Ammon's Anxiety

Coming off of the summer I feel like I have left everything that I have learned somewhere between here and New York.
Honestly, when I do my first session I think that I will be more nervous about getting the person signed in and everything than actually helping them with their work. I am not implying by any means that I know grammar perfectly or even better than anyone else in the class. I bet this post will have numerous grammatical errors in it. I have just learned that if you are nice to someone and at the very least act like you know what you are doing then people respond respectfully to that. I understand that acting doesn't replace genuinely good help, but I can only do my best at helping these people with their papers. I plan on doing my best. Nobody can ask much more than that.
The phrase "get your feet wet" finally meant something to me today. You know when you go swimming and no one wants to jump in because the water is cold? Well once everyone jumps in they find out that the water isn't really that bad at all. I think that the writing center will be the same way. The hardest part is taking that first step.
When that first person walks in for me to tutor I am going to take a deep breath and jump in. Hopefully everything will work out. If it doesn't then maybe I will get more anxious.