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A good TA: priceless
Tom Davis ’84, SM ’85
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MIT Alumni News: Profile
Tom Davis ’84, SM ’85
October 20, 2026
GRETCHEN NEFF LAMBERT (photo illustration); TOM DAVIS (photos)
These are images of quizzes I took in 3.091, Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry, in the fall of 1980.
One is my very first exam at MIT, and getting 49 out of 100 was a soul-crushing experience. I can still picture the TA, Leszek Pawlowicz, PhD ’87, returning my paper. He had a big smile on his face, and he said…
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