Campustutor

Let me first assure you this is not a paid advertisement.

During my double-digit-bank-account days, I turned to tuition to help with my expenses. I have tried most of it. From calling the agents in the classified section everyday for one week to applying online, most of it was futile work.

Worse, the agents that called you back always see to find the worse possible of moments. I've had one call me when I was ordering Bak Chor Mee from Technoedge. And it's almost always guaranteed to be a private number and lasts barely longer than I take to order my Bak Chor Mee.

Consider the following senario. I would be in lecture and whenever my phone virbrates you will see this blur of activity that sometimes leads to me running out of the lecture threatre just to tell that guy after a protracted discussion on my hourly rate that no, I do not want the assignment because it is in freaking woodlands, thank you very much. In retrospect, it really was quite amusing.

Then along came Campustutor. Slated to be an agency that screens it's tutors to be current undergraduates via their e-mail accounts, it accepts student from any of the five universities in Singapore namely, NTU, NUS , NIE , SMU and SIM. The way they operate is so effcient, I wonder why the other agencies haven't caught on at all.

Almost everyday, the kind agents there will send you a list of assignment they have and then you, in consideration of the hourly rate, subject taught and location ,reply via sms to indicate your interest. If you are successful they will call you back, give you the exact location and tell you when you can start. To be sure, I only apply for the maths and physics ones and everytime I send an sms, I would always get a call back to confiirm details.

Because it's the holidays now and some parents are panicking in place of their children, I receive their assignment list everyday with at least 5 to 6 jobs.

So now Campustutor, all you got to do is enlighten me on how you turn off your e-mail alerts. Pretty please?