Two excellent students from Different countries, different universities, different backgrounds, but the two young lads have one thing in common, the drive and desire for academic success at a very young age, and luckily for them they have set academic records in their universities. Our own Opeyemi Shodipe became the youngest Nigerian to acquire a PhD from Babcock University at just 25.
While a young American man (21), Sho Yano from University of Chicago became the youngest medical graduate.
Sho Yano, was reading at age two, writing at three and composing music at five, will graduate this week from the Pritzker School of Medicine, where he also received a Ph.D. in molecular genetics and cell biology. Unlike Sho, Opeyemi Sodipe had a bad academic start. She was a dullard until an incident changed this when she was in JSS3 at King’s International School, Moniya, Ibadan, Oyo State.
Sho began college at age nine and entered medical school three years later and is already the youngest medical school graduate in the history of the University of Chicago.
Sho earned his degree from the Pritzker School of Medicine and is about to enter a residency in pediatric neurology.
However Shodipe had a bad start academic start, in secondary school, she was flogged several times by her teachers for failing tests, only for her to get home to report to her parents and get flogged again.
But things turned around for Shodipe when she gained admission into Babcock University in September 2002 and graduated in 2006 as the best graduating student in her class with a class second class upper with a CGPA of 4.4 to bag a degree in Information Science. she was so close to graduating with a first class degree.
From there, Shodipe proceeded to the University of Ibadan for her Master’s degree in Information Science. At UI, she did well as she emerged the second best graduating student with a score of 69 in 2010. The best graduating student in her class then made 69.9
Shodipe's drive for success continued, and despite her young age, she wanted to be a professor, which led her to put in for a PhD degree. Luckily for her, the university has a scheme where first class graduates of the institution are encouraged to take up teaching. Sodipe has now been offered a job as an assistant lecturer in the university.
Sho on the other hand has been a genius from birth, he is a genius whose I.Q. is beyond what an I.Q. test can measure. He was reading at 2, composing music at 5 and as a very focused 9-year-old, entered Loyola University.
"I came to college to study, not to hang out or date," he said in 2000 when he entered Loyola.
Studying is exactly what he did. Sho said academics were easy; dealing with discrimination was the real learning experience.
"I ran into things like people shouting 'go back to elementary school' on campus," Sho said.
Being socially accepted at such a young age was easier while getting his PhD and medical degree at the University of Chicago.
Sho has always been a role model for his younger sister Sayuri. She is 15 years old, an accomplished violinist and attends John Hopkins University.
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Wow, at least we have something good coming from Nigeria at this time...
ReplyDeleteI am very proud of our own Shodipe. More grease to your elbow! Cheers
ReplyDeleteCongrats gal but I wish u went abroad for one of your degrees may be your Phd just to diversify and broaden your knowledge also to show them how good you r, u might even finished with a first class there
ReplyDeleteTHE ENTIRE RCPGF IS PROUD OF YOU. CONGRATS!
ReplyDeleteIn fact am so much impress.God will continually bless your brain so as to be useful to the generation of our great Nigeria in Jesus Name..!
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