• Tar_Alcaran
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      799 months ago

      Teacher’s Assistant/Teaching Aide

      Basically an older student helping teach the younger ones as a parttime job. Generally involves a lot of crappy work like supervising labwork, helping out with grading and answering the same question 18 times.

      • @[email protected]
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        479 months ago

        Can be real fun though and often you get deeper insight into the subject than just attending a class or gain valuable connections into the institute.

        • @Crashumbc
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          89 months ago

          I bet you’ll NEVER forget any of that material ever your whole life. You’ll be on your deathbed senile can’t remember your name and can still spout that shit out.

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        9 months ago

        In my personal experience, it usually means doing 80% of the professor’s work for minimum wage pay so the $140k/yr prof can fuck off and go brown-nose the school Board of Trustees all term.

        • @[email protected]
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          59 months ago

          The Prof might be doing other research too, as universities aren’t just for teaching undergrads. He might be advancing science in his field

          • @uis
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            59 months ago

            In some countries doing research is requirement fot being prof.

        • @[email protected]
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          39 months ago

          Or maybe that professor is an adjunct professor and they’re making 40k/yr :(

          Tough out there.

        • @KoalaUnknown
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          19 months ago

          Not really. A senpai is usually a more experienced co-worker or in school an older student in your extracurricular. You would refer to a TA as sensei.