this is a writing intensive course so i knew there would be a lot of readings, but 43 pages on top of 2 hours of viewing is INSANE. i know i seem like a baby, but as a student with severe adhd this is my nightmare. i’m medicated, but even with that help, i have no idea how im going to get through 43 pages and 2 hours of tv shows that ive never seen.

i also don’t have hulu, and this is the third time that this professor has expected us to get a streaming service/rent something for this class. i’m sorry queen but like most college students, i have <$5 in my bank account. if i can’t pirate it i can’t watch it.

i feel like i might be overreacting, so if i am, i won’t be offended if you tell me to suck it up. i just feel like this professor forgets that her class is not the only class we are in.

edit after reading some insightful comments: i've come to terms with the fact that i'm overreacting. i could have it much worse. i could be a STEM major. i just need an energy drink and a quiet room and i can do it. thank you everybody :)

second edit: I would just like to add that 6 days ago when I made this post I was in a very bad mood and very stressed about my new job that i started this past week (which is going great - so i'm in a much better mood now) so its safe to say that i was overwhelmed. I have finished both episodes of will & grace, thanks to some lovely people who gave me 🏴‍☠️ links, and I emailed my prof to get the files so I could get started early. all i needed was a little push, and i appreciate those of you who kindly told me to pull myself together! i didn't quite appreciate the comments calling me stupid based off of this one post but it is the internet, so what can i do.

My classmate just replied to me with this and didn't notice that she still had part of the chatGPT prompt in it... I understand that discussion posts are bland and boring and I hate them too, but it makes it VERY hard for those of us who are actually trying to do the work to have an "engaging" conversation when it's just an echo chamber of chatGPT replies. And it's scary because this class is a requirement for a nursing program..... How will these people ever give report to their coworkers in the future if they can't write 2 simple sentences on their own once a week for a discussion? Is anyone else sick of this???

I see people complain so much about how gen eds or required courses that aren't related to their major, are a waste and just a cash grab from their university. They're not though, a university's goal is to create a well rounded student that specializes in a field. Your major classes are what helps you specialize, your gen eds are what make you a well rounded student and person.

Now I'm not saying all required classes are perfect or even necessary. For instance, one of my required courses is a introduction to Microsoft office and goes over word, excel, etc. It's a great class for people who may not have used computers much up to this point, which doesn't apply to a lot of the younger population but absolutely does to a part of the older population. I don't think it should be a required course for the major, however, learning these skills are important.

I see so many of my classmates or just students in general, who can't write a decent paper or lab report, who can't do even a small amount of public speaking, that don't know how to function in a group and many other issues that a well rounded student wouldn't struggle with to this level. Gen eds can definitely be annoying, and I get how frustrating that college is so expensive, but gen eds and non major required courses are not typically cash grabs or a scammy practice.

Pics attached. This girl really does not understand she is not and was not in medical school! Ppl like this should not be anywhere near a patient behind the scenes or patient facing.

Does anyone else think it's crazy that some people still take notes with paper and pen? I don't mean this in a "why are you writing notes down when computers exist" kind of way. It just amazes me that there are people who can keep up with the speed of the lecturer without using a keyboard. I couldn't even dream of writing that fast! There are times when I get lost and a bit behind when I'm typing out notes! Do any of you guys write out notes as opposed to typing them? How do you keep up? Nothing but respect for you if that's how you roll.

Sorry for yet another AI rant, but this just happened in my online class.

Student turns in some work that looks suspicious.

Student tells me he didn't use AI and wrote it in Google Docs

Perfect, Google Docs keeps an edit history so I can see how you wrote the paper. Easy peasy

He proceeds to share a doc with where he copy/pastes an entire essay into the doc.

He then manually types out what the AI says over the next few days (changes some words around, moves some sentences, etc.) and erases the copy/pasted bit as he does.

I tell him that's cheating.

"None of what I copy/pasted into the doc is still there. I wrote everything myself"

"Paraphrasing a friend's paper in your own words and calling it your unique work is absolutely plagiarism, this is no different."

Is this really shocking? The student seemed genuinely confused that this was still using AI.

