Fun Facts

I played soccer in High School but I do it for fun now. I play most indoor games like table tennis and pool and I also play chess and scrabble. I also like to travel a lot. I occasionally go to parties but I don't consume anything that alters my state of consciousness or render my cognitive function impaired; therefore, no alcohol of smoking for me.

About Me

I grew up in The Gambia, a poverty stricken country in western sub-Saharan Africa. A place in which almost two thirds of the population earn less than a dollar per day, yet we still dwell in hope in the midst of despair, the hope not to only put food on the table but also to have the means to acquire a decent education.

I came to the United States of America in Jan 2010 to study Mathematics and Computer Engineering. I have been nominated for the All USA Academic Team for the State of Michigan through Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society where outstanding students are recognized by the state and universities around the country. I have also participated in a research program at the Michigan Technological University in the summer of 2011. My research was based on the Bio-molecular Simulations of Proteins (Protein Folding). I successfully simulate wild type and mutant of the CFr protein. The simulations allowed us to confirm a hypothesis published by my research group a few years earlier. The results were developed and published under the Europhysics Letters of the European Physical Society, E.P.L, in Jan 2012.

I have accumulated over four years of teaching/detroit">tutoring experience, ranging from kindergarten to college. I approach teaching in two ways: synthetic and analytical. Analytical in the sense that Mathematics is a language used to describe the order of nature, it only has to make logical sense based on its hypothesis. Synthetic on the other hand refers to natural sciences like Physics and Chemistry, they only don't have to make logical sense but it has to be observed or proven experimentally. Unlike Mathematics, they have to be theoretical and not hypothetical. I try as much as possible to get points across by using natural life phenomena to explain math and science explicitly.