Thanks for sharing your story! This is something that I hadn’t thought about yet. I have only been a TA for a course where I just held homework help session. So for that class I just went by my first name, mostly because I didn’t really think about it but that’s probably because I didn’t feel like I needed to show authority. I was a TA my final semester as an undergrad and most of the students were sophomores but I remember there was one grad student in the class who was definitely older than me which made me feel a little weird at first. I probably still have another year before I will actually teach a class on my own, so I guess I have some time to figure it out but to be honest right now I’m not sure what I will end up doing.

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