Tutoring

BIO 130 | Claudia

Professor Hayssen  
Claudia (she/her) has taken BIO 130 and is happy to help with course content, assignments and test preparation. Drop-in hours and appointments are held in the Sabin-Reed 205.

BIO 132 | Anika & Jacey

Professor Derr  
Anika and Jacey will hold drop-in hours in Bass 204.

Schedule an appointment with Anika and Jacey

BIO 232 | Caroline & Elinor

Professor Katz 
Caroline and Elinor will hold drop-in hours in McConnell 102.

Schedule an appointment with Caroline and Elinor

BIO 202 | Annabelle and Kristine

Professor Scordilis 
Annabelle and Kristine will hold drop-in hours in Bass 102.

Schedule an appointment with Annabelle and Kristine

CHM 111 | Adiana, Hadley, and Elliot

Professors Berke, Buck, and Jamieson 
The tutors Adiana, Hadley, and Elliot, will hold drop-in hours primarily in Seelye 206, with overflow into Seelye 202.

​Schedule an appointment with Adiana, Hadley, and Elliot

CHM 118 | Cece and Lily

Professor Strom 
The tutors Cece and Lily will hold drop-in hours in Ford 240.

​Schedule an appointment with Cece and Lily

CHM 223 | Emma, Eyananda, Gloria, Margot, Nina, and Thatcher

Professors Shea & Gorin 
The tutors Emma, Eyananda, Gloria, Margot, Nina, and Thatcher will hold drop-in hours in Seelye 301.

Schedule an appointment with Emma, Eyananda, Gloria, Margot, Nina, and Thatcher

CHM Lab Writing Support

Lab Report Appointment Guidelines:

1. Use the links below to make an appointment with the lab writing tutor at least 24 hours ahead of the anticipated need for feedback.
2. Send the draft of your lab report at the time you make the appointment --at least 24 hours ahead so they have enough time to read it.
3. Allow 24 hours notice if you need to cancel so another student may have your slot.

Appointment Sign-Up:

• CHM 111 Lab: Email Molly for lab writing tutoring. 
• CHM 118 Lab: Sign up on Chu's calendar for lab writing tutoring. 
• CHM 223 Lab: Email Margot for lab writing tutoring. 

CS TAs are available to help with CSC courses. To see who can help with what course, see their descriptions below the schedule.

To get help:

• During drop-in hours visit the tutors (see schedule below)
• Email qlctutor@smith.edu with your request for help. Include your course information, e.g.CSC 120 (Crouser)

Tutors are located in Ford 241 and Ford 342:

Room 241

Room 342( primarily CSC210 help)

CSC Tutors

• Amanda (she/her) is a senior CSC major. She has taken CSC 111 and 212 (currently 110, 120, and 210), CSC 231, CSC 250, CSC 252, and CSC 294. Outside of class content, she specializes in Python (numpy, pandas, sklearn) and script programming and can help with GitHub and using IDEs.
• Chris (she/her) is a senior CSC and ECO double major. She has taken CSC 212(currently 110,120 and 210), CSC 231, CSC 240, CSC 250, CSC 251, CSC 262. She is CS dept liaison and can help with Java, C and Git/Github
• Dakota (She/her) is a senior CSC and NSC double major. She has taken all intro and core classes (111,212,231,250), 235, 223. She has a strong background in big data managment and visualizations (numpy, pandas, matplotlib...) as well as deep neural networks (sklearn) and best practices in documenting code for non-CS people.
• Elm (they/he) is a junior SDS major and BIO minor. They have taken CSC 110, SDS 100/192/220/237, and MTH 111/112/211. He can help with any of these classes, but is best at R and data wrangling/cleaning/visualization. He can also help with some GitHub issues. They love talking about biological applications of computational methods!
• Emma (she/her) is a junior CSC major and an SDS minor. She has taken CSC 111 and 212 (now 110, 120, and 210), and CSC 231. She can help with Python, Java, C, x86 Assembly and GitHub.
• Jessica (she/her) is a sophomore CSC and music double major. She has taken CSC 120 and 210.
• Jingwen (she/her) is a senior CSC and MTH double major. She has taken all core courses (CSC110, CSC120, CSC210, CSC231, CSC250) and some electives (CSC240, CSC262, CSC294). She can best help with Java and Python!
• Julia (she/her) is a senior CSC major and an EGR minor. She has taken the intro and core classes (111, 212, 231, 250), 223, 240, 252, 262, 294, and SDS 192. She is able to help with Python, Java and C, as well as Git. She's also a CSC liasion and the president of the gaming club. Talk to her about video games or robots!
• Larissa (she/her) is a senior CSC and THE double major. She can help with CSC 110, 120, 210, 231 240, 249, and 250 . She also can assist with Java, Python (including pandas), Javascript, C, C++, C#, and some assembly. Java is her best language! She can also assist with GitHub, setting up IDEs, graphics, and more!
• Paola (She/her) is a junior SDS and CS double major. They have taken SDS 201/192/220/100/291, MTH 111/153/112/211, and CSC 212/250/249/294/231. She can help with most of these classes, along with R, Github, and Python. She is currently taking CSC 223/230 and SDS 237.
• Sami (she/they) is a senior CSC major. They have taken SDS 192, CSC 212, CSC 231, CSC 250, CSC 240, CSC 249, CSC 262, CSC 251, CSC 356, CSC 327. She can best assist with Java, and python.
• Sara (she/her) is a senior CSC and NSC double major. She has taken all of the intro and core courses (CSC111,210,231,250,294,223, 370). She can help with Python the most. She also enjoys talking about computational neuroscience.
• Skye (she/they) is a senior CSC major. She has taken the intro classes, 151, 231, 240, 250, 251, 252, and 262. She can help with any of those classes, but truly enjoys helping with 250 and 252. She also enjoys robotics, pedagogy, and documenting her code. Skye is supporting CSC 252 in the fall.
• Tasha (she/her) is a senior CSC and EGR double major. She has taken all intro/core classes as well as some electives (111, 212, 231, 250, 251, 220) and specializes in networks.
• Thu (she/her) is a senior CSC major. She has taken CSC 111 & CSC 212 (currently CSC 110, 120 and 210), CSC 231, CSC 250, CSC 262, COMSC-312 (Mount Holyoke), CSC 262, CSC 232, COMPSCI 383 (UMass), CSC 251 and CSC 327. She is able to help with Python, Git/GitHub, and a little bit of Java.

