Sumita C. 

Academic Biography

Sumita graduated magna cum laude and with departmental honors from Wellesley College, where she had the opportunity to pursue her passion for academic study in the humanities. At Wellesley, she took a plethora of history and English courses and majored in English and Creative Writing. She has been a tutor for seven years, beginning during her undergraduate years and continuing afterward. She has tutored K-12 students on a variety of humanities subjects and standardized test preparation in both individual and classroom settings. She also tutored at the college level for the Wellesley English department (where she loved helping students engage with literary texts) and tutored/TAed for the Wellesley Writing Program (where she helped students write clearly and effectively across a myriad disciplines). In 2008, she presented a paper titled "Helping Students Unleash their 'Inner Intellectual'" at the New England Peer Tutor Association (NEPTA) annual conference: her paper title encapsulates the aspect of tutoring that she loves the most. Having tutored English, writing, history, SSAT/ISEE prep., TOEFL prep., SAT I/II prep., and AP prep., her goal is always to share her overall passion for education and learning with her students while helping them achieve their full potential in any given situation and become invested in their own academic destinies.

Personal Biography

Sumita is also currently the assistant poetry editor of AGNI Magazine, a literary magazine published out of Boston University. She has published poems in literary magazines like Free Verse and Salamander, and she has published reviews of books of poetry in literary magazines like Boston Review and Rain Taxi. Having previously studied Spanish and Italian, she is currently taking courses in French. In early 2011, she presented an academic paper on a panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual conference, and she loves to volunteer (she currently volunteers for PEN New England's Prison Writing Program). In a previous life, she was a classical pianist and vocalist.

• Loves helping her students become invested in themselves and find their own academic passions
  
• Extensive experience studying and tutoring all listed academic subjects. Also extensive experience tutoring (and taking: earned perfect scores on several APs, multiple SAT IIs, and the verbal portion of the SAT) all listed standardized tests
  
• Magna cum laude and departmental honors graduate of Wellesley College; 3.92/4.00 major GPA
  
• Editor, published poet and reviewer

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