I was a TA for 6 years, I was a combo of Harsh Grader and (get this lab over with as soon as possible I have experiments to run). Surprisingly I was actually not hated....by everyone.
@Cole Clapperton actually modern journals are expecting passive voice only for established facts and active for your contributions so I’m gonna have to take off 5...sorry
Lastly: The TA who kept everything from their undergrad and just copies what their professors did. Sometimes that's a good thing... sometimes it's not.
That's also what professors do. They don't really decide which teaching techniques they should use, they just copy what they saw as students. Which is why lecture still exists.
I had the friend. He let me turn things in late, he had no safety rules except don't look directly into the laser, we ate breakfast in lab because it was early, and he babysat his kid during lab by just making sure the kid was shorter than the lasers haha.
He was the best. It was the only lab I could stand. And if one of our labs didn't work but another did, using the same exact shit, he was just like "well, that's what happens when you try to apply theory in the outside world. I'll look at it later."
I feel like that is what most men call it if they aren't stay at home dads lol. That's why I used it. He did. I'm not of the same opinion, but yeah lol.
"Just mention it and tell me what you would have done". That, along with all the real world factors I've been told to ignore in lab reports, is the most accurate description of lab work.
My personal favorite was "ok, let's do a Taylor series expansion of the math describing this lab set up...ok now just keep the first term" lab-magic lol
You forgot the TA that is fun and helpful and genuinely makes the lab enjoyable But then again i never had a TA like that in physics, so you were probably right to exclude them
AJ Voracek I like to think that of myself, but it’s pretty hard to make using a multimeter or oscilloscope fun to premed students lol. Mainly it’s more trying to make light and make the best of the situation. Optics can be fun because it’s very visual and people understand telescopes and microscopes, and think it’s cool that you can measure the thickness of a hair with a laser
@@1495978707 We listened to Dark Side of the Moon with my Modern Physics students during an Optics Lab. It was pretty dope and they did a fantastic job
My chem 2 TA hardly spoke any English so she opted for this one. I had classmates coming up to us for questions bc our group was ahead and were just like “dude were completely fucking guessing”
You forgot about the TA that, upon having been asked literally any question at all, goes ahead and does the entire lab because they'd rather not answer the question
I'm TA-ing a stat-therm course this semester. I was explaining Taylor Expansions. "You can think of it as like a polynomial that's been TAILORED to fit the function..." Not a single person laughed. I could literally hear* the crickets chirping. A student came up afterwards because they still didn't understand. I explained it again. Student:"Oh, now your terrible joke makes sense." I found out that day what kind of TA I am. I have never wanted to run to my office and hide so fast lol. P.S. I are tHeOriSt.
I TA math, I love me some analogies/applications (in other branches of math), bad puns and theory, but I think TAs are different here from what is going on in the vid
@Another Random Cuber Cross products take two vector and it spits out another. It only works with 3d vectors. With 2 D vector it spits out the area of the parralelogram.(Basically like the determinant of a matrix) You can multiply a scalor by a vector, but its not called a cross product. When you calculate the center of mass, you can indeed multiplie the mass at a position by the position vector. Add all of these up. Divide by the sum of the position and you get the center of mass. Ps: you can't really divide vector by vector but here you would go component by component.
@Another Random Cuber moment of force is basically torque. Here you do rxF. r and F are vectors. The norm of the moment is ||r||* ||F||* sin(Angle betwern). If they are perpendicular, then its ||r||*||F|| What you said was almost right except theres a bit of a different. R is the vector going from the axis of rotation to the point where you apply the force. F is the vector saying how the force is applied. The moment is going to be in another plane because we detail rotations by their normal vector. Normal vector is perpendicular to the surface. If you would walk on that surface, the normal vector would go from your feet to your head. Lets say you have a helicopter then the R vector is basically the rotor blade.