Engineering Tutoring is available for many of the core courses.

See listing of tutors below if you’re looking for support for a particular course, tutoring is located in Ford 022/024 (Playground). 

Please note:  Wednesday 10/25 Hadeel will be away. Thursday 10/26 will be canceled. 

Engineering Tutors

• Hadeel (she/her) is a senior EGR major with an environmental concentration. She can help with EGR 270, EGR 312, EGR 374, EGR 375, EGR 389, and EGR 390ge, in addition to Excel and mechanics.
• Jiayi (she/her) is a junior EGR and PHY double major. She can help with EGR 100, EGR 110, EGR 220, EGR 270, in addition to physics, calculus, and coding questions.
• Kira (she/her) is a junior EGR major and math minor. She can help with EGR 110, EGR 220, EGR 270, EGR 290, along with any R, physics, and caluclus questions.
• Mealaktey (she/her) is a senior EGR major and Art and Technology minor interested in biomedical engineering. She can help with EGR 100, 110, 220, and EGR 290. She is interested in biomedical engineering.
• Phaidra (she/her) is a senior EGR major and SDS minor interested in electrical engineering. She can help with EGR 100, 270, 290, 320, 374, and 376. She is interested in electrical engineering.
• Rachel (she/her) is a junior EGR major. She can help with EGR 110, EGR 270, and EGR 290, in addition to R, Python, Java, physics, and calculus questions.
• Rosemary (she/her) is a senior EGR major. She can help with EGR 100, EGR 110, EGR 220, EGR 270, EGR 290, and EGR 374.
• Tasha (she/her) is a senior EGR and CSC double major with an electrical concentration. She can help with EGR 324, 270, 290, 220, 375, and 320 in addition to any coding questions.

Mathematics courses have drop-in hours as listed below.

In addition to the drop-in hours available, you can get help:

• from meeting with the Calculus Counselor
• Requesting help by sending an email to qlctutor@smith.edu. Include your course number and professor.

Daytime Hours 

Tutoring is held in Seelye 207, the Spinelli Center. Most tutors can help with MTH 111 and MTH 112. See listing of tutors below if you’re looking for support for a particular course.

Evening Hours:

Tutoring is held in the Math Forum, Burton Hall, third floor. Most tutors can help with MTH 111 and MTH 112. See listing of tutors below if you’re looking for support for a particular course.

