Talk:Queen B, Book 1 Choices/@comment-46869377-20201004185829/@comment-37484301-20201005031642

I know Poppy implies (or knows) that the Prof has feelings for you but the "using" Ian/Ina would still be the TA position because you use your relationship (romantic or at the minimum one-sided) to get him/her to "hire" you and improve your reputation and help you cancel out the "cheating" scandal in the beginning. As Zoey said, Ian/Ina is notorious by-the-book up-and-up trustworthy so if he/she trusts you to give you the job, it means you're trustworthy and wouldn't cheat.

Of course, this is plot and we as readers have no choice in the matter - to become his/her TA or to try another way to "prove our innocence" but this is what we're given. In a way, the MC uses most everyone in her posse, whether by blackmail in the beginning (Penelope, Veronica), or mutual enemies/revenge (Taylor, Thomas, Carter), or help her academic standing (Prof Roberta). But where most/all people know they are being used, Prof Kingsley didn't know.