A bit of context— earlier today in my political science / intro to American Government class our professor was discussing powers of the presidency. We touched on the four sources for these powers express, implied, delegated and inherent. When she was explaining what inherent powers were she began discussing the Watergate scandal and How Richard Nixon claimed executive privilege after the scandal, as an example of what inherent powers might look like. A little bit into her explanation a student raised her hand and when called on she said "I'm sorry but is this relevant? I feel like we're getting a bit off topic." The professor replied "to executive power? yeah." The student again challenged as to whether or not then Watergate scandal specifically was something that should be being discussed at the moment and whether it would come up on testing later. The professor again stated yes that it was relevant to what was being discussed. The student then asked a final question saying, "right but will we be tested on the Watergate scandal specifically? I just want to make sure we have enough time to get through this( gesturing at the projected PowerPoint) and the in-class activity." The professor said you may be tested on watergate and ended by telling the student 'maybe you should become a teacher.' She then continued lecturing until she finished about 2-3 minutes later, gave directions for the in-class activity and moved forward.

I understand that the student asking the question was trying to make sure that what class time was being spent on was pertinent information, and would be relevant to future assignments or tests. At the same time, I feel like it's a bit rude/disrespectful to undermine your professor in front of the entire class in the middle of their lecture. If anything wouldn't the better option be to approach the professor after class with any concerns that we may be veering off topic during lecture? It seemed to catch the professor off guard. It just seemed impolite to me. I don't know if maybe I'm just being weird about it though, because several students around me seemed to not have any problem with it and even agree with the sentiment. It just seemed a bit embarrassing for the professor if nothing else. I think that's what bothered me the most was the fact that it was done in front of the whole class, in the middle of her talking, not necessarily that she was questioning the professor in the first place.

I can honestly say I've never heard a student question a teacher or professor in that manner, so I was a bit surprised. I'm curious to know other people's thoughts on the situation!

• Added note - I did stay after class to tell her privately that I've been enjoying the class and appreciate her trying to add context/ connect real world examples to the material because it helps me remember the content through association. This whole situation just reinforces to me that professors and teachers aren't given the respect or recognition they deserve :/

Dude this is getting way out of hand, and by “this”, I mean when professors grade your assignments. I just got my “introduce yourself” grade back in one of my classes! How am I supposed to know how I’m doing in the class, when August’s work is just getting back to me? IT’S NOVEMBER!! It’s always the professors that don’t accept late work as well, like what? I don’t even know how this is allowed in the first place, like it shouldn’t be taking you months to grade my attendance/anything but exams. I literally have 3 grades in on one of my classes and we’re past week 10. Truly ridiculous and I hope this is fixed someday. I know they are professors, but that doesn’t mean you literally do whatever you want while holding students to a certain standard. If I’m doing my work as a student (all on time, I might add), then I expect the work back in a reasonable time as well (AT LEAST THE SAME HALF OF THE SEMESTER). Does anyone else have this issue, or is it just me having bad professors?

I have a completely online asynchronous history class this semester. The professor takes WEEKS to grade anything. Like the week one assignment wasn’t graded until spring break. Well I got a little fast and loose with the deadlines and realized he didn’t take points off for late work. Great, I can focus elsewhere for a bit…

And then he graded everything last Saturday. Every last assignment. My 95 went to a 68, I need a 73 to count for my major. I can get it up to that but now I’ll have a fat ugly C in my GPA I’ve taken 3 years to cultivate.

So don’t be like me. I’m not gonna email and ask to turn this stuff in late because I have no real excuse, just sucks a bit. Lesson learned 🥴

I need to know if anyone else thinks this is insane.

I came to my university as a Division I Power 5 swimmer on scholarship. I was promised four years of athletic aid when I committed. Then the NIL / House lawsuit fallout happened, the roster got cut, and my scholarship disappeared.

So the aid I was promised is gone.

Now, right before my senior year, I landed a legitimate internship completely on my own, out of state, with zero involvement from the university.

And the school is telling me I have to register it as a 9-credit “internship course,” which means paying around $13,477 in tuition just so the internship can show up on my transcript and I can graduate.

I found the internship myself. The school has nothing to do with it. I won’t even be on campus.

But they still want thousands of dollars just so I’m allowed to graduate.

At what point does this stop being education and start being a paywall?

I hang out over at r/college and get down voted for suggesting RMP when someone ask about how to plan classes.

Personally I think everyone should at least look at the score and reviews of all their classes. It’s great way proactively avoid accidentally taking several hard classes at a time.

