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It does affect your chances of getting into grad school or being hired as a TA.
by ironmagma 6y ago
It does affect your chances of getting into grad school or being hired as a TA.
- ModernMech 6y agoI specifically try to hire TAs who struggled in my classes and demonstrated that they increased their competency through the semester. A student who got a C on the first exam but an A on the final and a B+ average makes a much better TA than one who got As on every assignment. They are able to empathize with the kinds of students who come to see them during office hours.
- ActorNightly 6y agoSure, but thats like saying "If I work for a company and get a poor performance rating, I won't get promoted". Just go do something else. Even if you want to learn, its not like academia is the gatekeeper to learning.
- ironmagma 6y agoSo a professor should make that decision on behalf of an honest student while giving the cheaters a better shot? Give me a break. Also, learning isn’t always the end goal. Maybe you want to be a professor and teach, or maybe you want to do academic research.