The TutorChapter 2
Jesse had always been the more reluctant of my students. While he was nearly always interested in understanding the methods and formulae, he was much less enthusiastic about putting in the work. ‘We have to do ALL these questions?’ he would say, with some measure of distaste and distrust, staring down at his page with something akin to repulsion. ‘But there are so many steps!’ He sounded, sometimes, like a much younger boy complaining to his parents about his chores. ‘Yes,’ I would reply,...