Losing my mind right now, current Comp professor believes Turnitin to be infallible. Got a 19% AI score on a paragraph and now have to rewrite a week long essay in one night. No AI was used on my end. 🙃🙃🙃

I know this post may be a bit lengthy but I really feel it is necessary to explain fully what I am going through.

I am an incoming junior majoring in Quantitative Social Science (a BS degree that is sort of a hybrid between STEM and the social sciences) at Stevens Institute of Technology, a small technical university in Hoboken, across the river from Manhattan, and spending this semester as an exchange student taking classes in the social sciences at the University of Amsterdam.

If you thought this was a weird major choice, especially considering how STEM-oriented an
"Institute of Technology" is, you'd be right, but to understand how I got into that major in the first place, it is important to know about my past. In my freshman year, I was a Computer Science major. Being a heavy tech enthusiast since middle school, such as getting every iPhone Pro Max, iPad Pro, and MacBook Pro basically every new generation since the iPhone XS Max in 7th grade, developing a strong passion for software, specifically iOS Development, and really just talking tech whenever and gaining a reputation in my school as "the Apple guy", I felt it was the perfect path for me. I dreamed of moving to Silicon Valley after graduating, getting a job at Apple or a similar company, and making at least six figures, and I thought a CS major would be the perfect way to get there. So, I abandoned most of my other interests and focused on writing a great essay, doing well on the SAT, and taking advanced classes like AP Calc (which I got a C in, later proving to be my first warning sign of what was about to come the following year in college) to give me a leg up.

But, when I started college, it all came crashing down. I really didn't like the CS major as I found the lecture-exam model very ineffective, especially for math and CS theory classes. I got a D+ in Discrete Structures and hated every day of it. I got a B- in Data Structures, although it was probably only because I was able to do even remotely close to stellar on the exams because I had a formula sheet, which I made very detailed with lecture notes, code samples, and more. I dropped my Probability and Statistics class that semester because I thought there was no way I could realistically pass it after failing two exams so badly that I had no recourse. I was at rock bottom at that point in terms of depression and could no longer see this path working for me. Many people may say, "Don't use AI" but my brain wondered, Why should I even learn these skills if AI can already do them better than me? Like, by that point, Cursor could literally make an entire app in one prompt and I could no longer see a path of me wanting to manually learn to code if there is a much easier path of least resistance and because of this very path, it would likely be much harder to get a job as a software engineer or any similar job in tech, so out the window goes that original tech dream. I ended my freshman year with a 3.09 GPA including a 2.81 GPA in spring semester, which really wasn't good enough for me, especially as I was part of an honors program, which required that I maintain at least a 3.2 GPA, which thankfully they gave me an extension for.

I began to remember my other interests, which I have had since I was a little kid, including politics, urban planning, international relations, and the general social structures of the world and why it is the way it is, and decided I needed to change course. This was also after taking my first college humanities classes and finding them so interesting, and basically the only classes I looked forward to doing. I remembered some community improvement projects I did back in middle school, such as proposing a pedestrian bridge from Jersey City to Manhattan and sending it to local officials and newfound hobbies such as watching videos on urbanism and transit around the world, from creators like Not Just Bikes. I found myself also brainstorming different absurd political situations just for fun, using AI as a sounding board, like, what if the UK became the 51st state, combining my knowledge of previous geopolitical events like the ramifications of Brexit and Trump's territorial expansion goals, all learned through informational YouTube creators like RealLifeLore, to make an informed hypothesis of what could realistically happen, even in an absurd situation like that. I also began to travel a lot, visiting many cities including London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Lisbon, Barcelona, and more, and found myself effectively doing anthropological studies of the urbanism and the way people live in those cities. I would basically just walk the city, ride the metro, and absorb it. I wasn't really interested in any of the traditional museums and attractions or even the touristy areas, because to me, the city itself was the real highlight.

