Word: tfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Although most undergraduate TFs interviewed say that their jobs are sometimes disorienting, all are adamant that their youth in no way affects the quality of their teaching, and maintain that they do gain the respect of their students...
Sandik, like many undergraduate TFs, says teaching also gave her the opportunity to learn...
Most undergraduate TFs interviewed said their understanding of the demands of undergraduate life at Harvard actually enhanced their teaching skills...