This brings back memories. I was a physics TA for 3 years back in the 1990s. I generally received complements from students and high marks on the student evaluations. My first semester I got several "nice guy" comments on my evaluations. My last semester TA'ing something changed when I was neck deep in my PhD research and stressed out. I felt like I was teaching the same way as before but the positive comments were scarce. One student I had the prior semester that had high praise for the lab then, told me he wasn't enjoying the second semester. Maybe it was the student attitudes or maybe I was less talkative and in a hurry, or maybe both. I took this as lesson to remain enthusiastic during class, even when stressed out. I don't know if it makes a difference in how much students learn in a course, but I do think having a positive experience in a science class helps with lifelong learning.
Ok, forget the definitions. Imagine a convolutional integral operator with r^n as the kernel, right, that's a discontinuous integral operator, but now apply it to a Dirac delta multiplied by your force. At this point, you get a finite value for every n. If you set n=1, you get your moment.
That and the experimentalist one were personally attacking me. I have definitely said "R^2 of .987? Do it again, that's too low"...and explained exactly how the spectrometer works in the same lab :(
@@Hexanitrobenzene Meh, I didn't feel that bad. When I personally did the lab with the same equipment I got a .9999x. Obviously it's not fair to compare them to me lab skills wise, but we had all the equipment you needed to get really good calibration curves. You just have to take your time and read all of the equipment properly. And for what it's worth, empirically it did work (though low sample size). My classes had noticeably higher R^2s on the experiment that was design your own experiment except you're actually going to do what we want you to do because we don't have the equipment for anything else that could work. They still weren't great, but ~.93 was typical rather than the ~.88 other classes got.
@@Hexanitrobenzene it was to lead into the sponsor of the video. It was making a sleeper agent/cell joke since he heard “great courses”, which led to a great courses plus ad
I went to the grad school, 100% people who were with me went to grad school, of course you are here to go to grad school too, unless you are a freakish exception.
5:08 TRIGGERED me. 😭 last semester flashback "yea uh go ahead and log off. Try the next computer. You have 40 minutes to finish this 800 part lab. Oh and simultaneously create an excel sheet I need to see your formulas"
A whole video that makes me even more self-conscious about being a TA and wondering what awful things my students are thinking about me. Thanks Andrew, very cool.
All my engineering classes from the physics department had the best TAs. I just hope one day when I walk into one of my labs the first day I just see Andrew sitting there...
I once had a upper div linear algebra TA go all in on the theorist path, the guy told us all about basic group theory and about how you'd generalize linear algebra principles to different number spaces. We only spent a single week doing actual matrix stuff with real numbers. Honestly, one of the most fun TAs I ever had :)
Most of my undergrad physics labs were a combination of "Never Comes Prepared" and "Experimentalist." I had one that had around 8 labs, and the TA never bothered to grade them until 5 days before the final. Never had I been more unsure about if anything I was doing was correct until that class.
Someday I too will leave my little room where I spend the day studying and intead go to another dimply lid room to spend my day making fun of myself studying.
4:50 the music and the guy and the writing of a transformation rule via the Einstein summation convention and simple orthogonal rotations idea associated for a vector to define it is so awesome!!!!!
I had the harsh grader TA and it was sooooo frustrating. Like we didn't do the assignment perfectly we got dinged. I also totally had the "just don't blow anything up and we're good" TA in chem labs, and he was so chill it was great
“Imagine if you had a thing... and then there was a distance from the thing” I spend about 30% of physics 1 tutoring sessions saying some variant of this, I feel called out
The first TA, ‘short lecture,’ is so accurate. We had three hours to finish the lab and he wouldn’t stop lecturing and we’d be rushing by end. The weird thing was with how long his lecture were, you’d assume he’d have answers to your questions but he never did
I'm not even in college (I live on a university campus though) and your videos are absolutely AMAZING, thank you TH-cam Recommended and Andrew for making these :))
Bro I had a TA that was hella cool. Our last lab was worth 50 with discussion. He emailed us a day before and told us that make sure everyone comes to discussion. So in discussion he told us that we are not doing lab today and he is gonna give us full points just for attendance. We were the only discussion class that didn’t do it. He told us don’t tell anyone lol. Those were the easiest 50 points. It was 15 people in that discussion. S/O Leo.
