#FreeRoss
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Your friend sounds based. I love writing, but the college writing tests I took were awful. I paid 1000 dollars, maybe more, for a textbook that costs at most 200 bucks new on Amazon, a free quiz program called Excelsior Owl, and several nonsense discussion pages. I was required to get a grade; I had to make a Google document in a specific format that is less than 250 words for the teacher. The teacher also posted things in Microsoft document format, so I had to request a PDF, combine that with the fact my teacher was so awful she forgot to list dates to submit things, and I didn't feel like writing without the assistance of ChatGPT. Funny enough, she was dumb enough not to notice it, but the way college is makes me sympathize with your friend's usage of AI.An IRL friend of mine has sadly fallen into micro-lolcowdom in my eyes. The guy is a mathematics major, and has recently become insufferably obsessed with AI to the degree that would make a LinkedIndian blush. He's been talking about very little but the latest hottest models for the past couple months, and when I try to steer the conversation to our previously usual topics (math nerd shit) he keeps telling me how he can prompt-craft this latest 5 billion weights model from Google/etc. to generate answers and proofs and how convenient it all is. The real descent into cowdom came this week when he told me how he's generating not just the proof prototypes but major sections of his master's thesis' actual text. I usually go along with him but I had to tell him this time that that is a surefire way to get blasted by examination board for plagiarism, and that he should at least ask his instructing professor and be as transparent as possible, and he responded by saying he just wants to be done with the thesis, and is not gonna tell anyone. I'm quite dreading to hear from him in a couple months' time the inevitable conclusion that he now has a permanently stained record for academic integrity violations.
Also, the fact that you could have just bought the textbook for 200 dollars and then did an exam based on the textbook that would be short and simple, but instead you add in all of the fluff and nonsense like discussion forums and quizzes from a free website that's not even tied to the school just so they can drag the class out and charge more is totally ridiculous. College honestly feels like a total scam. It's like my teacher purposely made it a pain to stroke her own ego because she thinks being a teacher makes her better than everyone else. But these universities want more money so they can pay for the bloated administrations and luxuries they provide, while other countries just stick mostly to learning rather than funding the hot tubs and on-campus cafeterias, but in America it's all making money rather than education. Also, when you combine these power-tripping teachers and awful outdated proprietary software, it's a recipe for disaster.
I would also like to add that this idea that people are getting properly educated from college is completely ridiculous. The deadlines make it hard to even finish the textbook because I had to do 20 other quizzes and discussion board posts on top of writing an essay in the teachers specific format. I didn't even have time to properly learn from my textbook, but yet there are people and companies who think you are uneducated on a subject if you didn't waste thousands of dollars on a college degree. Tons of people also think you are an idiot if you didn't go to college based on a stupid piece of paper. college Is basically an expensive shit test. Going to college is overpaying for credentials so employers think you are employable. It could easily be better and actually teach people, but that doesn't make these universities enough money.