An NFL player is starting a math PhD program at MIT in his offseason
Put another way, the 24-year-old, 305-pound linebacker got into the No.1 ranked graduate school for mathematics, all while having a full-time job in a field other than math.
If you've been following Urschel's career, you'd know that he has a well documented history of being a stereotype-breaking football player.
Starting my PhD in math at MIT this offseason!!! pic.twitter.com/vjcSctVx9i
- John Urschel (@JohnCUrschel) January 26, 2016
Urschel earned his bachelor's degree in three years at Penn State and then spent his senior year working on a master's degree in mathematics as well as 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.
In a recent interview with the American Mathematical Society (AMS), he explained that he reads mathematics during his free time on NFL road trips.
He noted, however, that his ability to separate football from math is 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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