I took ta position for a year when I was a college student. Feel exactly the same thing especailly about grading their homework. You have to be careful to avoid any mistakes otherwise they complaining you to death. But most of them threw them away after knowing the score : (. I feel like I'm a laundry machine: no matter how hard you work, you still get dirty clothes for the next time till the end of semester.
I was almost tempted to show this to my students in my sections this week... almost each week I ask them "What is the key to passing this class?"... and they always answer together " 'READ THE BOOK!' "... and then when I launch into "Ok, so let's get started, who read Chapter 5?" and then they all sit there quietly.
I read chapter 5 and made extensive notes on it -- for THEM!
Thank god I was a TA before all this portable tech and social media crap got invented. The students were forced to sit uncomfortably when I asked them a question. Eventually the bravest would stammer out an attempt at an answer, even though it was obvious they had, at best, skimmed the reading and often not even that. At least that gave me a reason to provide the right answer.
@ CaringMomKaren: yes, we were all undergrads once; but we were *good* ones, who wrote readable papers, and didn't complain that we only had a week and a half to write it, and never complained about an A- because "I have to get into law school and this is going to ruin my life!"
I guess you came into the world knowing everything, huh? Seems like a lot of the people commenting on this page forgot where they started...at the undergrad level just like the rest of us.
lol love old movies
makeiteasyable 2 months ago
My original thesis: "Things have NOT changed and NOT stayed the same."
mphello 4 months ago
I took ta position for a year when I was a college student. Feel exactly the same thing especailly about grading their homework. You have to be careful to avoid any mistakes otherwise they complaining you to death. But most of them threw them away after knowing the score : (. I feel like I'm a laundry machine: no matter how hard you work, you still get dirty clothes for the next time till the end of semester.
yangtze1216 6 months ago
This is so true, it makes my teeth hurt.
chewbacca1010 10 months ago
I was almost tempted to show this to my students in my sections this week... almost each week I ask them "What is the key to passing this class?"... and they always answer together " 'READ THE BOOK!' "... and then when I launch into "Ok, so let's get started, who read Chapter 5?" and then they all sit there quietly.
I read chapter 5 and made extensive notes on it -- for THEM!
Damnit.
FML.
braddyboy82 10 months ago
Very clever writing. Well done.
cosg9531 11 months ago
LOL. I think this is one of the best ones.
0Enidan0 11 months ago
Thank god I was a TA before all this portable tech and social media crap got invented. The students were forced to sit uncomfortably when I asked them a question. Eventually the bravest would stammer out an attempt at an answer, even though it was obvious they had, at best, skimmed the reading and often not even that. At least that gave me a reason to provide the right answer.
OroborusFMA 11 months ago
why does this remind me of some of the teachers (from HS) and instructors (from College)?????????? OH, because they were LIKE HITLER!!!!
cadettrav 1 year ago
This is so true. Whoever made this was a genius!
dooglesw 1 year ago
I'm a professor and I STILL know exactly how this guy feels! Which really sucks, don't it?
blueprairiedog 1 year ago 2
fucking gold man...this what all these worthless undergrads take for granted.
naikanomtom 1 year ago
I was a TA for two years. I know EXACTLY how this guy feels.
IronBrig4 1 year ago
lol... ... I'm a trainee teacher and I understand how he feels... ...
maiachryseis 1 year ago
I was a Soc TA. But yeah, being a brown guy (Indian) kinda spoilt the whole "impress girls" deal.
englishtamil 2 years ago
@ CaringMomKaren: yes, we were all undergrads once; but we were *good* ones, who wrote readable papers, and didn't complain that we only had a week and a half to write it, and never complained about an A- because "I have to get into law school and this is going to ruin my life!"
tearosefurymarie 2 years ago 4
@tearosefurymarie May I add that we also care about the world we live in.
bojisti 1 year ago
Just another day TAing Soc. 101/1...
ValensHawke 2 years ago
whoever the OP is for this video deserves a fucking medal and year-long fellowship!
milleniumscar 2 years ago 20
"Things have changed and stayed the same." Brilliant. That really is the jist of every other undergrad paper you read. It hurts me.
tearosefurymarie 2 years ago
I guess you came into the world knowing everything, huh? Seems like a lot of the people commenting on this page forgot where they started...at the undergrad level just like the rest of us.
CaringMomKaren 2 years ago
CLASSIC! I never thought my experiences as a graduate assistant could be summed up so humorously.
bdthomas101 2 years ago 9
Great job!!!!
But where's the reference to plagiarism?
golemation 2 years ago 3