| I write this at the ripe age of 25 years. I hated going | | | | site was such that you could practically find every |
| to school, and then was persuaded to do college. My | | | | subject covered in the syllabus had a tutor who |
| aversion to education was that I was a poor grade | | | | specialized in it! |
| student, weak in math and in sciences, especially with | | | | Of course it was not free. You had to pay up, and it |
| those long symbols for chemicals and the math that | | | | sounded pretty cheap to me, because for these two |
| was involved in working out the chemistry equation, | | | | subjects I was spending only $ 20 or so per hour |
| and how chemical reactions took place. My parents | | | | (per subject), to catch up. My tutor at home was |
| organized a tutor for me. Half the time he would not | | | | charging $ 50 for an hour! |
| appear, and half the time I would disappear because | | | | I used my pocket money for the tuitions, and one |
| there was a rugby match on, and I wanted to be | | | | day the school results were out. I looked at the |
| seen as "hey, Buddy" look who's here. The second | | | | math and the Chemistry grades, and I let out a |
| half was more the reason for the failing of my tuition | | | | whoop! I had made to the top of the grade. When I |
| classes. | | | | showed to my parents, they could not believe it. |
| It was one of those days that I got a tongue lashing | | | | They thought I had fudged it. It was then I broke |
| - you see I am too old for being beaten up! | | | | the secret that I was holding close to my chest. I |
| Morosely, I went through the motions of dinner and | | | | told them about the online tuition I had been taking, |
| my father went through the motions of giving me a | | | | and how I was paying for it from my pocket money. |
| lecture on how important was education. It did not | | | | I was not believed, frankly. I then made them sit |
| enter his head that I could not understand, and while | | | | with me in my study, and I went online. My father, |
| I had a burning desire to learn, the match between | | | | who thinks, and is, a cat in Math, posed some |
| the tutor and me was a no-go. | | | | questions to the tutor at the other end. Pat! Came |
| So on it went day after day, week by week, and | | | | the reply; you are not what you claim to be: you are |
| years rolled by. I too realized that it was important | | | | a much higher studied student of Math, and not the |
| for me to learn the fundamentals of all subjects, so | | | | Patrick I knew who was poor in math! Boy, my |
| that I could be the jack of all trades, and master of | | | | father was taken aback. Still the tutor gave him the |
| none. While surfing on the internet I joined a group | | | | full resolution, step by step, of the problem, and how |
| of people on chat, which was discussing how math | | | | the answer could be arrived at! |
| was a bore, and how some of the boys just like me | | | | From that day onwards, my parents never once |
| had found it made interesting, and easy to learn, and | | | | berated me or treated me like a necessary leper of |
| how some had gone from D grade to A grade. | | | | the household. What made all this possible were my |
| That's interesting I thought. I asked them about | | | | enthusiastic teachers at assignmenthelp.net . Using |
| where they found such a tutor and they gave me a | | | | the reach of the internet, and the PC to PC |
| site | | | | communication, they taught long distance their own |
| When I went to the site, it offered a chance to try | | | | specialized subjects. This was done via using even an |
| it for free once. On that site I could not believe it | | | | electronic blackboard, and if someone had doubts, all |
| that I could submit some questions on theorems or | | | | doubts could be posted on the board, and an online |
| calculus which I did not understand, and found that | | | | tutor would explain the basics to the final solution to |
| this teacher, whom I shall call Shamy, took me step | | | | the problem. |
| by step through the process of unraveling the | | | | Since there is a time difference between India and |
| mysteries of math and calculus. It appeared that this | | | | the rest of Europe (4.30 hours), and US (about 10.30 |
| Mr. Sharma was a teacher at assignmenthep.net , and | | | | to 1200 hours), you could also post your problem on |
| he was using his time off and of course the night in | | | | the website, and by the time you got up, the tutor |
| giving tuitions on the internet at particular times. | | | | had already looked at the board, and given out the |
| I then tried a similar tutor for Chemistry there, for | | | | answers. Some thought, okay, my homework is |
| though I was not good at the subject, I liked the | | | | done; yes, it was. But for people like me, the tutors |
| subject. This time, too, within a few days, a lot of | | | | help came in helping to understand and then solve |
| nonsense was beginning to make sense. Indeed the | | | | the problems. |