My name is Brian. I am currently a freshman enrolled at Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi. I am majoring in biology. I attended high school at La Vernia High School,a 3A school, in La Vernia, Texas. In high school, I was a member of the UIL Science team. The UIL Science competition is a sixty question multiple choice test consisting of twenty biology, twenty chemistry, and twenty physics questions. I advanced to regionals in my sophmore, junior, and senior years. In my last two years of high school, I placed first at district. In my senior year, I received the top biology score at the 3A regional meet and advanced to state. At state, I placed tenth overall. In high school, I took several college level courses, including AP English Composition, AP English Literature, AP Calculus AB, and AP Chemistry. I achieved a score of five, the highest possible, on all but the AP Chemistry test, on which I scored a four. I also took Dual-Credit Biology 1406 and 1407 in high school. I graduated in the top ten percent of my class, with a 3.8 GPA. This is my first time tutoring as a job, but during school people would always come to me for help on homework or lessons. I like to show how the work is done once, and then give tips if the person I'm helping gets stuck. The key to learning how to do something is to do it many times. Practice makes perfect. Repeating problems of the same kind helps to build your understanding of the way the problems work. However, it is not enough to just know how to use the formula. You need to know what the problem translates to in the real world, in order to be able to use the solution you learn in class on real world problems.