dear future first year,
If you are reading this, good for you, you are thinking ahead. A word of warning: it doesn't matter how much you read, how much you "prepare", or how much you mull over your future life in your head. Nothing will really prepare you mentally, physically, or emotionally for actually coming here and beginning to teach. My best advice? Relax. Enjoy your last months as a college student. Plan to roll with the punches. MTCers who can shrug off stress, who don't take themselves or their work too seriously, and who can simply relax under pressure will thrive. So start practicing.
Everything else that I might want to say to you has already been written well by a former TFA. He wrote a letter to an in-coming first-year that sums up our job. Enjoy.
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