Emily B.

I tutor mathematics and physics online, and I came to STEM by an unusual route. I didn't study physics in high school, yet I went on to earn a bachelor's degree in physics from Columbia University, with a minor in math, followed by graduate research in atomic, molecular, and optical physics. I had to start from the ground up, building the foundations for myself: algebra, trigonometry, calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations, then using that math in physics coursework and laboratory…