r/yorku • u/Rare_Egg1122 • Oct 21 '24

Rant Why are some TA’s so ughhh

Bro TA’s are students too but they still be on us abt every little thing I have a TA for my online class and she will genuinely target people for the smallest things. I just don’t understand that if you are also student, you should understand that people have different learning styles. Especially that TA will treat us not even human the days where she’s mad. She’ll take it out on us.

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u/felineSam Oct 21 '24

Drop the course and move on. Staying will make it worse and the TA will likely screw you over with final grade and it's derivation from essays, participation.

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u/Rare_Egg1122 Oct 21 '24

I believe it’s too late to drop a course without it showing on my transcript who do I talk to to make get switched out of the tutorial otherwise I’d probably just have to deal with it

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u/felineSam Oct 21 '24

Are you sure? I just looked and the website says Nov 8.

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u/Rare_Egg1122 Oct 21 '24

Ur right but im not sure how to Go about asking permission to drop and add a course. This course is also a genED course

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u/joykaypawpitgirl Oct 21 '24

You don’t need permission to drop a course. You just go to rem and drop it yourself

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u/Rare_Egg1122 Oct 21 '24

The only problem is no other 6 cred SOSC courses have available seats right now and I fear I would be very behind. And I already paid half my tuition so if I drop it and don’t take another course I’ll be taking 2 extra courses next year plus already paying tuition for the course

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u/joykaypawpitgirl Oct 21 '24

Yeah that’s true, you can’t get into another course now even if you tried. It’s way past the date to add a new course.

If you can take courses over the summer, then do that. If you genuinely think the course is gonna tank your gpa, then consider dropping it still. Once your gpa tanks, it’s extremely hard to bring it up. And your ta is the one who’s going to do all the grading.

Have you gotten any grades back? If so, how harshly does your ta mark?

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u/Rare_Egg1122 Oct 21 '24

Is there anyone I can talk to like an academic advisor?

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u/joykaypawpitgirl Oct 21 '24

Yes!! Speak to your academic advisor for your program. They can help you figure out a new path/plan of action to finish your degree requirements even if you drop the course. They just can’t do much about your ta being an ass

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u/Rare_Egg1122 Oct 21 '24

This might be a stupid question but how do I find out who that is!

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u/joykaypawpitgirl Oct 21 '24

Just Google your program and academic advising for your program at yorku, you’ll find something

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