Let’s talk about teaching. Many graduate students have their first teaching experience in their first semester of grad school, and this can be intimidating in a lot of ways. A lot of us have only been students up until this point, with very few having opportunities to even being assistants in a lower level course while in undergrad. So it comes as no surprise that many grad students feel like we’re being thrown in the deep end of a pool and expected to stay afloat. Some completely legitimate concerns are with public speaking, being considered an expert on a subject, time management, and how to interact with students as an authority figure, and this only covers a few topics that could be crossing your mind.