Diego Vera

In the early days of the pandemic, Diego Vera, a smart but bored 15-year-old, read about Scott Young’s experience in completing the MIT Challenge, and decided to try it himself. The challenge is to learn MIT’s four-year undergraduate curriculum, using their free online materials. Scott studied computer science. Diego went for physics and math, and achieved his goal in 18 months.

In this interview on his blog, Scott asks his young protegé how he did it.

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