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Summer Reading and Startup Program
putko writes "Paul Graham, lisp hacker and creator of the company that became Yahoo! Store has an essay on what to do while in college. Previously, he's covered what high school students should do. He's also begun a summer startup program, which invites people with good ideas to try out for some startup capital. The deadline is March 26th." From the page: "We're going to call this project the Summer Founders Program, and it preserves many of the features of a conventional summer job. You have to move here (Cambridge) for the summer, as with a regular summer job. We give you enough money to live on for a summer, as with a regular summer job. You get to work on real problems, as you would in a good summer job. But instead of working for an existing company, you'll be working for your own; instead showing up at some office building at 9 AM, you can work when and where you like; and instead of salary, the money you get will be seed funding."
Paul Graham is famous for (among other things) writing the seminal work on practical Bayesian spam filtering. But his Bayesian filter isn't Bayesian at all and makes no sense from a probability perspective.
It does work pretty well, but was improved quite a bit by the application of some mathematics by Gary Robinson.
continue your classes in the summer. Do not take your summers off. Summers are a great time to take your useless classes, like gender or sensitivity training that colleges seem intent on stuffing into you nowadays. Do not do the minimum of math classes, take more. Take more physics. When not at school, go to the freaking gym and get some exercise.
Want to get/keep a good job? Learn about digital signal processing.
On behalf of everyone with whom she has partied, I offer you a sincere "Thank you!"
If you're in Cambridge, UK - there's a summer school here as well. Check out http://www.cfel-summerschool.com/
As someone who has actually attended it a couple of years ago, I would say it is guaranteed to be of value to anyone considering starting their own business and raising VC funding.