Fuck AI

I wrote them by hand, in cursive. But not before I made a harvard outline.

But seriously if anyone out there is actually trying to write an essay, the harvard outline model is legit for organizing and setting up.

Meme aside, it's refreshing to see punctuation used in a meme, and it makes it so much easier to read

I wrote a five page essay in the six hours before the 9am deadline, while high as balls. Kids these days gotta lock in. And do more drugs.

You want me to believe J.R.R Tolkien generated a whole new series and setting without AI?

I'm actually teaching some students who honest to God are in their early teens and LITERALLY cannot string two sentences together. I never want to hear anybody tell me about how writing assignments were a waste of time again, because I can PERSONALLY vouch that if you don't practice it, you literally cannot do it at all.

Skim the book, read a couple reviews online, find a couple random quotes from the book, then write a 10 page comparative essay discussing how the book relates to American exceptionalism and do it again next week.

Written by hand. Not just once, if you wanted a good grade. You needed at least one draft to correct mistakes. And, some teachers required the paper to be written in ink.

But, I read the book, too.

We taught my son to read, we knew we couldn't trust the schools to do it well. He read above grade level all through school. Being able to read well means you'll always be able to learn. Schools don't want us to be knowledgeable, they want us to be useful to the billionaires.

Lol here we have final exams where you have to write long answers. The art of writing slop is still alive and kicking.

On the bus on the way to school when it was due in the first period.

Catcher in the Rye is a tail as old as time about a famous MLB catcher turned wheat farmer and written by JB Salamander.

C+

The year was 2010. I was taking a required English class for my degree. The final was a surprise hand written essay. That final might as well have been raising a barn for most of the class.

I might have been in trouble if it was cursive. Fucking capital G

True story: I once made up an entire book during recess because I forgot the assignment. The teacher probably was aware but gave good grades because I was the only one who kept on going instead of summarising the book in under a minute.

In other words no, we don't need ai.

My daughter got nearly mobbed by her co-students for "not telling which AI she used for writing her papers". Her papers were regularly applauded for her good writing. She hates AI with a vengeance and wrote all her papers on her own. She is just good at this kind of thing.

Are people actually saying shit like this? I weep for humanity.

LMAO I hated the Great Gatsby and guessed the ending, even some subtext. It was so bad that everyone that read the book, couldn't for the life of them answer that question right on the test. I have bullshitted tests, papers, and a variety of things by having forming an opinion on the subtext, actual text, and unearned confidence. If I had time, I would read opinions and papers of others to form opinions that could hold more water than a teaspoon (in my opinion). These clankers that lean on LLMs are doing themselves a MASSIVE disservice.

Ah yeah the classics of watching a movie assuming it's the same as the book

My HS English classes were heavily discussion based, and I learned pretty early on that if I didn't have time to read the entire assignment for a class that I'd better get pretty interested in a couple of random sentences across the chapters we were supposed to read. Had to dredge up some meaning about word choice from a pretty narrow selection and make the commentary on it sound good so the teacher wouldn't call on you any further.

I think it wasn't until college that I wrote entire papers without finishing the whole book though.

Replace every shorten form of word to actual two words to get page full! It’s to It is They’ve to they have They’re to they are

In high school I took first place in the essay contest at the regional academic decathlon competition with an essay on Frankenstein (the assigned novel for that year).

I hadn't read Frankenstein.