College Tuition and Services Scholarship for Tyler

Hi,

My name is John Crute. My goal is to raise funds for my son, Tyler, to help cover costs of his college tuition and other services needed. From birth, Tyler faced some health challenges, as he was born without a Thyroid and was diagnosed with Congenital Hypothyroidism, which is a deficiency in the Thyroid hormone. As a result, he must take medication for the rest of his life in efforts to sustain hormone balance. Needless to say, it was imperative to keep on top of his hormone levels throughout his early childhood, as deficiency in key hormones threatened his physical growth and brain development. At 8 years of age, Tyler was then diagnosed with Autism, which presented some challenges, but also unique abilities/gifts. Tyler presented a unique gift that was recognized by his teachers, peers, and others alike throughout his schooling. He developed a special gift and passion for vocabulary, literature, science, and mathematics. From his departure from 5th grade forward, Tyler became a passionate learner, becoming the most dedicated youth researcher I've ever known. Fast forward... in spite of his many challenges and ongoing ones, of which he never once complained about, he is now approaching high school graduation. He so badly wanted to attend MIT since he was in 5th grade, but unfortunately was not accepted. However, he was accepted to a few other universities. In the end, he chose Florida Polytechnic University, where he will major in Engineering/Physics. He is super excited about attending, starting Summer 2024. This is such a proud moment for everyone who knows him. He is the sweetest, brightest, honest, caring, and most genuine souls you'll ever meet. While at college, he will need services and support, that can be costly in addition to college costs, which is where I'd like help from you. I want him to feel a part of a community and develop a sense of independence by staying on campus with everything he needs to be successful and achieve his dreams. He is the most brilliant mind I know with ideas that can change the world. Below is the college entrance essay he wrote to give you an idea of the kind of mind he has. Enjoy!

There is a charm in the dendrites of invention. Apparent impossibilities of our inventive capacity are conceived through the limits of our knowledge at any moment, but almost anything imaginable has some permutation of interactions that can make it possible. As long as we can learn to have a sense of how to navigate the seas of information that we absorb, surfing the general logic that correlates the ideas to a certain reality’s tidal rhythms is a significantly effective, minimally limited tool to investigate the nature of all aspects of any real and imaginary universe. The path of most of my life leading to this point follows similar inspirations as for my inventions.

In my life, I have been blessed to be cared for and challenged to evolve as any sustainably functional invention would be. In sync with that care, the viscosity of multiple other aspects of my life encouraged me to do the same for others. In 2020, that traditional approach to caring was challenged when I met the first memorable death in my family: that of my Nana. For the first summer, I spent much time locked away in my tower (my bedroom/office) learning all sorts of new things, vowing to be prepared should other life-threatening situations occur, meanwhile growing more reclusive. I buried myself deep in related activities as a constructive way to dilute the turmoil that emerged from the major changes happening in my life, encompassing my wide scope of failures and parents’ divorce. The “thought-plaque” bore a cascading multidirectional weight that, eventually, I learned to appease, leverage, and continue to try to master. The isolation took its toll, however, before I began to unveil that balance, manifesting in changing speech patterns, shifting academic priorities, as well as detachment from the endeared people and activities still in my life. People who knew me from an earlier time grew concerned about how unfamiliar and hesitant my verbal communication had become. My focus in school, for about two years, tended to the areas in which I learned the most, seeing less and less the importance of maintaining all of my classes, including those in which I learned the least. The time shared with my parents and sisters counterintuitively drifted away like snowflakes. I treated attachments as a cause for an autoimmune response, like an infection of sorts.

Contrary to all the help my family tried to lend me, only I had the capacity to reinvent my frame of mind and the forms of strength my mind wielded. To inspect the inner demons that stemmed from my aches and troughs, training me to consume myself in a perpetual loop of blindness and dismay. To transform and harness their precipitating nature to rebuild myself into workable, actively regenerating matter with new branches to my older vow, honoring the shoulders that relentlessly tried to lift me from my grimmest moments. Channeling their broad, resilient hopes of awakening my potential to fulfill my aspirations of making the world a better place with the curious dendrites of knowledge and invention I explore by, first, doing the same in myself.

Applied- and biophysics interface our methods of mapping the nature of life with the elementary physical behaviors and stories of the cosmos that inspire the more complex active and biological phenomena. My curiosity extends far from any single realm of science or philosophy, which reduces limitations on discovery and progress. I wish to help the world build a natural inventory of active resolution and advancement, like a living physical system. I hope to feed our understanding of biological dynamics, like those of slime mold or ant colony networking, to model the sorts of behavior that might guide how we conduct our growing civilization with minimal conflict. To learn how to capture and solve problems that employ and integrate creative ratios, combinations, and flowering of physical processes to protect, save, and enhance the existence of all life.