For me, there has always seemed to be a negative stigma towards getting tutored or seeking additional help for your coursework especially in high school when “you’re just supposed to get everything.” College courses and curriculum is much faster in terms of pace and it becomes increasingly easy to fall behind or not attain mastery of the material covered in lecture. Although it was a hard decision, I decided to get over my own pride and remove myself from my negative stigma of getting help and go to the Math and Stats Learning Center on 18th Avenue to go over some recent material covered in my calculus class. When I arrived I found my graduate teaching assistant and went over some of the relevant coursework to better prepare for an upcoming quiz. In high school I was typically the student tutoring other students, so it was a very weird feeling to be on the opposite end of what I used to do. Although it felt unusual, I feel that I have a deeper understanding and mastery of the content which will allow greater success for me as the class proceeds. I think that continuous help-seeking would be very beneficial even if isn’t necessarily needed because, the better understanding you have over content the better you are likely to do over time, and there isn’t anyone better to help you then the incredibly knowledgeable and intelligent professors and graduate teaching assistants that provide free help almost whenever it is needed. During my time at the MSLC my graduate teaching assistant provided additional higher level questions relevant to the current content for me to complete so that the problems on the future tests would seem easier. After I completed my work, the GTA checked over my processes step by step to ensure that all of my work was not only correct, but logical, and if I had an error in my work he completely broke it down and explained my mistake so that I could fully understand the issue and actually learn from it rather than just tell me I was wrong and solve it the proper way. The process of explanation that the tutors go through in order to create a deeper understanding in the students is the most effective way for students to learn and succeed. It is very easy to tell someone they’re wrong and do it the proper way. However, it is definitely not as easy to analyze the mistake that occurred in the students work and attempt to explain it in the best way possible so the student understands not only what they did wrong, but why it is wrong, and how to correctly go about doing similar problems in the future. I think that tutoring is something I would love to do in college because I enjoy helping others understand challenging material because it provides a great feeling and atmosphere of positive learning and tutoring also helps the tutor better understand the material if they have to teach it. 