i think my ta is REALLI REALLI nice......there's supposedly 3 ta's for my bioe class, but onli one of them does stuff; the other two just grade the hw and the tests i guess....

so, my class is realli dumb....either that or the material realli is very hard. so, every week in discussions and office hrs, my ta has to explain all the concepts again and again....and we still don't understand most of the stuff. :P today we had our midterm review session......i mean, the poor guy is probably SOOO bored cuz he has to repeat the same things over and over and OVER....probably also thinking how dumb these undergrads are.

ta: so these matrix values are tensors.
student: what's a tensor?
ta: (gives a concise but technical answer)
student: (pauses)
student: do we have to know this for the exam?
ta: i don't think it's necessary.
(whole class breathe sigh of relief)