Nobody was more surprised than Morgan was that time he accidentally discovered one-on-one professional tutoring is the best job in the world back in 2010. He’s spent over 15,000 hours devouring the knowledge and wisdom of the ancients with hundreds of different students from all over the world since then: from kindergarten to graduate school, from creative writing to self-mastery to quantum mechanics, plus the test prep in between. The proper goal of education is to socialize our youth to be capable, self-aware, well-adjusted citizens who will be ready to inherit the world someday. Morgan’s life mission is to create a conscious world by introducing the majesty of the universe to itself. He gets to do that for a living!
Tutoring is holistic individual mentorship, not just help with grades and test scores. Morgan has been known to cover multiple (or even all) courses, standardized exams, and study skills simultaneously with the same student over a period of years. At least one of Morgan's former students has probably been admitted to most any college or university you can think of,
including all of the Ivy League schools. He also has a long track record of working especially well with students who have been (or could be) diagnosed with a variety of learning differences: ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, auditory/visual processing disorders, traumatic brain injuries, autism spectrum disorders, anxiety, and/or very high intelligence. Morgan does well with that demographic in large part because he’s in it himself. He was among the first Americans to be diagnosed with ADHD back in 1983 - which was definitely not considered cool at the time. He still would not sell you his "disorder" for $10 million, though, so you’ll have to go out and find your own. :) Morgan has been trained on intervention techniques for tutoring successfully with “neuro-spicy” kids like himself. Before that, he spent his whole life inventing techniques of his own. He has seen some students as much as double their SAT/ACT composites while quadrupling single section scores.
Education and Experience
University of Maryland-College Park: B.S. in Physics
University of Missouri-Columbia: B.S. in Mathematics
Morgan is a native son of Iowa City, Iowa, which he's got a hunch you don't know is simply the best place in the entire world. Morgan has been fascinated by nearly everything for as long as he can remember, and so life has been one continuous adventure. He positively loved school. His BS degrees in Mathematics (2000) and Physics (2003) were split between the University of Missouri and the University of Maryland, then complemented with graduate studies in Physics and Science Education. At U. Maryland he graduated magna cum laude and was nominated to receive the University Medal and deliver the commencement speech. While a physics graduate student (also at U. Maryland), Morgan did theoretical research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Prior to his career as a professional tutor, he taught undergraduate coursework in physics and chemistry at three different universities and worked for two years as a patent examiner for the US Patent and Trademark Office. Along the way, he has also knocked on 10,000 doors selling educational books in four different states, waited tables, built experimental apparatus for a physics research group, sold auto parts, been a farm hand, and worked at a hardware store. In his free time, Morgan loves bowling, bicycling, creative writing, pickleball, reading, disc golf, skiing, building/fixing things, and playing guitar very badly. Also strawberries. His Myers-Briggs personality type is INFP.
Subject Coverage
Morgan can tutor any of the stuff below. He also likes a challenge if the subject you're looking for is not on the list.
TEST PREP
SAT
ACT
PSAT/NMSQT
AP Exams
IB Exams
SSAT/ISEE (middle level, upper level)
SHSAT
GRE
TOEFL
ACADEMICS COURSEWORK
Mathematics
Basic Arithmetic
Algebra I/II
Geometry
Trigonometry
Pre-calculus/Integrated Mathematics/Algebra III
AP Statistics
Calculus I/AP Calculus AB
Calculus II/AP Calculus BC
Calculus III (multivariate and vector calculus)
IB Mathematics: Applications & Interpretation (SL/HL)
IB Mathematics: Analysis & Approaches (SL/HL)
Differential Equations
Linear Algebra
Partial Differential Equations
Science
AP Physics 1
AP Physics 2
AP Physics C: Mathematics
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
IB Physics (SL/HL)
Classical Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics
Thermodynamics/Statistical Mechanics
Electricity and Magnetism
AP Chemistry
IB Chemistry (SL/HL)
Organic Chemistry
Biochemistry
AP Biology
IB Biology (SL/HL)
Earth Science
Middle-school Science
English Language Arts
High school English
Middle school English
Creative Writing and Poetics
Reading Comprehension
Speed reading
Essay Writing
College Essay Writing
AP English Language
AP English Composition
ESL
Foreign Language
Spanish 1,2,3,4,5
Humanities
AP Psychology
Social Studies
AP US Government
AP US History
AP World History