"Making the transition from graduate student to professor is similar to moving from engaged to married. Everything about you is technically the same, but somehow the formalization makes everything different. It's not that I know more than I did a scant four months before, but my students treat me with respect. No more of that 'where's our real teacher' nonsense that so riddled my experience at Langsdale [graduate school]. In Atlanta, it's all polite smiles and 'okie-dokie, Miss-I-mean-Dr. Weatherall.' "
I definitely have had the "where's our real teacher" from students...
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