Somehow I haven't gotten any tutees yet. I have tutored in the past, though, in Spanish, history (don't ask me how), ESL, etc. That was different, though, because there weren't as many rules involving the tutoring; I was simply to help the students. Tutoring Spanish was pretty easy because the students always had a test coming up and we could study specifically for that. Once I got two veterans who were taking Spanish in summer school and were having such a hard time with it that I was called in to work with them every single day. One of the guys went on to get his master's at USC to be a psychologist. He wasn't all that interested in speaking Spanish. He just needed to get the class as a general education requirement. Which is fine with me. Everyone has different reasons for being in a class. The important thing to remember is that it's none of my business.
Probably the most valuable thing that I've learned from being a tutor is to remember that you're tutoring someone who either doesn't understand or doesn't like the subject at hand. You know how you feel when you have to take a class in a subject that you're terrible at and that you hate. Well, for the tutees, guess what? Obviously, we all love writing here in the writing center, but remember that there's a very good chance that the tutees hate it. If we didn't love writing, we wouldn't be here, and if the tutees shared our love of the written word, they wouldn't be in the writing center, either.
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