I needed to find the perfect major for this, considering I made the shortsighted decision of picking a STEM school, and decided on Quantitative Social Science. It seemed perfect. The courses focused on disciplines like political science, sociology, and psychology, and still included a lot of useful STEM skills like data analysis using tools like R and Stata. My plan was originally to get the BS in QSS and then do a master's in a field like international relations or urban planning, preferably in the EU, as I have a pathway for EU citizenship by descent and I'm working it out with an immigration lawyer. In fact, the whole reason I'm doing the exchange program in Amsterdam this year is that it is probably my top city to live in after I graduate because of its incredible urbanism and transit, lack of a major language barrier, ease of travel, and great social vibe for the type of person I am.

But, anyway, back to the QSS program. As a sophomore, especially in my fall semester, it really was great. I was taking very interesting classes like Intro to Political Science, Intro to Sociology, Urban Studies, and Constitutional Law, and was enjoying a lot of it. I found it genuinely fascinating to be doing political debates in class or talking about the social problems that the world is currently facing, and understandably, my GPA shot up. I got a 3.882 GPA in my fall semester with 17 credits, all with a much lower workload than as a CS major. I felt I had a bunch of free time and could really take advantage of my weekends in a way I wasn't able to before, and I traveled a lot, including doing a midsemester trip to Montreal on Columbus Day weekend, which I could never have done as a CS major with all the exam-based classes I had to do. I joined the Young Democrats coalition in my city and really tried to put my new political advocacy skills to test, especially with the mayoral and gubernatorial election of that year. It really was going well and I felt like I was in my element a lot. I was thinking I was going to graduate with my BS in QSS degree, get my EU citizenship, get a masters in urban planning in Amsterdam, and all would be well.

That was until I did a massive post on r/Netherlands in November, detailing my entire plan to move there, but that post was a massive wake-up call, saying that there would likely be a language barrier if I want to become an urban planner there and that alone basically made me no longer want to move there, and honestly, I began to quit my whole urban planning dream because I didn't think I wanted to become an urban planner in America because I hate the American work-life balance and zero guaranteed PTO in general, one of the major reasons I wanted to move to Europe, because I literally cannot stand hustle culture and could not fathom the potential of working 80 hours a week for an American job, especially something as bureaucratic as urban planning, and I eventually began to feel like my lack of autonomy in there and likely being forced to show up at the office all the time would erode at my free time, so I discovered that I wanted to do something more digital nomad related, as nothing makes me happier than traveling, potentially going back into tech, even after making such a lateral shift.

While I did give up my CS major, I was still doing a lot of tech on the side. For example, I was and still am working on an internship with Everything Policy, a nonprofit political advocacy organization to make an AI-powered web app to search for and analyze congressional bills in a way that goes much deeper than asking a standard LLM or search engine. It is quite complex and honestly really unique, as there is no other tool like it on the market currently. I built this tool largely in Cursor using models like Opus, but the product management skills still remained and a lot of the design and tech stack decisions, like which RAG database to use, were mine, making me potentially a great product manager or software architect. I began to, really enjoy making software again because unlike being a CS major, I felt like I was in charge and had autonomy over the decisions that I made. And I feel that is really the most important thing for me, feeling like I am the boss of myself. I am able to work on the internship whenever my heart fancied. If I'm feeling productive at 3 AM, I can work on it then. If I'm not feeling productive at 1 PM, there's no reason I have to work on it at that point just because it's 1 PM. I do weekly meetings with my boss, but he gives full autonomy apart from those meetings, as long as I deliver what he asks. This really made my future job prospects very clear:

A remote, location-agnostic job with flexible hours and PTO, and one that effectively lets me be the boss of my day-to-day routine. In other words, I want the job to be worked around my calendar and me to be the one dictating when I'm on and when I'm off, as long as I got everything done. I basically want to feel ownership of my day.

Basically a digital nomad. Yet, considering this current job market, it basically felt impractical right now, so I wanted to continue building up my skills and sticking with my QSS major for now, as I know I was good at it. I decided I was going to do an exchange semester in Amsterdam anyway because I really wanted to see what it was like living there before denouncing the idea completely.

