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I am an Organizer for Johns Hopkins Tutorial Project, an on-campus tutoring program that allows student tutors to work with elementary school children in the Baltimore area. This photo was taken during our Halloween party for the kids. Every year, the Organizers wear costumes of a certain theme, so this year we decided to be characters from Spongebob. While the tutors and tutees that we oversee were enjoying the festivities, my fellow Organizers and I decided to hide and chat among ourselves to recover from the hectic and rainy trick-or-treat session. The Program’s director, Young, practically acts like our mother and has a personality that ranges from yelling at us for trivial reasons to telling inappropriate jokes that no mother should be telling. She came into this room to jokingly yell at us for not helping out, but none of us could take her seriously as seen by a few of the Organizers smiling. I enjoyed the fact that one of the Organizers—our class clown—is fashioning a serious side eye, yet he is wearing a plankton costume that takes away from any toughness he is trying to evoke.

 

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