Hi, I'm Kat. I recently received my physics PhD from the University of Hawaii (dark matter phenomenology/particle astrophysics) after receiving my BS in physics with a math minor in 2018. I tutored English writing for two years at a community college tutoring center, primarily to English as a Second Language students. After community college, I tutored math and science for high school students at a nonprofit for a year. In graduate school, I taught introductory physics laboratory classes on...
Hi, I'm Kat. I recently received my physics PhD from the University of Hawaii (dark matter phenomenology/particle astrophysics) after receiving my BS in physics with a math minor in 2018. I tutored English writing for two years at a community college tutoring center, primarily to English as a Second Language students. After community college, I tutored math and science for high school students at a nonprofit for a year. In graduate school, I taught introductory physics laboratory classes on classical mechanics and electrodynamics for 4 years. During those four years, I held weekly office hours where I tutored students from all of the undergraduate physics classes, often well past the official end time. So, I have 7 years of tutoring experience!
I love helping people learn a subject that I'm passionate about. Fostering understanding of relevant concepts is more important to me that just helping someone complete an assignment at hand. I usually employ the Socratic method by leading students toward the correct approach without telling them the answer or explicitly how to solve the problem. The goal is to help students walk to the solution on their own.
With my strong background in physics and mathematics, if you need help with anything from high school to college and graduate level physics or math, I'm here for you. My GPA in graduate school was 3.98 at graduation. In physics, I've studied introductory college level material through more advanced graduate level classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics/statistical mechanics, electrodynamics, particle physics, general relativity, and more. As for math, I have experience with introductory courses like algebra, geometry, and probability to more advanced subjects like calculus, linear algebra, real and complex analysis, statistics, differential geometry, and more. I also have nearly a decade of coding experience, mainly with python. So, if you're looking for help with physics, math, coding, or college writing, I'd love to be there for you.
