Guidelines for Getting Help from the Consultants

1. Consultants are available in Upson 305 most afternoons and evenings; exact times are posted on the door of Upson 305.
2. Do not wait until the last minute to start your assignment and expect the consultants to give you lots of help. you're given plenty of time to do each assignment. Plan your time wisely, and ask the consultants for help only when you've tried your best and still can't figure something out.
3. If you have conceptual questions (need help with a lecture concept), see the TAs during their office hours. The consultants are hired to help with specific assignment questions, not do general tutoring on broad topics. That's the TAs' job.
4. If you seek consulting help, you should have a particular question about the assignment. The consultants can ask you to leave if you're doing something else until a question occurs to you.
5. When you encounter a problem, you should make a concerted effort to figure out what it is before asking the consultants for help.
6. Your session with a consultant should address the question(s) you came with and others arising immediately from them; it is NOT the consultant's job to then debug or verify everything in your program.
7. If number 5 disturbs you, perhaps because your program seems right but you're not sure it is right, try to figure out what you're unsure of. That will be your question. The consultant can help you understand how to check it yourself, without doing it for you.
8. The consulting room is not a place to hang out and work on your assignments; it's a place to get help for specific problems. Do not do your work in this room, either on the computer there or on your laptop.
9. The computer in the consulting room is NOT an appropriate place to store your work. You should not do this for any reason.