My name is Yuki, and I am a Japanese, US permanent resident who grew up in Ireland. I moved to Tennessee when I was 11, studied and lived there for about 20yrs. I started tutoring languages since I was 16, including French, Japanese, and English to a variety of students of many different ages. Entering the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), I tested out of 26 hours of General Ed. language, math, statistics, and biology requirements (via AP exams) and later received my B.S. in Biology...
My name is Yuki, and I am a Japanese, US permanent resident who grew up in Ireland. I moved to Tennessee when I was 11, studied and lived there for about 20yrs. I started tutoring languages since I was 16, including French, Japanese, and English to a variety of students of many different ages. Entering the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), I tested out of 26 hours of General Ed. language, math, statistics, and biology requirements (via AP exams) and later received my B.S. in Biology with a double major in Philosophy (2004).
After tutoring for many years, particularly Japanese students, I was recruited by East Tenn. Japanese School to teach high school math in Japanese. During that time, I also began working in a research lab at UTK and took more philosophy courses before starting my PhD at UTK. While studying and doing biochemistry, neuroscience, and cell biology experiments for my PhD, I was a teaching assistant for many years there, instructing 12-20+ students nearly every semester in introductory bio., physiology, and neurobiology. I also mentored many students until I graduated in 2018. Plus, I continued taking numerous graduate level statistics and philosophy courses. Currently I am studying physics and working devotedly to become a pianist while living in Seattle.
I have studied science for 16+ years since entering college, and I worked hard to teach myself how to learn and teach difficult scientific concepts and knowledge. I also have a strong philosophical underpinning of my scientific knowledge and am able to discuss and teach science from many different angles and levels of difficulty. I love learning and teaching science in this holistic or global way, resulting in great joy, mutually, when students have an "a-ha!" moment and can apply their new understanding of concepts to specific questions, problems, and solutions.
I grew up in a Japanese house hold, but I had to teach myself Japanese in order to read and speak. Eventually I received formal education in both Japanese basics and high
