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I'm Michael, a highly motivated math tutor with a passion for helping students succeed. I graduated from Carleton College in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Computer Science, where my senior thesis attained distinction and was later published. While there, I served as a tutor at ou... (read more)