{"id":686,"date":"2008-05-29T13:13:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T18:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=686"},"modified":"2016-07-07T10:27:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T14:27:47","slug":"i-dont-need-none-of-that-he-saidshe-said-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"I don’t need none of that “he said\/she said” business."},"content":{"rendered":"

My TA is, simply put, hostile. His behavior is similar to bullying in that I cannot prove what he is doing and his condescending tone is discouraging me from participating because he is making me feel as though my participation or thoughts do not matter in the tutorial and that reading the textbook and going to lecture is not enough for him. Tutorial is worth 10% of my mark, and my papers will be marked by this abysmal thing UofT has hired to be a TA. I know UofT loves them, but is there nothing I can do about this? My professor has said that tutorials we choose are permanent but I don’t know if UofT professors grant exceptions regarding this matter to consider speaking to my professor for this particular course. I also do not want to be singled out by the professor or the TA and spend the rest of the year wondering if I will be deducted 70 percentages if my TA were to get hold of my exam paper and recognize from my name that I was the person who switched out of his tutorial. I need to switch tutorials\/TAs if I want to do well in this course, but I feel as though (like my TA), my professor\/others might think I am simply exaggerating. Any help\/advice would be much-appreciated.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Your TA could very well be a douche bag. However, what you are saying is very subjective. Unless he’s a robot or a being with gills I would suggest talking to him. That way, you’ll be able to find out what he’s really looking for from you as a student. If you’re enrolled in a course that’s at a more demanding level –\u00a0i.e. higher than 100, then I think that it’s fair for him to expect more you reciting text book or lecture material within the tutorial. Everyone knows that stuff already and you’re just wasting time saying it. At University one learns to think. If you wanted to learn how to ‘do’ you would have gone to College. You’ve decided to enrol at the most prestigious post-secondary school in Canada and in order to do well, you have to go up and beyond what would normally be expected, which is probably what your TA had to do in order to get to where he is today. Maybe try to think up questions of your own that are relevant to the course material that can heighten your knowledge on the subject and give the class something interesting to discuss. Just don’t bring up how your Uncle’s parrot can speak words in English (unless that is the topic?) because you’re trying to be quirky and different. I hate those kids. And the overly eager mature students. Not that I hate mature students, I’d just love to shut up the ones who feel like they’re old with something to prove.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reason why Profs don’t want to do anything about changing your tutorial section is because they have to go into ROSI and all of these other applications just to appease your ego. If you can’t talk to your TA about it, then talk to your Prof. If you feel in the end you’ve been graded unfairly, you can fill out a petition form with your registrar. Feelings are feelings and everyone is entitled to their own, but in this situation, I think that maybe you’re over reacting a bit. Yep. Life sucks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My TA is, simply put, hostile. His behavior is similar to bullying in that I cannot prove what he is doing and his condescending tone is discouraging me from participating because he is making me feel as though my participation or thoughts do not matter in the tutorial and that reading the textbook and going to lecture is not enough for him. Tutorial is worth 10% of my mark, and my papers will be marked by this abysmal thing UofT has hired to be a TA. I know UofT loves them, but is there nothing I can do about this? My professor has said that tutorials we choose are permanent but I don’t know if UofT professors grant exceptions regarding this matter to consider speaking to my professor for this particular course. I also do not want to be singled out by the professor or the TA and spend the rest of the year wondering if I will be deducted 70 percentages if my TA were to get hold of my exam paper and recognize from my name that I was the person who switched out of his tutorial. I need to switch tutorials\/TAs if I want to do well in this course, but I feel as though (like my TA), my professor\/others might think I am simply exaggerating. Any help\/advice would be much-appreciated.<\/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":[187,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost","category-tas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}