Radha Radkar

Year: Junior
Major: English
Minors: Art History
Interests: Watching squirrels eat paper on the Great Lawn (more times than you'd like to know)
Hometown: Flushing, NY
Extracurricular: Habitat for Humanity, The Lighthouse, Phi Eta Sigma, Sequoya, St. John's Humanities Review
 
I've been at the Writing Center since May of 2007. I take pride in knowing that our approach to tutoring is about as progressive as it can get. We try our best to avoid stereotypical ways of working with our students (ex: being an editing service). I've avoided the word "teaching" altogether in my description because, strangely enough, that's not what we're doing. That would imply that there's some kind of "ideal" writing we're all trying to achieve (something we try to challenge at the WC every single day).
 
Underneath all the anxiety, confusion, or plain dislike we all might feel about writing are people with unique, meaningful perspectives. I see my job as simply navigating students through their own thoughts in a way everyone can understand and, most importantly, fully appreciate.