January 21-25 "It's Spring semester, so we're going to be a lot slower now," were the words that I was told in preparation for my first week this semester. However, I can happily say that I have not found this to be true after taking a whopping four consultations this week. Of those four, only one, my consultation just this Friday, was difficult. I believe that the increase in my availability has given room for this drastic change in my number of consultations so early in the semester. Last semester, I was lucky to get one consultation during a four hour shift, but now I'm averaging one consultation a day in a two hour shift. Moving on to the meetings themselves, I'll focus on Wednesday and Friday, as those were most significant. Wednesday was wonderful! The two students that came in were prepared, ready, and willing to work. The first consultation was all about grammar, but not in the usual sense that we might re...
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