I can’t speak for anyone outside the soc department but I know none of us have been trained on how to do the hybrid thing where you the instructor or TA are in person but you’re being recorded live so remote folks can still tune in. So far it’s looking like one or the other.

You as the undergrad in the class can’t change the mode of instruction. However, many of the TAs, myself included, are TAing discussions that are listed as in person when the lecture is online. Folks like myself are not about to let this fly if we can do something about it. It’s dangerous to us, it’s a major inconvenience to you and it puts you in harm’s way when it shouldn’t have to. I’m working on it for my sections and I know many others are working on it for their sections.

Kitty has reached the end of the eightfold path and has now attained nirvana🕉

It was Epstein and I LOVED IT. He said something like “pls kill me, like Epstein didn’t do to himself. I know he’s your friend but I just don’t care.”

Jesus Christ she’s a new kind of stupid.

It’s an appetite stimulant, so unless you’re looking to gain weight and/or have an increase in appetite then it’s a hard no from me.

No no NO!! Mirtazapine is also an appetite stimulant. It works for sleep for a few days and then you can’t stop eating. It’s also what they use to treat anorexia in cats. I gained major weight so fast on it and stopped immediately. I don’t recommend it.

I sure hope not, seeing as I have to see multiple psychiatrists. Thanks, Kaiser Permanente. I start one plan in Northern California and then I go back to Southern California for school and they’re like no no you need to see a Southern California psychiatrist. Then I end up with all new meds. I also have health insurance through my university since I’m a grad student. It’s a headache and it’s so unethical. Not the potential to be seen as drug seeking, but the fact that I literally cannot see just one person. I’m literally not allowed to with the way Kaiser works😭

It’s applicable to undergrads too. For example, if you submit the same assignment for two classes without first getting permission from both professors, it’s self-plagiarism

I don’t think iLearn itself generates originality reports. I’m a TA and my professors usually use a third party source like Turnitin or SafeAssign. It’s important to note that these sources are extremely inconsistent and rather inaccurate. I cannot even begin to count the times I’ve been grading an assignment that shows 45% “plagiarism” on the site and the supposedly plagiarized sources are the person’s name, the assignment title, or the questions. The programs detect similarity and most often that similarity isn’t plagiarism. As for self-plagiarism yep you can absolutely plagiarize yourself.

Y’all, this is from the cover of “Coming Out to the Streets: LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness” so the bench makes a lot of sense

I’ll say that as a TA, I was in charge of the grading (not positing final grades of course, but the rest), and covid mental health spirals this last quarter had me several weeks behind at one point. I got it all done by finals week, but I know I wasn’t the most on top of things during the quarter. I don’t know what’s going on with your professor, but as a graduate student, I might reach out and see how they’re doing before jumping down their throat. These times are much harder on your professors than you know.

You have no idea what you’re talking about and it shows🤦🏻‍♀️

That is simply not true. Can we please stop with this weird nonsense surrounding medication

That is SO not true. There are medications, there is CBT, etc. You don’t just throw someone into the water and tell them to swim🤦🏻‍♀️

Makes sense, considering Christianity and Islam are both Abrahamic religions, so their religious texts would be similar in many ways.

The only branch of psychology that ensures you’ll make BANK is I/O psych. And unfortunately people who tell you your bachelors in psych doesn’t qualify you for much are right. I say that as someone who did one of my BAs in psych. I’m now in UCR’s sociology PhD program. There are tons of amazing graduate programs in all types of branches of psych if you want to pursue psych! I’d maybe try to talk to people in psych fields you may be interested in? And consult the career center for their thoughts! If you’re interested in counseling, you might want to look into masters programs in counseling? You could go the MFT route, the school counseling route, etc within that. There are lots of cool options!

As a second-year graduate student who just completed my first TAship during a pandemic, thank you for this. If you survived the quarter, I would wholeheartedly count that as a HUGE win. Everybody is struggling right now. This quarter nearly drove me to the point where I gave up. Hell, in many ways I did give up. But I’ve known enough hardship in my very short 23 years to know that during times like these, just making it through the day is worth celebrating. I don’t know you but I’m proud of you. I say that as a fellow student, as a graduate TA, and as a fellow human being💙💙

I’m about to start my stint as a TA and I can assure you I’d never be annoyed by student emails. I was a TA for six classes in undergrad and I loved when students emailed me to ask questions. It meant they cared enough to shoot me an email and ask questions. I know some TAs are assholes but I assure you, many of us aren’t!!

Yeah imma have to stop you right there. LGBTQ+ rights are being debated in the Supreme Court right now soooo. Kindly shut up.

Imagine thinking that advertising firearms on a literal college campus is “just my free speech”. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

Damn it. Take your upvote😂

I’m not catholic. I’m catholic educated. I went to catholic school.

Real talk though I’d love to read that! As far as my nonreligious but Catholic educated self is concerned, you can have science without faith (religious faith that is) but you can’t have faith without science.

Watch the documentary The Most Hated Family in America. They’re a Baptist church in Kansas.