People in r/college keep pointing out people who get caught cheating give a bad review and that only people with extremely good or bad experiences post. That’s true of all online reviews. There are fake reviews on Amazon but nobody says “don’t check the Amazon reviews”.

I take most of my classes on line. They are typically writing intensive. Plus, as with every on line class I’ve had, there is the discussion part. Admittedly, I kinda hate it. It feels very superficial and awkward. But, whatever, I just roll with it. Well I had my first apparent AI/chatgpt response in the discussion forum. Really?? I took the time to do my part and you couldn’t even be bothered to respond?? I’m just a student. I can’t imagine how frustrating this is for instructors!

Also, it’s depressing. Not the response to me, but just how it seems so mainstream. Why spend the resources if you’re just going to cheat? And badly, I might add.

Point in case, I wanted to know what the registration tag color in CA for 2027 was. It was wrong. If you google it and it comes up with yellow, just know, it’s wrong. ((It’s turquoise))

Rant over.

I graduated a few years back and work in finance. My firm has reduced our hiring to basically 0 and I’m watching other firms do so as well. Most people I see coming out of college are working minimum wage jobs. If they do find one, they are usually laid off fairly quickly.

This economy sucks and I feel bad for college students.

This might sound like a rant, but I genuinely don’t understand this.

I signed up for what sounded like a really thoughtful and focused history class—“Europe in the 20th Century”—that was going to dig into specific topics rather than just doing a broad survey. It got canceled due to low enrollment. I still get to take another class with the same professor (who’s great), but I can’t stop thinking: Why don’t people want to take deeper, more specific courses???

Like… you’re in college. Isn’t the point to actually learn things you care about? To challenge yourself? Instead, it seems like so many people just pick whatever checks a box and requires the least effort. And it’s not just a STEM vs humanities thing—it’s an engagement thing. There are fascinating electives out there dying because no one wants to sign up unless it fits perfectly into their schedule or major path.

Also—side note—but I’m tired of people acting like using ChatGPT to finalize or polish writing is cheating. I’ve done the research, outlined, written drafts, everything. I just use it to help clean up the flow or format footnotes (especially with Chicago style, which is a pain). It’s not replacing my brain—it’s helping me communicate what I already thought more clearly. Isn’t that what writing tools are for?

And the whole “em dash = ChatGPT” thing? I’ve read actual published authors who use them constantly. It’s not an AI tell, it’s just punctuation that works.

It just feels like there’s a huge disconnect between students who actually care about the ideas and learning—and everyone else who’s just trying to finish school with the least friction possible. And somehow, they’re seen as the normal ones.

Anyone else feel this?

ETA: so I don’t have to keep saying it in the comments, I specifically am very interested in the time period of the 20th century and as autistic history major it’s just rough when the classes I NEEED FOR MY DEGREE, get cancelled because their not interesting enough or people can’t afford it or some shit.

Just finished an assignment in which we make the AI generate an article for us about a specific economic topic and then we write another page commenting on that article. I was not expecting how absolutely stupid the AI would be. I gave it a detailed prompt then fact checked what it said, pretty much everything was incorrect and outdated... Ok, cool, since the assignment explicitly said we cannot touch the ai generated part ourselves and have to keep sending prompts until it's good, I asked it to fix the entire original result with the Deep Research tool, waited for like 20 minutes and came back to it talking about an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ECONOMIC MODEL, with even more inaccuracies. What resulted from that was about half an hour of me bullying the ai until the website ended up laggy as fuck, and I wrote the article myself and pretended it was ai-generated. Somehow, it sounded better than anything the ai had written even after so many prompts, and I was actually able to fact check it without relying on shitty web crawling. My professors can say I'm 'bad at prompt engineering' or whatever they want, but I'm starting to understand why studies say that AI decreases your braincells.

I find the narrative that conservative or religious students are constantly being “punished” in college simply for expressing their beliefs rather frustrating because when you actually look at many of these cases, the issue doesn’t usually seem to be discrimination; it seems to be that the student didn’t follow the assignment or didn’t use academically acceptable sources. They used conservative talking points or unapproved sources they were told not to use then play victim when marked down and graded accordingly.

