Therapy Bard

This may sound wild, but I don't recommend trying to plan out everything before starting unless that is super your style. For me, I have a beginning, middle, and ending in mind that way I can always know what I'm headed towards and have a firm place to start. I typically do detailed outlines for four chapters in a row, write that chunk, then outline again. That works better for me since often times my best ideas come while writing.

it's so fucking frustrating to be in college and know everyone uses chatgpt and to be tempted by it constantly while also knowing intellectually that it doesn't work and it's a bad idea. like, i hang out in the library a lot, and i see people using chatgpt on assignments almost every day. and i know it isn't a good way to learn, because it's not really "artificial intelligence" so much as it is an auto text generator. and it gives you wrong information or badly worded sentences all the time. but every week i stare down assignments i don't want to do and i think man. if only i could type this prompt into a text generator and have it done in 10 minutes flat. and i know it wouldn't work. it wouldn't synthesize information from the text the way professors want, it wouldn't know how to answer questions, it just spits out vaguely related words for a couple paragraphs. but knowing my classmates get their work done in 10 minutes flat with it while i fight every ounce of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in my body is infuriating.

i think one thing that's been really helpful in keeping myself from using it is thinking about Why i have to do the specific assignments i have. like what is the actual goal. like some assignments the goal isn't "share a story about parenting styles in ur personal life" so much as it is "show you understand the concept of parenting styles thru a story". or it's not "how do hormones impact teenagers' decision making abilities" it's "can you understand, reword, synthesize, and explain the information in the text and videos to explain how hormones impact teenagers' decision making abilities". and looking at it as "this assignment is asking me to read some words and then understand and explain them, which is a skill i want to have" rather than "i have to answer these stupid questions that seem really obvious because all my professors want me to die forever" has helped. especially in a world where everyone uses chatgpt i want to know how to read with my own brain

Reblogging this. Remind me in five years when I'm a teacher that I need to be mindful of what and how I teach.

I'm doing group work in many of my courses and recently my group partner came up to me and said "you've inspired me to stop using chatgpt, I want to understand how it works" and I've never felt more proud of being mediocre at assignments

Fight I'm having now as someone who wants to fully understand everything I learn in my classes and not fuck up the environment/feed the AI bubble, but also gets overwhelmed easily and wants to cry looking at the all the work I need to do every week.

There is always hope

“maybe men wouldn’t fall down the alt right pipeline so easily if feminists were nicer” yesss women famously got our rights by saying “pretty please? 🥺 with a cherry on top? 🥺🥺🥺” and the men were really nice and said “omg yes of course 🫰🏻”

reblog to send your mutuals a hug. maybe just the thought is enough to cheer them up 🥺

Starlight

I'm starting to think I should expand on this since it's kinda weird to just have the one word. IDK Something about a dark abyss that's mostly blackness, but your eyes are drawn to the sparks of light that make it all worth it. That's sort of the vibes of your fanfiction.

Starlight

Fuck you actually fuck you