Well I survived the first week of school relatively unscathed and I can tell you that this semester will be very busy. In fact, it will the the most difficult semester of my graduate career. I already have two homework assignments to work on and 70 quizzes to grade. Homework assignments take between 1 and 5 hours to complete depending on which class they are for (Theory of Linear Models and Math Stats II assignments take much longer that Statistical Methods II assignments.) Next week I will get three more homework assignments (one for each class I'm taking) and will have to grade 70 homework assignments and 70 worksheets. Oh the joys of grad school :)
One nice thing about this semester is that I'm teaching the same class that I did last semester, only this time I'm teaching two sections instead of one. So there's twice as much stuff to grade, but very little preparation as I can simply reuse all the lecture notes and worksheets that I made last semester, which is a huge time-saver.
One interesting thing that happened this week is that we convinced one of the GTAs in the math program to switch to the stats program. Welcome to the dark side Phil.
Poor Phil!
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