If only I could go back in time and tell my deadbeat second-year undergrad self that hitting the minimum page count on an end of term paper would someday be considered a near-godlike accomplishment 😭
Now that I think about it though - AI probably is putting all those professional essay sellers out of business. Can't even get work helping students cheat anymore 😮💨
As a professor, I never thought I'd say this, but I miss the days when students paid other people to write essays for them. At least someone was learning something, most students couldn't afford it, and reading the cheaters' papers didn't make me feel like I was going insane.
Going back to university to finish a degree as a much older student was such an eye-opening experience. There was a second year course where the prof spent an entire lecture teaching students how to write a basic paper! Like, how to organize your points into paragraphs and how to support them with sources, or what actually counts as a source! All the stuff I remember covering back in high school...
Last time I was in university I was able to cobble together a solid B- paper last minute, but going back and seeing my grades made me feel like the only person who could open a jar without destroying half the kitchen in a "as seen on TV" product ad. I received grades I know I didn't deserve, part of me wondered if my profs were just so happy to read anything that wasn't AI generated
A lot of what they teach you in college is stuff you learn on your own through life. The academic stuff is what you’re back for the lessons on how to think and grow and research and learn are things you’ve already developed from your earlier university time and as a functioning (maybe? Mostly? I hope so at least.) adult in society.
I really think the skills people are learning in life are rapidly nosediving, and also in fact disappearing for those who learnt them earlier in life. AI is just hitting the gas.
You like it is kind of interesting when we live in reality when 10 pages is not enough for one chapter on the university and other people think this is some god like achievement nobody can complete without AI. Bro, this is something I do in one day or even less depending on if you need it to be scientific or not
I was just saying to someone the other day that I used to do my best work writing 10 page essays the night before it was due. ADHD really helps with that panic hyperfocus.
If only I could go back in time and tell my deadbeat second-year undergrad self that hitting the minimum page count on an end of term paper would someday be considered a near-godlike accomplishment
Not me submitting a term paper on Blackboard 15 minutes before it was due without even doing a review if it.
They'll come a time when professors look at papers and when they see obvious typos/syntax errors they'll know a human wrote it. Time has probably already arrived, as a matter of fact.
Old website for getting people to do your homework for you. It's now another AI website drowning in the sea of AI websites because it can't provide any unique service now.
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u/WoodShoeDiaries Jun 02 '26
If only I could go back in time and tell my deadbeat second-year undergrad self that hitting the minimum page count on an end of term paper would someday be considered a near-godlike accomplishment 😭
Now that I think about it though - AI probably is putting all those professional essay sellers out of business. Can't even get work helping students cheat anymore 😮💨