"If you want to master something, teach it." — Richard Feynman

GEOG 201: Landform Geography

Role: Lab Instructor | University of South Carolina | Fall 2024, Spring 2025, & Spring 2026

📂 Lab Materials & Slides

Anonymous Evaluations & Feedback

Spring 2026 Overall Instructor Score: 5.00 / 5.0
Fall 2024 Overall Instructor Score: 4.44 / 5.0

Student Feedback (Spring 2026)

"He was the best. He always helped us when we needed it, made the labs engaging and we learned a lot."
"The professor is literally a genius and made everything so easy to understand, as well as engaging."
"He was very kind and it was easy to ask him questions regarding the lab. He would explain the labs very well and I understood them."
"The combination of lectures and labs help a lot with being able to understand real world applications of what we learned in class."

Student Feedback (Fall 2024)

"Mr. Chen was a great TA! He helped me understand the material better. I will miss him."
"I really enjoyed the labs; he made it very interesting."
"Sometimes when we would ask questions, it would be difficult to get an answer that we could understand to grasp the material. But definitely knowledgeable on the subject!"

How the semester feels sometimes:

Teaching Meme

(But... I love teaching. For real!)