Re: Baller Day (for a grad student)
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please explain what TA means, thank you
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TA = teaching assistant
In bigger classes, there's often a couple of lectures per week which are taught by the professor (at my school they'll be up to 250 students in a lecture hall), as well as either a lab or a discussion, which typically have only 10 or 20 students and are taught by a TA, who is a grad student studying something relevant to the class.
I got very lucky as I'll be teaching a discussion session - a 50 minute class where there's usually a problem set or some sort of group work. The labs are a pain in the arse to TA; they're 2 or 3 hours long with a lot of setup and clean up.
TA's also would help professors in proctoring exams, correcting exams and assignments, etc.
Beat: TA's are generally strictly prohibited from dating undergrads... (but only during the semester. holla.)
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