Union position greatly improves life as grad student worker - Graduate Teaching Assistant bei Worcester Polytech: Mitarbeiterbewertung

Flexible, great professors, strong union

Project oriented, benefits ok for graduate worker but not great

Can be pretty easy if most of your work is office hours. I had about seven hours a week and most of the time there weren't many students.

Grading was a lot harder than I expected. Pretty demoralizing honestly; a lot of clearly ChatGPT submissions (ECE programming class mostly with freshmen who'd never seen code before, so not surprising). Grading paper exams was fine.