Nicole Matisse is 19 years old and by the time she is 20 she would have already completed her bachelor's. Although it is not uncommon to earn a graduation degree at that age, it is the time period - just one year - that Matisse would need to achieve it. After entering as a junior in the University of Michigan last fall with 19 credits in her hand, Matisse earned 27 more by winter and is set to take 34 more by summer.

An apparently upper-caste principal of a primary school in the Bhandara district of Maharshtra, India had a new way to "purify" the school premises and children from a previously employed lower-caste teacher. The principal sprinkled cow's urine in the school premises and on students to "purify" them from lower-caste teacher's "evil spirit. " A startling reminder that caste consciousness is still prevalent in India after more than 50 years of independence.

Police arrested two eighth-graders on felony charges after they allegedly attempted to poison their science teacher by adding a fabric freshener into her soda. According to Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, the boy and girl allegedly added the harmful ingredient in 51-year-old Jacqueline Hutchins's drink but she did not suffer any harm. She immediately noticed a different taste when she sipped her Pepsi on Friday.

Students at a high school in Myrtle Beach franatically started calling their parents after they heard a gunshot in the school. The noise came after a senior student named Damien Singleton shot himself in the leg Thursday during a marine science class. The 18-year-old student was taken to a hospital where doctors operated on his leg but there have been questions over how he got the gun inside the school's classroom.

Fans of the supposedly infinite number "pi" are celebrating international pi day as they express their love for the string of trillions of digits. The day to celebrate the number event falls appropriately on March 14 or 3. 14, the approximated value of "pi. " Furthermore, the time for the event has been derived from the third and fourth digits after the decimal in the value of pi, i. e. , 1:59 p. m. As per the saying that celebrations can't go without any food and fun, the pi-themed foods and rap performances will be add to the geekiness of the event.