Word: tf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usually get an impression within one or two sections," Gingo says. "If a TF doesn't seem enthusiastic in the first section I think that's a pretty good tip off. I think that tells me either the TF doesn't want to be there or doesn't really care how he comes...
Gingo, however, has never switched TF's. "Some classes the TF's were incredible and sometimes I guess I was just lazy," he says...
...strange when you're talking with someone and they say: 'Oh where are you going?' and you say: 'Well, I'm going to teach a section now,'" says Sam A. Yagan '99, a Kirkland House resident, a TF for Computer Science (CS) 50: "Introduction to Computer Science" last semester and CS-51 this semester...
With friends in their classes, some of the undergraduate TFs interviewed admit that teaching has delicate moments. "A lot of the people in your class are your friends so you have to play out two roles with them," says Bridget J. Frey '98, who worked as a TF for CS-50 last semester...
Matthew S. Caywood '98, a current CS-51 TF, says that a particularly strange situation for TFs can crop up in computer science, where it is not unheard of for undergraduate TFs to teach each other in different classes because 100-level courses do not have to be taken in any particular order...