I looked over the stats board in TJ’s and found that the department I tutor for (CHM) has seen a steady increase in appointments for a long time now.  I think that this is probably due to the increased amount of tutors and pressure that the department is putting on students to come in for tutoring, although it would be interesting to see if there has been an increase in chemistry/biochem/premed students.  I would also be interested to see if quiz and test scores have gone up with the trend of increased appointments.  Most of the time the appointments had “no report” for the subject material, and I think it would be beneficial to find out what the most popular topics for tutoring are.  In my opinion its NMR/IR, which was coincidentally the topic I was least prepared to explain.  I think that figuring out which topics will have the most demand would help tutors in the future to prepare for those time periods.  Also, it would be interesting to see whether or not the frequency of each subject changes over time or if it is simply the same concepts that cause trouble for students every year.