21 june 2025
proud of the things i did today, but also exhausted by the idea of doing more.
i'm the ta for a computing program at my work, and today was weird because i was the only admin in the office while all the students were starting to work on their projects. there were (understandably) a lot of bugs, and i am not the best person to be doing any of that because i don't have as much experience as the folks who weren't here today.
despite that, i dealt well with it overall. i did some of the techniques i learned while TAing in undergrad
- having a queue of people to help
- rotating between groups often
- giving people a chance to figure things out themselves
- "what have you already tried?"
it got really overwhelming around lunch and towards the end of the day, and it was a little discouraging because for the last couple hours of the day one group and i were struggling with a problem that we still haven't solved.
don't work on it now that it's the weekend though! they aren't paying you for that, and they won't treat you any better if you do. just work on it on Monday
people on feels are talking about growing plants. maybe i should try that, or maybe it'll cause me stress. if i decide to look into it, i should make sure to approach it without a pressure