Teaching assistants: they mark, they proctor, they email, they cry, they organize, they teach, they cry, they get yelled at, and they cry. In this grad school confessional, Anna and I discuss the confessions of current and former grad student TAs who overestimated their confidence in a topic, resisted coercion for marks, and fielded some awkward advances.

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