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PROFESSOR: Co-teaching
with Srini,

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Professor Srinivas Devadas
is really a lot of fun.

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We've taught before.

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We taught the 6006
that's on OCW together.

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And Srini is I would say one
of the most humorous professors

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that I know at MIT.

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So it's really a lot of
fun to teach with him.

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And I mean, sometimes
it's like a comedy

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routine in his lectures.

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And I like to do that too in
lectures, tell lots of jokes

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and play together.

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So it's really nice
working together.

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We have a good dynamic.

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We're both super
flexible, like, oh, I

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need you to cover this lecture.

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Oh, no problem, I
love that stuff.

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In fact, we were both kind
of fighting over which

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lectures we wanted to teach.

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Because I was
like, I really want

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to teach this-- no,
no, I taught it.

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I really want to
teach it this time.

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So that's a nice
dynamic to have.

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It's not like oh, you
taught one too few lectures,

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it's not balanced.

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Totally not like that.

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And both in 6006 and
6046, in the last lecture

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we do a kind of
actual comedy routine

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where we're somehow
fighting each other.

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It's all in good humor,
and it's pretty fun.

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The students really like it.

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He's also-- in both classes
he has creative ideas

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on how to reward students
for answering questions.

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So in 6006, we were in a
relatively uncomfortable

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lecture hall.

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And so we had these pillows
that we had custom printed

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and had the name of the
class and a little Rubik's

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cube on it.

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And so if anyone ever
answered a question in class

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or asked a good
question, then we

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would throw them a pillow,
kind of like a Frisbee.

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And so for 6046,
Srini was like, you

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know what we have to do this
time is get actual Frisbees.

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And so we got these blue
and purple Frisbees,

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also custom printed
with the class number

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and a little diagram that is
in lecture 20 or something.

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And so whenever anyone asked
or answered a question,

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we would throw them a Frisbee.

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We'd make jokes about
whether blue was better,

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or purple was better.

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There was no better.

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It was just--

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So this was tough for me,
because I had to really learn

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how to throw Frisbees.

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But I think by the end of the
semester, I got pretty good.