Fun Facts

I'm originally from Washington, DC and have interned at the Smithsonian Institute Natural History Museum (in the entomology department) during school breaks and with the Radiology department of Langone Medical School during the year. My greatest passion is science and I keep up with popular science journals and magazines. I enjoy creative writing, swing dancing, and painting in my spare time.

About Me

I am a Freshman Biology major at New York University. I have a 3.9 GPA. I plan on pursuing PhD for a career in research biology and working in a university after I graduate. In high school I was on the board of my temple youth group and planned activities and programs for middle school and high school students.

In high school I was a member of the National Science Honors Society, for which I participated in tutoring as well as environmental clean-up initiatives. My senior year I primarily tutored ninth through twelfth graders in Honors biology and AP biology, but also helped a few students with ninth and tenth grade chemistry and math (pre-algebra, algebra, pre-calculus and trigonometry). This year I tutored three college students for Principles of Biology I in preparation for the final exam, which covered photosynthetic and metabolic processes, the cell cycle, genetic and epigenetic regulation in model organisms, and evolutionary theory.

I like to begin by taking a look at what the student's teacher requires for the course by checking out their syllabi and some of the assignments the student struggled with. From there, I think the best approach is to ask the students what they find they don't understand. Once they know how to formulate the question it is much easier for us to work through the solution together, and I help to guide the student towards the broader concepts that tie the information together. Often it is also simple study techniques that need adjusting, so I like to help the student find the best way for them to learn the information on their own.