Eindhoven University of Technology at the end of 2019 with a degree in electrical engineering. As if that weren't impressive enough, the youngster is next planning to begin a Ph.D program and "study a bit of medicine" at the same time!

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