I woulda used it as at least a review session ya know. Like just give them the points for showing up but like they’re there already and so are you, and everyone’s schedule is cleared for it, so why not help prepare for the finals 🤷🏻♂️
I once got 10 points taken off of one of my QFT assignments because I forgot a "-" sign, and to top it off, it was implied that I had done that maliciously to get the right answer, when in fact I purely forgot about it! :(
That grad school grading comment got me. Decided to take a grad level structural geology course for 'fun' and came out with a C+. I was pretty worried about it until my advisor told me it doesn't matter and that I can easily explain it away if anyone asked about it.
At my university at least, all physics grads are required to TA the first year (then if they don't have research funding they can TA subsequent years). It's not exactly something you apply for.
@@turtlellamacow At mine, you don't have to if you get an RA. It's just that, at least here, there's not enough funding for everyone to become RA's so only a few are able to get them, but they can get them right away.
As much as I hate physics (bio major here), I have to say, I’ve been pretty lucky in that my physics TAs have been pretty good. In particular, my Electricity and Magnetism TA was absolutely lovely, super accommodating when something went wrong in the lab, very quick to respond to questions in emails, and very straightforward with the help he gave. At the end of the quarter after TA evals, he sent us all a very grateful message thanking us for saying such nice things about how he did :)
Marbles P I remember having a TA that was just the hottest woman Id ever seen. Unfortunately, this made me too scared to ever ask any questions or even....speak at all for that matter 😂
Luckily none of my TA's have really been a problem (there was one that wasn't very prepared, but he was pretty good at working on the fly). When there was a problem, it was usually a problem with the course design, and the TA had to do what they could to compensate. I have, however, heard stories from other students going to other universities that roughly match all of these examples.
Haha solid content right here, Dotson. As the "experimentalist TA," you should have included how "the Theorist" always needs help with faulty equipment. 😅😅 Also that Jens, callout 👌
I have to add one more type I've seen: The One Who Thinks He's Better Than the Professor. In my undergrad quantum class, one of the TAs would come to lectures and do work in the back, just so he'd know what we have and haven't covered in lecture. He was a super-engaged TA, taught me a lot of general relativity just for fun on his own time, and was a fantastic mentor to me. But that said, he clearly had some thoughts on how the class should have been taught better (and he wasn't wrong... just blunt). When the professor got done explaining the uncertainty principle in its full mathematical rigor, he asks if there are any questions. Only the TA's hand went up... and when we was called on, he whips out his laser-pointer and starts adding on to the professor's lecture from the back of the room with some other insight he thought we all needed to know. It was literal backseat lecturing. The professor had this look of "I am so done with you but I can't say anything in front of the undergrads."
bro the experimentalist one is crazy. my first e&m professor was actually an engineer (PhD on superconductors and superfluids and shit) and that is exactly how he acted lmfaooo. he's a great guy though but god that was funny
Watching this video instead of preparing for finals to at least be able to classify TA's if you have to retake your classes is the definition of a true intellectual.
Dude you nailed the acting. But you're forgetting the TA who is way better at teaching than the actual lecturer.
This is like every TA i ever had.
Not to brag but I am a very good TA.
that was me in one class I TA'd for, and definitely NOT me in the other
Ta doesn’t teach two hundred students at once
I had the math TA.
God Calculus 3 sucked.
The TA that is "the friend" while simultaneously being the "harsh grader" is the worst combination.
Guilty of this one 😬
My CAD TA ^
Guilty-ish
Oooo my chem students hate me
Yeah... that’s the real killer
“It’s unplugged so I know it’s not overheating” 😂😂
Alex Benanti then proceed trying to turn it on
Gonna be honest, I completely missed the joke the first three times I watched this.
As long as it is not the Fukushima reactor core cooling system.
“Drunk off Power” and “The Harsh Grader” is almost always together
Oh yeah that's me
@@AbiRizky I wouldn't say that too loudly if I were you... lol
I was a TA for 6 years, I was a combo of Harsh Grader and (get this lab over with as soon as possible I have experiments to run). Surprisingly I was actually not hated....by everyone.
I think I was the Harsh Grader, but my students may have thought I was Drunk off Power lol.
