# What did you call extra-lecture sessions with the TA when you were in college? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 2, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-call-extra-lecture-sessions-with-the-ta-when-you-were-in-college/555871 "2010-10-02T22:12:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-call-extra-lecture-sessions-with-the-ta-when-you-were-in-college/555871/41 "2010-10-06T23:04:39Z")
Recitations (and I’m in college right now, FTR.) ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-call-extra-lecture-sessions-with-the-ta-when-you-were-in-college/555871/42 "2010-10-07T07:03:24Z")
At UC Berkeley, they were called “discussions.” ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-call-extra-lecture-sessions-with-the-ta-when-you-were-in-college/555871/43 "2010-10-07T09:19:07Z")
I didn’t have lecture TAs as an undergrad (only labs), and when I was a TA it was for labs, so there were no extra sessions… are these for additional material, or to go over already-taught material? If it’s the second, as a student we called them “revisiones”, which means “review sessions”. ---
**Author:** ![meow\_meow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@meow\_meow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meow_meow)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-call-extra-lecture-sessions-with-the-ta-when-you-were-in-college/555871/44 "2010-10-07T14:32:53Z")
Precepts. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-call-extra-lecture-sessions-with-the-ta-when-you-were-in-college/555871/45 "2010-10-07T14:54:19Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > > [@ReticulatingSplines](#): > > > > We called them “dates.” > > Damn it! I read that whole thread to see if anyone else made the joke, and there you are, right at the end. Missed it by _that_ much! Eff you both. _I_ wanted to make that joke! On a more serious note, I never had any of these sessions. Are they a grad school thing? ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-call-extra-lecture-sessions-with-the-ta-when-you-were-in-college/555871/46 "2010-10-07T15:31:34Z")
Offically, they were called ‘lab sections’ or just ‘labs’. In the one class i had that used them we called them "a living hell’ as it was run by a Chinese grad student TA who could bearly understand us and whom we could bearly understand, who had all sorts of problems trying to explain anything to us. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-call-extra-lecture-sessions-with-the-ta-when-you-were-in-college/555871/47 "2010-10-07T15:33:43Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > On a more serious note, I never had any of these sessions. Are they a grad school thing? No, it was an undergraduate thing in my experience. At my school, the core classes were taught in a 500-person lecture hall (Darrin Communications Center Room 308, for RPI grads), which is too big for personal attention. So the recitations are held in small groups of under 20-30 so that you can get questions answered. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-call-extra-lecture-sessions-with-the-ta-when-you-were-in-college/555871/48 "2010-10-07T15:36:36Z")
Never mind. We had labs. I didn’t realize we were talking about those - we got credit for them (1 hour I think). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-call-extra-lecture-sessions-with-the-ta-when-you-were-in-college/555871.md?page=2)