Friday, June 19, 2020

Tutor Spotlight Ainsley Tucker, SAT/GRE/Writing Tutor Admissions Coach

This week we're spotlighting Ainsley Tucker, who joined the Cambridge Coaching team in 2012 as a writing, history, PSAT/SAT and GRE tutor. She's our most cheerful marathon-running, honey-eating, weather obsessed tutor. She's also a fantastic college coach, and has mentored countless high school students to gain acceptances at their top choice colleges! 1) Where are you from? Evergreen, Colorado 2) Where did you go to college? Carleton College, Northfield, MN 3) What do you do now? I work for Harvard Divinity School in the Office of Development and External Relations, and I am on leave from a doctoral program in Religion at Harvard. 4) What’s your most embarrassing favorite movie or song? What occasion would call for it? I’m unabashedly a huge fan of John Denver. This is clichà © because I’m from Colorado, but I know the lyrics to basically every single song that he wrote, from Rocky Mountain High to Wild Montana Skies and I love them all. This embarrasses my husband and friends more than it embarrasses me, I think! 5) Tell us a favorite epic (or not so epic) story from your childhood. As a kid, I created a compendium of all of the spells, potions, and incantations from the Harry Potter books. As I read through the series, I wrote down any of these that I came across in a hand-bound journal. I wrote in emerald gel pen. A very good use of my time. I also whittled myself a wand and decided I belonged soundly in Slytherin House. 6) Describe your perfect weekend morning. Early-morning tea and toast, watching the sunrise, go for a fifteen or twenty mile run, shower, read while soaking in the sun outdoors. 7) What’s your spirit animal? The lizard. I love dry weather, sun-bathing on rocks, and running around like crazy, just like lizards. 8) Introduce us to your 15 year old self. Half Colorado hippie with long, straight hair, an electric guitar, and a crush on all long-haired drummers, half pre-professional orchestral flute player obsessed with getting good grades and sucking up to teachers. 9) What are your favorite website(s) to browse? I’m obsessed with checking the weather all over the world. I could probably tell you the monthly averages for not only Cambridge but Yakutsk, Russia, Edinburgh, Scotland, Reykjavik, Iceland, and one of my personal favorites, Yellowknife, Canada. I like to try to find crazy places where the sun rises really late in the winter or where it boils in the summer. I also keep a large selection of places on my phone’s weather app. 10) What are your favorite ways to idle? I like standing around in the kitchen eating bread and butter while reading a book. 11) What are 3 alternative career/life paths you have considered (even just for fun?) Marine biologist (until I realized I didn’t love science and was terrified of deep water) Orchestral musician: I played in a super-serious young artists’ orchestra in Denver and loved the thrill of performing at the Colorado Symphony’s beautiful music hall. White-water rafting guide: I spent a few weeks canoeing down the Arkansas River in Colorado and loved the feeling of sleeping on a sandbank under the starts. Carrying your own â€Å"waste products† with you in a small metal lockbox, on the other hand, was less romantic. 12) What are 3 (non-generic) things that you’re grateful for? Spiders, worms, and lenticular clouds. 13) Tell us about the last amazing meal you had. My parents brought me my favorite bagels from Evergreen, Colorado when they visited for my first Boston Marathon. I had a mountain power bagel—dark brown with raisins, nuts, and seeds—smeared with honey-walnut cream cheese. 14) What are 3 places you'd like to visit in the next 5 years? I’d like to run marathons in Iceland, Hawaii, and the Scottish Highlands. Read Ainsley's tutor biography: Ainsley grew up in the beautiful Colorado Rocky Mountains. She traded mountains for farmlands as she completed her undergraduate degree in religion with an emphasis on education at Carleton College in rural Minnesota. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and enjoyed time studying abroad in France and Israel. Until recencntly, Ainsley was a Masters student at Harvard Divinity School focusing on contemporary religion and history in America. Ainsley finished her graduate studies in the spring of 2014, and is now employed by Harvard’s Office of Development. When she isn’t reading or writing papers, Ainsley tutors students in history, expository writing, the SSAT, PSAT/SAT and GRE. In college, she worked as the organizer for a large volunteer tutoring program that connected Carleton students with local youth for tutoring in all subjects. Since she joined Cambridge Coaching in 2012, she has enjoyed helping students develop strong academic habits as they tackle coursework and standardized tests. ;

Thursday, June 11, 2020

How to Choose the Right Research Paper Topics For Life Extension

How to Choose the Right Research Paper Topics For Life ExtensionLife span development research involves various researchers in different disciplines in their studies of the biological processes that lead to healthy and unhealthy life span. This includes plants, animals, and humans. The life span development research paper topics include the impact of nutrition on human life span, the benefits of micronutrients, the role of nutrition in reducing infectious disease, the bioavailability of antioxidants, the impact of diet on aging, and the impact of diet on cancer.The first topic is the effect of nutritional status on longevity. This is a hot topic of research as we are finding more evidence that the right kind of nutrition may be part of the explanation for the long life span of plants. This is evident in studies of species like the Japanese quail that have relatively short life spans but are able to eat a diet rich in vitamin C. The same thing holds true for human populations. Those w ho eat diets high in fruits and vegetables live longer than those who eat a high fat, high protein diet.Another topic of interest is premature deaths. The cause of premature death is now being looked at in a much more thorough manner. Perhaps the most common cause of premature death is cardiovascular disease, which has been largely overlooked by researchers.Longevity is a concept that has yet to catch on with mainstream medicine. Part of the reason for this is that life extension research is a highly controversial topic in the medical community. It is also not clear whether life extension is a good idea or if it is something that should be avoided as much as possible.One of the most important life span development research paper topics is the effects of antioxidants on longevity. While these chemicals have received a great deal of attention in the news media, they are one of the less understood causes of longevity. Antioxidants help prevent the damage that free radicalsdo to cells, and can be found in both plant and animal products.Antioxidants can have two effects. They can make you look younger or make you live longer. It appears that looking younger can make you live longer, while looking older can make you live longer. The effect of antioxidants on human life span is still under study.Bioavailability is another of the most important life span development research paper topics. Basically, it refers to the amount of nutrient that reaches the cells in the bloodstream. So the more nutrients that reach the cells, the more nutrients that are available to the cells in the bloodstream.The environment affects longevity as well. Environmental factors can make a difference, as it has been shown that the consumption of diet supplements that contain resveratrol can actually extend the lifespan of yeast and worms. Also, a diet rich in berry extracts appears to extend the lifespan of yeast cells.