I'm sure everyone has seen the video of three-year-old Brielle, who has the entire periodic table of the elements memorized. When I first watched it, I was absolutely blown away. She gives me hope for the next generation and really makes me wonder what happened to mine. If you haven't seen the original video, here it is:

First of all, props to her parents for teaching her this at such an early age and not making her wait until high school chemistry. It took me all of junior year to learn them and I only remember like seven off the top of my head, so this kid is going somewhere. I'm just curious to know why, out of everything they could teach their 3 year old, they pick the periodic table. I mean, way to go Brielle for learning them so quickly and being so excited about it, because when I was three, the hardest thing I was taught was how to correctly make a mud pie.

Not only does this little girl know the periodic table, she also knows all of the presidents, in order, all of the countries in Europe AND Africa, and all of the states in the US and their capitols. HOW. I'm a junior in college and still get confused when I see Kansas City is actually in Missouri and not in Kansas. Who decided that was a good idea?

Brielle got invited to go to Los Angeles and be a guest on Ellen (my dream, actually, I just can't do anything cool enough to get myself there) and she killed it.

"How do you remember all of this?"

"My little brain just remembers.."

This is probably one of the most amazing things I've ever seen a child do. The fact that she's a toddler isn't even the biggest surprise. I'm honestly shocked that she knew all of the elements, not only because there's almost 100 of them, but because she knew how to say them correctly and knew facts about them. My high school chem lab never taught me that Phosphorus burns under water or that it came in more than one color. Seriously blows my mind.

This kid is either going to surpass Martin Luther King Jr and become the youngest person to be named a Nobel Peace Prize winner at 10 years old, or she's going to be a neurosurgeon by the time she's 18, while I, at 20 years old, struggle to pass statistics.

Keep learnin', kid, and remember, you're doing better than most college students.