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We asked 100 Pitt Students: What does the ‘T.A’ in Joan T.A. Gabel stand for?

Staff Writers Jan 12, 2024
We asked 100 Pitt Students: What does the ‘T.A’ in Joan T.A. Gabel stand for?
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Contrary to popular belief, the T.A. in Pitt Chancellor Joan T.A. Gabel’s name does not stand for teaching assistant! In fact, no one in the world except the big boss herself has discovered what those two letters stand for. We here at The Pitiful News crowdsourced answers from across the Pitt campus, asking 100 students what they thought those clandestine characters really meant. Here’s what they said:

  1. Titty anomaly
  2. Teaching “assistant”
  3. “Teaching” assistant
  4. Total Asshole
  5. THUNDER ANNIHILATION
  6. Thematically appropriate
  7. Trevor (A)Noah
  8. The Annihilator
  9. Today’s answer
  10. Tubular aquarium
  11. Temporarily Absent
  12. Taxpayer Advocate
  13. Tactical Airlift
  14. Tax Avoider
  15. Temperature Ambient
  16. Texture Analyzer
  17. Thanks, Asshat
  18. The Angle
  19. Threat Avoidance
  20. Turd Absorber
  21. Turbulent Aqueduct
  22. Territorial Army
  23. Touch Ankles
  24. Ton of Ankylosauruses
  25. Torrential Assailant
  26. Trip Advisor
  27. Toenail Anthusiast
  28. Trinket Artisan
  29. Ticklish Armpit
  30. Total Annihilation
  31. Tushy Assassin
  32. Tantalizing Armpit
  33. The Avenged
  34. Tub of Apples
  35. Triple Axle
  36. Tummy Ache
  37. Tourist Attraction
  38. Tailpipe Attacher
  39. Train AAAAAAAAAA
  40. Transaction Avacado
  41. Tons of Anxiety
  42. Traveling Actress
  43. Teal Armadillo
  44. Talentless Amature
  45. Tragic Avalanche
  46. Treasure Aisland
  47. Theological Assimilation
  48. Tarantula Arraignment
  49. TV Attorney
  50. Tongue Agent
  51. Terrier, Aw!
  52. Two-letter Acronym
  53. Trailmix Anthrax
  54. Tight Ass
  55. Top Associate
  56. Tire Applicator
  57. Toy Anthologist
  58. Tired Adult
  59. Two Asscheeks
  60. Three Asscheeks
  61. Ten Asscheeks
  62. Twenty Asscheeks
  63. Twenty-two Asscheeks
  64. Tarantula Archivist
  65. Torque Amplifier
  66. Totally Amongus
  67. Terminator (A)
  68. The Avengers
  69. The AirNation
  70. Thanks Again
  71. The Army
  72. Totally Awesome
  73. Tackle Authorities
  74. Taze Ants
  75. Tooth Ache
  76. Toasty Ashes
  77. Tubular Angles
  78. Type Alpha
  79. Turkish Airlines
  80. Toyota Arsonist
  81. Toyotathon Advocate
  82. Tent Adder
  83. Thermal Assrips
  84. Terrible Anesthesiologist
  85. Tender Arms
  86. Thriving After
  87. Tasteless Asspic
  88. True Athleisure
  89. Televised Art
  90. Tsudents’ Atears
  91. Texas Arkansas
  92. Tank Admiral
  93. Touchless Antisocialite
  94. Terrifyingly Alone
  95. Transient Allure
  96. Trans Arights
  97. Tidal Alcove
  98. Transformer: Autobot
  99. Tranquil Assassin
  100. Therapods, Astonishing!