I chose to attend a MTH 2207 Weekly Workshop at the SACC Tutoring Center. As someone who has never taken precalculus or calculus before, I knew that these math tutoring sessions would be absolutely essential to me. I went hunting for the tutoring center during my first official day at Baruch. I was told that I had to register online for the tutoring sessions and that I had to wait until September 5th to do so. Needless to say, I was a little bit disappointed because I wanted to sign up immediately to relieve some of the anxiety I was feeling. However, I had no choice but to wait, so, in the meantime, I decided to go looking for clubs I wanted to join. I had already privately contacted the president of the archery club and was accepted. I also decided to join the Ticker and Women in Business. With all of the interest meetings and events, I was kept sufficiently busy that my mind was able to wander away from my math worries.
When registration came rolling around, I made sure to sign up, but I was unaware that I had only signed up for one week. As a result, I only managed to get in into two tutoring sessions and was waitlisted for the others. However, the one good thing was that the tutor who was teaching my session was so good, he managed to sum up all the math I had learned up to this point and help me understand it. His teaching put my mind at ease because now I know that I don’t have to attend every session. I just have to make sure to attend one session every two or three weeks.
I found the session itself to be extremely well-organized and the tutor to be extremely knowledgeable about the topic, as well as skilled enough to help me understand the topic. The tutor, Faraz, made sure to ask around for what topics we wanted to work on specifically. Since it was only the first session, there wasn’t all too many of us and so I managed to get him to review three topics I needed help with. In the end, it turns out that everyone else there also needed help with those topics, so I suppose this would be a case of “all’s well that ends well.”