I received my undergraduate degrees in Neurobiology and Theater/Performance Studies at UC Berkeley (GPA 3.8), where I was honored as a Regents' and Chancellor's Scholar and won the Mask and Dagger Memorial Prize in Theater upon graduation. I also served as a newspaper reporter and editor for a student newspaper and worked as a research associate in an Electrophysiology Lab.Before attending graduate school, I spent two years working as a research associate at a Developmental Neurobiology Lab at UCSF, involving myself in various theater production companies around the Bay, and tutoring undergraduate students in Biology, Zoology, and Botany. I have also taught theater workshops in Oakland, CA and Mumbai, India. I am currently a graduate student at Columbia University School of the Arts studying Theater.The best way to learn any subject is to develop a genuine passion for studying it and a desire to connect it with your own personal life. This is how I begin in my teaching method. I personally understand the trials a young adult may go through during his or her adolescence and the struggle between maintaining good grades and simultaneously discovering one's identity and relationship to the world. Most of my own time in high school, I couldn't help but question why I should bother learning what the school offered me and I did not have a clue as to what this 'big picture' I heard so much about could mean. I believe students benefit enormously from having a tutor and mentor that can help keep them on track academically while encouraging them to keep discovering who they are.