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Policy Debate vs. Research

Applying high school debate skills to PhD research

JUNE 2018
by Helen X.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Unlike many of my fellow graduate students in computer science who have been doing programming and math competitions since high school (or potentially earlier), I spent six years in middle and high school in policy debate. This usually meant...

Teaching as a Graduate Student

My experience as a TA and advice for future TA's

MARCH 2018
by Helen X.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
When I signed up to be a teaching assistant for MIT’s performance engineering course (6.172) in Fall 2017, multiple people warned me about how much work it would be. Their advice made me nervous...