manny

My mission to make self-service learning accessible to more students is motivated largely by how big a difference it made in my own life. I was not supposed to land anywhere near where I am today: -- there's not a single person in my family who is mathematical, technical, scientific, or academic; -- the sole contribution of my HS counselor to my college apps was misspelling the word "Calculus" as "Calculas" on my transcripts; -- my HS didn't have a math team and I didn't even know that people like me were supposed to be doing math competitions to open mathy college/career doors. But fortunately I discovered self-study midway through HS and benefitted wildly from it, which is why I'm so motivated to make self-service learning accessible to more students. Most people, and especially most kids, don't understand that you can skill-equip yourself an Iron Man suit and fly off the default path that life sets before you, build an engine instead of passively floating wherever the default current of life's river takes you. So I'm trying to get the word out and help as many people as possible take advantage of it.