As my week goes on, I continue thinking about the observations I saw during the week. The tutoring center turned out to be much more of an interesting social space than I would have ever imagined. From football players, to swimmers, to Joana studying for her Bio-Chem exam, there was such a range of different people there. As briefly touched on in previous blog posts, I found it so strange how much the athletes in the center were on their cell phones. Who would have thought that the individuals who are used to being instructed and obedient would be so easily distracted by a computer the size of their palm. As an athlete myself, I am aware of the struggles of time management and how difficult it is to fit everything into a 24 hour time period; so it would be easy for me to think that most athletes would fully utilise their mandatory hours in the tutoring center. However, it really does make me think; why the hell are these athletes so fascinated by their phones? It is becaus
Wednesday 4 th April 2018. Again, I decided to go to the tutoring center in the evening. Midweek, only a month left until finals, I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to observe students studying. How right I was. As soon as I got to the tutoring center, it was hustling and bustling with people. I sat in a slightly different part of the tutoring center today, a room they call the Business Suite. This room is typically used for group tutoring and exam reviews, but ever so often they just use it as a spare room when the actual center is cram packed. I spotted the same girl from Monday doing financial accounting again. This time however she was not alone; she had hoarded a group of three other classmates and they were having a group study session with a tutor. One of them told me that they had a ridiculously hard exam the next day, and they needed all the help they could get. The group consisted of four sophomores, two girls and two guys;