Pinned(Re)Hello Fisk!I just received my offer today to be the GIR for Fisk University this fall, 2023. Beyond excited! I was thinking about doing GIR again last year, but I asked one of the GIR PMs about the interview process a bit late and actually didn’t feel super stoked about it…3 min read3 min read
Jan 1, 2024Debrief and The CloseToday’s the new year, meaning I go back to doing my regular job tomorrow. A few days ago, I got notified that my dotted-line manager is no longer the GIR PM who I was “reporting” to. I guess it’s really all over (again). We had debrief about a week ago…4 min read4 min read
Nov 1, 2023Week 11Went Well Monday seemed very frazzled, mostly because I didn’t know what to do for quiz retake #6 (and thought for a long time about quiz retake #5). I kept pushing #6 off and finally got around to it Sunday night, which hasn’t happened this semester — I don’t think…5 min read5 min read
Oct 24, 2023Week 9 and 10Went Well Started a storm of extra practice resources for students! I wanted to compile Leetcode questions and others talked about non-Leetcode resources. It was very cool how in less than one hour, we had a bunch of extra practice problems for students, it was really awesome! …2 min read2 min read
Oct 11, 2023Week 8Went Well I ended up grading some of the quizzes because my TA’s are a bit slow at it. One of my students who were behind got the coding question entirely correct! Wow, success. That makes me feel so happy. I started doing one coding question during lab, and I…4 min read4 min read
Oct 6, 2023Week 7Went Well I went through what I thought would be the week’s slides all just in one day on Monday. Oops. Reviewed both coding problems on the midterm, and I decided to also review the short answers. …4 min read4 min read
Sep 24, 2023Week 6Went Well After the midterm, I sent emails to each miserably failing student to come talk to me during office hours and also to ask students who missed the midterm what happened. Definitely needed to do this but also, this wasn’t effective last time so I don’t know if it’s…4 min read4 min read
Sep 17, 2023Week 5Went well I on-the-spot on Tuesday’s lab session made reviewing homework a semi-mock interview session, teaching students how they should answer problems in an interview. I very much appreciate my ability to go with the flow and be unafraid to implement what I think of on the spot. Sent out…4 min read4 min read
Sep 11, 2023Week 3Went well Most students who retook the quiz did better. Some did not, which was interesting. …3 min read3 min read
Aug 30, 2023Cheating and ChatGPTCheating and ChatGPT were topics top of mind way before the semester started. Some ideas I had around it to prevent cheating and ChatGPT usage were: no phones and no laptops during exams, paper exams (bad for the environment, boo!), …Cheating2 min readCheating2 min read