Be Optimistic about What You Believe You Can Do你要對你要做的事保持樂觀
——天才少女堪比“愛因斯坦”

文◎Greg Evans| 繪◎也 圓

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Being compared to geniuses like Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein is not something that happens to the average person. At the age of just 23, Paterski has already accomplished more than most of us ever will in our lifetime.

When she was only 14-years-old, the Chicago native,constructed①construct 英 [k?n'str?kt] 美 [k?n'str?kt] vt. 建造，構造；創立 n. 構想，概念her own single engine airplane - by herself. She then fl ew it across Lake Michigan, becoming the youngest person to ever fly their own plane. She then graduated from Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in 2010 and enrolled with the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After just three years at MIT she has already achieved the highest possible grade point average of 5.0.

She is now working towards her doctorate②doctorate 英 ['d?kt(?)r?t] 美 ['dɑkt?r?t] n. 博士學位；博士頭銜at the world renowned Harvard University, with full academic freedom and no interference③interference 英 [?nt?'f??r(?)ns] 美 [,?nt?'f?r?ns] n. 干擾，沖突；干涉from staff. She has turned her attention to physics;namely black holes and how gravity affects space and time -hence the Einstein and Hawking comparisons.

During an interview earlier this year she said:

Be optimistic about what you believe you can do. When you're little, you say a lot of things about what you'll do or be when you're older - I think it's important not to lose sight of those dreams.

被比作史蒂芬·霍金以及阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦這樣的天才，這種事不會發生在一個普通人身上。年僅23歲的帕特斯基所取得的成就已經超過了我們多數人一生才能獲得的成績。

在她只有14歲的時候，這位芝加哥少女就獨自建造了自己的單引擎飛機。之后她又駕駛著飛機飛越了密歇根湖，成為有史以來最年輕的駕駛著自己的飛機航行的人。之后，在2010年她從伊利諾伊數理高中畢業了，然后進入了著名的麻省理工學院。她在麻省理工學院只用了三年時間就取得了最高的平均績點5.0。

如今她在舉世聞名的哈佛大學攻讀博士學位，擁有完全的學術自由，并且不會受到工作人員的干擾。她把注意力放在了物理學上，例如黑洞理論以及重力是如何影響空間和時間的，因此我們把她比作愛因斯坦和霍金。

在今年早些時候的一次采訪中，她說：

你要對你相信自己能做到的事持樂觀態度。在你小的時候，你講了許多關于自己將來要做什么或是長大后要成為什么樣的人，我認為重要的是不要忘記曾經的夢想。