Graduating at 14 means she started at 10 or 11. There are fully grown adults who can't handle the workload of college how the fuck is she able to do it I just don't get kids these days. Man at that age I'm stressing out about 6 paragraph essays.

Even though the story isn't real, I can say a few words about this from the perspective of a professor, as it's not an uncommon situation in universities. In my view, rather than favourably weighting youth, you should unfavourably weight the constraints of being older.

Doing a university degree at such a young age means that you're almost certainly from an affluent background or with parents who are well educated. It means that you will probably live at home, pay no rent, pay no fees, not have to maintain a part-time job, and not have to deal with some of the pressures of being older. In a sense, your only duty is to study.

I wouldn't say that it's 'easy', but it's like being a musician at 8, because your parents put you through music school at 5. You're so far ahead of your peers, but it doesn't necessarily mean your going to be a successful musician at 30.

The real issue with young scholars is never about how they fare during their undergraduate. It's how they fare once they head into their mid-20s, and once others catch up. The mid-twenties are, in my view, the hardest transitional years.

Think of it like sprinting the 100m. All sprinters know that there are real advantages to a slow transition for the first 30m, because if you stand-up and run too quickly, you destroy your pace in the latter part of the race. Life is much the same way.