Dealing with terrible gsi? Advice/Experience?

birdhouse
Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:21:42 +0000

I had a bad GSI for an intro class in another department. Guy just couldn’t prioritize what he wanted to get down in our discussion hour and sometimes focused on some random comment by somebody in the class for an inappropriately long time. Kind of arrogant and snotty too. I didn’t learn much from discussion and got a bad first essay grade from him, but I still tried to get some advice from him and ended up getting an A overall. So maybe getting a loser GSI won’t hurt your grade. I still talked to him when I ran into him at the library…nice enough guy, but terrible teacher and socially inept. He said I aced the final and shouldn’t worry at all about the class, so I felt guilty that I gave him a terrible evaluation that bashed him, haha.

Unlikely, but maybe your GSI is nicer/more helpful during office hours. If you have to deal with him, perhaps he’s a different person when dealing with students individually. Or go to another GSI’s office hours, if that’s allowed?