Asher Nierman undeclared freshman

Freshman discusses his feelings on TAs and working for someone two years older than he is

WILDCAT: What are you doing here?

NIERMAN: Peer review.

WILDCAT: Peer view? Oh! Peer review. I thought it was some pure version of that show they have on daytime television. You know, that one with Barbara Walters and everything?

NIERMAN: No.

WILDCAT: What do you have to do here?

NIERMAN: I have to edit someone else's paper.

WILDCAT: What I can remember when I had to do stuff like this was just thinking, "Oh my God, these are the same kids who could be running companies, or the world!" Do you feel the same way?

NIERMAN: Yeah, she has seven pages, and I only have, well I haven't started yet.

WILDCAT: (laughter) What is her paper about?

NIERMAN: It's about comparing the rhetoric of Columbine to the rhetoric of Sept. 11.

WILDCAT PHOTOGRAPHER: What a nerd!

NIERMAN: I have to do it but I'm comparing Pearl Harbor to Sept. 11.

WILDCAT: Wow! Is that a freshman-level class?

NIERMAN: Yeah.

WILDCAT: Why can't you guys do something fun? What's your teacher's name?

NIERMAN: Greg.

WILDCAT: Is he a TA?

NIERMAN: No he's one of the teachers.

WILDCAT: Ah, so he's a real teacher. So if this is your first year at the UA, that means you've had to deal with TAs. How do you feel about them?

NIERMAN: I never use them.

WILDCAT: I don't use them either. Maybe that explains my GPA. Let me warn you, you're going to have them teaching a class. Then you've got some guy who's your age telling you what to do. Drives me insane! How would you feel about that? How old are you?

NIERMAN: I'm 19.

WILDCAT: How would you feel about some dude who's two years older than you telling you what to do?

NIERMAN: It would suck.

WILDCAT: It would be like working at Krispy Kreme!