Filched from elsewhere.

[polarweasel@hachyderm.io]

@neurovagrant As a former humanities major, I can confirm I have successfully done this in three languages

[gundula_d@troet.cafe]

@neurovagrant

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@neurovagrant

That's weaksauce.

I had to write my own text editor before I submitted my final project.

Finished by 1AM, the editor.
The assignment was due at 9AM.

I passed.

True story: I bought Commodore 128 that week and had no software.

[kalimaisme@mastodon.social]

@neurovagrant I remember doing it in college the night before mostly bsing but using my brain also and always getting an a

[sven222@goto.hardwarepunk.de]

@neurovagrant Reminds me on my exams for my A level. After I screwed up the writen exam about german literature (about a book I absolutly love and have read multiple times) I volunteered for the oral exam. That was then about a book I have never read. Got 14 points of 15 available

[muddle@infosec.exchange]

@drsbaitso @neurovagrant https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord

But I couldn't possibly comment.

[bbbhltz@framapiaf.org]

@neurovagrant I have a copy of a mathematics exam from 2002 on which we had to write a 4–5-pager. The subject:

Why is √7 irrational?

I...failed that one.

I teach now, it is getting harder and harder to get students to write 300 words.

[kittenkoder@mastodon.social]

@neurovagrant

5 page essays were one questions in our exams. If an essay was the entire assignment we had to do 20 to 100 pages, single spaced, handwritten.

[adx@infosec.exchange]

@drsbaitso @neurovagrant And gaining the skill to sniff out the bullshit someone is trying to sling your way.

[mcd1979@mastodon.social]

@KittenKoder @neurovagrant

I remember essays that had to be a certain number of pages and making periods a slightly larger font size to make it longer.

[ksmoker@mstdn.social]

@adx @neurovagrant Same, except I would tend to do it from 10pm to 4am.

[anagnostes@mstdn.io]

@neurovagrant Reader's Digest was the equivalent of AI in those days.

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@neurovagrant
I can relate and I’m still in school
Granted, my “high school” years were long before Ai even showed up, not to mention that a “school computer” was still quite a novelty for the rural school districts. But there is something to be said about having enough “knowledge” about certain subjects that you don’t have to read the material to be able to write about it !

[webbop@tech.lgbt]

@neurovagrant Filling in the logic gaps caused by relying on notes from lessons and skimming the book with bullshit you made up.

[bruce@darkmoon.social]

@n_dimension @neurovagrant

So, no time to read the material for the assignment. Respect.

[lumi@snug.moe]

@neurovagrant find essays about the book online, read the essays

then write an essay based on the essays

lifehacks

[hannah@hai.z0ne.social]

@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org doesn't it the same without HERE I AM ONCE AGAAAAAIN sorry

[zaicurity@infosec.exchange]

@neurovagrant Today write the essay without reading the essay.