Fun Facts

Let's see...Well one fun fact about me is that I am a trivia nerd. I absolutely love all things trivia! Any game show like Cash Cab or Jeopardy, I am totally game! I love being able to use some of the crazy (and at times incredibly random) facts in this brain of mine to play games and share them with other people.

About Me

I am a first year graduate student at portland-state-university">Portland State University currently working on a Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems. My hope is to continue in my studies and work toward a Master's degree and hopefully one day a Ph.D. in geography. Ultimately I would love to share my love of geography with others and teach at the university level.

For much of my education I have been known as the person to come to for help studying or strategizing. I love to help my fellow students learn in ways that will enable them to retain the information at hand and truly enjoy themselves while they're learning. School has always been a very important part of my life and my hope has always been to inspire others to love it as much as I do. As a member of the National Honor Society in high school I participated in peer portland">tutoring, helping other students plan out their studies in the most efficient and effective way possible.

My approach to portland">tutoring is to break down the material at hand into smaller pieces to be mastered before finding the common threads running through it that will enable the student to reconstruct the material and see it as the sum of its parts rather than a mass of information to be absorbed. In breaking it up into smaller pieces, it makes the information more accessible and less overwhelming and as the student masters each piece, before he or she knows it, they're done and have absorbed all of the material at hand!