As I near the end of my first week as both a graduate student and a new teaching assistant, I've realized a few things:
1) I have always been a big fish in a little pond
This one is pretty self-explanatory. In essence, I began life as a brainy, book-loving, nerdy kid, and while I would never identify myself as a prodigy child, or the head of the class, I won't deny that my smarts and abilities put me well above average.