This year I am the Teaching Assistant for a professor who is teaching two Marketing Strategy undergrad classes. Initially I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with a professor as well as earn a little cash. No one told me how much fun it could be :)
When the semester started I felt a little weird grading. Was I really qualified to be doing this? Am I being to harsh? To lenient? I've never graded before; who am I to determine what grade a student gets? Are my comments appropriate? Helpful? As time went on I started feeling more comfortable. I was getting feedback from the professor. None of the students had revolted and complained about me. I felt like I had a good grasp on the class assignments.
Last week was a really busy week with an assignment, a case and a midterm to grade. After hours of grading I started to realize . . . I was having fun. Some of the comments were down right hysterical. I was having a little bit too much fun with my red pen.
So you can join in on the fun, here are two of my favorite comments from a case on BMW (from different people):
The basic competitors of BMW are the competitors in their market.
and
Another competitor would be companies that produce trucks, especially Fords.
It took everything in me not to write "No duh" on the first one and "Seriously, trucks?" on the second.
6 comments:
That would be my problem with grading - I would end up writing the mean comments!
My cousin is a professor and the stories he has about what people turn in are HILARIOUS.
Hahaha, I didn't realize that Ford is in the luxury car market...that must be why thy have people who wear dirty jeans and haul stuff in their ads!
Sounds like a fun job!
It is weird that you like grading. There. I said it.
Welcome to word of "teaching." Sadly I have seen comments like the 1st one in professional documents in the business world. Sad huh!?
Ha. You totally should have.
i love that you are a TA!!! you rock!!
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