This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
May 5, 2025 16:12Having a LLM or another person writing your papers feels like a victory but it is just your own defeat, you felled by your own contempt for your future and anyone who believes in you.
it's like what I tell my language students "the conversations we have had lead me to believe you are smarter than that machine, believe in yourself more than it"
Every paper I've put actual effort into has gotten grades I can feel proud of. It especially helps when the topic is something you're interested too
You're paying hundreds of thousands for that education if you're in the US and you're literally just cheating yourself by ignoring it and choosing to not learn how to do your future career
The only force that has proven capable of regularly defeating my legendary sloth is my intellectual vanity.
I was gonna write a big long thing but I think I’ll just let this scene from Scrubs get to the core point of who term papers are for
What I tell my students all the time and they look at me like I'm nuts.
Yes! Love yourself enough to embrace the potential failure of offering something new. Of surprising yourself.
Seriously. Just do your own work and let the cards fall. Oh and…
Hell yes. I turn 15 pages in every week, im proud of my research and my writing style. AI can't be me.
Also my advisor is an excellent editor/proofreader.
Humans write papers. Computers do math. Stay off my paper, math robot
AI is destroying the humanities: by impairing students' ability to think for themselves; by disguising their inability to write; and by rewarding their unwillingness to read. Not all students--but enough of them.
For professors like me, it also has saps the joy of teaching.
And for those of us seeking to keep our republic, it's softening up future citizens to accept propaganda--so long as it's legitimized by AI.
It’s not weird. Really good. 😊
And your original good ideas not being put out there. Even if fail. A lot of ideas need trial then improved on. Not weird at all. Love your post.
I hope the statute of limitations has passed (I’m referencing the early 1970’s here), but as an undergraduate I once had a gig writing term papers. I charged extra if I had never taken the class, but I guaranteed a B and never let a client down.
I guess I couldn’t compete with LLMs now.
True. Ask students that chat if they really want to spend their career doing something they’re not good at and don’t enjoy.
*cheat, not chat.
If the point of school is to learn, then yes.
If the point of school is to check a box so you can make money later, then no.
Societies that do the latter and not the former don't last long but that likely doesn't matter to individuals...until it does.
Sadly, time has shown, loving yourself is rarely rewarded. Thus, billionaires.
If the point of school is to learn, then yes. If the point of school is to check a box so you can make money later, then no. Societies that do the latter and not the former don't last long but that likely doesn't matter to individuals...until it does.
