“Physics was really difficult in that class because I had no prior context. I was learning a completely new skill, because physics is very different from other types of math. I was just kind of thrown to the wolves—we got a worksheet and we just had to work through that, and that didn’t work for me. So having you sit down with us and explain it… was probably the most helpful. It was very quick: here’s how you should think about this problem, and here’s how to start it.”

“You're definitely the best TA in the room by far. And I think that the reason for that is because of the way you help is you let us go ahead and you let us get things wrong. And when we get things wrong, we'll keep going and then we'll realize like something stops adding up… So we'll realize something goes wrong and that's when you'll like chirp in and be like maybe take us a few steps back and you would always like ground us in like the core tenets.”

“I walked in [to the final exam] and there was no doubt in my mind that anything on that piece of paper I could do. It was one of the only times throughout my college career where I could say that I entered and exited an exam with no doubt in my mind that it was going to end in a result that I would like to see.” -Sasha

“I was much more successful in your class than I was in the other ones, solely because of that fact.” -Noah