• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    Teacher’s Assistant/Teaching Aide

    Basically an older student helping teach the younger ones as a parttime job. Generally involves a lot of crappy work like supervising labwork, helping out with grading and answering the same question 18 times.

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      Can be real fun though and often you get deeper insight into the subject than just attending a class or gain valuable connections into the institute.

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        I bet you’ll NEVER forget any of that material ever your whole life. You’ll be on your deathbed senile can’t remember your name and can still spout that shit out.

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      In my personal experience, it usually means doing 80% of the professor’s work for minimum wage pay so the $140k/yr prof can fuck off and go brown-nose the school Board of Trustees all term.

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        The Prof might be doing other research too, as universities aren’t just for teaching undergrads. He might be advancing science in his field

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        Not really. A senpai is usually a more experienced co-worker or in school an older student in your extracurricular. You would refer to a TA as sensei.