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[adx@infosec.exchange]

@neurovagrant I went to a liberal arts school. By the time I graduated I could go to the library at 10am and rip out a full essay by 4pm

[obot50549535@left-bank.net]

@neurovagrant Reminds me of an ancient Doonesbury where Zonker is typing away (I said it was ancient) and Mike says "Watcha doin" and Zonker says "writing a term paper" and Mike says "which class?" and Zonker says "I haven't decided yet."

[sempf@infosec.exchange]

@neurovagrant I spent all of my teaching money earned from clarinet lessons on Cliffs Notes. Only way I made it through senior English.

[drsbaitso@infosec.exchange]

@neurovagrant S'true. Some of the most important skills being lost are tactical laziness and strategic bullshittery. And you gotta know where the line is so you can get riiiiight up to it without going over.

[noplasticshower@infosec.exchange]

@neurovagrant we wrote 12 fucking books. AI borrowed them to learn some stuff.

[lavenderflorianbreton@pixelfed.social]

Where I'm from, you only need a 50% on a test to pass, so I just guessed shit and passed school

[tilai@mastodon.social]

@neurovagrant frfr

[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 !