Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Apparently aware of the potentially volatile chemistry between TF and student the administration actively seeks to prevent classroom romances from occurring. "Delta," a Course Assistant for a Math class, describes "several seminars that Harvard mandates you go to [when you are a TF], which concern almost entirely the relations between the students and the TF". In them, 'we are given specific scenarios with the corresponding specific university policies." For instance, "a TF should never call up a student unless they have called and asked to be called back, and then the full conversation can only be about issues related...
...such a crush on him. Maybe it was the power thing." Or maybe it was a psychological trick she played on herself in order to do better in the class. After all, she notes, "after doing all that work, I got the best grade I have gotten in math at Harvard...
...Math TFs, however, have traditionally been someof those most criticized for their lack of Englishskills...
...students use their TF's accent as anexcuse not to do their best work," said Donna R.D'Fini, coordinator of the department's graduateprograms. "Some students concentrate on theaccent, not on the math...
...gone from math to myth," his roommateKapelke says...