Fun Facts

I've played the violin since the 1st grade and participated in orchestra and student ensemble throughout middle school and high school. I also have a passion for movies; I love old westerns and epics, and Alfred Hitchcock is one of my favorite directors! In my spare time I enjoy reading, writing and occasionally sketching. Also, I'm a proud Shakespearian and an active member of my college Shakespeare club. I love traveling and immersing myself in different cultures; I spent this past summer stud

About Me

I was born and raised in Houston, Texas where I attended Lamar High School. During my four years there, I swam for the varsity swim team and played in the varsity orchestra. Due to my intense participation in extracurriculars, scheduling and time management were extremely important during my high school career. I graduated from Lamar with a 4.0gpa, an International Baccalaureate Diploma and a rank of 15 in my class of almost 800 students. To this day I have my parents to thank for my honest work ethic and commitment to both my classes and my passions. Currently, at the University of Texas at Austin, I have a 3.9gpa as a Plan II Honors Student and I plan to major in English and Spanish.

My experiences as a austin">tutor have been diverse in terms of location and student type. As a member of my high school National Honor Society, I would austin">tutor students weekdays after school in subjects I was taking at the time such as Spanish, biology and math. Many of my students were my close friends who needed someone familiar to review and reinforce classroom subjects with. This, as a result, prepared me for guiding my two younger brothers who eventually took my classes.

Through these experiences and many others, I have been able to polish my austin">tutoring method while staying flexible to meet the needs of different students. The first thing I tell a friend that I'm helping or a student that I'm austin">tutoring is to not worry. Often times anxiety makes certain challenges appear more difficult than they really are. The very next thing I like to do is break down the forces at work in a specific school subject. For example essay writing consists of introducing a theme, arguing a point and delivering a consistent and fluent argument. Biology deals with understanding the purpose of certain systems, how they are different and how they work together to achieve a specific goal within nature. Breaking things down and clarifying objectives is a helpful process I discovered in high school and one that I cont