From: treon3verdery@gmail.com   
      
   Find a programming class in town for Jake, tell him that although I know   
   almost nothing if he makes something and he likes it he can show it to me.   
      
   The college advising function during October consists mostly of suggesting you   
   take the SAT or ACT and asking your parents to fill out the FAFSA, the free   
   application for student financial aid. If you can get registered for a college   
   entrance exam and    
   have completed the FAFSA when we meet in November I will be really pleased. It   
   is your better interest to do so as universities use early FAFSAs to apportion   
   state aid, and taking a college entrance exam now gives you the opportunity to   
   take it again.    
   Universities, or at least UO gives multi year scholarships based on university   
   entrance exam scores. I could find out if this is true of OSU as well.   
      
   Have fun thinking of new computer programs even if they are big   
      
   Jake, you can get a computer science degree at many different Oregon   
   universities. Mention western states tuition exchange and the ability to spend   
   a quarter or more at a California university to utilize their computer career   
   recruitment career center    
   opportunities and internships for a really wide range of possible activities   
   and particularly high earnings.   
      
   If he likes math suggest coding scripting in MATLAB for really motivating   
   visuals.   
      
   There is a programming immersion course called a computer bootcamp, some are   
   complimentary, if Jake is willing to travel then he can go to one.   
      
   It is just an opinion but at university sometimes the sequence i perceive is   
   classes in a major start after general university requirements. If you are   
   avid you can take some CS classes early but some require two or three math   
   classes first, you can use    
   those preceding quarters to learn and practice programming anyway.   
      
   Jake, if you like driving technology I suggest simple microcontrollers that go   
   from kits to do your own thing like rasberry pi. Also Make magazine has   
   projects, and a project like take apart a video game controller then send the   
   buttons voltage pulses or    
   contacts faster than yourfingers can move, then for fun see what it does at   
   software. That is just one output of a frequency from the microcontroller   
   raspberry pi.   
      
   Mention that sequential internships, even immediately after freshman year,   
   raise earnings and are numerically linked to full voluntary employment.   
      
   Jake, you can go to any city in the US and almost any city in the world and   
   get employed very rapidly, computer science graduates in Seattle (2018) earn   
   $120,000 per year median, and if you like you can specialize to earn more.   
   There are numerically    
   based lists of things like "optimal places in America' you can look at.   
      
   Liking computer science is really the thing. But mention the outsourcing with   
   his personal integration thing.   
      
   The sites Quora and stackexchange have a CS programmer community and will   
   assist in being excited with new things and generally feeling encouraged.   
      
   Have Jake compare caffeinated and non caffeinated SAT practice tests, mention   
   gradual multihour dose caffeine pills and nootropics. A few, or a bunch of   
   extra SAT points can give him 1-3k instant scholarship money every year he is   
   at university and you    
   can retake the SAT   
      
   Bring up transhumanism   
      
   Perhaps mention transparent mouse tracking software at website software   
      
   He can sit in at a programming course at the local post high school   
   educational institution and I will be glad to pick up his cab fare   
      
   Mention that Microsoft thing where you build a phone app using code and,   
   perhaps, visual modules that you can actually make then use on your own phone.   
   I do not know but i think building a flashlight in an afternoon is possible,   
   so how about a flashlight    
   that turns on when you speak?   
      
   Different people have different personalities but I have seen one page of   
   code, in perl, a webcrawler that could be rapidly modified to search things   
   that Google and Bing cannot, like regular expressions or deep page occurrences   
   of "attractive young    
   woman".   
      
   Jake could modify another script or write his own to automatically parse   
   (scan) each of the first 30k pages of a search engine like bing or Google to   
   find a regular expression match or a word like superfantabulous. Social   
   networking sites can also be    
   parsed so perhaps there is a way to find "north bend" and "coos bay" along   
   with "amazing" then make an array (list) of all the URLs that contain that,   
   optionally he can use a library to cycle through the list and open browser   
   tabs to each of them in    
   batches.   
      
   Suggest he build his own PC.   
      
   Mention how liking computers is awesome, a CS degree is better, but if he   
   learns to program well Google and Microsoft hire people without degrees.   
      
   Mention the ASPIRE program sequence is FAFSA, SAT, applications, scholarships,   
   and these sometimes have an "the earlier the better" aspect, I think there are   
   a lot of technology scholarships.   
      
   Ask Jake to read these notes first for unmediated comprehension, then bring   
   them up as conversation   
      
   Jmlang0227@nbend.k12.or.us   
      
   Scholarships u Minnesota, u Wisconsin, Ohio state, u michican, Georgia tech,   
   Stanford scholarships   
      
   Identify phone app maker   
      
   Tues Nov 5 at noon   
      
   Find CS tutor swocc professor, 3.5 or better, personable humble student,   
   craigslist   
      
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