Hi, I'm Lynn. I'm a lesson pal tutor.

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I have a PhD in mathematics from the University of Virginia.

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That's the school that Thomas Jefferson built.

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My tutoring started as an undergraduate math major. He needed extra money,

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but when I started tutoring people, I realized I really liked it.

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Even when I went to graduate school where I had a teaching assistantship,

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I taught two courses a semester for the university,

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but still had private tutor students and in the evenings and in the summers,

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sometimes I would teach at local community college. I liked teaching.

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Then I was a professor of mathematics or six years at a college.

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Taught all the undergraduate courses, especially a lot of statistics,

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and I got more and more interested in it,

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and eventually left college and got a job as a professional statistician

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working for companies that maybe you've heard of, capital One, Wells Fargo,

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general Electric.

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I could take my math and statistics background and apply it to real world

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problems. I'm a unique blend of the theory and the application.

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Now, what can you expect from me in a tutoring session? One, it's a safe place.

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You can ask any question you want. Sometimes when you, you know,

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math builds on top and top, blah, blah, blah.

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Sometimes when you have a problem here,

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it's 'cause you miss something down here.

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Or maybe your teacher didn't explain it to you in a way you understood.

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We'll work on it. We'll fill in the blanks. Number two,

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I want you to be a problem solver.

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A job is where someone pays you to solve their problems.

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So problem solving skills are the best skill you can skill set you can have,

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and math and statistics just helps you to organize your mind for solving

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problems. That's where they make you a problem solver. The last thing,

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I want you to be a self learner.

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I don't want you to always depend on your professor or your tutor.

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I want you to be able to approach problems and to think about them yourself.

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That's my ultimate goal is for you to be a self-learner,

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to feel confident enough to do that. Now,

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that's my philosophy. Sign up for a class, see how it goes.

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I don't think you'll be disappointed.

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