*Snarls at the world.*
Oct. 15th, 2004 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusFinished my quiz today. Did mediocre.
I've another quiz on Tuesday. I might be ready.
Then I've major a test on Wednesday. I'm not ready for that one.
I've a homework assignment due Monday and Wednesday. Several cases to write up for Thursday.
And another test on Friday.
I work another set of three 12-hour days Monday-Wednesday. So when does one prepare for these tests? Oh. I guess that would be the weekend.
*faceplant*
But I love tutoring. It's busier upstairs in the "open" tutoring, but there I get the more interesting ESL and writing assignments. If a lot of one-time students.
Downstairs I have three main students, all of whom are returning to school after ten or more years.
One is just not used to being in school yet, but he's really sharp and is doing great. He has a tech-career's worth of sloppy grammar and wants to break those habits. He has dyslexia, but I don't see it hampering him so far.
Another is really struggling. She's a single mom, has missed a lot of classes, does not pick things up quickly, forgets to read the instructions, and she is easily distracted. (I'm thinking A.D.D. probably.) She needs to go slow and steady to learn things thoroughly and help her flagging confidence, but she's in this jack-rabbit business class. I feel she would've struggled without missing those classes. Being so far behind... I can't see how she's going to catch up now. I try, but it's obvious to me that the combination of "poor concentration" and "young child around" is not good either.
The last is the student that one of the other tutors warned me about, but they say I've worked some sort of magic with her. She's defensive and irritable with everyone else, but I don't argue with her conclusions or outrageous statements. So long as she supports her conclusions with logic, she can say that, oh, gay men in the military is the leading cause of syphillis for example. So long as she does the assignment and learns how to write the essay and support her conclusions. My response to "spousal abuse is the reason women turn lesbian" is "You might have some trouble proving that. What your essay needs is more detail to support it... right about here. So what is it that causes women to turn lesbian, exactly?"
I love being open-minded. Even if I've wanted to die laughing with some of the points she's made.
ETA: Can you believe that I am orbiting so far from fandom that I forgot about![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dailysnitch? I saw it on my flist a minute ago and thought... oh yeah.
I've another quiz on Tuesday. I might be ready.
Then I've major a test on Wednesday. I'm not ready for that one.
I've a homework assignment due Monday and Wednesday. Several cases to write up for Thursday.
And another test on Friday.
I work another set of three 12-hour days Monday-Wednesday. So when does one prepare for these tests? Oh. I guess that would be the weekend.
*faceplant*
But I love tutoring. It's busier upstairs in the "open" tutoring, but there I get the more interesting ESL and writing assignments. If a lot of one-time students.
Downstairs I have three main students, all of whom are returning to school after ten or more years.
One is just not used to being in school yet, but he's really sharp and is doing great. He has a tech-career's worth of sloppy grammar and wants to break those habits. He has dyslexia, but I don't see it hampering him so far.
Another is really struggling. She's a single mom, has missed a lot of classes, does not pick things up quickly, forgets to read the instructions, and she is easily distracted. (I'm thinking A.D.D. probably.) She needs to go slow and steady to learn things thoroughly and help her flagging confidence, but she's in this jack-rabbit business class. I feel she would've struggled without missing those classes. Being so far behind... I can't see how she's going to catch up now. I try, but it's obvious to me that the combination of "poor concentration" and "young child around" is not good either.
The last is the student that one of the other tutors warned me about, but they say I've worked some sort of magic with her. She's defensive and irritable with everyone else, but I don't argue with her conclusions or outrageous statements. So long as she supports her conclusions with logic, she can say that, oh, gay men in the military is the leading cause of syphillis for example. So long as she does the assignment and learns how to write the essay and support her conclusions. My response to "spousal abuse is the reason women turn lesbian" is "You might have some trouble proving that. What your essay needs is more detail to support it... right about here. So what is it that causes women to turn lesbian, exactly?"
I love being open-minded. Even if I've wanted to die laughing with some of the points she's made.
ETA: Can you believe that I am orbiting so far from fandom that I forgot about
dailysnitch? I saw it on my flist a minute ago and thought... oh yeah.