He matriculated at the age when most of us are just getting to grips with puberty, now he’s Wits University’s youngest PHD student ever.
According to a piece from the Wits Vuvuzela – what’s in a name, really – Previn Naicker isn’t just a varsity anomaly; he skipped three grades in High School as well, matriculating at the tender age of 14.
Now, you might be thinking he studied some odd-mark subject in the Humanities faculty – if he did, he’d be burning statues, not getting a PHD, let’s be honest –, but Previn got his doctorate in Biochemistry and currently holds a position as postdoctoral researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria
Oh and, just in case you’re not already doubting your own self-worth, he took a gap year in between… a gap year.