how important are they really?

[Maryanne007]

can't you just ask some tfs?  apparently law schools dont really care...  so if you have one from your pre-law advisor, one from a TF, and a third from an employer.. then you're set.

[TDPookie1]

can't you just ask some tfs?  apparently law schools dont really care...  so if you have one from your pre-law advisor, one from a TF, and a third from an employer.. then you're set.

What's a TF?

[Maryanne007]

same as TAs, we just call them TFs at harvard...its really weird, we also dont have majors but have concentrations, and no RAs, they're tutors...   

[dr_draino]

Yeah, we figured it was just a TA, but what the hell does the F stand for?  "fellow", "faculty"?  These are all I can come up with and both are incredibly lame.

same as TAs, we just call them TFs at harvard...its really weird, we also dont have majors but have concentrations, and no RAs, they're tutors...   

[TDPookie1]

Yeah, we figured it was just a TA, but what the hell does the F stand for?  "fellow", "faculty"?  These are all I can come up with and both are incredibly lame.

same as TAs, we just call them TFs at harvard...its really weird, we also dont have majors but have concentrations, and no RAs, they're tutors...   

Ooh, teaching fellow.  I was thinking faculty, which would make them not TA's at all, which didn't make sense in the context of the original post alluding to TF's.

[seankenn]

I bet it stands for teacher's friend.

[dsong02]

maybe its short for TilF (Teacher id like to @#!*)