@Cole Clapperton actually modern journals are expecting passive voice only for established facts and active for your contributions so I’m gonna have to take off 5...sorry
I had a TA who for our first lab, waited for everyone to sit at a station and then said "work on the work." Then he hid for the duration of the lab.
"work on the work"
sounds about right
That’s litteraly my TA too
Hmm yes, the work here is made out of work
@@thesaroscycle_archive 😂😂😂
Lastly: The TA who kept everything from their undergrad and just copies what their professors did. Sometimes that's a good thing... sometimes it's not.
haha thats me its been helpful so far
That's also what professors do. They don't really decide which teaching techniques they should use, they just copy what they saw as students. Which is why lecture still exists.
Lol I've done that before.
Dude, stfu you're gonna get me in trouble.
I had the friend. He let me turn things in late, he had no safety rules except don't look directly into the laser, we ate breakfast in lab because it was early, and he babysat his kid during lab by just making sure the kid was shorter than the lasers haha.
i feel called out
This man is gold
He was the best. It was the only lab I could stand. And if one of our labs didn't work but another did, using the same exact shit, he was just like "well, that's what happens when you try to apply theory in the outside world. I'll look at it later."
How do you babysit your own kid lol
I feel like that is what most men call it if they aren't stay at home dads lol. That's why I used it. He did. I'm not of the same opinion, but yeah lol.
"Just mention it and tell me what you would have done".
That, along with all the real world factors I've been told to ignore in lab reports, is the most accurate description of lab work.
Jensen Zack lol😂
My personal favorite was "ok, let's do a Taylor series expansion of the math describing this lab set up...ok now just keep the first term" lab-magic lol
@@Seeker265729 I mean, significant figures! They are magical! :D
You forgot the TA that is fun and helpful and genuinely makes the lab enjoyable
But then again i never had a TA like that in physics, so you were probably right to exclude them
AJ Voracek I like to think that of myself, but it’s pretty hard to make using a multimeter or oscilloscope fun to premed students lol. Mainly it’s more trying to make light and make the best of the situation. Optics can be fun because it’s very visual and people understand telescopes and microscopes, and think it’s cool that you can measure the thickness of a hair with a laser
In physics, me neither. I've had some good TAs in Chem.
I've had great TA in physics lab. But I study at university of chemistry.
@@1495978707 We listened to Dark Side of the Moon with my Modern Physics students during an Optics Lab. It was pretty dope and they did a fantastic job
My biochem TA was the only TA I had that was like this she was a saint
You forgot the TA that not confident enough to actually lecture so they do not say a single word the whole lab.
Basically most my computer science TAs
My chem 2 TA is looking like that type. When she talks we can hardly hear her.
I had one like that in my intro to EE lab. He would help if someone specifically asked him though, but not to completion.
My chem 2 TA hardly spoke any English so she opted for this one. I had classmates coming up to us for questions bc our group was ahead and were just like “dude were completely fucking guessing”
Thats meeee
I lost 10% of my grade because I stapled a lab report on the wrong side.
i remember that happened to one of my homework for my calc class. I had a hard time believing it wasn't a joke.
no offense but how do you staple a paper on the wrong side lol
well would you read a book if it was stapled on the wrong side???? THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT!
@@fatnose0 Ever read a Japanese book?
@@thesurvarrior4968 bruh the germans really taking it that hard? try to flip the page and then staple it see where that gets you.
You forgot about the TA that, upon having been asked literally any question at all, goes ahead and does the entire lab because they'd rather not answer the question
Yep, this is the one
This is so me lol
I'm TA-ing a stat-therm course this semester. I was explaining Taylor Expansions.
"You can think of it as like a polynomial that's been TAILORED to fit the function..."
Not a single person laughed. I could literally hear* the crickets chirping.
A student came up afterwards because they still didn't understand. I explained it again.
Student:"Oh, now your terrible joke makes sense."
I found out that day what kind of TA I am. I have never wanted to run to my office and hide so fast lol.
P.S. I are tHeOriSt.
Hahahah I can't believe that joke didn't land.
