Internship working as a TA for Sarah Davis with her Bio of SW FL class: (Jan, 16, 2011)
Not too much to report for the first week of my internship. On Monday I introduced myself to the class, and assisted Sarah with coordinating a class project. The project was an excellent demonstration of the motivating power, free food has on sleep deprived college students.
The goal of the activity was to simulate sustainable and unsustainable fishing practices; though the capture of goldfish crackers. I found it surprising how well this simple demonstration modeled real world fishing policy. Some groups carefully calculating their max sustainable yield, while others simply grabbed as much as they could in the first go.
The main thing I took away from this first week, was that I definitely need to brush up on my public speaking skills, as I tend to be soft spoken and must remind myself to project.
Other internship activities: involved writing lots of emails, and meeting with mike Savarese to discuss my thoughts for the internship, as well as his hopes regarding setting up similar undergraduate TA internships.
Total time spent: 7 hours
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