My passion for education started at a young. By the time I was 9 years old, I was engaged in coursework 2-3 grade levels above my own. I attribute this to the way my mother taught me a few years prior. You see, I was home-schooled until the age of 16. My first memory of being in school was working with my mother on 'Teaching your child to read in 100 lessons" at about age 5. I remember how fascinated I was being able to make sense of what used to be meaningless words on a page. After completing all 100 lessons, I felt like I could understand just about anything so I decided to start reading English, Math, and Science textbooks for fun.

This urge to want to understand new information stuck with me all the way through high school. I managed to graduate in 2 years as valedictorian. However, it was my time tutoring other students that really impacted me. You see, my school had three 4-hour sessions. Due to my academic abilities, I mainly needed the first two and utilized the third to assist other students. Being in the position to share the knowledge I gained with other students felt extremely natural. Only now looking back do I realize that I used nearly 1/4 of my time in high school to assist other students. Even though over the next 6 years I would find myself in a number of education-based roles, it was not until the end of my junior year that I realized how central education would be in my life.

I now realize it does not even matter what subjects or topics are the focus. So long as I am able to communicate the knowledge I have in order to help someone else learn something, I feel that I am making a significant impact. I believe much of my success in life can be attributed to the way I comprehend and utilize new information. It would only seem logical that I would educate others on the information I have in order to help them overcome whatever challenges or obstacles they are facing, or simply grow as a person.