Boyyy, my native language ain't even English and that joke was good. Your students don't deserve you.
Because they don't know lagrangian is equivalent to Taylors?
I have had a TA explain Taylor expansions in a physics lab and do a pretty great job of it
Here's a tip. Maybe explain the concept first and then do the joke 🙃
Total missrepresentation: The students actually talk to the TA or at least answer instead of just staring blankly
😂😂😂😂 That's so true. Whenever the lecturer asks questions, I can hear the crickets every time.
I have no idea what they are talking about 100% of the time
Sometimes though there's those one or two people that always answer questions, and lectures would often end up as just a conversation between them
I felt this in my soul.
@@ryang9973 I'm always thinking "bro I'm 6 chapters behind don't look at me"
Lovely stuff. The never prepared TA rings a lot of bells.
Definitely the one I’m most guilty of myself
@@AndrewDotsonvideos ;u; same hereee. Yikes!
@@AndrewDotsonvideos i wish it weren't me
Why is no one recognizing Up and Atom?BIG fan of both of you anyways!
Lol, I was a never prepared TA combined with everyones friend and tough grader.
But I believe I was a good TA
I'm a theorist and have never TA'd a lab... but I can safely say that I'd be a mix of "The Theorist" and "Never Comes Prepared"
Add a bit of the one with "Likes" and thats me. But if i prepare i'm a perfect theorist.
I TA math, I love me some analogies/applications (in other branches of math), bad puns and theory, but I think TAs are different here from what is going on in the vid
Meeee tooooo. I tried to explain solar radiation by telling them to imagine cooking an orange on a pan...
You missed the TA who looks like he wants to die
And the bad communicator, and the one with the thickest of accents
Which TA doesn’t look like he/she want to die? TA is a grad student after all.
@@VasuJaganath caffeine induced jolines
Was this a skit video or a vlog?
Hey pal, idk who you are but you better be nice. This is the internet, no place for bullies
Lol
@@AndrewDotsonvideos Idk whether this is sarcasm or not ooffff🙈
This is a joke right?
@@riddhiyadav2532 they’re friends
The real question is, what type of TA is Andrew himself?
That's up to my poor students to decide
I feel like he is the "friend" TA!
I'm guessing "the Theorist" 😅
THE TA
@@AndrewDotsonvideos aahahha
the TA in your intro physics class that lectures you on relativity when you asked him about work energy theorem
At least now I understand momentum: you have thing and then a distance from a thing.
moment of bruh
@Another Random Cuber I know nothing about physics. I'm actually an arts major, I just like the comedy here (and it makes me feel smart).
@Another Random Cuber Bruh you can't have a cross product with a scalar involved.
@Another Random Cuber Cross products take two vector and it spits out another. It only works with 3d vectors. With 2 D vector it spits out the area of the parralelogram.(Basically like the determinant of a matrix)
You can multiply a scalor by a vector, but its not called a cross product.
When you calculate the center of mass, you can indeed multiplie the mass at a position by the position vector. Add all of these up. Divide by the sum of the position and you get the center of mass.
Ps: you can't really divide vector by vector but here you would go component by component.
@Another Random Cuber moment of force is basically torque. Here you do rxF. r and F are vectors. The norm of the moment is ||r||* ||F||* sin(Angle betwern). If they are perpendicular, then its ||r||*||F||
What you said was almost right except theres a bit of a different. R is the vector going from the axis of rotation to the point where you apply the force. F is the vector saying how the force is applied. The moment is going to be in another plane because we detail rotations by their normal vector.
Normal vector is perpendicular to the surface. If you would walk on that surface, the normal vector would go from your feet to your head.
Lets say you have a helicopter then the R vector is basically the rotor blade.
This brings back memories. I was a physics TA for 3 years back in the 1990s. I generally received complements from students and high marks on the student evaluations. My first semester I got several "nice guy" comments on my evaluations. My last semester TA'ing something changed when I was neck deep in my PhD research and stressed out. I felt like I was teaching the same way as before but the positive comments were scarce. One student I had the prior semester that had high praise for the lab then, told me he wasn't enjoying the second semester. Maybe it was the student attitudes or maybe I was less talkative and in a hurry, or maybe both. I took this as lesson to remain enthusiastic during class, even when stressed out. I don't know if it makes a difference in how much students learn in a course, but I do think having a positive experience in a science class helps with lifelong learning.
