![]() She says she took the tutoring job because “I wanted to use my learnings in actual life.” Tutoring “allowed me to use all my learnings to help others…Also, I wanted to It was a little puzzling when I started to study math again but once I brought my memory of math back, math wasn’t scary any more.” I really liked my pre-calculus 1 class and had fun studying. Having answers for almost every question was fascinating to me. “I wasn’t a math person 10 years ago but I figured out that math was pretty fun to study. “I stopped studying math for 10 years and then started to study math again when I was in NSC,” she says. She applied for the job and started her very first tutoring work during fall quarter of 2020.Īt the MSLC, she tutors pre-calculus and computer science while she continues her own studies. When the COVID pandemic closed the Grove, another MSLC tutor suggested that she, too, could become a tutor. Once in the U.S., she decided to study computer science, enrolled at NSC, and continued her barista work part-time at the Grove coffee shop. Before she left South Korea she worked as a cashier, waitress, and barista. I ended up not liking any of those but it was good to know that I am not interested in those kinds of things.”Īfter completing her early education in South Korea, Ryu obtained a degree in nutrition and was certified as a certificate as a nutritionist there, but disliked the supervisory requirements of that job and gave it up. Thanks to my mom, I was able to experience a lot of things such as hapkido (Korean martial arts), arts(drawing and painting), acting, piano and gayageum (a traditional Korean instrument). “She tried to give me as many experiences as possible. in 2019 and has been here since then.Īs Ryu grew up, her mother “wanted me to be a woman who is not scared of anything and exploring,” Ryu says. in 2016 as part of a cultural exchange program, then returned again to South Korea for a year to be with her family. in 2007 to live briefly with relatives, and then returned to South Korea. She has kept close ties with her Korean family. “Also, math problems usually have many way to solve them, and I like to find and try all those ways.”īorn in Daejeon, South Korea, Ryu completed elementary and high school in that country. “I really like the moment when I got it right, “ she says. ![]() But for now, she’s tutoring at the North Seattle College Math and Science Learning Center and helping students discover how enjoyable math can be. One day, she may become a business entrepreneur. Instead, she discovered what fun math is. ![]() Jamie Ryu might have become a musician, an actor, or a martial arts performer. ![]()
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