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To help cover my tuition and living costs at Harvard, I secured a teaching assistant (TA) position in the HarvardHarvard Teaching Assistantship engineering school where I was enrolled to do a PhD in applied mathematicsHarvard PhD program in applied mathematics. Since I had done an honors course in the theory of complex variablesTheory of complex variables as an undergraduate, I was going to be a TA in this subject. However, when tested on some complex variableComplex variables class at Harvard problems by the chair of the applied mathematicsHarvard PhD program in applied mathematics program, he concluded that I should take this course for credit because of its more applied orientation. Did I lose the TA? No, the chair did not know of any rules at Harvard that prevented me from both taking the course for credit and being a TA for it.

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My Harvard Teaching Assistantship: Life as an Academic Doppelgänger

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    2026年

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  • Lawrence Mysak

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To help cover my tuition and living costs at Harvard, I secured a teaching assistant (TA) position in the HarvardHarvard Teaching Assistantship engineering school where I was enrolled to do a PhD in applied mathematicsHarvard PhD program in applied mathematics. Since I had done an honors course in the theory of complex variablesTheory of complex variables as an undergraduate, I was going to be a TA in this subject. However, when tested on some complex variableComplex variables class at Harvard problems by the chair of the applied mathematicsHarvard PhD program in applied mathematics program, he concluded that I should take this course for credit because of its more applied orientation. Did I lose the TA? No, the chair did not know of any rules at Harvard that prevented me from both taking the course for credit and being a TA for it.