Gio

My wife: I love you, babe

Me: *focused on the fanart* I love MiShanks

My wife: ...

That same person keeps getting literally worshippiped by most of the professors for their excellent work and in-depth analysis, for their "creativity" (that person admitted to me that they pay for some AI to write their research or steal other people's work from the internet and just translate it in our native language).

Another person admitted that they let their friends do their assignments (if not AI), because some of our assignments are way too specific and thankfully AI is shit in the practical aspect of my specific field of study.

Mind you, I'm the only one out of 12 people in my course who has never used AI and/or outright stolen someone else's work, and yet all I get is a pat on the back and a "you're an intelligent person".

I wonder if those people who laugh at me for "wasting my time" ever feel guilty for getting praise on work they've stolen. I doubt it. Some of those people have offered me money (they've got rich parents) multiple times to do their assignments. I've politely refused and instead offered to tutor them for free, but they'd rather find and pay someone else to do their work, than actually learn something for themselves.

Here I am, sacrificing even my much needed sleep, so I can keep up with 11 other people riding in cars driven by their professional driver friends, while I am running with my own two feet, carrying 10-15 books at a time, each bigger than the last, juggling 14 different assignments, and tripping over myself every second step along the way.

And the funny thing is that I somehow still end up in second or third place out of the 12 contenders. But I'm so fucking tired. I don't want to be the best among the worst. I've had enough of people rushing to me for advice on their stolen projects because AI can't help them. I'm tired of working all by myself when we're supposed to work together, because they have no idea how to do anything by themselves. But "it's okay", because I know what to do and they say shit like "We trust your judgement. We know that it's going to be perfect." I AM NOT SUPPOSED TO BE DOING GROUP PROJECTS BY MYSELF!!!!!

And what can I do when half the professors say stuff like "Let's ask the AI about this" whenever we encounter a small problem?