Being a TA is a completely natural process for graduate students. I think all my classmates have been TA before. Not me though. That is why I am REALLY REALLY excited to be in a position of teaching this Fall! Yeh! Yeh! Yeh! It is an undergrad core principals of macro class at my school and all undergrads have to take them at some point in their undergrad years. The class is introduction to economics. It reminds me of myself when I was taking Econ 2 at Berkeley. In some sense this is harder than teaching harder econ class because there you’ll be teaching tools rather than the thinking. I tutored somebody on principals of economics before in DC and I found it so much harder than teaching statistics or math.
The professor handed me an instructor version of Manikw’s book, as well as a published book named “Naked Economics”. I am so excited! Now I can get distracted from studying by reading it!
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Beware of mean/rude teenagers (they just graduated High School)… you know you “look” just like one of them (!!) – hence, they may not give you much respect…
Don’t wanna scare you, but just be aware these kind of kids exist! On the other hand, there will be kids like you and I who would sit in the front row and being fully participated!
Comment by hunnie June 28, 2008 @ 12:08 amYou were the one who sat in the front row. I was the one in the back row dosing off, and when suddenly woke up spent the lecture analyzing what in my diet led to these serial dosing off during lecture. My conclusion was — MILK and CHOCOLATE.
Now I no longer dose off.
Comment by Wendy June 28, 2008 @ 2:15 am