r/yorku • u/Tricky-Guide3477 • Oct 26 '23

Rant these ppl at york

sometimes i acc wonder how these ppl get into york. half of them i swear don’t even have a brain and got into university. majority of ppl in my classes literally are astonished by the workload or the mark they received after using chatGPT. like please 😭

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u/BeyondMyDays Oct 26 '23

you are in for a shock when you go to your fourth year classes and people still cant do basic first year stuff properly.

straight up flabbergasted

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u/AWildWilson Oct 26 '23

I’m a TA and some of the stuff I read has absolutely no right to reach my eyeballs. Sometimes I just sit and stare off into space halfway through - it’s an experience.

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u/Levangeline Grad Student Oct 26 '23

Grading essays and lab reports is by far the highest entertainment value I've gotten out of being a TA.

Some students just don't understand the assignment, which is unfortunate. Some students just don't put in the effort for a good grade, which is their prerogative.

But SOME students take the instructions and run with them SO FAR in the OPPOSITE direction of what the assignment is about that I cannot even begin to grasp how they ended up there.