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My Brief Stint as an Undergrad Lecturer - Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology

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Teaching has been my most formative experience at Penn. I don’t have much life advice to give, but if you’re a prospective student or a current student reading this, hear me out: teach at least once as an undergrad. You won’t regret it. Every year, I make time for at least one teaching project to keep myself sharp. This is my way of fending off “academic bulimia”. I’ve been a teaching assistant (TA) for CIS 160 (Mathematical Foundations of CS) and MGMT 291 (Negotiations). But I wanted to throw myself into the deep end in my senior year, so I built up a massive project as the culmination of my teaching progress. This semester, I created and taught a class from scratch: CIS 700-004 (Deep Learning). I’m the creator and lead instructor, and I co-lecture with Professor Konrad Kording and postdoc David Rolnick. The Motivation: Why a 2nd Semester Senior is Doing Work Senioritis is a very real thing. I originally had 3 classes planned for my last semester. Beautiful stuff. Instead, I

I like teaching. Teaching has been my most formative experience at Penn. I don’t have much life advice to give, but if you’re a prospective student or a current student reading this, hear me out: teach at least once as an undergrad. You won’t regret it. Every year, I make time for at least one teaching project to keep myself sharp. This is my way of fending off “academic bulimia”. I’ve been a teaching assistant (TA) for CIS 160 (Mathematical Foundations of CS) and MGMT 291 (Negotiations). But I wanted to throw myself into the deep end in my senior year, so I built up a massive project as the c

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