<p>I'm taking Calculus 132 and I'm doing okay, but not great. I'd like to be doing better. I'm kind of swamped with tests and such in all my classes right now, so I haven't been able to do a decent search on CC of how to go about finding a GOOD tutor. Sorry if I'm asking a question that has surfaced before, but as I've said, I'm so busy with homework.
Is there any tutor system at UVA or in CVL that is well recognized for someone like me who is looking for honest help with a class?
Of course, I go to the Profs. office hours, who is very nice and helpful, but I'd like a little more individual attention. Thanks in advance for any advice.</p>
<p>Gosh, I tried to search this, and I couldn't find anything. I'm sorry. I certainly know what it can feel like to be "swamped". Maybe others will chime in with suggestions.</p>
<p>Thanks puff. I thought I heard once (2 years ago) about some private tutoring place in Charlottesville that is very good, but expensive?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Maybe this will help:</p>
<p>it is for APMA (calculus for engineers), but maybe it might be helpful for you. I think APMA 111 is the one most like your math 132.</p>
<p>Thanks archrival for answering my question and offering help. The help schedule you posted looks interesting and possibly very helpful, do you think though, that they'd offer me help, I'm in CLAS?? Is it open to any UVA student??</p>
<p>I've tutored both calc & physics for SEAS. I enjoyed helping, but I didn't have time to tutor this year. I sincerely doubt the tutors care if you are from CLAS. </p>
<p>Email the tutor in advance and let him/her know what you would specifically would like to work on. Much more efficient that way as it allowed me to review that specific area beforehand.</p>
<p>MechWahoo,
Thanks for your input. Got any time in your schedule?? LOL--I wish I were kidding!
PM me if you think there's a chance. Thanks.</p>
<p>Through math dept: Math</a> Tutoring Center
I tutor people in CS and math in Brown in exchange for chocolate/cookies. You should check if there's someone in your dorm who will do that.</p>
<p>Here are some old suggestions <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-virginia/338022-struggling.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-virginia/338022-struggling.html</a></p>
<p>ALSO from Department</a> of Mathematics - Information for Undergraduates : If you feel a private tutor would be beneficial, please call the department (924-4919) or email Connie Abell (cca @virginia.edu) for a list of private math tutors.</p>
<p>Hazel pretty much got it all. I would try to talk to either someone in your class, email SEAS, or contact the dept of math. No offense to TAs (specially you hazel), but they usually have a tooonnn of work both for their own classes and the classes they TA, and often aren't great personal one-on-one help. So I think your route for a tutor is great.</p>
<p>Thanks so much to everyone who replied, particularly to you Hazel. Your links are fantastic, and now I feel like I have a plan.
I hope I can return the favor one day.</p>
<p>I tutor DiffEq for the Center for Diversity in Engineering. I know you are in the college calc, but the material is the same in the intro math classes. If you are still looking for someone, the CDE has tutoring for just about every intro class in the E school (including calc, and intro physics classes.) Feel free to drop by and pick up a tutoring schedule. They are lying right on the counter when you walk in.</p>
<p>Just buy a Schaum's guide or something. MATH132 doesn't require much more than rote memorization of a few processes, and Schaum's (and others) have plenty of worked problems and efficient explanations.</p>
<p>What is the "Center for Diversity in Engineering"?</p>
<p>You can probably guess,</p>
<p>Which reminds me ehuinno -- is there any College equivalent for the study of signalling systems from a theoretical/ab initio perspective? The whole damn thing interests me considering the implications for biology/linguistics/AI, but I don't plan to go into Elec Eng lol.</p>
<p>Do you even know what you would study in a signals and systems class? Because it has nothing to do with bio/linguistics/AI, and this is coming from the EE</p>
<p>Well I didn't know a course called signals and systems existed until this summer I flipped through one of them study guides in the bookstore and saw Laplace transforms, matrix algebra and Fourier transforms used presumably to study problems found in information science. Actually I didn't know it existed primarily for EE till a few weeks ago (to my disappointment).</p>
<p>Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong thing. Time/space constants, adding/subtracting action potentials, Hodgkin-Huxley models, etc. wouldn't fall under S&S analysis? Trying to divide a continuous frequency spectrum of a phonetic utterance into discrete cognitive signals wouldn't either?</p>
<p>No. Not at all. Oh, and you can't "divide" a continuous signal into discrete time.</p>
<p>Well no of course not directly. Presumably, some analog-digital conversion is involved.</p>
<p>And with what other tools would we analyse sound spectra (for them cognitive units called segments) and nerve impulses? So okay, it DOESN'T fall under the EE S&S class. So what then is taken to learn methods to investigate speech encoding in an audio signal, etc.?</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for answering my question. Your answers have been very helpful and I'm on the right road.
Speaking of "roads", Galosien>>> Come back to earth, Dude.</p>
<p>Analog/digital has nothing to do with continuous/discrete time. Why don't you go back to your own playground and leave signals to the big kids.</p>
<p>And that level, is for people who understand signals on that level. I might, after my fourth or fifth signals class.</p>