Sending Child Prodigies to College is Risky Michael Kearney became the youngest person to get a master's degree when he graduated from Middle Tennessee State University last year with a degree in biochemistry at age 14. Michael Kearney knows. You see, by the time he was 10, Michael had graduated from college. Good Morning America's Charles Gibson talked with Greg Smith on Sept. 9.
Tests are easy.
We learn quicker. You still have to study, but it comes easy. But the social part, the emotional part, is what's difficult. You don't realize how hard you have to work to make friends. However intelligent we may be, we are still emotionally children.