Recent content by Alex2050

I am not gonna argue with your first point. But your p.s is obviously wrong on multiple levels. 1- The subject you are learning should be related, with your logic why don't they make every PhD trim the campus trees to learn gardening? 2- A whole semester spent on grading 50+ students'...

Let me make a few things clear: 1-I already have a paid RA position. Which takes more than 50hrs/week, I am getting paid only 20hrs for it AND I AM NOT COMPLAINING. 2- I DON'T want the univ. to pay me for this position. I want to "not take this 4 useless credits". 3- I am pissed that the...

True! I am doing someone else's job for free. But it seems laws that apply to academia are some what gray here. Thanks for you logical reply!

You are miss-judging, I have a lot of more important things to do including a paid research position. I am not actually learning to teach here, only doing work that the university normally pays Teacher assistance to do. If I was infact tought how to make a course plan, or how to deal with...

Thank you for the advice dude. Helpful!

It's not voluntary. They force you to do it, to get the degree (in engineering not even in a related field like teaching). Thanks for your advice thou, I will have to suck it up then.

"Really?" was sarcasm? I think it shouldn't be legal to make us pay to work and then use what we do to make money again by getting tuition from other students.

Man that doesn't seem fair ... Got 4 more years of this going on.

What is the name of your state? Florida Hi, I am a PhD student in an engineering field. My department in the university forces students to take two 2-credits(4) of supervised teaching but in reality we are forced to be a teacher assistant and grade homeworks, grade exams, and prepare course...