>I have been told that it is work only appropriate for grad students. It's quite common to look down on "lesser" work like this (janitorial work, writing solut

>I have been told that it is work only appropriate for grad students. It's quite common to look down on "lesser" work like this (janitorial work, writing solutions, whaterver) as only useful for those "lower" than you, but the amount of times I asked for help from a professor only to have them struggle to comprehend how to solve the problem (from their own assignment) was too damn high. Maybe if they tried to eat their own dog food, they'd see where they could improve. >They ask about adoptions. Of course, because the metrics we used to use to get a gauge of where we were progressing and where we needed work turned directly into a measure of our worth as a laborer. Your worth as a professor is only proportional to how much good PR you bring to your organization, they don't care about you actually teaching students, especially not students who aren't paying for your services via your university tuition.