I chose to work with Varsity Tutors because I enjoy the challenge of teaching others. My experience in tutoring students first began when I was in high school. During this time, I worked at an after-school math center tutoring in elementary through high school math. In college, I majored in biology, and I had the opportunity to serve as a teaching assistant for an upper level anatomy course, as well as tutor students in an undergraduate neuroscience course. After graduation, I worked full-time in medical research and part-time in bioinformatics education where I developed educational materials for college bioinformatics courses throughout the US in addition to helping teach bioinformatics methodology to visiting faculty at Wash U. During my graduate program I served as a teaching assistant for a course in Epidemiology. The aspect of teaching that I most enjoy is the challenge of putting myself in the shoes of the student and viewing the material from their perspective to identify difficult concepts for the student and find ways to simplify those concepts to allow for better understanding of the material.