...I began tutoring several years ago, beginning with local high school students. Later on, I became an official peer tutor and homework grader for math and physics courses at Caltech, and more recently, I was a teaching assistant for a molecular bioengineering class at MIT. In the past two years, I have tutored over 300 hours. (read more)
...My undergraduate degree from Harvard was in Biological Anthropology and Fine Arts. I completed all the required coursed in biological and social anthropology, with a straight A average. I am more than qualified to tutor and teach Anthropology, and I have done so with students in the CA area. (read more)
...Students I work with regularly tell me I have helped them develop strategies to meet writing tasks with confidence and openness, and that they have rediscovered their joy in putting words into sentences and sentences into paragraphs! No individual has exactly the same needs as another, and my ye... (read more)
...I also scored a 35 on the English section of the ACT (99th percentile) received an A grade in AP English and an A+ in honors English. I have also received creative writing awards including a first place award in the Alexandria Library Writing Contest and a silver key in the Scholastic Art and Wr... (read more)
In my family, the importance of education has always been stressed. My parents and grandparents instilled a love of learning in me very early in life that has continued throughout my education. I hope to share that love of learning with my students with every tutoring experience. (read more)