Michael K.

I'm a physics major at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on the Computational Physics track. I came in with AP credit, placed into advanced coursework, and am now taking upper-level classical mechanics. Mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and calculus are what I work with every day, so AP Physics 1, AP Physics C, and AP Calculus are material I know deeply. I also worked as a software engineer at a Y Combinator-backed startup, where I had to learn to code from scratch in about two wee…