When students don’t know what is in the way of their academic goals, they often use self-defeating strategies—from hyper-vigilance to avoidance—to insulate themselves from uncertainty. In so doing, they can insulate themselves from learning, which demands tolerating precisely this uncertainty. Beyond sharing academic content and testing strategies with students, I work with them to develop comfort and curiosity with the errors and confusion at the horizon of our understanding. We specialize in academic tutoring and exam prep for most AP/IB subjects.