Jed Bothe

What is your hometown?
Oregon, Illinois

What is your favorite thing about being a tutor?
Learning from the tutees about their subject and their interests, and working with them to develop their work, their thinking, and their writing, watching and helping them grow and growing with them.

What is your favorite color?
Indigo.

Where is your favorite place to study?
The third floor of Seymour Library, in the nook by the Romantics

Where is your favorite place on campus?
The Common Room in Old Main

Are you involved in any campus organizations?
Fiction editor for Catch and Cellar Door

What are your hobbies?
Reading, writing, time-wasting, chewing the ends of BIC pens

Where is your favorite place to eat in Galesburg?
Baked

Do you have any pets?
I have a dog, Poe, and a cat, Thor, and I'm rather fond of them.

What do you do to relax?
I flip a coin while watching a movie or something.

Tell us about your favorite Knox memory.
A raccoon crossed the sidewalk in front of me to climb a tree. Very polite, though not a chatty guy.

Share something that makes you unique.
I pressure-washed four tillages, five tractors, and a few other pieces of equipment this summer. I got muddy, but I only fell once, it was great.

Hannah Tannas

What is your hometown?
Pendleton, IN

What is your favorite thing about being a tutor?
My favorite thing about being a tutor is being able to concretely help someone, whether that's guiding them to the right Latin translations or helping them solidify a thesis statement. It is rewarding to know that I have alleviated someone else's stress.

What is your favorite color?
Yellow.

Where is your favorite place to study?
The single desks by the windows on the third floor of the library

Where is your favorite place on campus?
Ferris Lounge

Are you involved in any campus organizations?
I am the outgoing treasurer/incoming secretary of Book Club. I play the flute in flute choir and am part of the Piano Chamber Ensemble. I also go to String Arts Club whenever I can.

What are your hobbies?
Reading, cross-stitching, watching hockey games

Where is your favorite place to eat in Galesburg?
Culver's

Do you have any pets?
I have one cat. His name is Dmitri and he has very fluffy gray and white fur and a tail like a feather duster. He meows at me all the time and his favorite hobby is shedding on every single object in the house.

Skylar Koepke

What is your hometown?
Columbia, Missouri

What is your favorite thing about being a tutor?
I really enjoy helping people make sense of concepts that were giving them trouble, and seeing all the different ways that people connect concepts to other ideas and their own experiences.

What is your favorite color?
Purple.

Where is your favorite place to study?
My favorite place to study alone is on the third floor of Seymour library. My favorite place to study as a group is either Red Room, first floor of Seymour library, or on picnic blankets outside.

Where is your favorite place on campus?
My favorite place on campus is either Seymour Library or the Classics Lounge--GDH 208

Are you involved in any campus organizations?
I'm the President of Classics Club (alternatively one of the Consuls), I'm heavily involved in running Book House, I'm the Non-Fiction editor for Catch, and I handle PR and some secretarial things for Cellar Door.

What are your hobbies?
In my free time I like to read (especially fantasy, mystery, and books based off Greek/Roman mythology), crochet, knit, do logic puzzles, bake, and write postcards to my friends and family.

Where is your favorite place to eat in Galesburg?
My favorite restaurant in Galesburg is Koreana.

Do you have any pets?
I don't currently have any pets but I am definitely a cat person and I haven't met a cat that disliked me.

What do you do to relax?
When I need to relax I tend to either make myself a cup of tea or hot chocolate and settle down for a few hours with a good book or I spend a few hours in the kitchen with earbuds in and a recipe that takes some concentration to make perfectly.

Tell us about your favorite Knox memory.
Some of my favorite memories at Knox come from taking walks around campus with one of my friends. Knox feels like a completely different place at night--it's so peaceful!

Share something that makes you unique.
I like to climb on things and sit in windowsills. I also work at a bookshop in my hometown--Skylark Bookshop--and, no, it isn't technically named after me!