NFL player just got four As in his first semester of an MIT math PhD program
" My first semester in school in nearly three years. Four PhD classes at MIT. Four A's. The streak continues!!!" Urschel tweeted.
My first semester in school in nearly three years. Four PhD classes at MIT. Four A's. The streak continues!!!
- John Urschel (@JohnCUrschel) May 24, 2016
Urschel is used to succeeding academically.
He earned his bachelor's degree in three years at Penn State and spent his senior year working on a master's degree in mathematics, while being paid by Penn State to teach Integral Vector Calculus Trigonometry.
He won the "Academic Heisman" in 2013, an honor given to college football's top scholar-athlete.
Earlier this year, the 24-year-old, 305-pound lineman was accepted into the No. 1 ranked graduate school for mathematics, all while having a full-time job in the NFL.
Starting my PhD in math at MIT this offseason!!! pic.twitter.com/vjcSctVx9i
- John Urschel (@JohnCUrschel) January 26, 2016
In a recent interview with the American Mathematical Society, he said he read mathematics during his free time traveling for NFL road games.
He noted, however, that his ability to separate football from math was one of self-preservation.
"If I'm thinking about math on the football field, this is going to get me killed," he told AMS.
"So that's just survival instinct. And when I'm doing math, it's all-encompassing and I'm 100% in it, and there's really nothing else to think about when I'm doing math," he said. "I love mathematics, I love the elegance, I love the challenge, and so that's been natural for me."
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