Week 2 UTA

This week I had 3 students. Record high! (and climbing). I helped them review some work on forces along with questions that they had from the PEC. It pretty fun helping the students and watching them understand the material in both a conceptual and quantitative manner. Can't wait for tomorrow's tutoring session!

Getting ready for their first exam

I had the same student come to my office hours on Monday for the full three hours. She was showing some concern for the upcoming exam. I was thinking about different places, other than old exams, that I could find good exam questions. I checked out a physics book from Carnegie Library the other day. If anyone wants to borrow it they are welcome to!

Best,
Sean

A long week

I have had a few people come to my office hours and they all seem to be struggling with the same problems.  I think they are still unsure about what "conservative forces" actually means so that has been tripping them up.  A few kids have asked to meet again today so I am just about t get started with them again.  Happy Friday!

Familiar Faces

The same couple of students continue to attend my office hours which is nice because I am starting to develop a relationship with them and its really cool to see their continuos understanding of the material. I hope they continue to come and I hope a few new faces stop by as well! 

Nour Shahab 

Week 2 UTA Phys. 0110 - Karl Gibson

Hey everyone, I hope your week has gone well.  This week I only had one student come to my office hours this week, and the vast majority of the time was spent going over concepts from the homework.  In general, I have been trying to emphasize how one should look at these problems/attempt them, and that has seemed to help a bit rather than just go over homework problems the entire time.

Karl

Official Week 1 (Last week)

Hey guys, this is my first post on here, (just a tad late!). My name is Andrew Kalman and I'm a molecular biology major. I am tutoring in the cathedral of learning on Tuesday nights from 7-10. Last week, I only had 1 student show up :( . I helped her out with the webassign and she went on her way. Hopefully, more people come tonight!

20+ People Every Day

After the first hours on Monday last week, it seems that almost every single person in the PHYS 0175 class has at least stopped in for half an hour to ask a question on a concept or home work. I am very grateful because it makes time go so much faster

One student, three hours, holy cow.

Hey everyone,

So my offices hours are on Mondays from 4 to 7. I had one student the whole time with nonstop physics, it was awesome. She came in uncertain about the concept of tension and kinematics but came out a champ at it. I was about to pull up some exam questions because I felt she was ready for some, but we ran out of time. I'm really excited for my next offices hours to have something like that again.

Progress

People are finally starting to filter in to ask questions about not just homework, but concepts in general. I like this feeling of knowing that I'm trying to help people learn how to think about physics, instead of giving them straight answers.

Guess its not all about the homework

This past week students have continued to come to my office hours. I was expecting most of them to have questions about the current homework but a lot of them asked questions about examples from lecture, recitation questions, or even homework assignments that were already due. I was pleasantly surprised to see students actually wanting to understand the material rather than just worrying about finishing WebAssign! 

Nour 

Week 1 UTA Phys. 0110 - Karl Gibson

Hey everyone, I hope your first few weeks of school haven't been too insane!  My name is Karl Gibson and I am ... Well I guess I am a super senior by credit amount (134 not including this 16 credit semester), but I have another year and a half before I complete my duel degree (B.S Psychology and B.Phil Sociology).

Anyhow, I am currently a UTU for chemistry, and I was a UTA last term for Professor Levy (I had Physics 0110 with Professor Daley about a year or so ago), and am looking forward to this term!  So far I have only met with a small handful of students, and we have gone over static and kinetic friction in extreme detail, as this seemed to be a problem area in the homework and end of book problems.  If this term is anything like last term, I am expecting quite a few questions regarding kinematics as well this upcoming week.

Have a great week!
Karl

Success

Last week I had my first student! It was very rewarding to see a student benefit from coming to office hours.  I feel like she really appreciated it.  Hopefully more students will join in and do the same! Good luck this week!

GOOD LUCK

Good Luck PHYS 0175

Although I'm pretty sure that no one will see this, i wish good luck to everyone in PHYS 0175 who is taking their first test tomorrow. I hope it goes will and... maybe an average that is in the 70's?

UTAing Week 1

Hey Everyone,

I'm Sean Harrington. I took physics with Levy last year in the spring semester. I was excited to get started with helping other students, unfortunately I didn't get the chance to work with anyone this week. :(. Hopefully next week will be something different!

Sean

My First Physics I UTA Post !

Hi All!  My name is Jessica McCullough, I took Physics 1 with professor Levy last year and I'm excited for the experience to be a UTA!  My office hours are a 3 hour block on Friday afternoons, which in hindsight I thought might be a poor decision - who wants to come to office hours on a Friday?  But today I was pleasantly surprised, 5 students stopped by and we worked through a majority of the Webassign problems together.  It was exciting to see students already digging in to the material; in past classes where I was a TA most did not stop by until we had an exam.  I'm glad they find it helpful and hopefully more keep coming!

My First Post

Hi everyone. I'm Saniya Sabnis. I am a junior chemistry major and took physics 0110 with Dr. Levy last semester. I think being a UTA will be both a rewarding and fun experience. Unfortunately no one has stopped by office hours yet this week. We'll see if anyone stops by on Friday.

Keep up the Good Job!

For those of you who have begun posting, thank you and keep up the good work! For those of you who do not know, this is a whole new era of the UTA Program. What you post here may help not only one another here and now, but also those UTA's of the future.

The UTA Program was started six years ago to give free help to struggling students. It started only in the Resource Room, where a handful of students would be responsible for being able to help all those who were struggling, but there was too much demand for it and not enough supply. Dr. Levy started a new branch of UTA's around this time, one that would not require majors to fulfill it but would still provide the help students desperately needed. That torch has been handed to me, but now there are even more students than ever who still need help.

 That's where you come in! Partial teachers, partial students still trying to impress grad schools, partial intellectual volunteers, you have the ability to fulfill the demand we desperately need. And I know, days are tough when no one needs help, and I don't blame you for doing other homework during an empty UTA hour, but for those of you who have helped a student, can you match that feeling with anything else?

It's pretty awesome.

 Best,
Hannah Sweetser

First Post !

Hi everyone,

My name is Sool Lee and I'm junior Biochemistry major and a UTA for PHYS 0110. I look PHY 0110 with Dr. Levy last semester. I hope everything goes well this semester !

So far . . no one came to my office hour . . I hope someone actually shows up tomorrow !

My Very First Post!

Hi Y'all!

My name is Nour Shahab and I am a junior psychology major on the pre-PA track and I am a UTA for PHYS 0110. I took PHYS 0110 last semester and I am currently enrolled in PHYS 0111. This is also my first time serving as a UTA for a class and I am really excited about it!

I held my first office hours yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to actually have someone show up! I hope more people show up in the future!

"First" Post... I hope third time is the charm

Hello All!

I hope this works because my last posts are no where to be found!

My name is Ali Cameron.  I am a junior studying neuroscience and I am a UTA for PHYS 0110.  I took the course last semester with Professor Levy.

I can't wait to start and I hope everyone has a great semester!

So this is really just a test post to see if things are working correctly for my computer and Blogger, I will start with an introduction.

My name is Kevin Woeppel, I am a sophomore Bio engineering student, and I am a UTA for the physics 0175 Basic physics for engineers 2, my hours will be from 7:30-9:00 pm in cathedral of learning. If anyone wants to contact me just go through my pitt mail, kmw103@pitt.edu, I check it quite regularly and will try my best to get back as soon as possible.

Anyway, I hope to have a great year with everyone!