G. Matthew Rice wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: >>> lmao. too funny. When someone complained about the hazings during >>> 'frosh week' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosh_week), I tried >>> explaining to him that the entire undergraduate experience is the >>> hazing. After _that_, things get easier. >> You we never a graduate assistant, were you? > > C'mon, at least the monies start flowing the other way at that point. > And are you talking the teaching assistant part or the research > assistant part? I guess some places are worse than others whereas an > undergrad degree is fairly uniform across universities. One of my > colleagues spent 7 years to get a master's degree. And he had to push > hard for that. They didn't think the degree should take less than 9 > years...Yes, I think that they were abusing the power but I also know > that there are graduate programmes that aren't run like that.
My comment was meant as a joke and this is off topic, however, there are places where being a graduate assistant is much harder than being an undergraduate. Some places use the term graduate slave and are not far off. Other places are far more reasonable. Much of the difference has to do with the individual faculty members. -- Bruce _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
