 I decided to become an IA when I was actually taking 183. I found the course very engaging. The material was something that I was helping my friends with and I just thought it was really fun to teach. My GSIs were fantastic. I knew that that was something that I wanted to contribute to in a teaching environment. If you're considering applying to be an IA, I say go for it. The application is pretty easy to do. You have to film a little video of yourself explaining a concept that you're very interested in that's relevant to the course you're applying for obviously. I honestly had a lot of fun filming my video and it's something that I did with like friends and family. As an IA, generally speaking, you are going to work with students in a lab throughout the semester and you're usually going to have about maybe like 10 to 15 students who show up pretty regularly to those sessions. When you really build a relationship with them, like you really get to see their progress at the semester and I think that's really rewarding especially in a course like 183 where a lot of students come in with zero programming experience and oftentimes they leave saying like oh you know maybe I think I'll keep going with this like this was actually really fun. That's really awesome to me to see that like oh I was a part of creating that environment for them.