I can share a little TAing story from today
Class is always the same. It turns 3, I begin to lecture, most students sit there talking to each other instead of paying attention, and they end up asking me a ton of questions that they would have the answer to if they had just paid attention. Today was no different.
In the lecture I told them the answer to one of the questions on their worksheet that they seemed to think was confusing. It was actually directly from the book, but none of them put forth any effort and actually read the book, so whatever.
Ten minutes after I give my initial lecture with the answer to the question, I get asked the question again. I stopped class and told everyone the answer to the question again. I looked around as I was telling the class this and noticed some people still talking. Either way, I had now given them all the answer twice.
Probably 25 minutes later, a girl asks me AGAIN about the same question I had now answered twice. I tell her that I had already answered it twice, that she should pay attention during lecture, and then give her the answer again. Instead of being apologetic for her rude behavior, she decides to start cussing and throwing a fit, saying I'm disrespecting her by talking to her "like a child." For the next ten minutes, she throws a hissy fit about why she can't hear me because everyone else is talking (even though she was talking too) and how "people don't talk to [her] like that."
I'm so tired of freshmen.
