22-Year-Old Latina Sabrina Pasterski May Be The Next Albert Einstein

*She was wait listed at MIT, now she studies space-time and black holes at Harvard. I get the feeling that even without Ivy league schools she would find a way to thrive. She built a plane for her dad when she was 13, so . . . VL

By Yara Simón, Remezcla

At just 22 years old, Cuban-American Sabrina González Pasterki has graduated from MIT with a perfect GPA, received an open job offer from aerospace developer/Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, and been featured in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. Sabrina – who is currently a doctorate student at Harvard studying theoretical high energy physics – could coast for the rest of her life and still have an impressive résumé.

At the age of 12, when most kids would rather be at recess than in the classroom, Paterski was building a plane. This Chicago native later taught herself to pilot it, taking a solo flight over Lake Michigan in 2009 (for which she had to obtain special permission from the Federal Aviation Administration.)

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