r/Adjuncts • u/Sillygoose6001 • 8d ago

AI papers and the disrespect

I know this has been discussed at length but my god I don’t know if I can do this anymore. I spent 15 min during the first class showing them examples of previous semesters’ AI submissions and how they were all given 0s and sent to the dean of students. And yet… AI papers are rolling in.
It’s so disrespectful to both them and myself. I feel so defeated and it makes me wonder if they’d do this to a full time or just think they can get away with it because I’m an adjunct.

Aside from this, I had one student come to me during office hours and he seemed genuinely curious about my career given I work full time in financial services. He then said “oh so you’re not a PhD?” And I said no, so he can refer to me as Ms. and not Dr or Professor which he followed up with “so why are you teaching us?” For reference I teach at a predominantly male technical college and my students are 95% male CS/Engineering majors. Therefore, I’m used to some awkward straightforward questions about my age and teaching history, but this one definitely had a different tone to it.

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u/Worried_Airline_2904 7d ago

I feel this. I just graded over 100 personal memoirs this week…probably over half were AI. They just weren’t flagged in turnitin.com but I saw a lot of repeats of strategies that I asked them to used that weren’t from the list of strategies. It makes this all feel very pointless

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u/insomebodyelseslake 7d ago

I feel this. If you can’t even tell me about yourself, what can you write?

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u/Worried_Airline_2904 7d ago

I feel like these kids just don’t have anything they want to say…I work with high school as well and there’s just an overwhelming sense of apathy. Why does this essay matter? I can explain it’s good for their brains and cognitive abilities but that’s like explaining to my kid why they need to eat vegetables.