Starting Out the Hard Way

I was the TA in the first course that Alex Vladimirsky (now the Director of the PhD program of my graduate alma mater) was ever in charge of.

Two decades later, I am still the most opinionated TA that he's ever had with respect to how to teach a course. People should get the most difficult person out of the way at the beginning, right?

He confirmed this and found out about the ducks at our meeting this morning! It’s perfect bc he tells me that when I need a debugging break, I should talk with a rubber duck, so I think the rubber duck that is living in the tex doc right now has a permanent home 😊 (for now)

— Mallory Gaspard (@mallorygaspard) May 27, 2020