Being 11 years old is awesome. You don’t have to work in the summer, you get to eat whatever you want without getting fat, and you’re forced to hang out under the sun for an hour after lunch.
Unless, of course, you’re Moshe Kai Cavalin, the 11-year-old college graduate and decorated martial arts competitor who walked off the East Los Angeles Community College campus diploma-in-hand this week. The pre-tween, though still wide eyed and bushy tailed after a rigorous astrophysics courseload, plans to use his brilliance for good; but not before he learns to scuba dive, write a self-help book for kids trying to get through school, and win a few more kung fu championships.

When this story popped up on the realtime news feed it seemed like a good idea to blog it. Now, excitement and ambition have given way to a simple, damning question: is it overwhelmingly probable that this rugrat could both out-math us AND kick our ass?
Buddy Up