Tonight I tutored three students. Last night it was four. One had tattoos up and down his burly arms and a cross tattooed in the corner of each eye. He is a firefighter and is studying Wildland Fire Science. One had his last name tattooed across his throat. One was a woman about 65 years old coming back to school after who knows how long. Essays and stories told to me are about drugs, trials, parole, and prison, young sisters who go out at night and don't come home, and more. A young lady who is 25 came for tutoring because she could not get in to see a tutor at SFCC, though she is a student there. Was I supposed to turn her away? They all need help, and MLA citations are the least of their worries. I hope I helped someone even if it was just a little bit...mostly I hope to make them realize that they can actually do something they don't think they can do. You never know. Now and then a sentence just shines out and more often you get strangely spelled words, tense disagreements, and pronoun-antecedent conflicts.