Hi! My name is Mary, and I am a Comparative Literature and Society major at Columbia University, and I am spending the 2024-2025 academic year as a visiting student at Oxford. I was born and raised in New York City, and I speak Spanish and French. My areas of expertise as a tutor are literature, writing and essay help, English, Spanish, French, SAT/ACT (reading, English, and writing sections), and philosophy.
During my time at Oxford, I have studied under the tutorial system, an unparalleled learning experience that focuses on one-on-one teaching. This has shown me what it is like to be a student in an individualized, ambitious learning environment, and I am now able to extend these skills to help my own students.
My writing has been published in various print and digital magazines, and in 2023, a play that I wrote was staged at the New York Theater Festival. I am currently working as a writer and editor for a student magazine at Oxford, and back at Columbia I program live shows for our college radio station and serve as a committee member for the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society’s Literary Cultures in Conversation initiative.
I love writing, learning languages, and reading about politics and philosophy, and I have recently gotten very into playing chess and printmaking.
College:
Education: Columbia University
Undergrad Major: Comparative Literature and Society
Other Degrees/Minors: Visiting Student (University of Oxford)
High School:
Awards & Honors: Scholastic art and writing competition (3 gold keys, 3 silver keys, 3 honorable mentions), 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Teen Writing Competition Second Place Winner for Poetry and Honorable Mention for Fiction, Center for Fiction National Teen Storyteller Contest Third Place Winner, New York Building Industry Scholarship Recipient, Work published in Global Poetry Journal, Brooklyn Public Library Teen Writing Journal, Uniquely Aligned, The Decameron Project, and Fever Dreams Magazine
Interests & Activities: School newspaper (editor-in-chief), School humor magazine (editor-in-chief), High school play (co-director), Model UN (chair), Model Congress, JV volleyball
ACT Scores: 32 (36 Reading, 35 English, 29 Science, 27 Math)
SAT Subject Tests: 770 Spanish
Other:
Other Awards: Dean's List all semesters, nominee for Columbia's prestigious James P. Shenton prize "Awarded annually to the Columbia College undergraduate who is judged by the faculty to have written the best essay in Contemporary Civilization" (awaiting results), my play Noah was staged at the New York Theater Festival, articles published by the Women's Media Center and The Isis Magazine
Other Interests & Activities: At Oxford, I currently work as a Features writer and editor for The Isis Magazine.
At Columbia, I serve as a Member of the Literary Cultures in Conversation Initiative at the Institute for Comparative Literature and also work at WKCR FM student radio.
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