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Whenever I think about students using AI, I think about an essay I did in high school. Now see, we were reading The Grapes of Wrath, and I just couldn't do it. I got 25 pages in and my brain refused to read any more. I hated it. And its not like I hate the classics, I loved English class and I loved reading. I had even enjoyed Of Mice and Men, which I had read for fun. For some reason though, I absolutely could NOT read The Grapes of Wrath.

And it turned out I also couldn't watch the movie. I fell asleep in class both days we were watching it.

This, of course, meant I had to cheat on my essay.

And I got an A.

The essay was to compare the book and the movie and discuss the changes and how that affected the story.

Well it turned out Sparknotes had an entire section devoted to comparing and contrasting the book and the movie. Using that, and flipping to pages mentioned in Sparknotes to read sections of the book, I was able to bullshit an A paper.

But see the thing is, that this kind of 'cheating' still takes skills, you still learn things.

I had to know how to find the information I needed, I needed to be able to comprehend what sparknotes was saying and the analysis they did, I needed to know how to USE the information I read there to write an essay, I needed to know how to make sure none of it was marked as plagerized. I had to form an opinion on the sparknotes analysis so I could express my own opinions in the essay.

Was it cheating? Yeah, I didn't read the book or watch the movie. I used Sparknotes. It was a lot less work than if I had read the book and watched the movie and done it all myself.

The thing is though, I still had to use my fucking brain. Being able to bullshit an essay like that is a skill in and of itself that is useful. I exercised important skills, and even if it wasnt the intended way I still learned.

ChatGTP and other AI do not give that experience to people, people have to do nothing and gain nothing from it.

Using AI is absolutely different from other ways students have cheated in the past, and I stand by my opinion that its making students dumber, more helpless, and less capable.

However you feel about higher education, I think its undeniable that students using chatgtp is to their detriment. And by extension a detriment to anyone they work with or anyone who has to rely on them for something.

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random doodles to cope with episode 20

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Badeni I doodled waiting for the bus

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I was 9 years old the last time it was in that spot. My passion was geometry. Five years later, at age 14, I encountered heliocentrism. Six years later, at age 20, I killed someone for the first time. And now, at age 39, I've met you, and Saturn has completed its circuit.

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Rough wip animation. Posting this now in case I never finish it.

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OFFICIAL ORB CONTENT!! YAY!!

is the fact that orb's last episode will air tomorrow making you sad? SAME!! so, if you're a fan starving for more official content, then look no more :3 the author of orb drew little sketches for every episode of the series as it was airing - you can find them here (≧∇≦)ﾉ

i think this is my favorite one when it comes to the more serious ones 😭

NOT ONLY THAT, BUT THE ANIME'S DIRECTOR HAS BEEN POSTING ORB DRAWINGS, TOO!! there's not a lot of em, but they're beautiful. similarly, you can find all of them on twitter / x. this shit makes me want to cry yall :((

draka is beautiful, too 💔

but, back to the author's sketches: there's a LOT of silly ones, too!! my favorite is badeni using the remote and being insanely cool, as always..

however, our other male protagonists didn't find modern technology to be very... intuitive, so to say.

meanwhile jolenta kept that remote safe for all these years. you go girl!!

santa nowak and draka with a visa card are hilarious, too.

and that's not all so!! if you're feeling down after finishing the show, then make sure to check all of these out ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

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*altered from original image* it was funnier in my head.

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Badeniiiii

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03 ➡ 12 ➡ 20

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Burn

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baby tooth

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i think about orb every day

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wonder ☁️

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At the entrance

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💫 L'astrolabe 🌟

So happy to have made a fanart of Orb, and of how the anime adaptation turned to be 🌟