[toberej]

Same, entered college at 14. My social skills were wack, was terrible at public speaking, very socially awkward. Was in my room playing Dota 2 for the first 2 years. I'm just finished up at 19 and I feel more mature and understand why so many universities didn't want to accept me at my age.

However, I think it all worked out, as long as parents make provisions for social adjustment things can work out okay. I don't know about 9 though, seems tough, i literally could not imagine it because college was a lot more than just studying. Especially since I was in a cognitive science not like a hard STEM, lots of social interaction and open ended questions.

[foobiekr]

I went to university at 16. It was like a wonderful playground, so many subjects and areas and it was a great time. I ended up liking it so much, I spent 9 years there drifting to 300+ credits :-b

I cannot imagine going at 14. That must have been pretty weird. At 16 I was fine and the biggest issue was the dating and (underage) drinking mismatch.

For me going at 16 was an incredible relief. I was incredibly, incredibly bored and unchallenged in school until that point. I wish there wasn't such a stigma about it because I imagine there are lots of other people who had the same level of terrible frustration.

[godelski]

> I spent 9 years there drifting to 300+ credits

This sounds expensive

[foobiekr]

I supported my educational habits working as a network and system administrator. That route is now screwed by universities outsourcing these tasks.

There's a HN posting in why there is such a dearth of technical support hires in the modern era and it starts with killing the pipeline and ends with eviscerating the entire career in the outsourcing binge of the early 2000s...

[text_exch]

Sounds like he got a scholarship.

[commandlinefan]

or three.