Lectured!

The professor for the CS class I'm on staff for is out of town, so I delivered the lecture this morning! (This class is, if I remember correctly, still the largest at the university: ~900 students.) On Friday I went over the auditorium setup with him to be as prepared as possible. This morning I arrived early to set up as much as possible backstage during the previous lecture. I struggled a bit with the audiovisual equipment (where are the plugs again?) but managed to get the display on in time. The microphone was more challenging - I got it turned on but it couldn't be heard unless I held it very close. That was unfortunate, but once I began the lecture it went along well. I realized after the end that I missed a couple extra notes I wanted to touch on, but I covered everything on the slides. Packing up also took a little longer than expected, but that was mostly done backstage out of the way of the next lecturer. Overall it could have gone smoother but I got the job done.

Time for a lot of office hours

This is the first weekend students have to work on the major semester-long project we just released. The professor is out of town for a few days, so to make sure things are going smoothly, I and some other senior course staff will be spending a lot of time in office hours tomorrow. I plan to be there for all eight hours of them.