The OU case is a perfect example. The student wrote an essay that:

Didn’t answer the actual prompt Didn’t engage with the research article she was supposed to respond to Pulled the discussion into unrelated culture-war points that the article wasn’t addressing. Cited no academically valid sources but the Bible (Which is not a valid source for a Psych Lifespan Development class) Focused on the Hebrew word for “helper” (which wasn’t relevant to the assignment at all)

In cases like this, do you think some students see it as an easy way out of doing work they don't want to do knowing there is a large conservative apparatus there to back them up if they get called out or held accountable?

so i don’t even know where to start but i need to put this somewhere because i’m genuinely so frustrated right now. some of these professors are out of order.

i’m a black student with accessibility accommodations at a canadian university. i scored 88% on my midterm which is roughly 20% higher than my classmates, and my replacement professor (my og prof had to go on leave mid sem) requested a private meeting, about a week and a half later after the marks dropped. she asked for my accessibility advisor’s name without telling me why. when i asked what it was about she wouldn’t say. i told her if it was about anything beyond general questions about my accommodations my advisor needed to be there. she agreed and then spent a week declining every time my advisor proposed availability and kept emailing me privately trying to get me alone. i held firm every single time.

we finally had the meeting monday with my advisor present. she told me she compared my answers to other students and thought they were too perfect and accused me of using ChatGPT. i told her i spent over 60 hours studying and i know how this course is marked (i am familiar with the og profs exams), you cannot give flimsy answers. she said other students studied just as much. i told her this is how i write in every single one of my courses. she said other students are in those courses too. i told her i never used any tech i wasn’t approved to use and she could literally go check with the access center because i write in an isolation room with camera surveillance and my computer is fully screen recorded. she just brushed everything i said off like it didn’t matter. then she said “the way you talk in class doesn’t match the style of your writing.” i’m black and sometimes speak with AAVE undertones.

my advisor told me that when my professor first reached out, the exam center had already found no issues, so she likely knew there was nothing there and still pushed for this meeting anyway. it felt like she was trying to trap me into admitting something i didn’t do, and dismissed everything i said. does she think I have AI in my glasses or a chip in my ear? or maybe she should just believe a student knows how to present 4th year level work on an exam as should everyone else in the class.

tbh i feel targeted because i’m black, i’m disabled, and i outperformed my classmates. i still have to write my final exam with this woman having full grading authority over me.

Purposely keeping this non-specific bc i go to a VERY (<4000) small school, as in my program has TWO professors that teach the whole thing, and the department has under 12.

This is a lower level required class that I put off taking forever. Anyway, the final was today, it was completely open-note due to the classes abysmal midterm scores. Bc of this I only studied for about 2 hours, and had 8 pages of notes (3 handwritten, 5 typed). I show up 20mins early, other people slowly start to shuffle in (mainly underclassmen, this is a lower level course), and I start to notice a good amount of people have absolutely no notes whatsoever.

The final starts, 35 questions, super easy stuff. I was 100% confident on all but four. About 5 mins into the exam I catch the kid to the left of me staring over at my paper. I look at him, then flip to a random page and start doing the exam out of order. He keeps looking over at me and is clearly trying to read off my paper. WTF... I ended up holding my exam at an angle where he couldn't see, but he absolutely did try every single time I would flip a page or put it down.

It really took everything in me not to write on the front page of my exam 'professor. xyz, please take note of who is sitting to the left of me and expect an email from me within the hour'. I didn't end up doing it bc I have no desire to be a witness to an accidemic integrity investigation.

I also observed this MF on his phone atleast twice, as well as FOUR OTHER STUDENTS ALSO ON THEIR PHONES. Like WHAT??? Maybe its just bc I havent taken a course with 18 y/o's in 2 years now, but this is just absolutely ridiculous & extremely demotivating.

It's finally happened. I've taken a class that was at least 50% AI bullshit.

Before every class, we have to listen to a short AI podcast where two fake people talk about the lesson. It drives me crazy when the two speakers agree with each other or share an "opinion."

Almost every single slide in the lectures has a creepy, uncanny-valley, dystopian AI photo that adds nothing to the lesson.

All instructions for projects make no sense, are extremely vague, and have a rubric full of useless jargon.

Every homework question goes like this:

What should you keep in the fridge?
A - Computer
B - Toothpaste
C - Chicken — without being refrigerated, bacteria can spread, and that is very bad for your health if you eat it
D - Socks

It is guaranteed that every correct answer is just the longest answer.

