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I am a tennis player (when the weather is nice out), a violinist, and I like to play computer games like League of Legends. My choice of music is metal. There are so many types that I can never get bored finding something to listen to. Besides that, my passion is organic chemistry. The way that molecules form and interact is simply fascinating! Organic chemistry has so many applications (drugs, biomolecule mechanisms, etc.) that when I hear of unfamiliar substances, I like looking them up and le

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I am a senior in Biochemistry at UW washington/seattle">Seattle. After I graduate in the spring of 2014, I hope to apply to medical school. Because I love the natural sciences so much, I was able to achieve success in each class I have taken in university, amounting to a 3.95 GPA both overall and in my major. Also, in the past I have done research in organic chemistry in the UW Chemistry department, testing catalysts and optimizing reactions.

I have been privately washington/washington/seattle">seattle">tutoring organic chemistry since September 2012 through the UW Chemistry Department washington/washington/seattle">seattle">Tutoring List. Students contact me via email or text and set up appointments in the libraries around campus. It has arguably been my most enjoyable experience in washington/washington/seattle">seattle">tutoring. I have also been teaching high school students in biology and math at FusionMath around U-Village for a similar amount of time. This was also valuable to me because I became acquainted with a more structured organization rather than just being on my own. Other than that, I have informally tutored friends in my spare time just for fun. I was a large influence in teaching one of my high school friends well enough for him to pass AP Calculus from a previously failing grade.

I begin my washington/washington/seattle">seattle">tutoring sessions by pinpointing the subjects that my student feels uncomfortable with. This provides me with a list of topics to start with and choose from as a jumping-off point. After that, I ask if the student needs an overview; otherwise, practice problems and homework follow. This involves improvisation in order to target the weaknesses brought up during our conversations. If the student has trouble doing quadratics or organic synthesis, I will come up with practice problems that clear up misconceptions. I like to go beyond the memorization, touching on topics that are coming up in the class and explaining why phenomena happen from a different perspective.