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My first teaching experience

January to April. I taught a full fledged course at IITB for the first time . It was a PG elective. I taught Complexity Theory. There are many many aspects of my teaching experience that I will like to talk about. But before I start on that, let me say that I was extremely lucky to get some very motivated and hard-working students the first time I taught. I was asking them to regularly scribe notes and they have done a great job. I am yet to make a pass on many of these scribe notes. I'll put up the notes as soon as I make at least one pass. Teaching was very very time consuming. The experienced people told me that this will be so for the first few years. (Years? Really?) In the beginning I took almost 8-9 hours to prepare one lecture. Also, first 15-16 lectures were basic complexity. Here I knew the material, but I spent most of my time preparing how I should present the material. While for the last 7-8 lectures I taught a few things I had never explained to anyone before. Here,...