sometimes i don't realize how much Project Hail Mary has impacted my life.
anyway. i had a midterm exam last friday about coping with climate change. i "studied" for maybe an hour (literally just skimmed my professor's powerpoint right before the exam)
after the exam, i felt awful because my friend (and sometimes i genuinely wonder why we're still friends) went, "so... you didn't cheat? you didn't use chatgpt? and you're still confident you passed? because you're sooo smart?" in the most sarcastic tone imaginable.
it wasn't even the words. it was the way his face changed, like he'd already DECIDED I COULDNT DO WELL unless i cheated. somehow that got into my head.
fast forward to today. scores were announced.
imagine preparing for less than an hour and still placing, while none of the cheating chatgpt mfs did...and i kept wondering why. then it hit me...
i didn't only study for an hour.
i've loved this stuff for YEARS.
this class reminded me of my favorite science subject back in high school, oh and astronomy. it reminded me of Project Hail Mary. i already knew about the Goldilocks Zone, exoplanets, and climate science because i was obsessed enough to read about them for fun. i literally made connections during the exam because my brain kept going, "oh wait, this is like when stratt bombed the arctic to speed up global warming because the earth was cooling due to astrophage."
the information wasn't magically downloaded into my brain an hour before the exam.
it had been living there the whole time.
LIKE OKAYYYY, HELL YEAH. i can study for an hour and still place near the top. not because i'm secretly cheating. but because i'm a fucking nerd. because i genuinely love learning. because sometimes your favorite book ends up teaching you more than you realize.
THANK YOU, Project Hail Mary.
and to everyone who assumed i needed chatgpt to pass: stay mad hoe. y'all r dumbass mfs that rely on AI. do better.
Anyway, here's she ^°^ I LOVE U PROFESSOR RYLAND GRACE AND MY EVA STRATT
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