The TAs here are just other MIT students.
All of them are really interested in teaching.
They're really interested in helping you succeed
in the classes they've taken.
My name is Jason.
I am currently an ESG co-instructor/TA for 1803.
When I was a first-year, I really relied on the TAs
to not only provide me with information
to help me with my PSETs, but also
just to get through that transition period
my first year at MIT.
And now that I'm a TA, I've seen some of the mistakes I made,
and I remember the advice that these upperclassmen TAs gave me,
and now I'm kind of imparting that same experience
to the new freshmen.
Office hours are probably the most important thing
to your success your first year at MIT,
not just from an academic perspective.
Your peers can really set you on the right track
in terms of your classes that you want to take.
And at office hours, especially at ESG, it's informal,
it's not meant to pressure you.
You get one-on-one help that you would never
get in mainstream office hours.
Because there's so many TAs and there's so many office hours,
you can get help pretty much every day of the week,
and it's tailored to you because you have
that one-on-one interaction.