[JohnR34231]

LOL Mick. The cafeteria food at SI was brutal. Tried it once as a freshman and never went back. A year later they put in vending machines with no hot food. The liquor in the Jebbies residence was first rate however.

I can't comment on Bellarmine's cafeteria food save for the fact that the off-campus restaurants were extremely popular.  Breakfast burritos for $1, lunch for $2, and the volume was such that the restaurants managed to stay afloat.

It was de rigeur to invite a Jesuit or three if you had a party at SCU.  You could count on them bringing a bottle of something you couldn't afford as an undergrad.  Jesuits were very popular at SCU parties.  They brought a full bottle, usually stayed no more than an hour, and they had great stories.

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Actually I am a tutor and I often hear it the other way. Students tell me the services provided to the entire student body are useless.

I used a tutor when I was a freshman, and found it a less-than-enlightening experience.  The tutor was an extremely smart and well-trained junior, in her major.  I was just trying to get through it.  My example's 40 years old, but I distinctly recall three things:

1) She had almost zero patience.  And I suppose I don't blame her, I wouldn't want to make minimum wage teaching students either.
2) She knew a bunch of shortcuts, but failed to explain (a) what they were and (b) that she was using them.  Essentially, I had to decipher a foreign language.
3) She plowed through a pint of Haagen-Dasz in the 45 minute tutoring session.  I couldn't afford Haagen Dasz.  I was impressed.

Hopefully the selection and training of tutors has improved a great deal.  I, too, found it a useless experience and never went back.  I went to a kid who was doing well in the class and offered to type up a paper for him in exchange for a tutoring session.  Went perfectly.

Yep, patience is definitely a requirement for tutoring. In statistics, you explain a z score twenty times. You come to a problem and tell students that
they need to take a z score. The response is "Z score? What's that?".

[JohnR34231]

LOL Mick. The cafeteria food at SI was brutal. Tried it once as a freshman and never went back. A year later they put in vending machines with no hot food. The liquor in the Jebbies residence was first rate however.

I can't comment on Bellarmine's cafeteria food save for the fact that the off-campus restaurants were extremely popular.  Breakfast burritos for $1, lunch for $2, and the volume was such that the restaurants managed to stay afloat.

It was de rigeur to invite a Jesuit or three if you had a party at SCU.  You could count on them bringing a bottle of something you couldn't afford as an undergrad.  Jesuits were very popular at SCU parties.  They brought a full bottle, usually stayed no more than an hour, and they had great stories.

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Actually I am a tutor and I often hear it the other way. Students tell me the services provided to the entire student body are useless.

I used a tutor when I was a freshman, and found it a less-than-enlightening experience.  The tutor was an extremely smart and well-trained junior, in her major.  I was just trying to get through it.  My example's 40 years old, but I distinctly recall three things:

1) She had almost zero patience.  And I suppose I don't blame her, I wouldn't want to make minimum wage teaching students either.
2) She knew a bunch of shortcuts, but failed to explain (a) what they were and (b) that she was using them.  Essentially, I had to decipher a foreign language.
3) She plowed through a pint of Haagen-Dasz in the 45 minute tutoring session.  I couldn't afford Haagen Dasz.  I was impressed.

Hopefully the selection and training of tutors has improved a great deal.  I, too, found it a useless experience and never went back.  I went to a kid who was doing well in the class and offered to type up a paper for him in exchange for a tutoring session.  Went perfectly.

Yep, patience is definitely a requirement for tutoring. In statistics, you explain a z score twenty times. You come to a problem and tell students that
they need to take a z score. The response is "Z score? What's that?".