TA wants us to use straight pins instead of staples

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DrPizza

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Use a straight pin, but bend it over like a staple would be bent. :p

Leave a sticky for him - "Great idea to use the pin instead of a staple. The pin is much sturdier and thicker."
 

SparkyJJO

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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Leros
The TA for my solid-state class sent out an email telling us to stop using staples and to use straight pins to hold our homework together. He says he likes being able to take out the pin.

Anybody else run into this?

He moved here from China a few months ago, is this a Chinese thing?

just to bump this up as I found someone else with this issue and a solution.

A stapler with reversible anvil can pin paper. The staple will just slide out with your fingers

Yep. And my homework ends up all over the floor.
 

jagec

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Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Leros
The TA for my solid-state class sent out an email telling us to stop using staples and to use straight pins to hold our homework together. He says he likes being able to take out the pin.

Anybody else run into this?

He moved here from China a few months ago, is this a Chinese thing?

just to bump this up as I found someone else with this issue and a solution.

A stapler with reversible anvil can pin paper. The staple will just slide out with your fingers

Yep. And my homework ends up all over the floor.

In my experience "pinning" does hold the paper together just fine, but is not much easier to remove by hand than a normal staple (and more likely to catch your finger and draw blood).

Just staple or paperclip it.

Although a nailgun would be pretty awesome, too. Nailgun it to his desk!
 

h8red

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Are you sure he isn't talking about something like this. You three hole punch the paper and put this in on the top hole? I don't know, just guessing
 

sdifox

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Originally posted by: Leros
The TA for my solid-state class sent out an email telling us to stop using staples and to use straight pins to hold our homework together. He says he likes being able to take out the pin.

Anybody else run into this?

He moved here from China a few months ago, is this a Chinese thing?

probably scared of the stapler like the RCMP winp at the Vancouver airport.
 

Spoooon

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I understand the staple thing, just don't get the straight-pin-as-a-solution thing. I hate removing staples. I tell my workers to not add staples to anything. Paperclips ftw.
 

sdifox

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If you are truly pissed about this, use a straight pin for the next assignment but cut off the end of the pin with a cutter at an angle, making the pin sharp on both ends. He might get the message then.
 

h8red

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just use glue. glue every page together. Either that or don't bind the papers at all and just put your name and assignment title on every page as a header/footer
 

SphinxnihpS

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Get a style manual for submitting a movie script to a producer or a draft of a novel to a publisher... i.e. this is NOTHING to complain about.
 

oogabooga

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I had TA's (including Chinese TA's who sounded like they had been in America all of 2 weeks) who wouldn't take multi-page anything without a staple. Having a stapler on homework days made you a popular kid.
 

KLin

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Ask him if you should use an abacus for any calculations too? ;)
 

Itchrelief

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Originally posted by: BoomerD

Fortunately, I'm on good terms with the secretaries in the division office...I can go in there and borrow the heavy-duty stapler that easily goes through 30 or more pages.
(sometimes it pays off to kiss the asses of the staff...especially the ladies in the dean's office) :D

Hmm. The stapler really doesn't matter, does it?