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...until you e-mail off your response paper and put that one last problem set to rest—and then you’re home free for a weekend of delicious indulgence. That is, until you get that most dreaded pre-holiday email from a smug TF...
Super, can’t wait! Of course, your dissertation-battered TF expects half of those in your section to bail out and suffer the dreaded “five-point deduction from your final section grade.” And if that Grinchy grad student hadn’t decided that no, Marx wasn’t a “flag-toting conformist in disguise”—however amusing it was as you finished your midterm paper at sunrise—you could afford to tell him or her what to do with that five...
...enormous power over the Harvard classroom experience is normally wielded to the graduate students and other community members who lead discussion sections as teaching fellows. With TFs ranging from the lively and dedicated to the sullen and non-English-speaking, some students feel that the choice of a TF can have even more influence over their overall satisfaction—and grade—than the professor...
...Many departments can and do look to Harvard graduate schools besides the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to meet their needs. Making better use of the graduate schools—and even recruiting graduate students from other Boston-area colleges—would likely help the TF crunch. By expanding the pool of possible TFs, professors can afford to be more selective. Harvard currently chooses its graduate students for the quality of their work, but not necessarily for their ability to teach; there is no reason to limit our selection of TFs to the same criteria...
...There are definitely times during which the natural conflict between wanting to be a good teacher and having deadline for my dissertation arises. The two are often difficult to juggle, but it is a conflict inherent in all academia,” says Matthew D. Lundin, a TF in the history department...