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