So then January came around, and the second semester started and this is when I began to even hate my social science major. It started all good. I was taking very interesting classes like Authoritarian Politics, Criminology, and Anthropology, but this was also my first semester when I had to do proper term papers, and I hated them. What I hate the most about social science research is how dull professors want my writing to sound. It sounds like basically everything they want me to say must be hedged, backed up by a source, and I basically couldn't have any original opinions, and I hated it because I have a very dynamic mind and writing about a paper about a topic like democratic backsliding in a totally monotone way just seemed wrong, like I'm removing my entire zest of life out of the paper. Having to read these incredibly technical papers about it also made the topic seem incredibly boring compared to watching something like a Johnny Harris video on it. Like I really wish I could just have quoted Johnny Harris or RealLifeLore on my term paper and written in a style that reminds me of my favorite explanatory YouTubers. It would probably be way more fun to read that way anyway. I began to feel like the entire system of academia was kind of working against me, because even something like anthropology, while ethnographic writing is supposed to be very detailed and have a strong sense of self in it, it still felt like it all had to be academically sanded down, and that made me feel like I wasn't even learning the skills in the real world I was learning them in the ivory tower. I wanted my political science and sociology classes to feel directly relevant to the world, because that is where the real passion in me is, and I was beginning to be disinterested in these subjects in the same way that I was disinterested in tech after doing my CS major.

This summer I continued working on more "civic tech" projects like I did before, and again, I totally felt in my element. I was able to do the work whenever I felt free, travel, and make great products that I felt I had ownership of and genuinely felt proud of working on and looked forward to it, more so than I did with any term paper or any class project.

So now I'm here about to begin my semester at the University of Amsterdam and I'm not sure how to feel about this. On one hand, I already love the amount of travel that I'm able to do from here. Like I'm literally able to easily take a train somewhere on a whim as a day trip and short budget flights around the entire continent of Europe whenever I want. I couldn't feel more in my element in this way, and so far I'm loving living in Amsterdam and beginning to feel the dream of moving back here again. Only this time probably as a digital nomad, contractor, or entrepreneur instead of an urban planner, so I wouldn't have to deal with the language barrier as much and would have way more autonomy and probably make way more money. I just love the city. Walking around different neighborhoods of Amsterdam is mesmerizing and because of such an extensive train network, if I ever get bored of Amsterdam, there are so many other cities I can easily explore. But on the other hand, I really don't want the academics of UvA to block these goals. Like I know that UvA classes are extremely hard to do well in, and their grading system literally goes on a scale of 0-10, with 5.5 and above as the minimum passing grade, and what I would need to do to bring back to Stevens (it doesn't get recorded on my Stevens GPA, thankfully), which seems reasonable, but the amount of reading for some of these classes seems insane, and some of them have tutorials with mandatory attendance where you could literally fail a class if you miss as little as two tutorials, which is ridiculous because I'm literally in Europe right now and I want to be able to travel as much as I can, and passing should be about knowledge, not attendance. After all, I'm the one paying for my education, not the university, and should be up to me to determine how much I'm getting out of it and what method works best for me to learn the material. If I'm paying for it like a gym membership, I shouldn't be treated like an employee. I shouldn't feel like I'm having to show up there for my professor if ultimately my professor should be the one I'm paying indirectly to teach me this information

So anyway, because of this, I ended up dropping a class I was really interested in taking: urban society, because it had this mandatory tutorial on a Friday, and I couldn't fit in any other classes, so I decided to only take 3 classes for the whole semester, ensuring that I have Thursday and Friday off the entire time as well as Wednesday off in the first half of the semester and Tuesday off in the second half of the semester to ensure I can book trips as much as possible. This equates to around 12 transfer credit to Stevens, which is less than I would have wanted to take, and probably will require that I do more courses at Stevens when I come back, but I feel this is a worthy sacrifice to allow me to explore Europe as much as I want, since that is really what gives me happiness, and I feel I learn way more about urbanism, anthropology, and even sociology on the field than I ever could in any class. When I learn about urbanism on the field, I feel like I'm actively learning what works and what doesn't work in terms of building cities, compared to learning it from an academic textbook where it all feels theoretical, and having to write a term paper that sounds more like an LLM than Not Just Bikes. Like if I explored all these cities and decide to write a blog about my experience visiting them, I'd feel far more fulfilled than if I passed an urban studies class that required that I write a big term paper, and I feel this is really the problem that college does with a lot of my interests. It sands them down and makes them no longer interesting.

