[jacket3ree]

I was a TA for E21 (fluid mechanics) in the 85/86 academic year. I think it was fairly rare to have MS students as TAs. Maybe they were desperate. I'm sure I was younger than a third of my students. I taught three lab sections, graded homework, and graded exams. Both professors were in their final quarters at Stanford with feet out the door, so I had to take the exams and make the grading keys for them. A lot of work, but wow did I have fluid mechanics down by necessity, which turned out to be a good thing for my career. I did get very good student reviews. Maybe it was Surfing Barbie and Surfing Ken in the flume accompanied by boom box surf music. (I recall the Raybeats in heavy rotation.) I think I was scarred from my own UG fluid mechanics lab experience when one prof gave us a zero because we added Jerry Mathers as the Beaver after our names on the report cover that one time. JFC, Spring Quarter in late May. "Neither Mr. Mathers nor Mr. Beaver are enrolled in this class. Zero." Tech Shaft!  I went the Santa Clause route at Stanford, which better fit the department aesthetic. Nobody was civil; everyone was EE or CS it seemed.

[jacket3ree]

I was a TA for E21 (fluid mechanics) in the 85/86 academic year. I think it was fairly rare to have MS students as TAs. Maybe they were desperate. I'm sure I was younger than a third of my students. I taught three lab sections, graded homework, and graded exams. Both professors were in their final quarters at Stanford with feet out the door, so I had to take the exams and make the grading keys for them. A lot of work, but wow did I have fluid mechanics down by necessity, which turned out to be a good thing for my career. I did get very good student reviews. Maybe it was Surfing Barbie and Surfing Ken in the flume accompanied by boom box surf music. (I recall the Raybeats in heavy rotation.) I think I was scarred from my own UG fluid mechanics lab experience when one prof gave us a zero because we added Jerry Mathers as the Beaver after our names on the report cover that one time. JFC, Spring Quarter in late May. "Neither Mr. Mathers nor Mr. Beaver are enrolled in this class. Zero." Tech Shaft!  I went the Santa Clause route at Stanford, which better fit the department aesthetic. Nobody was civil; everyone was EE or CS it seemed.