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Someone came to my office hours today!
As you may have guessed, the semester has begun again at UMCP - I'm only enrolled in two courses this time (the Finite Element Method class and the Partial Differential Equations class), and while I'm seeking a new advisor, I'm working as a T.A. for the Heat Transfer class. My duties: second half of Wednesday discussion, lab report grading, and six hours a week in one of the T.A. offices.
Although my visitor this morning isn't the only person I've helped as TA (although the rest were ASME lounge regulars – even, coincidentally, the fellow whose question I answered in class) and I made not a few rookie mistakes during the session (didn't have the student work problems herself, didn't give her enough of a chance to ask followup questions, only gave her Newton's method as a root-finding algorithm...), it's still pretty cool. Hey! This person came to talk to me!
As you may have guessed, the semester has begun again at UMCP - I'm only enrolled in two courses this time (the Finite Element Method class and the Partial Differential Equations class), and while I'm seeking a new advisor, I'm working as a T.A. for the Heat Transfer class. My duties: second half of Wednesday discussion, lab report grading, and six hours a week in one of the T.A. offices.
Although my visitor this morning isn't the only person I've helped as TA (although the rest were ASME lounge regulars – even, coincidentally, the fellow whose question I answered in class) and I made not a few rookie mistakes during the session (didn't have the student work problems herself, didn't give her enough of a chance to ask followup questions, only gave her Newton's method as a root-finding algorithm...), it's still pretty cool. Hey! This person came to talk to me!