With all due respect, and while you might very well be smart, your story is pretty normal. The MIT alumni I&#x27;ve meet (for which selection bias surely is a factor) has been quite beyond that and very much overachievers (in a positive way).<p>That said, going to college early usually isn&#x27;t a good idea. People are quite &quot;age sensitive&quot; in that age so you&#x27;re missing out on a lot of the social stuff. Regardless how good MIT is the rest is still &quot;only&quot; knowledge. I can of course imagine worse things though.