Teen prodigy Raymond Walter will graduate tomorrow with bachelor of science degrees in mathematics , physics , and economics . Next up , doctor’s degree in maths and physics . Why the rush ? The wheelchair - using stripling has a severe flesh of muscular muscular dystrophy and feels there is n’t much fourth dimension .
Raymond hasDuchenne Muscular Dystrophy — a dangerous form of muscular dystrophy that worsens quickly . It ’s a hereditary disorderliness that affects one in every 3,600 male births . Because it causes muscles to waste by , most patients have to start using a wheelchair by the time adolescence kicks in . Breathing difficulties and heart disease determine in by the age of 20 .
The average lifetime expectancy for affected role with DMD is around 25 .
“ I do n’t anticipate living as long as usual , ” Raymond say theUniversity of Arkansas Newswire . “ In some respect , there is a lot of pressure to get as much done as I can . I do n’t run off time . I skip three year of degree school and to some extent I ’ve continued my speedup since I reached the university level . I finished my undergraduate economics course process in my freshman year . So as a soph I began to take graduate courses . ”
Raymond was just 14 when he graduate from eminent shoal .
His dad , Hal Water , says his son spend nearly every waking moment outside of class at his studies . Raymond goes to bed after midnight , every night . He does n’t watch movies or act television games . And he sits at his computer with two desks worth of book which are typically open for 12 to 14 hours each 24-hour interval . “ He works constantly . ”
Along with his married woman , Gail , the family lives on a 193 - Akko farm in Baxter County where they raise cattle , copper , domestic ass , and horse . Back during high school , Hal and Raymond commute six hours round trip each weekend .
Raymond graduated from the University of Arkansas ’ J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and will now move to the Graduate School as a Distinguished Doctoral Fellow . The programme provides a minimum of $ 30,000 each year for up to four year . Raymond also won a extremely militant $ 30,000 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for the extroverted academic year .
More at the U of ANewswire .
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