"Hi! I'm Lumin. I graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 2014 with a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and a double minor in Statistics and Actuarial Preparation. After graduation, I worked in a variety of Silicon Valley jobs at Google, Kaiser Permanente, and GoPro. My job experience turned me into a master of Excel and spreadsheets, as well as giving me the understanding of what skills learned in school become practical in the workplace. Outside of the working world, I genuinely love math and applying it to my everyday life and hobbies. I'm one of the biggest sports fans out there (especially MLB and NBA,) an internationally competitive board game player, and a travel addict.

Throughout my teaching experience, I have greatly enjoyed bringing tough concepts to light, with a preference for visual examples and explanations. While in college, one professor made me see teaching through a new lens. Every time a student gave a wrong answer, she would immediately figure out their thought process and tell them which parts they got right! After that, she would explain what derailed the student's thought process and show the correct steps to the right answer. I have since adopted this style, as the friendly explanations and corrections show that the student is usually not far from the right answer, and is therefore less intimidating to students than saying that an answer is wrong.

As a tutor, I have helped students realize a wide variety of goals. This goes back to my high school years, when I taught four classmates Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus. As a junior, I was a TA for four AP Calculus BC students taking the exam while my school was unable to offer that specific course. Three of them received 4's and 5's on their AP Exam, after I suggested a yearlong curriculum, helped with after-school discussions, and created and graded unit exams and practice AP questions to assess progress. Following my college studies, I was invited multiple times to guest lecture at UC Berkeley on two different topics in applied statisti" less...