<p>This thread is really amusing. I used to have a crush on my TA (although I was a Masters student and not undergrad). I didn’t have any intention of letting him know or pursuing it, until my roommate told him all about it. Regardless to say, it was very awkward because we both were seeing other people, but I still managed to get good grades in the end. LOL.</p>
<p>Another true story: In my high school, there was a scandal during graduation when our valedictorian (who was probably 16) and our Physics teacher (who was about 29) publicly admitted that they were dating. Now, after six years, they are married.</p>
<p>At my small LAC, none of my classes I had a TA. The largest class I ever had was 35. Most were under 20. </p>
<p>There were couple of undergraduate students, though, who wanted to be professors and made special arrangments with a favorite professor to do something like a TA. These positons were never paid, though.</p>
<p>My roomie is a math major According to her, in the higher level classes, the male/female ratio is highly skewed in her favor. Though she also mentions that “the odds are good, but the goods are odd.”</p>
<p>Usually upperclassmen who’ve completed the course at LAC. They generally don’t teach- they just help out whenever’s needed like grading problem sets and supervising a couple of labs to make sure the students had the basic concepts down. Often these TAs are in the sciences where there’s a lot of collaboration going on and many students needing help on constant basis (because of building blocks approach). In other words, TAs in LAC are more like super-tutors.</p>
<p>Thank god i’m not in the sciences otherwise I would potentially hit on a TA… :)</p>
<p>sorry for reviving an old thread. but what about hitting on grad students in your research lab…?? they’re not my TA’s or mentors so there shouldn’t be an issue right…?
lol this thread is kinda amusing</p>
<p>Zoom, at my University many students within the same department and lab are dating. Actually, a few have got married. However, I would definitely say don’t let it interfere in your work.</p>
<p>With grad students, the only real dating ethics issues are when one person is in a position of real authority over another. In other words, don’t date students for whom you are a TA or supervisor, don’t date professors from who you are taking classes or who are on your committee. Fellow grad students are 99% okay. Undergrads over whom you do not have authority are 99% okay. Professors without authority over you are 99% okay. The 99% is because many schools have regulations about who can date who, so there is always a possibility that you are accidentally violating some university rule - check and you can usually push things over to 100%.</p>
<p>OK, Zoomx3, is a guy. Slim chance a female grad student will look at an undergrad</p>
<p>If a gal, I’d suggest hitting the male staff members who assist the grad students. </p>
<p>I have a DS, 26, BS/MS, MechEng and CS degreed, CMU grad. He doesn’t have any responsibilites to any students, especially undergrad students. :)</p>
<p>^^^Loving this thread. Future engineering majors such seriously consider attending University of Alabama for engineering. Even the female science/engineering majors are beautiful.</p>
<p>Now, if only they were not already “in a relationship”, my son might have some hope.</p>
<p>My husband went to Tulane for engineering about 30 years ago. He still tells stories of how unattractive the three female engineering classmates were. He also said if an attractive female happened to appear in one of the classes, she was immediately pounced upon by a large number of mouth breathers and quickly changed her major. I hope he was joking, but based on the CMU comment above, probably not.</p>
According to her, in the higher level classes, the male/female ratio is highly skewed in her favor. Though she also mentions that “the odds are good, but the goods are odd.”</p>