What Dr. Olivia Remembers

Dr. Olivia remembers you between sessions — not just the last conversation, but your whole time with us. If you worked through a concept in your first year and come back to it in your third, she still has that history.

This is different from the session summary you get by email. A summary recaps one conversation. Her memory is a set of specific notes that stay on your record until they're resolved, so detail doesn't get worn away each time something new is written.

What she keeps

Notes are filed under a few headings:

Heading	What goes there
Disciplines	Specific concepts you've struggled with or clearly mastered. Not "cardiology" but "confuses preload with afterload in cardiac output problems"
Behaviors	How you work — whether you reason through a problem or guess, how you respond to being stuck, what kind of explanation lands for you
Goals	What you're working toward and by when
Study Plan	A plan you built together for an exam or a block of revision, and how far through it you are. See Study Plans
Exam Analysis	Findings from your exams and quizzes

How it changes your sessions

You should mostly notice it as her not wasting your time:

She starts at the right level instead of re-establishing what you already know
She recognises a pattern you've hit before and names it, rather than treating it as new
She picks up material you'd set aside, without you re-explaining the context
She teaches the way that has actually worked for you before

Asking what she knows

Ask her directly — "what do you know about me?", "what have we worked on?" — and she'll tell you what the two of you have covered together.

She won't read notes out word for word or talk about "your record". She's meant to sound like a tutor who remembers you, not one reading from a file.

Pro tip If she's working from something that's wrong or out of date, just say so in the session — "I've actually got that one now", "that's not really where I struggle". She'll update what she has.

Notes from faculty and student services

Faculty and student services can also add notes to help her support you — a heads-up about something you're juggling, or a suggestion about how to approach a topic with you.

These shape how she works with you, but she won't discuss them or repeat them back, and asking about them won't surface them. If you want to know what's on your record, that's a conversation with your advisor rather than with Dr. Olivia.

Removing something Notes can't be deleted from inside a conversation — deliberately, since a record that could be talked away wouldn't be much of a record. She can correct or retire a note; for anything you want removed entirely, contact student services.

Worth knowing

Memory follows you, not a course. It spans your whole time with us
Guided assignments are excluded. Work you do inside a Canvas assignment doesn't go into memory and won't shape your open tutoring sessions
Nothing is stored word for word. Notes are observations, not transcripts
Notes come from what you say, not from what she says. Being walked through an answer isn't the same as having given it, and asking a question doesn't put the answer on your record as something you know
Old notes are archived, not deleted — and can resurface when they become relevant again

For faculty Faculty

You have your own memory record, separate from any student's. It holds working context — the cohort you teach, how you like questions written, a project you're part-way through — so you don't have to re-establish it every session.

Notes you record about a student go onto that student's record with you as the author, and are marked staff-only: Dr. Olivia acts on them but never repeats them to the student.