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Wednesday, January 14, 2004 Fresh Impressions Well, yesterday was interesting although by the end of the day my feet were killing me. Another TA and I were "team teaching" two laboratory sections in the afternoon and evening--each four hours. The morning had been taken up with a lecture by one of the profs for the course. The prof for the lab section of the course was supposed to stay around for at least the entire afternoon section to supervise teaching (as a TA, you have to sign up for a course called "Supervised Teaching") but she got ill and had to go home early leaving me and my partner pretty much on our own. Teaching a lab (so far) isn't hard, but it is draining. I think most of that comes from trying to be vigilant. I circulate around the lab and make sure no one is doing something egregiously wrong (since this is somewhat a beginner lab, I caught quite a few people attempting bad pippetting technique) and answer questions. At any rate, I'd say the first "real" day teaching was a success considering no one caught on fire or spilled acid on themselves. [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 4:44 AM : ]
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