"Imagine if you there's a thing and.. there's...a distance from that thing."
Better explanation than my professor.
Ok, forget the definitions. Imagine a convolutional integral operator with r^n as the kernel, right, that's a discontinuous integral operator, but now apply it to a Dirac delta multiplied by your force. At this point, you get a finite value for every n. If you set n=1, you get your moment.
“Ya I take off points when things are wrong”
That and the experimentalist one were personally attacking me. I have definitely said "R^2 of .987? Do it again, that's too low"...and explained exactly how the spectrometer works in the same lab :(
@@Mezmorizorz
R^2 of 0.987 too low ? Come on, man (woman ?), have some pity for poor souls...
@@Hexanitrobenzene Meh, I didn't feel that bad. When I personally did the lab with the same equipment I got a .9999x. Obviously it's not fair to compare them to me lab skills wise, but we had all the equipment you needed to get really good calibration curves. You just have to take your time and read all of the equipment properly.
And for what it's worth, empirically it did work (though low sample size). My classes had noticeably higher R^2s on the experiment that was design your own experiment except you're actually going to do what we want you to do because we don't have the equipment for anything else that could work. They still weren't great, but ~.93 was typical rather than the ~.88 other classes got.
These videos are fantastic. I'm a math major (soon to be grad student) and seeing your videos crack me up every time. Physics majors are wild
we're wildin' for sure but some of those math majors are wildin' even harder
Every TA I ever had, I appreciate your representation of my entire Major 🤣
There was so much to comment about. This is true too😂
@@madphysicist3340 Ahhh haha!
SAME! I havent met the theoretical TA yet though.
@@TheGamingg33k Ahh gotcha. Ye I've seen it all haha!
To be honest the harsh grader is probably the only reason most of us know how to write a good lab report quickly.
You hate them in the moment but in the long run you got to thank them.
I’m a high school TA and I had no clue I was this many stereotypes at once
The 'its easy why do you ask this?' - TA : Who answers every question with the sentence "it's not all that complicated"
Thanks bro...
I once had a "the answer is obvious" TA.
Thanks for the help...
You mean, the entire math department?
“Mention this in your report and say what you would have done” hits different
You forgot the TA you can’t understand since he doesn’t know english
Once had a Chinese TA in a class who kept misinterpreting what I meant (and vice versa). Was pretty awful.
I had a combo of this and the theorist.... It was uh interesting.
They usually just correct papers.
😂😂😂
@Dayami Velazquez 6 weeks is like a week before exam 2 tho :/
2:45 : Me in EVERY experimental classes
7:27 when the demon who posessed you for a month finally comes out
I didn't understand that one...
@@Hexanitrobenzene it was to lead into the sponsor of the video. It was making a sleeper agent/cell joke since he heard “great courses”, which led to a great courses plus ad
The TA that, when asked advanced questions, tells us it's complicated and we won't understand it when low key he doesn't know it himself.
Should be getting ready for class. Does watching Andrew count as studying?
Of course. I study that for like 3 hours a day
“This will not fly in grad school” who said I was going there
I went to the grad school, 100% people who were with me went to grad school, of course you are here to go to grad school too, unless you are a freakish exception.
“I’m here to sculpt your minds. I’m not your friend.” 😂😂😂 I died
5:08 TRIGGERED me. 😭 last semester flashback "yea uh go ahead and log off. Try the next computer. You have 40 minutes to finish this 800 part lab. Oh and simultaneously create an excel sheet I need to see your formulas"
Daddy Andrew has posted- my day is now perfect.
A whole video that makes me even more self-conscious about being a TA and wondering what awful things my students are thinking about me.
Thanks Andrew, very cool.
