#grad assistant

Look at my tiny ugly office!!!!!!! I share it with 2 other people and I love it!!!!!!!!!! So much space for actitivies...

The same professor also asked me to help him teach a few things during his M/W 8am class. I’m so excited

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Time sheet of my Grad assist for Alexandra.

Another clean up done for Ceasar.

Grad assistance for Ceasar! I cleaned up his animation.

As a grad student, you’ll be working under people from time to time. Whether that’s as a TA, as a grader, as whatever you do in your school. When those people are your peers, there’s usually not a problem with taking advantage of each other (usually.) But with professors, you may do something that you don’t have to to be nice. And then they ask you to do it again, and again, and before you know it, it’s becoming more and more regular. So two pieces of advice: Ask the coordinator what your responsibilities are at the beginning of the semester. There’s someone giving you your assignment, and they are usually the expert on what is expected and what is extra/crossing a line/doing a favor. Make sure you know what those are up front. When a person asks you to do one of those things ^, make sure they know it’s a favor. Even if it’s no trouble. Even if you were hoping they would ask. Even if (insert your situation here). Because they should know that you’re making their lives easier, and that you are under no obligation to continue making their lives easier. Now, off to write an email correcting something I should have corrected earlier. (This is the third or fourth time for a weekly assignment, so it’s not been completely abused, but it’s getting on my last nerve. It shouldn’t have gone this far.)

- I can do research work for my assistantship in bed while listening to a Harry Potter podcast