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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a professor, and my graduate students who teach are typically _more_ conscientious than the faculty.  Faculty have more competing obligations, while graduate students are anxious to do the very best job possible, not just to keep their positions, but also to learn everything they can about being academic professionals.  They can sometimes make managerial or policy errors, but a good faculty supervisor will anticipate the most likely sticking-points and mentor the grad student to prevent those ahead of time.  If anything, I have to remind the grad students not to start offering unlimited tutoring beyond the reasonable expectations of their office hours: their instinct is inevitably to help.[/quote]
Which is sad for underpaid workers. When I was in grad school making $34k/year (and that was good then!), I didn’t care about the undergrads. Sorry but I TAed to have enough money to eat the week, not to be your friend. I had no intention of being a PUI professor, so there was no incentive to teaching my ass off for undergrads who could give less of a shit about my subject. I can’t imagine how terrible the students are now with Claude and GPT.[/quote]

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