An 11-year-old boy is impressing a lot of his classmates at the University of Toledo in Ohio. The boy genius is taking a college course in chemistry at the university and has even offered the other students, who are mostly 10 years older than him, to send him an email if they needed any help in class.
Daniel Liu became an internet sensation when a photo of him in a college chemistry class surfaced on Twitter. It was shared by one of his classmates who said that Daniel even offered to help them with the subject. As of press time, the post already earned more than 122,000 retweets and more than 242,000 likes.
This kid is 11 and in my organic chemistry class he said if we have questions to just email him pic.twitter.com/oz46on8ywP
— Cigdem Kahyaoglu (@cigdemk14) August 22, 2016
Many couldn't believe that the 11-year-old is for real, but according to Huffington Post, he is really an accomplished student. Daniel Liu is actually currently enrolled as a high school student at Ottawa Hills. But he is taking advance courses at the university and has done this last year as well.
Aside from honorary Chemistry classes, Daniel Liu has also taken Statistics, Physics and Calculus, per the Toledo Blade, while Next Sharp reports that Daniel Liu has made the local headlines several times because of his achievements in science competitions. At one point, he flourished against 30,000 students across America for the "You Be the Chemist" contest. He has visited the White House and has met Bill Nye.
Teen Vogue reports that students at the University of Toledo have been seeking his autograph when word got around that there was a boy genius in the campus. The Chive reports that Daniel Liu isn't actually aware that he has become a sensation on social media because his mom has not allowed him to have a Twitter account. It was his classmates who told him about his new-found fame. "Daniel has an amazing mind and just this voracious appetite for learning, but what I really appreciate is that he is just a really neat kid," said Kevin Miller, the superintendent of Ottawa Hills, in the reports.
