A Sincere Note

My name is Seth Miller, and I’ve been tutoring students both for the SAT and for their regular classwork since 2021 as a part of a larger tutoring agency, which I left in 2025 to establish Silver Spectacles Tutoring. After completing my Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy at Grand Valley State University in 2020, I had originally intended to enter a doctoral program to further study philosophy, but decided instead to enter education, and to continue my private studies apart from the university setting, as I found education, which I had only intended to be a way of my spending a gap year between my undergraduate and graduate studies, to be not only worthwhile, but deeply meaningful, and a project I would enjoy for the rest of my life.

My own high school experience was fraught with anxiety and depression, which was compounded by the (mostly self-inflicted) social exclusion and isolation I experienced. High school was easily the worst time of my life, and while I wanted to put it behind me as soon as I graduated, never to think of it again, I’ve found great value in getting to help students that are similarly struggling with the psychological and emotional issues that burdened my teenage years, and that I’ve learned to manage in my adult life. Most importantly, I aim to teach students that they are capable of overcoming whatever difficulties they might be facing, academic or otherwise.

As an SAT tutor, I balance a results-oriented approach of diagnosing and treating whatever issues might be holding a student back from achieving their goal score, while also accepting a student’s current position relative to the test. I enjoy the puzzle of determining what specific areas a given student needs to improve in, whether directly related to the test (as in, a student needs to learn how to factor quadratic equations), or indirectly related (as in, a student needs to learn how to trust their intuition), and helping to guide that student in the direction of their achieving the score they deserve.

I often end my tutoring sessions with a little line I’ve found helps, and so I’ll end this note here too:

Study hard, but study peacefully; you will get the score you’re meant to.

Sincerely,

Seth Miller—founder & owner, Silver Spectacles Tutoring LLC