Office Hours/Contact
Weekly calendar
Here is a calendar of all office hours that the course staff offer. If you would like to speak to a staff member and you cannot make it to their office hours, send an email to set up a meeting. If you have a general question and cannot make it to anyone’s office hours, post to Piazza (see below).
Staff members will have the same office hours every week. As for location, note that office hours of staff member X are generally in the building where X has an office or a desk, or where office hour space has been arranged for that staff member. Therefore, before going to someone’s hours, check where they will be on the calendar below. Should there be a change to someone’s hours, there will be a post on Piazza, and the calendar will be updated.
Piazza
Piazza is an on-line forum for class discussions as well as announcements. Anybody can post a question, and anybody can reply. You are expected to read Piazza announcements from the course staff. Announcements are generally made only through Piazza, although crucial ones will be accompanied by an email. By default, your personal Piazza email settings apply (which you can configure by clicking the wheel in the upper right corner).
To sign up for Piazza, click the link above.
Before posting, check whether or not your question has already been asked. If it has already
been asked but not yet been answered, then—
Posting (any parts of) a solution to (any parts of) a homework is tantamount to cheating. Limit your answers to other students to providing clarity when needed, and hints when appropriate. This is good practice should you ever want to be a tutor!
Note: Anonymity on Piazza means you are anonymous to other students but not to staff members.
Staff
- your instructors
- your course coordinators
Rebecca MacKenzie
email your teaching assistants
Chase Bishop
email
Vyshnavi Chunduru
email
Kyle Crampton
email
Annie Dinh
email
Parker Griep
email
Khalil Haji
email
Sidney La Fontaine
email
Jack Mastrangelo
email
Iman Moreira
email
Jack Warren
email
Melina Young
email
Julian Zucker
emailTAs teach labs, supervise the grading of homework sets, hold office hours, and grade exams. In general, they are apprentice teachers and are here to learn how to run a course.
your tutors
Da-Jin Chu
email
William Cutler
email
Amogh Dayal
email
Tatiana Ediger
email
John Gallagher
email
Cassandra Harbour
email
Xuyang Li
email
Iris Liu
email
Anthony Mu
email
Noble Mushtak
email
Griffin Rademacher
email
Erica Sammarco
email
Ryan Schaefer
email
Harsh Sethia
email
David Stephenson
email
Rebecca Swernofsky
email
Isaac Walker
email
Akira Watanabe
email
Logen Witz
email
Stanley Wu
email
Sabrina Zhang
emailTutors hold office hours, help out in labs, and grade homeworks and provide feedback about the class’s progress. In general, they are undergraduate and graduate students who know that to learn something really well, you need to teach it.
your graders
David Yei
emailGraders are staff members who exclusively grade homeworks. You won’t find them in office hours but can always reach out via email to ask questions about their feedback.
Other (Natural) Languages
If you feel that you would benefit from help in another language, we have some staff who are willing and able to help. Below is a list of the languages we are able to accomodate and who you should go to for help in that language.
Gujarati (Amogh Dayal)
Hindi (Amogh Dayal)
Mandarin (Iris Liu, Sabrina Zhang)
Turkish (Khalil Haji)
When you need help with the lecture material, the lab material, or the
homeworks, don’t despair—
A meeting with a tutor, TA, or instructor is the best to get explanations because you can ask questions in real time and get answers to them. Try office hours.
If you have a question that you prefer to ask in a non-public setting, again try (the instructors’) office hours, or send email to anybody on the course staff.
Note that we may post anonymous excerpts from your mail message on Piazza if we consider it of general interest. If you want the message to remain completely private, be sure to request it when you send an email.