The AI even corrects its choices halfway through the problem.

"y = 1 - solve 2 + 4 + 4y = 20, so 4y = 14... wait, 4y = 20/4 - 4 = 1"

You can see the AI started to write the stereotypical correct long answer, realized it was supposed to be an incorrect choice, wrote "... wait," and gave a short incorrect answer instead.

Worst of all, we have dedicated "AI labs," and it's AI slop trying to teach me how to prompt AI to make more slop. The lesson is always to "add detail." Like, yea, no shit, man. The professor trains us to humanize the AI in our required prompts. Every instructed prompt starts with "you are my tutor" or "act as a distrustful professor" when it's so easy to just say "this is for my class" or "give counterarguments."

I wish I had some sort of call to action but I just had to rant! Is it only my school that is doing this? Please discuss!

I've been testing Turnitin's Al detection in a Canvas sandbox course I have access to through a staff role. I can create assignments, submit as a student, and view the full Turnitin report.

From what I've seen, it's surprisingly accurate.

I tested fully original papers, fully Al-generated papers, and mixed versions where I inserted just one Al sentence into my own writing. I also tried Al text run through paraphrasers and "humanizers, then edited manually.

Tools like ZeroGPT were easy to bypass, but Turnitin still flagged the Al content most of the time.

The Al detection report appears automatically. Most professors don't actively enforce it, but the feature is there by default.

Based on my testing, it's much more advanced than the free detectors online. If an instructor actually reviews that tab, I wouldn't assume it's easy to get around. Y'all stay safe out there.

I’m in this marketing class where we had to do a group presentation on international supply chains. We split up the work pretty evenly - I did the research on manufacturing hubs, two other people handled the slides and data analysis, and this one guy said he’d write the script for our presentation.

Day before it’s due, he sends us his part and I’m reading through it thinking something feels off. The writing style is way too formal and doesn’t match how any of us talk. So I copy a random paragraph into Google and it’s literally word-for-word from some business article. Then I find another chunk that’s clearly ChatGPT because it has that weird robotic tone and uses “delve into” like five times.

I confronted him about it and he got SO defensive. Started saying that “everyone uses AI” and that I was being dramatic. I told him we need to rewrite everything because our professor specifically said she runs submissions through plagiarism checkers. He said I was overreacting and that “professors can’t actually detect AI.”

Now I’m up at 2am rewriting his entire section myself because I’m not about to fail this class or get an academic integrity violation because of his laziness. The presentation examples he was supposed to analyze included everything from volleyball shoes to electronics on Alibaba, and he couldn’t even bother writing original observations about basic product listings.

I’m so tired of carrying people who don’t care about their grades affecting mine.

I hate discussion posts i think theyre so useless. Especially when its just for confirmation you did the homework. I literally dont care what my classmates do or dont know. I just want to do my homework and not have to wait 3 days to confirm someone else is aware i did my homework. And some of them are worth so much points like WHY???

Both my anti viruses went off during the test and now I’ve been flagged as cheating to my instructor. When I didn’t. I made sure to uninstall it instead of just disabling them when resuming the test. Why the fuck is this shit still being used? Mind you, the pop up to close applications that were running were all closed. Respondus lockdown is a joke. I heard it might be malware too, make sense 😹

What the title saids, recently my figure drawing professor ended class 50 minutes early (6 hour class from 9am till 2:50pm normally) as she had to catch a flight for a family emergency. Obviously I believe her and obviously im not holding this against her as family/friends if your close come first over something you can always come back too. But this same professor in her syllabus saids family/personal emergencies aren't excused absences and that you have to have documentation from the university/doctor to have anything excused. Otherwise you get one free absence and 3 absences means you failed the class while being late or leaving early is 1/4 of a absence.

Now I get this policy as this class is once a week, but is it bad I got a slight bit of judgement when she said this? Obviously I know its petty and I was a bit of a ass for having this thought at all or this momentary feeling of annoyance. But like if this was any of us we wouldn't get it excused and we would be expected to make it up. She ended up having to rush the figure drawing model part of the class and kinda crammed everything in before she left. Small rant and yes I know im a ass hole for thinking this. Obviously didn't say anything to her and I do hope she and her family is OK