Hannah Saris '16

I currently work at BB&N, a prep school in Cambridge, MA. Before that I taught math at the Loomis Chaffee School, a coed boarding school, in Windsor Connecticut for three years. I chose teaching because I wanted to be active and I liked working with kids. Other than that, I really had no formal training in education or in a classroom. I was thrown into the classroom here and I love what I do. I look forward to going to work each day because I am literally changing lives. It is very different than the life I would have had if I went down the finance route like I did in my off terms. Teaching rocks! Plus, very nice vacation time…

While I do not directly teach economics, my study of the subject at Dartmouth allowed me to see how applicable math really is. I will often talk to my kids about current events and have them think about how having an understanding of math and numbers is relevant. Taking economics classes taught me how to think critically about patterns and numbers which is something that I now teach freshmen in high school. Overall, I don't think it's the expert knowledge in your specific economic track that is important. Rather, I took away how to think critically about numbers and data.