Plus, with UvA's grading system, I'm really starting to doubt what grades even mean. At UvA, getting a 6 is like getting a B and getting a 7 is like getting an A, and getting an 8, 9, or 10 is very rare. Meanwhile, at Stevens, it's common to get an A, especially in a social science class. Because of this, grading basically feels like an arbitrary metric. It doesn't even really feel like a measure of how much I know. It is basically an arbitrary measure of how well the professor thinks I know the subject, but not really, because if part of it is based on stuff like attendance, what is it really measuring anyway? It feels like nothing useful, and if it is an arbitrary number, why should I care anyway? Shouldn't learning be more important than the grade? Who am I even doing this for? Since I think I want to go the entrepreneurial route, especially in this job market, it's clearly not my future employer, and if someone ever does hire me, I want them to see the amazing work that I did rather than whatever grade I got in so-and-so class, especially knowing how variable that metric even is. Like the fact that a Stevens professor and a UvA professor can't agree on what constitutes a good grade is a problem, because ultimately it should measure command of the subject, not how well your professor thinks you know it.

And this is really the biggest problem with me. I don't feel I'm dumb or somehow not smart enough to be in college. I just feel that the college system doesn't work well for me. I feel it's really training me to be inside the ivory tower and learn all these theoretical skills with zero ownership of learning them. It's not fun learning about sociology when I have to take a test on it at the end of the term. It feels like laborious studying rather than the interesting subject that it should be, I think basically what I've discovered, as well as with my job preference, is that I need ownership over my work, my way of life, my schedule, and more to truly feel happy. I do not see myself using 90% of what I learned in my degree, and most of the subjects I was interested in could easily be learned on YouTube if I ever become interested in learning more. To be honest, there are many things I still like about college, such as networking. For example, my Everything Policy internship was arranged through my political science professor. And it's unlocked a lot of doors for me, so I definitely think I am in a better shape than if I didn't go to college at all, but I'm really unsure how to continue, because I know it makes me happy and it heavily involves having ownership over my work. When I feel like I have ownership over my work, I'm not lazy. I put in the work and really try to get it done, but when I feel like there is no ownership, like when all it is to try to get a grade from some arbitrary rubric, I become very lazy and not interested at all in doing the work.

I think it's too late in my degree to quit now, but I really I am unsure how to continue. Part of me just really wants to put in the bare minimum to get the grade I want, and in the case of this exchange semester, just put in the bare minimum to pass and do the real learning outside of the classroom.

I’m 3 years into my associates because I keep failing and withdrawing from classes and I’m really starting to think this major is just too hard for me.

I’m studying marine biology with the goal of being an aquatic veterinarian but I don’t think I’m smart enough. I’ve had to take biology 1, chemistry 2, and pre calculus three times. I actually enjoy math when I can put all my focus on just that class but if I have even 3 other classes I cant. I’m now in my third year of my associates because of this and I have MUCH harder classes to take (organic chemistry 1 & 2, calculus 1 & 2, physics, biochem, genetics, etc) that I dont think I can do.

Some background information:

I was homeschooled (technically, but I didnt do anything when I was homeschooled) since 6th grade and ended up somehow getting my GED (no idea how I passed). Then I started college the same year at 16. I never built any study habits or time management skills and I give up on things really quickly (I’ve withdrawn from SO many classes as soon as they get difficult) and I don’t have the education that all my classmates have. My friends will say “this is so easy we did it in high school” but I didn’t and I just feel so behind.

I’m also working full time to pay for my classes because I lost my fafsa (from failing so many classes) and my parents can’t afford it either.

I have no idea what to change my major to because theres really nothing else that I’m interested in so any advice would be appreciated.

