Graduate Students Teaching at Smith

[jyber209]

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@MWFN

Jyber, ask your daughter if she was ever taught by a grad student. I found out this only by accident. S&P’s post suggests that probably many Smithies have had grad student instructors; they don’t necessarily tell us about it, though.

I was pretty confident of D’s experience, as she did discuss her professors with us. But sent her a query just to make sure. Just got the e-mail response from D:
“My only TAs at Smith were in dance – since Smith had an MFA program in
dance, the grad students taught some of the dance classes. To best of
my knowlege, the dance teachers were the only TAs on campus.”
Clearly the best of her knowledge is not the way it is today. Again, she did graduate in '06, so her experience is somewhat dated. (She even got to experience full in-house dining for her first couple of years.)</p>