She's doing a double major-- and effectively, it's a triple major since the honors baccalaureate includes things that no other major does (research/service learning/language requirements, etc.).

Math/CompSci.

I'm also really pleased that we pushed for her to take the major's Honors Gen Chem in spite of her lack of high school chemistry. It is pushing her to develop study skills that are weak (memorization based anything, notetaking, and just the grind of needing to look at something more than once to "get it" forever), and also pushing hard on her perfectionism-- that is, she's having to face the fact that her "best" might not be THE best.

I don't think that anyone has even noticed her age, however, for which she has been extremely grateful. She's apparently THE top student in two of her classes (including the large lecture section in her major) and in the top 10th of the class in the other two.

Feels just a bit uncomfortable to her, which (to us) feels exactly right.

This relates to Dude's post above, which we've also lived through.

Her CompSci professor and TA's expect her to be the first one done now in labs-- and have NO idea that she's not only never done any real programming before this, but is also 3 years younger than anyone else in the room.

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Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.