About & Credentials
My journey down the ultimate path to a life of tutoring was not a purposeful one. I stumbled upon it by accident.
Several years ago, during my sophomore year of college, I took organic chemistry, just like every other chem major. I found my friends struggling, and offered to help them when tests were approaching, or to understand concepts they weren’t grasping. I noticed I could really help my friends, so I decided to start tutoring more often. In the semester that followed that fateful decision, I was asked to become a TA.
For three years now, I’ve TA’d for every organic professor, and almost every chemistry professor at my university. I prefer to TA for organic, but I have enjoyed working with every chemistry student regardless of subject. While TAing and tutoring for over three years, I realized I wanted to become a professor. And every single student I help learn something they felt they couldn’t learn otherwise, is the most rewarding experience I could ask for.
Three years ago, because of a faculty recommendation, I was asked to join one of the most prestigious medicinal organic chemistry research groups at my university. Under the guidance of my extremely skilled PhD student mentor, we worked on a synthetic chemistry project, which is currently being reviewed for publication.
Last year I was awarded the MBD (molecular basis of disease) fellowship. Which is given to undergrads working towards advancements in medicine by way of chemistry research labs. My lab works on different prodrugs for cancer. And this gave me the opportunity to have a prestigious three-month fellowship to continue the project my PhD mentor and I had started.
After a few semesters of tutoring just fellow college students, I started tutoring high school chemistry students as well. It is my hope that I am helping young adults begin to find the beauty in chemistry, and not just the confusing mess of numbers and letters they may see before they meet me.
