At an age when many kids prefer to play games on their phones, 11-year-old Vivan Mirchandani wanted to explore physics videos. Little did he know that MIT Open Learning’s free online resources would change the course of his life. Now, at 16, Mirchandani is well on his way to a career as a physics scholar — all because he forged his own unconventional educational journey.Nontraditional education has granted Mirchandani the freedom to pursue topics he’s personally interested in. This year, he wrote a paper on cosmology that proposes a new framework…
