...In high school, I participated in our city’s top extracurricular orchestra, and was regularly second chair in the viola section and first chair in the bass section. I took viola lessons for ten years, and bass lessons for nine years. I also helped coach orchestra and individual lessons with the Music Man camp for younger students. (read more)
...I then graduated with a Masters degree in Biomedical Sciences prior to starting medical school. Prior to college, I graduated from high school with High Honors and scored a 29 on the ACT with high scores on the Math and Science sections. In addition, I scored a 5 on my AP Calculus AB exam allowing me to test out of Calculus in college. (read more)
...I graduated from UCLA with a bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science and subsequently obtained a Master's degree in Financial Engineering at New York University. Now I am an actuary and working on my actuarial exams, which is highly math based. I have already passed 5 actuarial exams. (read more)
...In this time, I also was a problem solving team leader for an introductory biomedical engineering course where I led discussions and walk-throughs of problem sets to freshman students. Through my scholarship program, I volunteered for online 1-on-1 tutoring of high-school juniors and seniors abo... (read more)
...This was at the San Agustin Language Institute (SALI).
I am still actively involved in teaching English as a second language, Spanish and now Greek and Hebrew. My experience studying and teaching so many different languages has given me genuine insight into language acquisition and has been par... (read more)