Chapter 9 - Teacher's Pet
The stress was killing me. Western Civ class was destroying my GPA and I felt like I wasn't getting anything out of the class at all. I was bewildered by the fact that I had acquired straight A's in my science classes and my math classes, but the history of the world was causing my brain to freeze anytime a question was asked.
I decided to look for extra help from the professor. He was a middle aged man, with brown hair and dark green eyes. He was relatively handsome. While the nerdy professors taught math and science, the ones who usually were found teaching history and philosophy seemed to be much more masculine and rugged. This guy had a very "Indiana Jones" feel to him. He was passionate about his field of study, but seemed like he was passionate about anything he was involved in.
After class one day, I knocked on his office door and he called for me to enter. I turned the knob and pushed the door open. "Hi Professor Jansen," I said, closing the door behind me. I took the seat across from his desk and sighed.
"Lindsey," he said before I could say anything else. "I know why you're here." He leaned forward at his desk, folding his arms and looking across at me, over the rims of his glasses. "You're a very bright girl, I know that. But your test scores are low in my class and you don't participate too much in class discussions."
I nodded. "I don't know what it is Professor. I want to do well, but I just can't seem to wrap my head around some of this stuff. It's so hard to remember. All the dates, and different names of people and places. It's too much."
He listened to me explain my problem and then spoke. "I'm going to set you up with a tutor. Rebecca should be available and I'll give you here contact information," he said. "But even if you do great the rest of the class, you'd only be on track to receive a C, maybe a B minus."