Word: tfing
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Students can hold office hours for courses they are TFing, play pool and enjoy a mini-cafe and a piano...
...David D. Eggli `03, a CS51 teaching fellow, says officially TFing the course is only supposed to require about 50 hours per month...
...addition to time spent grading problem sets, which he says take about an hour each, every week he is responsible for preparing for and teaching an hour-long section, attending a weekly TFing meeting, attending three hours of lecture, responding to a deluge of student e-mails, and holding two office hours in the basement of the Science Center helping students debug their programs...
...Kevin C. Gold `01, a teaching fellow for CS50 last semester, says he thought grading was the most difficult aspect of TFing his fellow undergrads because it occasionally required him to decide whether or not to pass students who are really struggling...
...Despite the trials of grading, though, Gold says the experience has been very rewarding. He says TFing this year has not only given him the opportunity to try out teaching, but it has helped him decide whether or not he wants to go into academia...