Jason Pang
2004-07-24 21:05:46 UTC
To whom it may concern,
I would like to ask why there was no TA for the ECE 251 tutorial at 13:30 on
22 July in RCH 207.
It is clearly scheduled on my timetable and on the course website (TUT 106).
This was supposed to be an Assignment 6 Tutorial, according to the Schedule
A number of students showed up on that day expecting to ask questions on the
assignment.
Quoting Troy on 4 June 2004: ---
Your tutorials are scheduled for mondays, wednesdays and thursdays (in the
morning or the afternoon depending on your section) ...
The TA will give tutorial on Thursday the week before the assignment is due,
and on Monday and Wednesday the week that the assignment is due...
I've also told them that they can leave after 10 minutes if noone comes.
---
My understanding is that because A6 is due this coming Friday (30 July), the
"Thursday the week before the assignment is due" is 22 July, so I went to
the tutorial. Not one person was 10 minutes late to the tutorial; by
contrast, most people had been waiting patiently five to 10 minutes earlier.
This has not been the first time it has happened; for me, there has been at
least one incident prior to this one with the TA not appearing at the
specified time. (not including the weeks when tutorials were supposed to be
cancelled).
May I please request that TAs show up when they are supposed to, and that if
there are any changes to the mutually understood schedule, to please post it
to the newsgroup 24 hours prior the scheduled tutorial so that we have a
chance to read it (i.e. if a tutorial is going to be cancelled it would be
appreciated if the notice was not posted at 3am the morning of the tutorial,
as most people will not have read it by the time the tutorial comes)
This post may sound impolite, and I apologize. But with exams coming up in
two weeks, I really do not appreciate any unnecessary ramping up of my
stress level; my time could be much better spent revising or doing this
assignment than travelling to RCH 207 and waiting for nothing.
Thanks
Yours sincerely,
Jason Pang
2B Computer Engineering
I would like to ask why there was no TA for the ECE 251 tutorial at 13:30 on
22 July in RCH 207.
It is clearly scheduled on my timetable and on the course website (TUT 106).
This was supposed to be an Assignment 6 Tutorial, according to the Schedule
A number of students showed up on that day expecting to ask questions on the
assignment.
Quoting Troy on 4 June 2004: ---
Your tutorials are scheduled for mondays, wednesdays and thursdays (in the
morning or the afternoon depending on your section) ...
The TA will give tutorial on Thursday the week before the assignment is due,
and on Monday and Wednesday the week that the assignment is due...
I've also told them that they can leave after 10 minutes if noone comes.
---
My understanding is that because A6 is due this coming Friday (30 July), the
"Thursday the week before the assignment is due" is 22 July, so I went to
the tutorial. Not one person was 10 minutes late to the tutorial; by
contrast, most people had been waiting patiently five to 10 minutes earlier.
This has not been the first time it has happened; for me, there has been at
least one incident prior to this one with the TA not appearing at the
specified time. (not including the weeks when tutorials were supposed to be
cancelled).
May I please request that TAs show up when they are supposed to, and that if
there are any changes to the mutually understood schedule, to please post it
to the newsgroup 24 hours prior the scheduled tutorial so that we have a
chance to read it (i.e. if a tutorial is going to be cancelled it would be
appreciated if the notice was not posted at 3am the morning of the tutorial,
as most people will not have read it by the time the tutorial comes)
This post may sound impolite, and I apologize. But with exams coming up in
two weeks, I really do not appreciate any unnecessary ramping up of my
stress level; my time could be much better spent revising or doing this
assignment than travelling to RCH 207 and waiting for nothing.
Thanks
Yours sincerely,
Jason Pang
2B Computer Engineering