Teacher bound for medical school at age 18

Published: November 26, 2005 | 2835th good news item since 2003

Kyle Nichols has never seen “Doogie Howser, MD,” maybe because he’s too young, and the network-television sitcom went off the air when he was six.

However, now that he is 18 and bound for medical school at Wake Forest University next year, he has heard plenty of jokes comparing him to the fictional boy wonder who became a doctor at 14. [Doogie Howser, M.D.]

Nichols lives in Mocksville with his parents and teaches algebra and chemistry at Forsythe Technical Community College.

He is Mr. Nichols to his students, most his age, some older. The remnants of teen-age acne linger on his boyish face. He still has the gangly look of an adolescent, and his shock of light brown hair strays to a slightly unruly cowlick. [Every Child Is a Genius : 365 Fun and Easy Ways to Develop Your Child's Gifts]

On the first day of his chemistry class earlier this semester, one of his students asked him how old he was, and added “because I know you’re not old enough to drink.”

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