An Asymmetric Game

Episode 1.2:

"Further efforts will only benefit the faro dealers." - Elsworth

(Sometimes it’s difficult to bring yourself to work any harder simply because you know the payoff isn’t yours. And it never is.) 

Episode 1.1:

Jack McCall: "I mean, how stupid do you think I am?"

Bill Hickok: "I don’t know. I just met you."

The worst part about being a TA is grading. It’s time consuming, it’s difficult, and you’re just going to piss people off.

Handed back tests last week and have already had two complaints and another tomorrow. I am most definitely not looking forward to it. It’s not that I’m wrong—I think I can justify the grade I gave. I’m going to give him the same answer that upset me when I was in his position. I’m going to have to give him an answer he isn’t going to want to hear.

See, I like to spread joy, not hate.

And it gets to a fundamental aspect of this job: I don’t love it. I don’t bleed it like some do. I don’t like reading, I don’t like writing, and I hate grading. But I like learning. And I love talking about it. This is exactly why I like TAing overall: it’s just one big conversation if you do it right. It should be fun, for both me and the student.

Being on the other side clears up a lot of reasoning I questioned when I was the one being graded. Funny how that happens.

From the first scene of the first episode:

"He [God] may have heard worse stories."

"Well, if he ain’t, I’ll tell him six or seven just on people of my own personal acquaintance."