Hi, my name is Mehdy Faik. I am a software engineer with nine years of experience in the defense industry. I live in Warner Robins, GA; and I work on the base as a software engineering contractor. If you've landed at this page, however, that would be because I also tutor part-time.
Please note: I am in the process of making this site a little prettier. For now, it says what I need it to say.
The subjects I tutor are physics, math and programming, at high-school or introductory college level. Anything adjacent is fine with me-- ACT prep, SAT math prep, high-school chemistry, and so on. Multiple subjects per session is fine, too. But physics, math and programming are my favorites; as well as where the student demand seems to be.
In my time at Iowa State University, I tutored calculus and physics for two years in 1:1 and group settings. In doing so, I coached a total of about 15 students at various skill levels to achieve their respective goals. I am a proud holder of a BS in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State, and an MS in Information Technology from Middle Georgia State.
You can expect that, with one term of my tutoring, you will see a bump of one letter grade. If you're on the brink, I can get you to pass; and if you're doing well, I can show you how to do better (and, even, make it fun). Where students most often mess this up, is in assuming that having a tutor will make the class easier. In reality, I draw more of your time and energy towards the class-- I make you work harder, and during times (evenings and weekends) that you would otherwise be relaxing. I just make it easier, for you to work harder.
My goal in every session is to make you not need me. From my time in college, as a student and tutor, I have observed that the only way tutoring can be worth the financial investment, is because it teaches you, the student, how to fish. Whether you want one session per week or one session per lifetime, my mission is to teach you how to read the textbook to get the answers you need, fix your own mistakes, and approach the class with a sense of ownership. Along the way, we will do practice problems and pinpoint specific issues-- but it will all come back to building that superpower of plumbing your own work. When approached correctly, math and physics are the gold standard for 1) teaching logical problem solving and 2) explaining nature's most fundamental behaviors.
My sessions are entirely one-on-one, in-person. I typically do sessions at public libraries or cafes. I have no problem with extra non-student members in each session (for example, Dad sitting in because I am a man from the Internet, after all). However, I don't take more than one student at a time. In my experience, once I break the 1:1 teacher-student ratio, I simply find myself lecturing instead of tutoring.
My sessions are typically structured as:
My charging is as follows:
For first-time customers, the 90-minute block is $45.
My email address is, 'orbital-landmark' at 'gmail dot com'.