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...freshmen will soon discover, few types on the Harvard campus arouse such universal ire as “that kid” in your humanities section. He crowds out other discussion with big, overreaching generalizations. He challenges the TF whenever possible. His vocabulary is expansive, but he is given to the occasional malapropism. Everyone despises him, but he is intelligent enough that no one can dismiss him out of hand. (It should be noted that he can also be a she.) For the first few meetings of a section, a single domineering, pretentious personality can positively ruin discussion. But then...
...think this is a great idea,” he said. “A chat-based office hours would allow students to receive help from the comfort of their dorm rooms, rather than forcing them to lug their laptops to wherever an instructor or TF happens to be setting up shop.” Malan was optimistic about the prospects of the new addition and said that a change in forum for office hours made sense for the course. “There’s this tendency in academia to introduce technology into curricula simply for the sake...
...power hours in a section for a class they had no connection to. This last feat was recently accomplished by two senior boys from Quincy House. Somewhat surprisingly, given the copious amounts of beer they had to keep on their persons, they were not found out by their adopted TF. Or maybe grad students really, really just don’t care...
...Harvard students report having sex with a TF. Folklore and mythology concentrators appear to be getting the most play, with one respondent writing in “Mount Olympus? More like Mount Me, you hot TF...
According to Shirley X. Dong—a second year graduate student in organismic and evolutionary biology who has served as a TF for Math 19a, “Modeling and Differential Equations for the Life Sciences”—graduate TFs, who deal with more conceptual-based teaching, do not have much interaction with...