“How I feel about becoming a Writing Tutor”

Well,

I remember helping students in one of my first English classes. Everyone in this English class had taken the entrance exam and failed by one point. The goal was to learn how to correct the little issues that caused us to slightly miss the mark. After the first round of tests, half the class passed and half the class failed. The students that passed helped the students that failed. As I was lucky enough to actually past the first round, I got the opportunity to help my classmates pass their test.

This experience bought me to a point of excitement and nervousness. When I first started this class I was completely unaware that we had to tutor. And finding out that we had to tutor actually made me excited and nervous. I was excited because I knew how happy I was when I was tutoring my fellow student. I would also be able to give them skills and strategies that would not only help them in with this exam, but in exams to come. And the pressure of the end result made me very nervous. If they didn’t pass or didn’t do well on a paper, that would make me feel really bad.

Today, I think that I am not prepared enough. It seems like a lot of work. I feel like I may run into several problems that I am not ready for. The feeling of nervousness and excitement has gone away and now I am feeling overwhelmed. What if I do not understand the readings that I have learned in my class? What if I don’t remember a certain strategy that I studied? I am now starting to doubt myself and although I am sure I shouldn’t, I am.