{"id":20961,"date":"2017-06-28T15:09:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T19:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20961"},"modified":"2019-07-19T23:00:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T03:00:37","slug":"dont-ask-us-about-the-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20961","title":{"rendered":"don&#8217;t ask us about the babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello askas (ive heard that there are two now)! I am applying for a few internships and I need some academic references. I also may need some for future grad programs! So I read your previous posts on profs and references. Could I ask TAs for references and if so, what approach should I take? Are there other people besides profs and TAs who can provide academic references? Or would references from TAs and other ppl be useless? Thanks for your time(:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hi!<\/p>\n<p>yep, there are now two askas running around the place. we are united by our frozen hearts, love of gifs, and distain for math. we&#8217;re also lowkey both beyonce. it&#8217;s a really\u00a0<em>really\u00a0<\/em>snappy work environment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.giphy.com\/media\/z85gTda8487AI\/giphy.gif\" width=\"402\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n<p>academic references are usually instructors in a course, so usually a prof. i know that sometimes you form more relationships with your TAs, but academic references are usually the people who teach the course material. sucks, i know.<\/p>\n<p>if you have a TA you\u00a0<em>really really\u00a0<\/em>wanna use as a reference, i would get in contact with the organization that you&#8217;re trying to intern for or check out their application guidelines to see if they accept TAs or other people as references.<\/p>\n<p>good luck! hope this helps!<\/p>\n<p>xoxo,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello askas (ive heard that there are two now)! I am applying for a few internships and I need some academic references. I also may need some for future grad programs! So I read your previous posts on profs and references. Could I ask TAs for references and if so, what approach should I take? Are there other people besides profs and TAs who can provide academic references? Or would references from TAs and other ppl be useless? Thanks for your time(: \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hi! yep, there are now two askas running around the place. we are united by our frozen hearts, love of gifs, and distain for math. we&#8217;re also lowkey both beyonce. it&#8217;s a really\u00a0really\u00a0snappy work environment. academic references are usually instructors in a course, so usually a prof. i know that sometimes you form more relationships with your TAs, but academic references are usually the people who teach the course material. sucks, i know. if you have a TA you\u00a0really really\u00a0wanna use as a reference, i would get in contact with the organization that you&#8217;re trying to intern for or check out their application guidelines to see if they accept TAs or other people as references. good luck! hope this helps! xoxo, aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-references"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}