February 18, 2020
Three new tutors--two in economics and one in programming--have joined the this spring, bringing the number of peer tutors to 27 and the number of subjects offered to eight.
Sophomore Maryam Yari had previously worked as a peer adviser for freshmen before joining the WARC. For her, economics offers a lens through which to learn about the world. “You play with the graph, with the numbers, and you get to know people’s behavior, countries’ behavior--it’s not just about numbers,” she says. Yari says that the classes that she has most relished taking at ɫ have been “the ones that are so challenging--because by that you really understand why it’s difficult and why it’s interesting.” As for her motivation to join the WARC, she cites a desire to serve the ɫ community. ”I learn so many things from [my tutees]. It’s good, I enjoy what I'm doing here, I feel happy after helping them.”
Nazik Akmatova is a rare example of someone who secured a position at the WARC as a sophomore. She hopes to apply her understanding of consumer behavior and the like to her family business, a cafe near Lake Issyk-Kul. Asked about her first weeks of tutoring, Akmatova says she’s been happy to find that so many of the tutees she’s worked with so far come in with such a solid background: “For me it’s been easy because the tutees were really good.”
Programming tutor Rysmende Kadyrkulov, also a sophomore, began studying programming in high school and competing in Olympiads. He says what intrigues him most about computer science is the field of artificial intelligence: “I’m interested in how the human mind works and how computers work too, and maybe to mix them together and create something that can reason like a human.” Kadyrkulov sees tutoring as an opportunity not only to teach but also to learn: “It’s like reading the book again,” he says. “I’ve already read it, but I find some things that I miss. There’s a mutual benefit. I’m learning more from myself, and they will learn more as well.”
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