Word: tf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...solution to a poor TF is to change sections--that is, if you realize early enough what you are getting into. But this is often harder than it seems. Switching from one section to another at Harvard is like playing poker. You have to know how to bluff (fabricate a conflict to escape a section with a dismal teaching fellow); you do not know whether trading in your cards (switching sections) will net you a better hand (TF); and you have to know when to walk away and give up the fight (resign yourself to the fact that there...
...students who (especially in Core courses) have not done the reading and do not care about the class. And those students who have done the reading will often speak even when they have nothing meaningful to say, simply to get their names checked off for that hour on the TF's mental participation list. (Quantity beats quality every time.) But these mitigating factors are no excuse for the result: an education unworthy of the Harvard name...
Once they told me about how a pencil was dropped over Sanders' balcony, right onto the head of an unsuspecting TF. I realized I was missing out; small classes were worthwhile, but I had to experience the apparent laugh-a-minute that was the Harvard lecture course...
Still, Lori J. Park '96-'97, who was also a TF for CS-50 last semester, says being an undergraduate TF sometimes disrupted her life because students had fewer qualms about calling her at any hour than if she were a graduate student...
...Certainly, given that most of the TF positions for undergraduates are in the sciences and fewer women are in the sciences, you're going to have [an imbalance]. The TF representation is proportional to the number of male and female concentrators [in the sciences]," Walfish says...