"I would never go into a section unprepared,but I can see how seniors would expect more out ofsections, seeing that they've been exposed tocollege for four years."
Brett Bourbon, a teaching fellow for English163y, "Anglo-American Modernism," offered somesuggestions for improving the system.
"In essence, for a section to work, studentsmust think of it as another class, not just asupplement to a lecture," Bourbon said.
Different Backgrounds
"Also, T.F.'s should have backgrounds indifferent areas in order to bring differentperspectives to the subject."
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And Bourbon said that part of the problem liesnot with the advising system, but with some of thegraduate students themselves, whom he called"boring.