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<blockquote data-quote="dru" data-source="post: 1628538" data-attributes="member: 3047"><p>I worked as a tutor at OSU-OKC. That job sucked because it made me realize just how deep of shite we are all in. The endless parade of suck and fail that came through those doors to get "help" Yeah they needed help but mostly of a professional psychiatric variety. Students who couldnt' speak english and were in freaking chemistry. students who would come in a week before finals with the shrink wrap on their book. students who would openly try to get us to take their computerized tests for them. students who would be in a college algebra or intermediate algebra class and say in response to the question "What is 7 x -1" by saying "uhhhhm its 6....no wait its -6" My own boss who was the "lead tutor" basically couldn't tutor a student out of a paper bag.</p><p></p><p>There were a few redeeming bright spots. I genuinely enjoyed tutoring those who wanted to better themselves and who wanted to succeed. I worked with many students over the course of an entire semester and became good friends with them. Sadly, the vast majority just wanted the answers without working for it, and to "pass" the class so that they could go on and take the next class. It was really hard telling them that because they waited until the last minute to get help that there wasn't anything we could do for them and that they were wasting our time and theirs. sucked but that was the truth. My co-workers and I devised a list of nicknames of our more tedious clientele as a way of passing the time. Even one of my co-workers decided that it would be a good idea for him to test whether he was allergic to peanuts by throwing a mouthful of peanut m&m's into his mouth...yeah, there weren't a lot of PhD candidates up there.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately I got into grad school and now don't have to work at something that is soul-suckingly awful</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dru, post: 1628538, member: 3047"] I worked as a tutor at OSU-OKC. That job sucked because it made me realize just how deep of shite we are all in. The endless parade of suck and fail that came through those doors to get "help" Yeah they needed help but mostly of a professional psychiatric variety. Students who couldnt' speak english and were in freaking chemistry. students who would come in a week before finals with the shrink wrap on their book. students who would openly try to get us to take their computerized tests for them. students who would be in a college algebra or intermediate algebra class and say in response to the question "What is 7 x -1" by saying "uhhhhm its 6....no wait its -6" My own boss who was the "lead tutor" basically couldn't tutor a student out of a paper bag. There were a few redeeming bright spots. I genuinely enjoyed tutoring those who wanted to better themselves and who wanted to succeed. I worked with many students over the course of an entire semester and became good friends with them. Sadly, the vast majority just wanted the answers without working for it, and to "pass" the class so that they could go on and take the next class. It was really hard telling them that because they waited until the last minute to get help that there wasn't anything we could do for them and that they were wasting our time and theirs. sucked but that was the truth. My co-workers and I devised a list of nicknames of our more tedious clientele as a way of passing the time. Even one of my co-workers decided that it would be a good idea for him to test whether he was allergic to peanuts by throwing a mouthful of peanut m&m's into his mouth...yeah, there weren't a lot of PhD candidates up there. Fortunately I got into grad school and now don't have to work at something that is soul-suckingly awful [/QUOTE]
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