by Jasmine Underwood It is a weird paradox to be a PhD student and a teaching assistant; the learner and the semi-professional. We are supposed to draw on our advanced standing to teach students, but we ourselves can be plagued with imposter syndrome and feelings of inadequacy. I was asked to be a WIP TA…
by Simon Xu Writing and mathematics may seem orthogonal to each other, especially to students who are taking their first heavily proof-based course. Even for some more experienced math students, including myself, who might have sensed some degree of similarities between these disciplines, it can be difficult to articulate a precise relationship. In our class…
by Matthew Burkhalter After graduating from the University of the South, I worked for a year as the Conrad Aiken-K. P. A Taylor Intern (read: copy editor) at the Sewanee Review, the literary quarterly published by the university. The editor during the 2010–11 academic year was George Core; he had edited the journal every academic…
by Rachel Will How does one provide useful feedback in an age of information saturation? Going into the Fall 2016 semester, I knew my primary TA responsibilities were to provide feedback to the weekly and bi-weekly writing assignments for the students enrolled in the course. The class size was small, which is usually amenable to more…