To students everywhere

Do not tell your professor that you spent 5 hours looking for this article in the library, and then tell your Ta that you only spent an hour looking for it... The professor and the Ta probably talk to one another, and many of these conversations are about how the students in the class are doing... Discrepancies will be caught!

Do not tell the Ta that you can not find an article in the library pertaining to the current week's lab report. Labs tend to be the same from year to year, why would a lab be assigned and an article required if none existed. The Ta probably has a stack of articles which pertain to that lab report, all from the library you have access too.

Do not try to get the ta to just give you all the answers, you are a student and your purpose is to learn. How are you going to do so if you are given all of the answers? Besides your Ta probably had to figure out all of the answers for themselves, so you should have to too!!

Do not give the Ta some lame excuse as to why you can not finnish your lab report, the Ta is currently a student and is not dumb enough to fall for it!