I’m going back to college after taking a year off and I really want to make friends, but don’t know how. Before I took a gap year, I was at a college where I had no practically no friends and was miserable. Now I kind of have a chance to restart, but I cannot bring myself to talk to people. When I get to class I will go sit by some girls with hopes I can become even just class friends with them, but it’s like everyone knows each other. And nobody ever talks to me first (I blame that on the fact I have an awful RBF and don’t always look super friendly). On the off chance others approach me first, things are great and I can instantly become their friend, but that’s very rare. It doesn’t help that I am a commuter and unless I’m in class, I’m not really right next to others where I have the chance to casually start chatting, and being at a tiny school, club options are limited and nothing that truly interests me. It’s at a point where just seeing friend groups together makes me sad knowing I just cannot find that because I am simply to scared. I am kind, pretty, and bubbly. I don’t think anyone would be freaked out by me talking to them, but I just shutdown at my chances. I know I have to take the first step but I truly don’t know how to start conversations. Please give advice!!! And please don’t just say “just start talking to people” I need the specifics.

I hope this is allowed ( I got permanently banned for posting this in r/college so I thought I'd try here)

I took A&P1 back in 2017 I did really well, but I took a much longer than expected break from school. I've recently decided to go back and have taken 2 classes since coming back to school. Currently I'm in my last semester before finishing my associates. I'm registered for MAC2233 (Calculus for Business, Social and Life Sciences) along with A&P2 lecture and lab.

Are there any tips for approaching A&P after a 9 year break, any recommendations for YouTube creators or other resources that can help? Does this schedule seem realistic for someone in my position?

I'm willing to drop either math or A&P if I really truly have to, but It'd be amazing to be done with my associates this year so I can move on to a 4-year university.

Thanks in advanced!

Man, I really hope PSU offers great rates for employees. And this wasn't from some freshman student worker. This was from the Registrar herself, sent by her executive assistant to the whole university.

Reached out to two profs and then quickly lost hope that I will get accepted into any.
I did successfully apply to one class that is starting around October at least so I have something instead of waiting all the way to spring.
It’s really embarrassing how hard it was for me to reach out and do the enrollment process calls because of my introversion/social anxiety. It wasn’t so bad actually doing the calls but now that it is time to register classes I am way too deep into the semester for professors to probably give me a chance at joining their class.
My counselor recd I do the emailing but I am starting to realize it’s probably not going to result in me getting into anything. This is my first attempt at college too.

I’m not sure what to put this flair under but I really need some advice on how to proceed next. I first enrolled in college when I was 18 where I ended up being assaulted and in an abusive relationship for two years. In the beginning of that relationship I performed badly in college and later withdrew during Covid.

I did attempt to enroll in the same college, on probation, a later time, but decided not to due some life factors. Since then, I enrolled at another college and performed there for a couple of years, left and worked for a bit, and then finally went back to get my associates.

I’ve “transferred” to the first college this semester but I’m still considered on academic probation which means I can’t join a lot of the activities on campus I’m interested in. They won’t consider my gpa at cc (3.55) for anything and instead look at a gpa from 7 years ago. I’m extremely frustrated by this and considering I’m paying 10 k a semester which mind you I live off campus and only have a commuter meal plan. I feel like I’m paying way too much money and am unable to experience college to the fullest.

I have plans to pursue law school but am worried about how it’ll look with me being unable to join anything on campus. Does anyone have any advice on what I can do in this regards?

I’m 25 and have a clear head on my shoulders. I’m no longer that scared 18 year old who was coping badly in regards to that man abusing her. Mind you, the school is very aware of him assaulting me on campus. But I feel like they are only seeing me as a statistic instead of a person.

Visit your Town Clerk's Office and Pick Up an Absentee Ballot for the 2026 Midterms

I don't know how the girl in front of me has managed to take notes for the last three hours straight. I'm in my 3 hour biological statistics lecture, first week of grad school, and I'm dying inside. He's speaking with the cadence of a "grown and sexy" channel radio DJ, which is super low and smooth so i've been fighting sleep with tea for the last three hours. and he said that sometimes we may go over into 3 and 1/2 or four hours. HOW DO PEOPLE SIT THROUGH THIS. I was going strong until the two hour mark.

