This week in my first tutoring session, I experienced what it's like to tutor a nontraditional student. She was much older than your average college student, and she was writing an essay for her English class about the novel Call of the Wild. Tutoring her was honestly not all that different from tutoring any other type of college student; she was just significantly older than me. She still had the same kinds of questions and needed the same type of assistance as anyone else - if anything, she was almost easier to tutor than traditional students, as she was very mature and willing to listen to my advice.
My second session was with a pre-law student, working on her personal statement that she planned to send out to various law schools with her applications. She was concerned with whether or not her paper stood out; she said she wanted to ensure that it was professional, but still interesting to read, so that it wouldn't blend in with the 4000 other applications that the admission board has to read. Together, we fixed a few minor errors and added in some extra details that added a bit more voice to her piece.
This past week's tutoring session made me think about the project I plan on researching for class. Both of my students this week were female, and I felt very comfortable talking with them. They seemed comfortable, too, and the sessions went extremely well in my opinion. This made me ponder whether the fact that both I and the student are female had anything to do with the success of the sessions.
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