IB, AP: Calculus & Vectors, Physics 11 & 12, Advanced Functions, Functions 11, Math - Grades 12 to 8, Full-time Tutor for 9 Years

Learn more about Nihit

• When and why did you develop an interest in your chosen field?

  I showed signs at 4, and my interest intensified at 8. Here's why:
  
  My chosen fields are Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Educating.
  
  The story of developing an interest in Math, Physics, and Engineering:
  I was 5 when I was given a Meccano set. For years it kept me engrossed for hours in a sitting. Interest came naturally from building different contraptions I could imagine and remodel.
  
  At 8 I was given an Electricity & Magnetism set. By the end of the first week, I had finished building all 18 circuits the manual had to offer. Unlike Meccano, it obsessed me for almost an entire day and I did not feel tired. Dad, an Electrical engineer, had a home workshop with tools and spare parts often lying around. Using his tools in serenity, I had opened every toy & gadget at home. Using the spares, I built about 120 projects until high school. I shared them with friends & teachers every few weeks.
  
  The excitement from practical lab-like testing of possibilities propelled me into reading the course textbooks. When complete, I'd explore a little extra, off & on beyond curricula, or learn from science documentaries. It was a two-sided correlation between theory & observation. I was living in a perpetual loop driven happily to the other side.
  
  My story of educating:
  At 8 my parents noticed how much I enjoy conveying. Dad would write the script, and I used to enact the characters performing solo before the elders. They felt I needed more. Fortune blossomed when New Delhi's NSD at Bahawalpur House accepted me. When I was 10, I completed a 2-year theater in education program while continuing regular education at a local public school. The training molded me into a spontaneous communicator. I enjoy illuminating academic concepts and demystifying them. It is often reasonable edutainment for the sincere seeker.
  
  After schooling, it seems I was destined to earn a bachelor's degree in Electronics from BITS Pilani, followed by a master's in Controls from VIT Vellore. At different times, I asked some professors if they could let me teach for a few minutes during their lectures. Some let me use up to 45 mins. I took their expressions, reactions, criticism, and feedback quite seriously. Ultimately, I decided to educate formally as a professor. At 25 an academic institution chose me, and I found myself their Electrical Engineering Department's youngest Assistant Professor.
  
  Because of the multidisciplinary nature of the courses I taught, and of the fluidity of ideas crossing paradigms, the blend of contemporary research, and my interests deepened intensely into dedicating my efforts towards fundamental research. Put another way, I haven't felt I worked a day since the day I joined.
  
  Be it anything in math, physics, chemistry, computer science, mechanical, or electrical - I love learning, and solving.

• What makes you passionate about your subject?

  Experiencing the aha moments:
  Those durationless times we travel through while time stops. I mean, when the student understands some obfuscated concept, or phenomenon. Making it as simple as possible, but not easy, keeps me passionate about my chosen subjects. No wonder Feynman elaborated on his experiences in his book, "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out". When I came across it, I could relate so much to his vivid descriptions!
  
  Exploring on my own:
  My mom, a former school teacher, and a Sanskrit scholar kept me engaged in a variety of constructive activities throughout my upbringing as a child. I developed 36 hobbies gradually. She's the reason I'm able to read & write. My parents are a major cause of why I'm able to see beyond the surface of a book's text - penetrate them, go deep, somewhere right within, and then assess the layers underneath. It makes me enjoy a depth like a solo traveler navigating independently across the dual realms of analysis and synthesis. Initially, it spreads in directions, but when complete, it all makes sense!
  
  Histories have wisdom parallel to stories:
  I like to start with a topic learning through the story of a concept's origin and trace it backward to capture relevant portions from its history. The way challenges were tactfully overcome by contributing pioneers inspires me. This includes all forms of enriching publications - from printed literature to digital media. When I introspect the possibilities, I tend to reproduce an experiment. The results amaze me with the promise, and limitations of nature's laws and theorems.
  
  Sometimes there can be multiple ways to think laterally and come up with alternative pathways. Whether by chance or systematically, the experience actuates me, and I often end up actualizing my academic constructions and hand-made contraptions. I am inspired by the various ways engineers, and researchers are utilizing Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry, Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Calculus, and computation in their professional endeavors. The aha moments of the evolving spectra excite me and broaden my appreciation.

• What do you like about tutoring? What makes you a "Superprof"?

  Interacting with intellects, programming the intelligence differently, doing things anew, and learning new paradigms in return.
  
  While a professor, setting administrivia aside, I was devoting 18 to 22 hours a week preparing towards 12 to 18 hours of lecturing & tutoring, about 200 students every week.
  
  I still prepare ahead of all sessions. I sprinkle my offerings with humor which in no time brings a smile, and keeps us stress-free. Among my goals is making sure each lesson is as unparalleled a memorable fun-filled experience as expected, plus more. Irreversibly awesome.

• Do you have any role models; or a teacher that inspired you? Please explain.

  Many.
  I look for the potential ways of failure, then seal them. Yet I prefer failure before success. Not just kidding.
  
  The list includes my tireless parents, dedicated teachers, trusted friends, leading professors, professional managers, and beloved seniors. I selectively pick something of distinct quality from everyone.

• What are your keys to success?

  Success is earned. The highway is disciplined. The following keys aren't for aims ordinary:
  Take a decision. Make it work.
  
  Intelligence & patience function together. Prefer conscience, defer haste.
  
  Focus is a distraction from everything. Distraction is focusing on one. Switch appropriately.
  
  Will is thoughts in action. An unhealthy body imprisons the will. Laziness is born. Thoughts spiral & emotions overrun. Either meditate or play a sport. This streamlines both. Restoring will replace inaction.
  
  If this doesn't work, leave the situation, and take up a short reasonable challenge. Overcoming blossoms an unknown perspective. Utilize it - return with a blow.
  
  Good habits manifest a diverse routine gradually into discipline. Preparation signals success is underway. Enforce checklists.
  
  Be the chef, not a cook. Upon success, attribute all glory to God.
  
  Failed? One is but to be - the time is to unlearn. Quit no way. Find ways. The one smarter is the solver.