Study Hut tutors could not be more excited for the big Finals push. We have students from AVID coming in for private tutoring all week, but we also have a huge event scheduled for Saturday. As in years past, we will be hosting an all day tutoring and study session on campus at Palos Verdes High School. We will have access to multiple different classrooms, and tutors will get to go into different rooms and help students with the specific subjects they need most help with.

This year, there will undoubtedly be math tutoring, science tutoring (including biology tutoring and chemistry tutoring), history tutoring, from World History and EHAP to U.S. History, Government, and Economics tutoring. Math tutoring will include algebra tutoring, geometry tutoring, algebra 2 tutoring, pre-calculus tutoring, trigonometry tutoring, and maybe even some calculus and FTS tutoring.

We will also, of course, have English tutoring, writing tutoring for students with an upcoming final paper, Spanish tutoring (all levels), and probably a few other subjects as well.

The event is free (and required!) for all AVID students, and speaking from past experience, it is an extremely productive event for all students involved. The teachers always come to support, supervise, and offer their knowledge as well.

And best of all, we are getting El Taco Man ordered, so he will be showing up with his cart, and all the tacos any young man or woman can eat. Does it get any better than this? I think not. See you on Saturday.

Mira Costa students oftentimes step in with these colossal texts, and they report that they do not understand anything from cover to cover. Study Hut understands that AP Biology is extremely difficult but the process of absorbing the information does not always have to be painful. Geometry is just a bunch of lines, trigonometry is sin, cos, and tan, and calculus is a stretch. HS students are generally good with simple memorization and arithmetic calculations, so what is preventing them from scoring well on exams? Students largely lack the skills to study, prioritize, and break down complex information into absorbable energy. Study Hut is a catalyst in that we assist in making things simple and easy to understand. Students know the material, they understand the general concepts, but the learning process stops at simple understanding. We assist students in achieving the next couple steps — we assist students in absorption, digestion, distribution, and finally, regurgitation and waste management. We use simple memorization to facilitate the absorption process, but when it comes down to digestion, it requires a bit of reverse engineering. We assist students in approaching the concepts through different perspectives — that is exactly what exams ask for — a different perspective. Continuing, distribution is achieved through using the information to bulldoze through the coursework, testing for weak points and patching up where patching is needed. Ultimately, the zenith of the learning process is regurgitation — Study Hut aims for this point in that students will only exceed the average academic expectations when they are able to do what we do — spit the information back out so that others can understand it! Waste management comes last. Mira Costa HS students always come in with glitches. We assist in flattening out the wrinkles in the information, fixing the glitches, making sure they understand the formula to the dot so that they will not use the wrong one on exams, checking they understand that DNA and RNA are not just different strands of nucleotides. Study Hut makes studying easy.

I don’t know who manages the Hut’s Facebook page, but could you forward this picture to him or her? It’s Alex’s awesome cell diorama for her bio class . . . and it’s a cake!