"Discover how you, too, can think like a physicist!

Once a student myself, I realize that physics and mathematics can often appear as daunting school subjects. They demand a knack for creativity and resolve for intense contemplation. I propose that the seed for successful comprehension resides in you as much as in the most accomplished scholars.

Let me show you that you don't have to be a 'natural' to tackle the analysis and theories of nature. Whoever you may be, together we will identify and use your academic strengths as a basis for approaching every mathematical/theoretical nut you may need to crack from the classroom, through your homework problems, all the way to the exams.

Before receiving my degree at Michigan, I spent years tutoring my peers in higher-level math in both a math lab and a classroom setting.

As a physics graduate student at San Diego State, I continued my tutoring experience by conducting exam review sessions.

Recently, at the Art Institute, I continued tutoring privately while earning a master's in architecture.

In my stretch of tutoring, it has become clear that there is no lone strategy for helping every student absorb information. As a tutor, I make a personal effort to become familiar with a student's 'learning personality' so that I may steer clear of lecturing -- something already available in a conventional classroom.

A lecture can be recorded and replayed perpetually; however, if your instructor is not speaking your language, the recording of his voice cannot regress in further detail. Truthfully, I have witnessed actual human professors and tutors act very much like a tape-recording. They seem to march on, concerned not with whether they have left you far behind.

I find it much more efficient to aid learning with conversation, marching side by side, and never leading too far ahead. I do my best to pause and retrace our route so that when you inevitably ask the same question multiple times, the solution is never explained twice in the same way." less...