Bad TA stories...
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I had a prof who left a week before the end of the semester to teach overseas. His TA, who barely spoke english, administered the final exam and calculated and submitted grades. She apparently didn't get the message, or never read the course syllabus, that your lowest test grade was dropped. (Most students used this as an opportunity to skip one of the exams altogether, as did I). And apparently she didn't notice anything was wrong when she gave the entire class of 400+ D's and F's. It took almost a year before it was resolved.
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I was a TA in history. One semester, our prof tabbed one of my colleagues to give a lecture on the 1950's. This particular TA was more of a geneaologist and less an historian, and gave several erroneous facts to the entire lecture. Needless to say, I spent well over the first half of my sections correcting all of the wrong information from lecture. Also, I can tell you that as a TA, I was usually only about one hour ahead of my students. But it was fun. And there are about 200 people in this world with Cycloin's version of American history...
That is awesome.
If any of my old students try and tell horror stories about me know two things:
1) I was hung over 95% of the time I had to teach
2) I still have the contacts to alter your grades
Think it through :biglaugh:
CycloneErik
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A friend of mine was the T.A. for a class my wife and I were taking together. A project we did for the class involved some textual work in a language that I had studied and revkah hadn't, so I put together the chart for my paper, and copied it over into hers.
She got nice comments on her chart, and a higher grade. Mine didn't do so well, even though it followed the guidelines to a T. That was awesome.
She got nice comments on her chart, and a higher grade. Mine didn't do so well, even though it followed the guidelines to a T. That was awesome.
CycloneErik
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That same T.A. and I were studying together in the library. I was searching unsuccessfully through Turabian in order to find out how to cite sources from a software library. He couldn't find it, either, and suggested a certain way to do it.
That way happened to be the way I had been using, so I finished it and turned it in. The same T.A. docked that project 11%, and made the note "you should search Turabian to cite these sources."
I left that one really shaking my head.
That way happened to be the way I had been using, so I finished it and turned it in. The same T.A. docked that project 11%, and made the note "you should search Turabian to cite these sources."
I left that one really shaking my head.
