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by ekiru
5548 days ago
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> Sure Harvard may employ people who are titans in their field, Nobel Prize winners and the like, but unless you are going to Grad school there it won’t affect you any. They won’t be teaching you, TAs will. Is this actually true? I don't attend Harvard, but I do attend a private university in the top 10 of the US News and World Reports rankings, and I don't believe there is a single CS course taught by a grad student (although some are taught by "lecturers". Some of the classes from the core curriculum are taught by grad students, but that's not actually necessarily a bad thing. Both of the grad students who have taught courses I've taken have been excellent teachers, which can be much more important for a teacher of introductory calculus or such. |
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Actually, this is incorrect. Although I'm not aware of any courses taught by grad students this year, I now recall that one of the lecturers also taught while a Ph.D. candidate. However, only a small minority of CS courses here seem to be taught by grad students.