At Northwestern, you’re going to get a great education.
Your learning will be exciting and engaging —
and sometimes it’ll be challenging.
When your classes get hard, get help.
That’s what the Peer Learning Center is for.
Pretty much everybody comes here.
Just about everyone I know on campus
has come to the tutoring center at one time or another.
So it doesn’t matter if you’re an athlete,
it doesn’t matter if you’re into theatre,
it doesn’t matter if you’re really doing well in classes,
it doesn’t matter if you’re struggling.
Everybody comes here and gets help
because it’s just a really good way to connect,
and it really builds this community of learning
where we can continue to learn alongside each other.
Meeting new people who’ve also struggled through
the same classes,
it’s very relieving realizing that, hey,
I’m not the only one who thought that this class was difficult.
I think when I’ve most been able to help a student
is when I’ve been honest and started with:
“This concept was a little bit of a struggle
when I took this class too,
so let’s figure it out together.”
Josh, he’ll make me work at it a couple of times,
and then, if I’m still not getting it,
he’ll do a problem that’s like, really similar
so then I’ll be able to figure it out,
and then I’ll have that example
so as I go I can keep looking at it.
He’s just really easy to get along with,
and he’s pretty patient.
Takes me awhile to figure out the math sometimes
but we always get it done,
and I always get a good grade on it.
I’ve never had someone come consistently to the PLC
and not have an improvement in how they were doing,
even if they were already doing well.
Tutors in the Peer Learning Center are students who’ve
succeeded in a course and then been selected
by the professor to help others do well.
You can meet with them one-on-one, in groups,
or by showing up for one of the tutor-led
teaching sessions.
You’ll discover the peer tutors are smart,
friendly and care about you and your learning.
Many of them were students
who used the Peer Learning Center
before they became tutors here.
The Peer Learning Center is obviously
a place for everybody, all the students.
Even some of the tutors come here.
It’s talking to another person.
It’s simple as that.
I have knowledge in one area,
and they might have knowledge in another area,
so it’s all about helping each other out.
To be the body of Christ, in an academic sense
means to rely on those people who may be better at
a certain subject than we are.
And, on the other side of things,
if we’re good at something,
to help those who need help in that area.
They’re really there to help you out, and I think that’s
what Northwestern is all about is
helping each other to succeed.
I think it’s universal,
everybody just needs to be encouraged once in a while.
What are you waiting for?
Visit the Peer Learning Center and get the support
you need to succeed—
in class and throughout your college career.