Yes, I am an undergrad. And I know that undergrads complain about their TA's a lot. But seriously, this ignorance of some people today-both the TA and the other students, made me really frustrated
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But yeah I understand the frustration that comes with having a stupid TA. :( My circuits lab TAs SUCKED BALLS. They were useless if you needed help debugging your circuit and my second one didn't even read the lab reports. He just gave 10/10 unless he noticed a set of graphs missing then he'd mark you down a point or two. (We know he didn't read them because a couple of us started putting random sentences in the middle of our reports and we still got 10/10 with no marks about the sentences.)
I don't know why there seems to be a law that states TAs can't be intelligent. I do know that TAs are typically the teacher's pet from previous semesters. Unless they're grad students in which case they may be TA-ing as part of their award package and got assigned the class at random if it didn't require technical skill. Like the school will just figure the guy can look up the history stuff before each lesson instead of having to know it all well from previous training/classes.
I'm not a huge fan of my bio lab TA either-mostly because of that one story I told you, and this guy usually knows what he's talking about-although he is sinfully boring-but today he was on a roll and not the good kind, I guess. Or he just knows next to nothing about Russian history.
But yeah I understand the frustration that comes with having a stupid TA. :( My circuits lab TAs SUCKED BALLS. They were useless if you needed help debugging your circuit and my second one didn't even read the lab reports. He just gave 10/10 unless he noticed a set of graphs missing then he'd mark you down a point or two. (We know he didn't read them because a couple of us started putting random sentences in the middle of our reports and we still got 10/10 with no marks about the sentences.)
I don't know why there seems to be a law that states TAs can't be intelligent. I do know that TAs are typically the teacher's pet from previous semesters. Unless they're grad students in which case they may be TA-ing as part of their award package and got assigned the class at random if it didn't require technical skill. Like the school will just figure the guy can look up the history stuff before each lesson instead of having to know it all well from previous training/classes.
Either way, 95% of TAs are MORONS. >_
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I'm not a huge fan of my bio lab TA either-mostly because of that one story I told you, and this guy usually knows what he's talking about-although he is sinfully boring-but today he was on a roll and not the good kind, I guess. Or he just knows next to nothing about Russian history.
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