"I graduated from Boston University in January of 2024 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. However, ever since I was a child, teaching has been a common theme in my relationships and interactions. Most of my family did not speak much English when I was growing up, and I was known for being able to hold elaborate conversations with the adults around me since I was a toddler, in both Portuguese and English (I consider both as my native tongues), constantly correcting them in both languages. Math, in particular, came easily to me from the beginning of my academic journey; as variables, graphs, and subsequent higher dimensional math were introduced into the curriculum, my peers came to me when the teacher's explanations didn't click with them.

As I navigated my college career, which began with computer science and ended with economics, this was a common theme. When I got into my last year of college, I made my services as a tutor available through personal connections. This was mainly assisting freshmen and sophomores in introductory statistics, calculus, and economics courses. Upon graduating, I've been slowly building a network of students that mainly consists of pupils looking for SAT prep. I initially saw this as a sort of side hustle while applying to salaried jobs; as I've progressed in my tutoring journey, I've been leaning more heavily into investing time into being the best teacher I can.

My tutoring dynamic is one-on-one remote using a video chat platform along with a screen-sharing capability so I can illustrate frameworks and processes to my students in a visual way that they can internalize meaningfully. I start by asking them if they find trouble with any subject or concentration in particular, moving forward with appropriate material from there. I also lace together strategies and thought processes that I feel a student could utilize to, first, have a principal rather than a mechanistic understanding of concepts, and then to be able to effectively handle time-restricted testing situations." less...