Word: tf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that." Two hours later, you head off to section and who happens to saunter into the room but the dreamboat from the cafe. But instead of sitting with the rest of the students, he walks up to the front of the class and introduces himself as your TF. Great. Now you'll be spending the rest of the semester biting your fingernails in the throes of unfulfilled coital agony...
...relationship between a TF and his or her student is ambiguous, at best. Sure, TFs are supposed to be your mentors, the people for knowledge, but considering that some TFs are just plain hot, it's no wonder that students start to entertain other, less wholesome attitudes toward them...
...Alpha", a junior, says that in her first year she had a Shakespeare TF with "the best arm muscles I have ever seen. He was really hot." "Beta", a junior taking her pre-med requirements, confides that during a lab, her physiology TF "rolled up his T-shirt and started flexing and saying, 'Well, the extensor works this way and see how when I flex the bicep..."' Beta is sure that he liked being able to show the class that he was a big, buff...
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...
Indeed, situations between TFs and students can get complicated. "Gamma", a first-year, found out that the person she had broken up with just days before the term started was the only TF in a class she wanted to take. "For the first week, it was a big mess," she says. Luckily, everything worked out when "he withdrew as a TF so that I could take the class comfortably...