Fun Facts

Since I was in elementary school I have been fascinated with computers, my parents hated when I used to disassemble our home computers for fun. I began building computers from scratch in middle school, and made a job out of it for a few years in high school. Since then I have moved on from tinkering with hardware, and now enjoy developing Xbox games and Android applications.
I am originally from Pennsylvania, but even before I started looking at colleges I knew I wanted to be near mountains so

About Me

My main goal in life is to find a career that I enjoy and will allow me to do other things outside of work that I love. As a high school student who spent hours every day playing video games, I used to aspire to develop games the rest of my life. I still would love to do that, but since I have learned more about science/colorado/denver">computer science I have broadened my horizons and discovered other aspects that I enjoy very much. Computer security is one of the topics that I have become interested in, and I hope one day I can put my skills to use as a penetration tester and help protect users from the darker side of the internet. Whatever I end up doing, I would love to travel, or at least end up living in the mountains some day.

I have never had an official paid "job" as a denver">tutor before. Now that that's out of the way, I have tutored classmates very often in high school and a few classes in college. In high school I was part of National Honors Society and would set up denver">tutoring through them or the school counseling department. The main subjects I helped in were math, science/colorado/denver">computer science, and physics. As a college student I have tutored in science/colorado/denver">Computer Science 1,2,3, algorithms, and data structures.

My denver">tutoring philosophy is to show students the practical side of the subject. I know that students have very different ways of learning, but I believe that classes often focus too heavily on the technical details of math and science/colorado/denver">computer science. When I have had difficulty learning something it is almost always because I can recite the formulas and syntax by heart, but have no idea how to apply it to more complex homework and test problems. In math I have seen that it is common for teachers to explain formulas, ask if there are questions, and then move on after assigning homework problems that use the formulas in a much more sophisticated manner than was taught in class. In science/colorado/denver">computer science this becomes an even worse problem when a student is asked to design a functional program based on ba