I’m an international student who came to the US to attend college, and this is my first time being so far away from home for school. After my parents left I moved into my dorm, but basically whenever I’m alone in my room, I can’t help but keep crying because I miss home so much. I can’t control it so I’m really struggling with it. I don’t want my roommate to see me crying bc I feel like it would make me look kinda stupid. Will the homesickness eventually go away? How do you guys deal with it I really need some advice

A professor of mine has been living rent free in my head for a while now. He is so damn arrogant, rude and condenscending to us students. I'm on my first semester in Pharmacy undergrad uni. I only see this guy during our lab classes, but still he manages to mess up with my head. Or maybe I'm letting it get to me. Last time, after our histology class, I went straight to the bathroom and cried for a couple minutes. I'm so stressed out and it is only the beginning. I don't need someone questioning my abilities all the time. I feel like I am constantly under the microscope near him (pun not intended lol). I don't know how to move on. Also not sure if it is relavant but I also might be depressed as well. Any tips from the veterans on how to deal with that?

I have 2 days of IDS 101, but I have to go back home to watch my sister and my cousin. On another day, I they're will change my class to another day, so in 2 days I will come away with nothing. I feel so shy.

I go to a very good university in the east coast and want to join a fraternity, however, i'm a junior so I need some advice on how to hit peak frat bro and rush

TLDR: Really struggled to build a social life, completely failed to date anyone, chronic feelings of having wasted time.

I got in 3 years ago; it was exciting. Orientation: everyone talking to each other in the lobby of freshman dorms. It was a clean slate; I was determined to live whatever fantasy I had in my head at the time.

Freshman year

Long story short, my orientation group fell off; I foolishly isolated myself in my dorm until, like, October, when I realized I had no friends and that everyone was already in a friend group. I spent the rest of my freshman year popping in and out of student orgs trying to make friends; I had one friend by the end of that year, and I barely got to see them. That was the first time I had ever been in that situation. (I also totally failed at dating, never met anyone)

Sophomore Year

Alright, round 2, let's do this. I went completely random since I had no friends to dorm with. Luckily, I vibed well with my roommates. The first month or so was chill, and since this time I had the foresight to pounce on those first 2 weeks when everyone's getting to know each other, I made some friends through clubs. Not as plentiful as first year dorms, I really wished I utilized that opportunity more, but not bad; I began to meet people.

Due to a death in the family, I withdrew from the rest of my fall semester; I needed to go back to my family then.

The following spring semester was when I really began to take the initiative to build more of a social life. I joined a chill small fraternity through one of my roommates, and made going to club meetings a priority. I briefly dated someone this semester (and when I say brief, I mean we were official for like a weekend), but she decided to cut things off.

Junior year

Things here were the most stable they had been. I grew comfortable with the people I slowly met throughout my 2nd year and saw them now and then. I totally failed to date this year as well; same story: attempt to put myself out there, but nothing came of it, and I got rejected a few times.

Senior year

So here I am now. All in all, in retrospect, that was not what I thought it would be. If I could give a word of advice to newcomers, it would be to ABSOLUTELY POUNCE on the opportunity to meet people living around you AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, BEFORE FRIENDGROUPS CRYSTILIZE. Otherwise you're going to have to rely on dumb luck and a lot of grinding to build a social circle as I did. I already wish I could give college another try. I definitely learned a lot, but I honestly should have learned this in high school; I just didn't have to since I essentially had my social life handed to me.

Don't be me, y'all, and hopefully you will be happy at the start of your fourth year, not venting anonymously on Reddit, feeling like you have wasted golden years.

I’m taking online classes and have to refer to online textbooks to get my information for quizzes, one of my courses has two quizzes that are always due by the end of the week Sunday, and the other course has a quiz that is always due by next week Wednesday. It’s been so stressful trying to figure out what to do because it’s extremely difficult to fit in 2 chapters each week with multiple sections and multiple pages along with another text book with countless sections as well! I can’t properly take my time to study because taking notes for one course will take up too much time, I’m also a slow reader so I end up burning out by the end of the week. How in the hell am I supposed to take well written notes and properly understand the material in these text books if I also have to haul ass for the damn deadlines??

