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...heavy workload even prompted one student to send an E-mail message over the class' newsgroup to the instructor, Assistant Professor Margo I. Seltzer...
Most good teaching fellows in the sciences understand what it is like to be on the other side of the podium. In many cases, they sympathize with the workload imposed by two or three natural science courses and are willing to give students a break...
...object to proctored exams for two reasons. First, the role of a proctor is entirely unnecessary from a logistical standpoint. Their administrative workload could easily be shuffled onto teaching fellows, who normally make themselves available during exams anyway. A Ph.D. candidate in the GSAS is entirely capable of reading instructions, telling undergrads to sit in every other seat, and giving permission for students to go wee wee during the test. And the presence of a TF is just as effective in deterring any would be cheaters...
...workload wouldn't get lighter-the time for doing it would just get shorter. And people active in extracurricular activities would be forced to do their planning and work for next-semester projects (spring registration issues, for example) during reading and exam period as well...
Well, of course," you say. "Obviously Computer Science 51'S workload levels The Rome of Augustus's into the ground. No wonder the syllabi differ...