You forgot the “sorry, you’re gonna have to figure that out on your own”
Clearly Andrew had a TA that used that moment example cause he was pretty fixated on it 😂
All my engineering classes from the physics department had the best TAs. I just hope one day when I walk into one of my labs the first day I just see Andrew sitting there...
Yup... I needed that today, my TA sucks and this video really sheds light on my current experience. Thanks!
physics homework instructions unclear. turned in my energy drink and used napkin instead.
I’m a finance student why am I even watching this
...because it's that funny that it transcends different fields of study :D
So delighted to see a notification from the TH-cam physics god! Clocked on it straight away!!!!!!
Now I understand moments! Thank you Flannel Andrew
Flanndrew
The TA that basically does the lab for u when u ask for help
I literally recorded that as well and must have missed it when I was editting...
I feel called out
I once had a upper div linear algebra TA go all in on the theorist path, the guy told us all about basic group theory and about how you'd generalize linear algebra principles to different number spaces. We only spent a single week doing actual matrix stuff with real numbers. Honestly, one of the most fun TAs I ever had :)
You nailed the moment bit with the door
Most of my undergrad physics labs were a combination of "Never Comes Prepared" and "Experimentalist." I had one that had around 8 labs, and the TA never bothered to grade them until 5 days before the final. Never had I been more unsure about if anything I was doing was correct until that class.
Someday I too will leave my little room where I spend the day studying and intead go to another dimply lid room to spend my day making fun of myself studying.
I was not expecting “The Theorist” and it made me spit my coffee out
4:50 the music and the guy and the writing of a transformation rule via the Einstein summation convention and simple orthogonal rotations idea associated for a vector to define it is so awesome!!!!!
I had the harsh grader TA and it was sooooo frustrating. Like we didn't do the assignment perfectly we got dinged.
I also totally had the "just don't blow anything up and we're good" TA in chem labs, and he was so chill it was great
“Imagine if you had a thing... and then there was a distance from the thing” I spend about 30% of physics 1 tutoring sessions saying some variant of this, I feel called out
The first TA, ‘short lecture,’ is so accurate. We had three hours to finish the lab and he wouldn’t stop lecturing and we’d be rushing by end. The weird thing was with how long his lecture were, you’d assume he’d have answers to your questions but he never did
That ad transition was smooth as hell
I'm not even in college (I live on a university campus though) and your videos are absolutely AMAZING, thank you TH-cam Recommended and Andrew for making these :))
"Never prepared" Yeah, that's me. Glad I'm not a lab TA any more.
I get to start TAing this week on Zoom. Wish me luck.
Good luck
Congrats on your scholarship, Andrew!!! You are amazing!!
this is my favourite skit video yet. amazing
Bro I had a TA that was hella cool. Our last lab was worth 50 with discussion. He emailed us a day before and told us that make sure everyone comes to discussion. So in discussion he told us that we are not doing lab today and he is gonna give us full points just for attendance. We were the only discussion class that didn’t do it. He told us don’t tell anyone lol. Those were the easiest 50 points. It was 15 people in that discussion. S/O Leo.
I woulda used it as at least a review session ya know. Like just give them the points for showing up but like they’re there already and so are you, and everyone’s schedule is cleared for it, so why not help prepare for the finals 🤷🏻♂️
I once got 10 points taken off of one of my QFT assignments because I forgot a "-" sign, and to top it off, it was implied that I had done that maliciously to get the right answer, when in fact I purely forgot about it! :(
6:58 Why does this happen in almost all of my classes??? It's like a battle of TA ego
X'D
Quite possible one of the best segues I’ve seen
That grad school grading comment got me. Decided to take a grad level structural geology course for 'fun' and came out with a C+. I was pretty worried about it until my advisor told me it doesn't matter and that I can easily explain it away if anyone asked about it.
I've only had one TA who wasn't the "Didn't prepare" one. She literally could not speak English. How did she ever become TA?
Probably forced into it because they had more spaces open that semester. 😂
At my university at least, all physics grads are required to TA the first year (then if they don't have research funding they can TA subsequent years). It's not exactly something you apply for.
Do we go to the same school?
