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Losing at coffee pong is a lot like losing at its alcoholic counterpart except that instead of pleasantly buzzed and eventually hungover you are nauseatingly buzzed and late for section...
...phone bills skyrocket with constant updates between family members before class, during class—bathroom break!—and after class. TFs look quizzically at watergun-toting students who rush into the room panting for breath, only to creak open the door slowly, peering nervously outward, after section comes...
Murray graduated from Humanities Prep in the spring of 1999, but then took a year off of school to work at the Times, where she read submissions for the Magazine’s Lives section and wrote several short news articles...
Although hiring TFs earlier may lead to marginal improvements in teaching quality, the way to make substantive changes is very different. The first step is to make section participation ungraded. Students, should not be rewarded for doing their reading on a weekly basis—and they surely should not be penalized for falling behind on those weeks when, for whatever reasons, they cannot complete all the readings for all their classes. If participation were ungraded, students would spend more time offering their own opinions and, crucially, listening to their classmates’ views—the essence of meaningful...
Similarly, sections should not be mandatory. Students who do not wish to participate in discussion should not have to. If there are interesting points brought up in a section which they do not attend—useful for either intellectual enrichment or a future exam—that is their loss. If the section is dull or useless, then no one should have to attend. Forcing students to contribute to discussions in which they are uninterested is a waste of everyone’s time, adversely affecting other students’ experiences as well as wasting the TF?...