Xiaoyuan L.
I'm thoroughly passionate about economics, statistics, philosophy, history, and whole raft of -ologies. I found that I really enjoyed explaining things to my friends and colleagues, who sometimes sadly did not share that enjoyment, so I'm working towards being an academic, and hopefully towards explaining things to people who want things to be explained. This is also why I'm here. I've worked in a conservative think tank (although that doesn't reflect my own position much), the investment banking department of a Chinese state owned bank, and the commodities research department of a French investment bank, most recently. It's been at this latest posting that I've seen how useful econometrics is in application most clearly, as well as how economics is abused in the financial industry. 2350/2400 SAT, top percentile on Oxford TSA
I hesitate to attempt to define my tutoring style. I enjoy discussion, and find almost everything that I've tutored to be interesting in its own right, and most of the time I have spent in tutoring has followed the pattern of a discussion. I've been told that I tend towards stressing a theoretical framework, although I like to think I always root this in illustrated examples, because I find, personally at least, that that's the best way to understand theory.
In addition to tutoring LSE students and the occasional referred 'client' on economic history, macroeconomics, and econometrics, I've also helped friends and friends and friends with countless personal statements, cover letters, CVs, and in one case, a whole IB extended essay on one of Plato's dialogues.
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