Mathematics Tutors

• Arisha  (she/her) is a sophomore Engineering major. She is a tutor for Calc I and II (MTH 111 and MTH 112) but has also taken EGR 100, EGR 110, CHM 111 and PHY 117.
• Elinor (she/her) is a junior math major. She has taken MTH 111,112, and 153 and is currently taking 211 and 212. She is most comfortable with 111 and 153 but she is happy to try anything :)
• Emma (she/her) is a senior math major. She has taken MTH111, 112, 212, 233, 211, 281, 152 and was a grader for linear algebra.
• Kira (she/her) is a junior engineering major and a math minor. She can help with MTH 111/112/212, in addition to helping with R, physics, and engineering questions.
• Maisy (she/her) is a junior double majoring in math and theatre. She has taken MTH 112, 153, 211, and 212, and is currently taking 238 and 281. She's most comfortable tutoring in MTH 111, 112, and 153, but is happy to try any problem!
• Olivia (she/her) is a sophomore engineering major and dance minor. Can help with MTH 111/112.
• Sarah is a senior math-stat and compsci double major. They've taken MTH 111/112/211/212/246/264/280 though they're more comfortable with 111/112/211. She's also taken CSC 111/212 (110/120/210 equivalent) and can help with Python and Java.
• Shreya (she/her) is a sophomore, Quantitative ECON major & SDS minor. She's taken MTH 111, ECO 150, SDS 192, CSC 110; and is currently taking SDS 220 and ECO 250. She can help with MTH 111, ECO 150, and content from ECO 250 & SDS 220 which she is currently doing. She loves applied math and is open to trying out math-related content from other courses too!
• Sophia is a math major. She has taken MTH 111/112/211/212/238/280 and was a TA for math 153 
• Tilila (she/her) is a senior math and physics double major. She has taken MTH112/211/212/233/238/281/382 so she can help with those classes, she can also help with MTH153.
• Yuzhang (she/her) is a sophomore, SDS and Linguistics major. She has taken SDS 100, 192, 291; ECO 253; CSC 110; and is currently taking SDS 271, CSC 120. She is happy to help with the stated classes but she could try other as well.

Help is available for PSY 201, SOC 204 and GOV 203.

You can see the Data Counselor for help or you can request help via email to qlctutor@smith.edu (include the words "SOC 204" in the subject line and allow 24 hours for us to get back to you).

SDS tutors are available to help with the core SDS courses: 192, 201/220 and 291. Many of the tutors can help with other courses—see their descriptions below the schedule.

To get help:

• During drop-in hours visit the tutors (see schedule below)
• Post a message on your class' Slack #questions channel.
• Email qlctutor@smith.edu with your request for help. Include your course information, e.g. SDS 220 (Hopper)
• See the Data Research and Statistics Counselor (see above)

SDS Tutors

• Amber (she/her) is a senior SDS and PSY double major. She has taken SDS192/201/291/290, CSC111/212. She is most comfortable with R and Github, and can help with class content and homework of listed courses.
• Audrey (she/her) is a senior SDS major and community engagement concentrator. She's taken SDS 192, 220, 237, 270, 291, and 293; CSC 111 and 212; and MTH 211. Happy to help with class content, R, GitHub, Java, Python, and whatever else you're wondering about!
• Cindy (she/her) is a junior SDS major. She has taken SDS 100, 192, and 201, and is currently taking SDS 270 and 291. She is happy to help with 100, 192, 201, and overlapping content between 201 and 220. Please feel free to ask her any questions about statistics and coding in R!
• Elaine (she/her) is a senior, SDS and PSY double major. She's taken SDS 192, 201, 290; CSC 110; and is currently taking SDS 291 and SDS 270.  She is happy to help with class content, R, Python, and whatever else you're wondering about!
• Elm (they/he) is a junior SDS major and BIO minor. They have taken SDS 100/192/220/237, CSC 110, and MTH 111/112/211 and are currently taking SDS 291 and MTH 153/212. He can help with any of these classes, and is best at R and data wrangling/cleaning/visualization. He can also help with some GitHub issues. They love talking about biological applications of computational methods!
• Nora  (she/her) is a Psychology and SDS double major. She has taken SDS 100, 291, and is currently in SDS 192, CSC 110, and MTH 211. She can help with most of these classes, as well as SDS 201/220 and R.
• Sarah (she/her) is a junior SDS major and SOC minor. She has taken SDS 192, SDS 100, SDS 220 as well as CSC 110. She has also taken MTH 153. She is most comfortable with R and would love to help with any class content or homework. She can also try to help with the SDS classes she is currently taking (SDS 270 and SDS 291) as well as any other questions you may have.
• Vicky (she/her) is a sophomore SDS major. She has completed SDS 100, 192, 201, 220, and 291; CSC 110 and 120; as well as MTH 111, 112, and 153. Currently, she is enrolled in SDS 271, MTH 211, CSC 210, and CSC 240. She is eager to assist with R, Python, and MySQL.
• Yunxi (she/her)is a sophomore quantitative economics major. She has taken SDS 192, SDS100, SDS220, CSC100. They can help with class content as well as R and Github.
• Yuzhang (she/her) is a sophomore, SDS and Linguistics major. She has taken SDS 100, 192, 291; ECO 253; CSC 110; and is currently taking SDS 271, CSC 120. She is happy to help with the stated classes but she could try other as well.
• Zorina (she/her) is a sophomore undeclared major. She intended to decalre MST and ECO major. She has taken SDS100/192/291, and AP Statistics (in high school). She can help with these classes, along with R and Github. She is currently taking MTH 153/211.