http://www.rollingstoneme.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=897 or for the full article
http://www.newsorganizer.com/article/santiago-s-brain-8f0306bd7ff5aff88ce68cbde1718cfe/Santiago�s Brain
He knew the alphabet by two, fractions by four, and entered college at eleven. What happens to a kid who�s too smart for school?
By Jeff Tietz
Rolling Stone
December 8, 2011
Santiago Gonzalez, 13 years old and a full-time stu�dent at one of the nation�s top engineer�ing colleges, wakes up at 5:30 every morn�ing during the school year so that he can spend an hour and 20 minutes develop�ing iPad and iPhone applications in a pro�gramming language called Objective-C, which he learned from a textbook when he was nine. That textbook and 86 simi�lar volumes � Applied Finite Mathematics, Infinity in Your Pocket, Programming in C++, Dictionary of Physics � sit in a book�case opposite his bed. A dozen stuffed an�imals � purple dragons, Donald Duck, Shamu, a hound named Patrick � reside permanently at the foot of the bed.
Sometimes after Santiago gets up, he consults a notepad on his bedside cabi�net. �It might sound a little bit strange,� he says, �but I program in my dreams. I have a bug and the solution occurs to me and I jot it down.� The notepad is gener�ally covered in lines of notional code (�M inherits from physics body with gravity, etc.�) and schematics of computer hard�ware: Santiago can visualize the activi�ty his code kindles inside a machine.
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