Originally from Texas, I studied for four years at the University of Virginia. My first two years were dedicated especially to mathematics, but I did extensive work in physics, Russian literature, and a bit of German. I also began tutoring during this time, both privately to high school students and to college students through various university avenues, including lecturing in a differential equations discussion section. I also co-published an article on a problem in quantum combinatorics. In...
Originally from Texas, I studied for four years at the University of Virginia. My first two years were dedicated especially to mathematics, but I did extensive work in physics, Russian literature, and a bit of German. I also began tutoring during this time, both privately to high school students and to college students through various university avenues, including lecturing in a differential equations discussion section. I also co-published an article on a problem in quantum combinatorics. In my second two years I pivoted sharply to a study of Greek language, philosophy, and literature (especially Herodotus, Plato, and Aristotle), as well as medieval Christian theology and philosophy. I continued tutoring mathematics and also engaged in some tutoring of Ancient Greek. I then spent a year at the University of Oxford for a Master's degree, studying and writing about Plato, proposing an altogether original methodology for reading his philosophical works.
In the course of these five years, I spent considerable time developing personal philosophies in tandem with teaching philosophies. I see myself as a student, ever requiring guidance, and my charge is, in turn, to offer what guidance I can to those also seeking to learn. The sort of ends I urge my students towards is not easily measured, for it pertains to a higher kind of understanding, a mastery of subjects and their associated facts and methods as governed not by what a grade or a test demands, but by what the material itself demands. There is a harmony behind things, and academic subjects exist as endeavors towards not capturing but simply SEEING that harmony.
I have had success myself in this endeavor, and I have helped many others on the path to it. This has primarily been in mathematics, but I have myriad academic skills, including especially writing, strategies for reading literature and nonfiction texts (from history to philosophy), physics, Greek, Latin, and more. My tutoring combats the growing hegemony of pragmatism, materialism, and technocracy.
