For 19 year old whiz kid, Tudor Cisu, learning languages is an integral part of achieving a degree in medicine. The sophomore from Binghamton University in New York State considers both English and Romanian as his native tongues but has been studying Latin for several years now.
While most teenagers would shy away from learning a dead language, Tudor Cisu realized early on that Latin would be very useful in understanding medical terms. In 2004, he bagged the Silver Medal in the National Latin Exam, before going on to achieve a perfect score in 2005 and a Gold Medal in 2006. His knowledge of Latin has also allowed him to pick up Romance languages such as Spanish, French and Italian.
Tudor Cisu’s insatiable desire to acquire skills which could prove useful for his future as a physician scientist have also prompted him to learn programming languages such as Visual Basic, Java, and C++.
