this is a completely new experience and i’m nervous as…heck. i’ve never held a ta position in either college career and while i’m really excited about it, i have to keep reminding myself that i’ve talked to college students for the last 10 years of my career and this should be no different. except in my job, i felt like an expert on entertainment and while i feel like i have a good handle on psych, i certainly don’t feel expertly. plunge in, go for it, it’ll be fine.
i’ve started reading some of the material we’re supposed to and i suppose i didn’t realize how much went into teaching. this experience will certainly give me a new appreciation for the amount of work that goes into a college course. while i’ve already had an intro course, i’m looking forward to this one because the first time, i sat in a lecture hall with 250 other people and most of them didn’t want to be there, therefore screwed around and served as a distraction. the format of the class was simple as well. it was the regular, run of the mill lecture-exam-lecture style and entertaining as it was most days, i’m curious to compare that experience with the one it sounds like we’re going to be a part of. if i can convey my enthusiasm for this stuff to my handful of assigned students, i think i’ll feel like a happy camper.
but what will i wear?