@@turtlellamacow At mine, you don't have to if you get an RA. It's just that, at least here, there's not enough funding for everyone to become RA's so only a few are able to get them, but they can get them right away.
At my college the physics TAs were just grad students who didn't have a graduate adviser yet. Usually for 1-2 semesters.
As much as I hate physics (bio major here), I have to say, I’ve been pretty lucky in that my physics TAs have been pretty good. In particular, my Electricity and Magnetism TA was absolutely lovely, super accommodating when something went wrong in the lab, very quick to respond to questions in emails, and very straightforward with the help he gave. At the end of the quarter after TA evals, he sent us all a very grateful message thanking us for saying such nice things about how he did :)
videos getting better and better nice work
I'm gonna be a friend with Theorist, he's kinda cute & funny
Omg the “not even your TA” is so accurate 😂
This is pretty nice and funny! The teaching "material" is spot on.
Im going to college next year. Watching this genuinely frightens me of whats to come
You forgot about the hot TA, those are my favorite.
Marbles P I remember having a TA that was just the hottest woman Id ever seen. Unfortunately, this made me too scared to ever ask any questions or even....speak at all for that matter 😂
I'm that "everybody's friend" TA 😂
Better than most of the alternatives :)
HAHA!!! One of the funniest videos yet! Please do more of these!
Haha, that was one of the better ad transitions I've seen on TH-cam.
I had one who was "Never Come Prepared" and "Drunk Off Power" combined for a lab.
Vampyricon Yeah that’s just called a hypocrite lol. Can’t have high standards for your students when you don’t have high standards for yourself
Luckily none of my TA's have really been a problem (there was one that wasn't very prepared, but he was pretty good at working on the fly). When there was a problem, it was usually a problem with the course design, and the TA had to do what they could to compensate. I have, however, heard stories from other students going to other universities that roughly match all of these examples.
Dietterich Labs haha yeah I’ve only had bits and pieces of each.
And I thought my day couldn't get any better
Greatest start of the day vibe. New video yayyyy!!!
I had a TA that was a harsh grader and a lecturer... he was brutal
I'm the easily distracted TA, the one that is led off on a 10 minute tangent when someone asks a slightly out of scope question.
This video make so much sense and can relate to it a lot. I really understand from it
I'm currently studying to be a TA. Love your videos!!
Haha solid content right here, Dotson. As the "experimentalist TA," you should have included how "the Theorist" always needs help with faulty equipment. 😅😅 Also that Jens, callout 👌
That would have been funny!
My university is large enough where you can work there for 20 years and never meet someone from the same department...
This is awesome! You nail it!!
Omg, I have seen all the types. Love ur acting.
“Would you read a title-less book just because the chapters had titles?”
“Maybe, that’s actually an interesting gimmick”
Had a lab TA who spoke very little english... every time we asked him a question he would just laugh nervously and walk away.
I just had a class with the Not Even Your TA, and this video was... *shockingly* accurate.
I love this kind of videos you made
I have to add one more type I've seen: The One Who Thinks He's Better Than the Professor.
In my undergrad quantum class, one of the TAs would come to lectures and do work in the back, just so he'd know what we have and haven't covered in lecture. He was a super-engaged TA, taught me a lot of general relativity just for fun on his own time, and was a fantastic mentor to me. But that said, he clearly had some thoughts on how the class should have been taught better (and he wasn't wrong... just blunt).
When the professor got done explaining the uncertainty principle in its full mathematical rigor, he asks if there are any questions. Only the TA's hand went up... and when we was called on, he whips out his laser-pointer and starts adding on to the professor's lecture from the back of the room with some other insight he thought we all needed to know. It was literal backseat lecturing.
The professor had this look of "I am so done with you but I can't say anything in front of the undergrads."
bro the experimentalist one is crazy. my first e&m professor was actually an engineer (PhD on superconductors and superfluids and shit) and that is exactly how he acted lmfaooo. he's a great guy though but god that was funny
Sleeper Cell has to be the best transition I’ve ever seen
Watching this video instead of preparing for finals to at least be able to classify TA's if you have to retake your classes is the definition of a true intellectual.