Office hours

We had two different kinds of TA's at Ohio State, Teaching Assistants who graded papers for massive lecture classes and Teaching Associates, like me, who ran their own classes. Yes, I admit I occasionally drank a beer or two before grading tests when I had little hope of finding good grades amongst the papers and if I went to a bar it was over 21 only. (18-year-olds could drink 3.2 beer in Ohio and had their own very noisy bars). At Mizzou as an undergraduate I never went to a bar, but I was assured that though the drinking age in town was strictly 21, at least in those days, if you could reach the bar to pass the bartender the money you could get served.

Though I was a TA for a few years I never actually had office hours. I announced the first day of class that anyone who needed to talk to me could make an appointment, and maybe once every couple of terms I did meet with a student outside class.