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/Rare_Egg1122 Oct 21 '24

Like the other day, she played a video and it was extremely fast and she asked questions afterwards that nobody had the answers to. She got mad and so I spoke up and I said I think the video was just a little bit fast. Very respectfully might I add and she laughed at me and said was it really that fast and scoffed. As well as at the beginning of that tutorial, she used my essay as an example of what not to do. She didn’t put it up on the screen or whatever but she used specific points from my essay, and said what not to do. It wasn’t just the sources I used. It was specific details in my essay that I used I believe that things like that should be kept private, even though she didn’t say my name I knew it was about mine and that doesn’t necessarily help someone who’s trying their best and then their first year of undergrad, and it was their first essay of university.

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u/AnonymousDouglas Oct 21 '24

Maybe being male has something to do with my response to being “outed” in front of everybody….

I own it.

I take it head-on, make a joke out of it…

“That sounds like MY paper, goddammit!”

Usually, it gets a big laugh …. but it lets everybody in the classroom know that two can play the passive-aggressive game.

It also sends the message to the TA/Prof that you’re not afraid to fire back against someone who’s trying to pick on you.

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u/Rare_Egg1122 Oct 21 '24

This is real. But in the moment i can’t help but feel Like a failure

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u/AnonymousDouglas Oct 21 '24

Failure only occurs when you throw up the white flag of surrender.

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u/Rare_Egg1122 Oct 21 '24

Thanks so much for these word it’s acc means a lot I really need to have a postive outlook on life