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Being a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Beginning of the Pandemic

In this clip, graduate students talk about the challenges of being teaching assistants at the beginning of the pandemic. From professors who didn’t understand tech to workload increases to policy changes to health concerns, there were so many additional worries.

My whole job as a TA ended up being way, way, way more than it otherwise would have been, because this professor didn’t know how to use the online infrastructure. So I had to like, set up the whole class, grade everything.