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| A very late, but happy new year to all you followers and people that have stumbled on to this blog |
So after a long hiatus, I'll be back for the foreseeable future. Feels like it has been 2 years 2 months (high-fives for those that got that reference), but no, it has been just less than a year, but a really jam packed year.
Going back to "2 Years 2 Months", a pathetic reference to FOD's - 2 Years 2 Months for those that remember the song from AuditionSEA (one of my favourite ones, considering the winter season and the incorporation of a variation of Pachelbel's canon). Had a huge trip down memory lane when I stumbled upon an actual functioning site that archived all the old songs from SEA and KOR (and still is updated with all the new stuff). Also taking a second to pay my respects to xeanz, a site that has seemingly disappeared without a trace. Kudos to Veiss for running it as long as he could, it was also great working with you.
Now back to my "year-in review", which will be spread out through many future posts and at random times of the year.
I guess this is a good time to talk about it since a lot of people are starting school again, but I'd like to share with you my experience being a TA (teaching assistant).
A quick disclaimer to cover my butt so I don't get into legal trouble or whatnot: The words, views and opinions expressed on this site DO NOT represent the view and opinions of University of Toronto, the CUPE/Union, and any of the University's employees and staff members and related organizations.
Okay, now that I got that out of the way, back to the topic at hand.
TAing, above anything, is an interesting look into the logistics of how those stacks of paper that magically appear on your desk come test time and how that big fat A is spat back out at you.
Not sure how this works for courses that have a small amount of enrollment, but for the course I TAed (~1500 students), we go through a process to sort and divide exams. A tedious, but necessary task since the appropriate amounts of test papers must be allocated through the 10+ classrooms the test papers written in.
Now here's a thing for all you first years out there.
When the TAs or professors say something while you are writing the exam. LISTEN UP.
You have no idea how important this is. There may be an error on the exam paper (blame whoever wrote them), or special instructions or even dictating instructions that are on the first pages of your exam.
More of my banter and ranting on this topic for my next post. So stay tuned folks, and I hope to see y'all in the very near future.
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3 comments:
Woohoo, he's back! He's alive!
It sure's been a long time man. Half of the Blogosphere died while you were gone, but luckily a few survived and pulled new souls in.
Can't wait to hear more about about your experiences with TAing. And yeah, whatever they say during a test tends to be listened to carefully. Thought that always was obvious?
Welcome back. It's nice to see someone return when so many other bloggers have keeled over and died.
Hey look your back. XD
It seems like I missed your epic return post... Happy new year and may this one be the best ever! (Me being overly optimistic, probably some kind of those "last year of school" fevers. :P)
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