Nicholas

Hello! I am a graduate of Yale University where I studied Chemistry and Music, graduating magna cum laude (First Class Honours degree) and achieving distinction in both majors. I am a patient tutor and have extensive experience tutoring courses in math, science, computer science, history, and literature. I have experience teaching these from the earliest (eIementary) levels up through college, including GCSE and AP-level. I am also able to help with ACT/SAT/SAT II Subject Tests (having scored a 36 on the ACT).
In university, I worked as an undergraduate researcher in a computational drug discovery laboratory as well as in a synthetic organic chemistry lab. I’ve served as a peer tutor for physical chemistry at Yale, one of the most difficult and challenging courses to grasp in the undergraduate curriculum. I’ve continued my studies of the violin at the Yale School of Music, where I was recently the only undergraduate accepted into my professor’s studio.
While I have taken many advanced courses, I am also very willing and able to teach young students. I have tutored primary and middle school students extensively. Many of my lessons have been for beginning curriculum mathematics, early physics courses, as well as organic and GCSE/AP chemistry.
I try to teach material in a very structured manner -- so that your student will have the tools to approach all types of problems, not just the ones that are presented in a homework problem set. If one way of approaching a problem doesn't click, I find ways to explain the material differently; everyone internalizes material differently, and as a tutor, it is my job to help your student figure a way which is best for him/her.