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Get your study on
Hear Ye:
|this week| |let’s raise our glasses| |to that awful city…| |full of smelly hippies| |and skinny jeans-wearing men| |…known as Austin| |because heck| |it’s home to some great musicians| (and a lot of crappy ones)
Tutoring locations offer same service different ways
1. Bob Schneider “40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet)”
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ometimes, school is hard. Sometimes, we sit in class and hope the professor doesn’t call our name because our only response would be “um, WHAT?” In such times of trial, we are faced with a decision: gradually give up and blame the class — which I wouldn’t recommend — or suck it up and find a way to learn the material. One such way to achieve the latter is to get some tutelage.
|put it on repeat…|
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The Mother Truckers “When I Get My Wings” |the woman can sing|
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Patty Griffin “Railroad Wings” |tender|
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There are plenty of helpful tutoring services to choose from in College Station, each with varying styles and services. Probably the best well-known services are A+ Tutoring, 4.0 & Go, Tutorjohn and 99Tutors. Courtesy photo The first three of these offer primarily classroom-style tutoring sessions for services. A+ Tutoring’s schedules and company inforcertain Texas A&M courses. Each has a small team of mation are available online at aplustutoring.ws. instructors who lecture to students during scheduled 4.0 & Go is located at Southwest Parkway and Texas sessions. The sessions are typically around two hours Avenue near Lack’s Furniture. It was founded in 1994 long and take place mostly Monday through Thursby Arf Carr, who is also a member of the organizaday nights. Pricing is $6.00 an hour for A+ Tutoring tion’s all-Aggie instructor team. 4.0 & Go, like A+ and for 4.0 and Go and $7.00 an hour for Tutorjohn. Tutoring, offers classroom-style sessions for a wide Clay Harley Each of these organizations offers one-on-one sesrange of lower-level A&M courses. senior MIS major sions as well, but focuses primarily on group lectures. “Most of our sessions have about 40 or 50 students,” 99Tutors works in a different way. Founded by said Betty Tinoto, one of the organization’s managers. Detrick Eaton, 99Tutors specializes in one-on-one tutoring. 4.0 & Go has the widest range of classes of the three Students can apply to receive tutoring for a particular class, classroom-style tutoring services, and offers tutoring for many and 99tutors will pair them with an instructor who has expebusiness courses. The schedules and course information can also rience with that class. 99Tutors employs more than 500 tutors be found online at 4.0andgo.com. consisting of college students, retired professors, teachers and Tutorjohn is located off of Texas Avenue next to Barnes and TAs. By using the resources that the University provides, Noble, behind On The Border. Tutorjohn also offers course99Tutors has been able to offer tutoring for any and every specific group tutoring sessions, but aims for smaller class sizes, Texas A&M course, as well as Blinn College and Bryan-Colwith its smallest sessions at about five students, and its largest at lege Station ISD schools. 50. Also, the sessions for a given course are scheduled weekly Eaton said that “the one-on-one tutoring, the wide range and progress along with the A&M material. [of courses] and the fact that the student gets to pick their “The students have a chance to learn the material as we tutor” is what separates 99Tutors from the competition. Pricgo,” said John Forsyth, who founded Tutorjohn in 2001. ing for individual tutoring ranges from $32 to $40 an hour, Information about times and courses can be found online at depending on the number of hours taken – basically, the more tutorjohn.com. hours you take on a weekly basis, the closer you’ll get to the Clearly you’ve got some options for your tutoring needs. lower price. Students can apply for tutoring from 99Tutors Each service certainly has the potential to help you. The trick online at 99Tutors.com. is picking the right one. A+ is great for technically difficult A+ tutoring is located on University Drive, across from cam- classes: engineering, physics, chemistry and the like. 4.0 & Go pus and behind McDonalds and Taco Bell. The business is run gives sessions for a wide range of courses and can be very useby Ali Kazerouni who, along with one other instructor, gives ful for lower-level business students. Tutorjohn is great if you tutoring sessions for many math and science-related courses. want a smaller group size with weekly reinforcement for a good According to Kazerouni, “the point [of tutoring] to teach the price. And 99Tutors is definitely best for a one-on-one, very course-specific and personalized experience. students how to do the problems, not just show them shortcuts The Battalion does not endorse a specific tutoring service, but enor work out old exam questions,” and he said that this is what courages students to find what is best for them individually. differentiates A+ Tutoring from other classroom-style tutoring
The Octopus Project “Truck” |crazy bitrate junk|
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Explosions in the Sky “First Breath After Coma” |see them live| (bring earplugs)
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Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears “Sugarfoot” |kinda makes you think diabetes|
7. Storyville “Good Day for the Blues” |singer=Malford Milligan| (best name ever)
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Robert Earl Keen “Copenhagen” |an Ag in Austin|
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Asleep at the Wheel “Hesitation Blues” |feat. Shotgun Willie
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Stonehoney “Smile Again”
|blasting forth with 3-part harmonies| Buy them. |do it for the economy| charley
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