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Feeling Dumb Yet? Eleven-Year-Old Graduates from College with Three Degrees

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A California boy graduated from the American River College on Friday with not just one degree, but three.

While most eleven-year-old boys would be content with just playing Xbox, this one had much bigger things in mind. Tanishq Abraham said that he has always found regular school to be "boring," so at the age of ten, the overachiever graduated from high school and joined another 1,800 students at American River College in Sacramento, California.

Not surprisingly, Tanishq was the youngest student to graduate from the college this year and, possibly, in the school’s entire 60-year history.

"The assumption is that he’s the all-time youngest," a spokesman for American River College told KCRA. "But we don’t have all the archives to completely confirm. He was definitely the youngest this year."

Tanishq earned associate degrees in general science, foreign language studies, and math and physical science. As if that’s not enough, the young student also graduated with a 4.0 GPA, which didn’t come as a surprise to his mother.

"Even in Kindergarten he was pretty ahead," she said. "Two years ahead, and just went from there."

When asked by KCRA News whether he felt intimidated by being in a class of people twice his age, Tanishq confidently shrugged it off.

"Even on the first time I came to a college class, I wasn’t really nervous, so, this isn’t much of a big thing to me."

He added that he was excited about his graduation, saying it "feels good to graduate with three associate’s degrees."

Tanishq posted pictures of his graduation celebration on Twitter.

So what does an eleven year old with three college degrees do next?

Tanishq has big plans.

"I also want to be a medical researcher, and the president of the United States."

Coming from most kids, this may sound like an overly ambitious dream, but given his accomplishments so far, Tanishq may have a good shot.

Although not the typical eleven year old, Tanishq did at least have a Toy Story mantra "To Infinity and Beyond" embroidered on his graduation cap.

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