<p>Have any of you had any?</p>
<p>I currently have one for one of my TAs and don't really know what to do about it.</p>
<p>Why yes I have.</p>
<p>We are bff now :).</p>
<p>Ask your TA out :).</p>
<p>There is a big difference between having a crush on a teacher and a TA. You can date your TA but they shouldn’t be the one grading any of your work.</p>
<p>TA’s arent teachers.</p>
<p>OMG, I had a big crush on one of my profs in college (back in the stone age). he was an italian jew, and i thought he was so exotic. then i looked him up in the faculity directory, found out his address, and did a drive by his house (which i believe is now called stalking).</p>
<p>i was so disappointed to see that he had web lawn chairs on his front porch. i could never love a man who had the bad taste to keep web furniture in his front porch (this is the kind of thing one takes to a ball game, and then stores in their garage). i could never look at the man again with the same adour.</p>
<p>Dang wolfpackmom, harsh!!!</p>
<p>There’s still that dilemma of professionalism. </p>
<p>: P Asking the person out would probably be best left after the quarter/year is done.</p>
<p>I might purely do it out of catharsis.</p>
<p>Haha, that professionalism totally flew over my head! I did not even consider it. Do it whenever and tell us how it goes haha.</p>
<p>This is the type of thread that makes you go</p>
<p>aaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww 
;)</p>
<p>aww so cute :D</p>
<p>As a TA, we are not allowed to date anyone in which there would be conflict of interest issues. Therefore, that means, if you are a student and you like you TA - you cannot date your TA without the risk of your TA getting into trouble. </p>
<p>If you really think its worth it… wait out the quarter and then date your TA when he/she doesn’t have any say in any of your grades.</p>
<p>As a TA, have you ever been approached with this situation?</p>
<p>I don’t mean the crush role reversed. Still student liking->teacher</p>
<p>what is your opinion on it?</p>
<p>I haven’t been approached with this situation. Primarily b/c this is my first quarter TAing and, in any case, I have a boyfriend. </p>
<p>I would just be wary of the situation. I wouldn’t want to be in the position to get myself into trouble so, I personally would not allow myself to get into that situation in the first place (i.e. flirt with my students.) I don’t so much object to undergrads and graduate students dating as long as the grad student has no say in your grade.</p>
<p>ah ok
one of my former TAs has been dating one of his students for the last 2 years. they started dating after the class ended . . .</p>
<p>oh yea, i know that same couple too. pretty cute, and they get along well because he’s pretty mature.</p>
<p>
If you read a TA contract, it explicitly says this ! </p>
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Does anyone find it awkward?</p>
<p>so last week i went to the gym, and i think i saw my ex-TA!! I had the biggest crush on him. His office hours are the only OH i ever went to (including professor’s).
i was (and still am, i guess) obsessed with him that at the end of the quarter couple quarters back, i even wrote him an email about how i felt.
i just wanted to share how happy i was when i saw him again!</p>
<p>teeeheeee</p>
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<p>Did he reply?</p>
<p>yeah, he did!
i didn’t say it in a very straight forward way (like… omg i love you!)… i just said he was a great TA, and so interesting, etc etc, and very cute…
lol
and he just wrote “thanks! it’s always nice to get compliments. have a great summer!”</p>
<p>sigh.
i miss his pretty face.</p>
<p>Hahaha, reminds me a bit of the time I was going to Westwood via Court of Sciences / south campus route, and I saw some writings on the dust of the windows on the buildings (I think McDonald Medical Research Labs) “Ian Andrews is cute” or hot, I forgot. (He’s a chem lab TA that I coincidentally met the day before… )</p>