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15-year-old Cambridge undergrad, 2009, will be 2nd youngest for 200 years

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flugestuge

Faludy coped pretty poorly.
¨He was reported to have all the books he needed read for him on audiotape and to dictate his essays. When admitted to Cambridge, he could write only two illegible words a minute and also suffered from dyspraxia.¨

I wonder what he is doing now

He coped extremely well for someone suffering from dyslexia and dyspraxia, and Peterhouse acted commendably in accepting him. He did very well in absolute terms too - he won a prize for best arts journalist in the Cambridge Student Journalism Awards at the end of his second year.

Why do you say he coped pretty poorly? The two sentences you quote just say he was disabled, that's all.

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flugestuge

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dave730

He did very well in absolute terms too - he won a prize for best arts journalist in the Cambridge Student Journalism Awards at the end of his second year.

That is hardly a real prize, is it ?

What matters more is:
Did he win any of the real academic prizes ?
Did he become a Scholar or an Exhibitioner ?
Did he get a First ?
Did he have a reasonable career outcome ?

I do not know the answer, I am just curious.
Curiously, he seems to have vanished from human ken after the journalism award in 1999.

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flugestuge

That is hardly a real prize, is it ?

What matters more is:
Did he win any of the real academic prizes ?
Did he become a Scholar or an Exhibitioner ?
Did he get a First ?
Did he have a reasonable career outcome ?

I do not know the answer, I am just curious.
Curiously, he seems to have vanished from human ken after the journalism award in 1999.

Surely what matters the most is:

did he enjoy himself at Cambridge?

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flugestuge

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Surely what matters the most is:
did he enjoy himself at Cambridge?

I aasume that he did.
It is pretty much a given that most people at Oxford and Cambridge enjoy themselves.

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dave730

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flugestuge

That is hardly a real prize, is it ?

What matters more is:
Did he win any of the real academic prizes ?
Did he become a Scholar or an Exhibitioner ?
Did he get a First ?
Did he have a reasonable career outcome ?

I do not know the answer, I am just curious.
Curiously, he seems to have vanished from human ken after the journalism award in 1999.

He didn't cope poorly; he coped well - and had more to cope with than many, in some senses (disability, unusual age). I think he got a 2-1, although I'm not sure. I rarely see the two people I know who used to know him at Peterhouse and afterwards. If he'd had any big problems there, they would have mentioned them I think. You're quite right that that prize wasn't much in general terms - but remember he was severely dyslexic, so really it was quite an amazing achievement. There aren't many 'writers' who suffer from dyslexia to that extent. I've known dyslexic students who you don't see much; they keep themselves to themselves; their main contact at university is the secretary who knocks their dyslexically-typed essays into shape. So hats off both to Peterhouse and to Faludy from where I'm standing anyway. I have no idea whether he won any academic prizes. He didn't drop out or **** up his exams; that's all I know. I know a little bit more about what he did for a few years after he left Cambridge, but it would be breaking confidence to post it.

15-year-old Cambridge undergrad, 2009, will be 2nd youngest for 200 years

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