Archive for March, 2011
Take Pride in your Work (AKA: The state of some CS TAs at SFU)
by Phil on Mar.11, 2011, under SFU
This started out as a Facebook note, but it has turned into quite the saga. All emails are posted in their entirety and verbatim, except for obfuscating details that could help identify the guilty parties.
Some interesting parts that aren’t specifically mentioned but which will help clarify: This was a group project, but I did it by myself. The project included coding which had to be submitted both electronically and on hardcopy, and a bunch of other material that was only hardcopy.
[Tuesday, March 8th, 2011]
Well, it took 4 years, but I finally found one of the most useless TAs in existence. I got back a 22 page report I submitted (with code) with only two things on it. A checkmark on the penultimate page, and an “88” (grade).
