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Ep. 251: The Efficiency Trap
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
How to Eliminate Pain Points in Your Teaching Assistantship
When I first started TA in college classes, so as a graduate student at MIT, I was mainly on a research assistantship. You have to be careful about pain points. And oftentimes, there will be some sort of tool or system that can help you eliminate those. So when I first came into that class, you had everyone submitting problem set solutions in any format they wanted. They were hand written or printed, often stapled and sort of haphazardly submitted.
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