Sharing advice I got as a student

[terriko]

I was really bored during the TA training last week, and scribbled down a list of useful advice I'd gotten over the years, which I've talked about in 9 good bits of advice I've gotten as a student over on the CUWISE blog. I welcome you all to add your own!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Sucks how all TA's have to listen to the same old same old eh? (I was bored during the first part, too.) Hopefully the panel was a little more interesting! ;)

-Gail

[terriko]

The panel definitely was, but I actually wasn't talking about the CS session at all -- this was the university-wide one that I was writing during.

To be fair, the university one has improved greatly since the last time I took it, but I'm still not interested in being told again how to get paid. ;)

Every time?

[(Anonymous)]

They make you do this every time? They don't do that to us.

As for advice, the biggest lesson I've learned is that sometimes you just have to suck it up and go with the flow...

Asad

Re: Every time?

[terriko]

They sort of do. As in, they *claim* it's mandatory (And you get paid to be there) but the deal is that you are supposed to do 5 hours of training. This counts, or you can take courses (of varying degrees of usefulness) or you can just not get paid for those 5 hours. It's pretty much up to you.

I just went to the university-wide one 'cause I figured I could read during it. ;)