Why tutor?

     Tutoring is extremely important because it is a process that enriches the knowledge of both the person being tutored as well as the person who is doing the tutoring. Through the act of explaining, exemplifying, and correcting, you are helping someone learn but you are also realizing aspects of your mental thought processes that you may have never known, and you are improving in all of the things that you are helping this person with by physically pointing them out. I feel that by having a writing center, the university gains this expansion of knowledge to any part of the student body that is involved with this writing center, which is a number that is constantly growing, and what the university is ultimately all about. The writing center is beneficial to everybody because it is a place you can go if you are struggling and need help, or if you are willing to give help to those who struggle. It is a form of support that every student will need eventually, whether they know it yet or not. 

     I have had many instances in which tutoring has helped me out of that bottomless black hole of confusion, although all of my tutoring situations have involved math. Some people excel in different areas, math was never one of them for me. Tutoring had helped me in many situations throughout my educational career, and I am so thankful for the tutoring opportunities that were offered to me. This is why I am ecstatic to be able to pass the same wonderful thing forward through writing. I have always loved to write, and I have always felt that I would enjoy sharing my passion for writing through helping those who may not feel it flow through them as easily. I cannot wait for my first opportunity to tutor someone in writing, and to have the chance to keep the incredible river of educational support flowing.