Dealing with terrible gsi? Advice/Experience?

xsoupytwist
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:40:27 +0000

I really am wondering if we have the same GSI, though I’m taking 8B at the moment.

This guy’s got a extremely thick accent, and speaks way to quickly. To the point where even if he didn’t have a thick accent, people probably wouldn’t understand him. He jumps two to three lectures, if not more, ahead of the professor, and is extremely condescending. He constantly berates us as being bad students since we don’t read two chapters ahead of the professor’s schedule, and haven’t memorized the labs beforehand. On the first day of discussion/lab, he scoffed and laughed at this one girl’s questions (which was perfectly legitimate by the way) because he could “explain” it in one sentence. Absolutely terrible.

I also had to email him because of a midterm conflict with a lab time, and he said it was completely my fault. I was polite in my emails, and just wanted to clarify something, and I guess he took it the wrong way. He responded with a very defensive email saying that he can’t do anything for me (I didn’t ask for him to do anything for me, I just asked if he was implying that I could make up the lab with a different GSI because he didn’t directly state it), and again berated me on failing to know about the conflict.

I’m also pretty sure the GSIs here aren’t required to be GSIs per se. The GSI webpage shows that people apply for the jobs. I know at UT, they get paid really well (my cousin’s one over there), and I think I’ve heard from a psych GSI I’ve had that they get paid pretty decently here as well. I’m pretty sure these horrible GSIs are just doing it for the money and as resume boosters. I just wish they screened 'em better here. If I can’t switch out of this ridiculous excuse for a human’s section, I’m definitely going to leave a harsh eval, which I’ve never done 'cause I haven’t had such a horrible GSI until this semester.