A 9-year-old boy is starting his first semester in college this school year. Will Maillis, who hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has enlisted at the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) on a full schedule to get him accustomed to college life. His goal is to actually earn an astrophysics degree at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he plans to become the first to discover life in outer space.
A dean from CCA confirms that Will Maillis is excelling in all the classes he's enrolled. To say that 9-year-old boy is a fast learner might be an understatement. His father, Peter Maillis, said that his son started "speaking sentences" by the time he was seven months old only, per CBS Pittsburgh KDKA.
By the time Will Maillis turned 2-years-old, he was doing multiplications. Then he learned the Chinese alphabet by the time he turned 5-years-old and soon became a linguist. The Post-Gazette reported that the boy knows French, Greek, Hebrew and Spanish.
Next September, the 9-year-old college kid is heading to CMU, which specializes in science courses. He would have gone this year, except that his parents believed he should be taking a break after graduating high school at Penn-Tafford last May. But on the advice of friends, Will was enrolled at the community college so he could begin getting used to life as a college student.
Will Maillis hopes to take up astrophysics at CMU, to potentially find life in other planets. "It's statistically impossible for there to be no life on any other planet in the universe," he said in the KDKA report.
Meanwhile, if anyone is thinking that the 9-year-old college kid has a pretty rigid life, his parents say that Will does normal things kids his age enjoy. "He likes sports, television shows, the computer and video games like everyone else," his dad said.
On that note, Will Maillis is a lot like an average 9-year-old kid. Get to know more about Will Maillis in the video below.