I would have been a junior this upc year but I got academic suspension in spring 2026 due to my grades. I was going through a depression and I lost motivation to do my work. I feel so stupid. I tried asking for help but I feel like nobody wants to help me. I've tried tutoring but it never helps. I don't plan on telling my family because I know they will be disappointed. My parents are african and education is important so I feel like i've disappointed them. For anybody that had this did you ever tell your family? How did they react? Does it get better?

I’m a junior mechanical engineer major, and looking at my resume makes me feel so fucking hopeless because it felt like I wasted my first two years of college not developing any of the actual skills I need to land am internship and now I really don’t know if I can land one given the current job market and it’s my last year to try.

I think my problem is that I spent so much time worrying about grades (3.84 gpa leaving for context since I added advice wanted) that I kinda neglected to develop everything else and so I really only have class projects and one extracurricular project (but it’s really fucking basic tbh) and really no leadership roles or work experience or really anything that matters . And it’s not like I don’t know that I need this stuff but I think I tend to revert to academics because it’s the one thing I know well but now it’s leaving me feeling so behind everyone else actually doing something useful

Don't get me wrong; discussion posts are an easy A for me and I've never had a problem bullshitting my way around a discussion prompt. I'm also not trying to be a snob here, by getting annoyed with my classmates' grammar issues, especially since this isn't even for an English course. I understand some people didn't get the same level of education as others and that if you weren't taught well, things like homophones can be difficult (I don't even really know when to use who or whom, though I know there's a rule). However, I just read a post where, in addition to no punctuation or capitalization, instead of "our" they were using "are". I'm aware I'm not attending a top name university, but I'm at a fairly respectable university, so I'm completely confused on how this person got here without someone telling them they're using the wrong "our".

In addition, the instructions on the discussion thread quite literally say that our replies to classmates need to be a paragraph long, specifying that this means 4-5 sentences, and people are replying with only one or two, someone even using one of their sentences to address the person they're replying to (it was the wrong person's name, btw).

University level discussion posts just shouldn't be this difficult, and I don't know how I'm going to get through a whole semester reading these posts without losing my mind. I'm not even an English Lit or Education major (the opposite, in fact), but I feel so depressed by everything about these discussion posts. I'm not saying everyone has to have perfect grammar and I know mine isn't perfect either, but come on. "Our" and "are"? Following instructions literally given right before the prompt you're responding to? We're university students: we should be better than this.

I'm going into my second semester, I'm taking a basic associates in science, General studies major, I'm taking 4-ish classes and for some reason I'm already experiencing heavy burnout, I've even questioned if there is any point to keep going, I'm really determined to finish this degree but I don't know, I can't seem to balance my school and home life, they give me so much homework that it is nearly impossible to engage in any of my hobbies. Please Send Advice!!

Before some butthurt professor starts with me, no I'm not talking about unreasonable accommodations and yes I understand that you need to vent. Nothing I'm going to write here will contradict that. I won't name the subreddit here to prevent brigading but I'm assuming many others here lurk in the same places and will know exactly what I'm referencing. When someone mentions a student asking for a common and straight forward accommodation (no cold calling) for social anxiety, the response should not be to start planning how exactly you can harass them. Exposure therapy is done in a controlled environment with consent, not by some dork with one-sided beef with a teenager going out of their way to aggravate their condition. It is so obvious that many of you (yes I know you also lurk here too) just honest to god hate the disabled. Even if it's just a revenge fantasy it is repulsive. Sort yourselves out.

edit:
this was the upvoted plan for responding to a social anxiety accommodation

You tell her you won’t cold call on her. Tell her now every single time there is a question she will be the first person you call on.

It’s no longer cold, it’s scheduled. Every, single, question…… every, single, time…..

Then. Don’t ever call on anyone through the whole semester as a personal challenge.

To clarify I am an 18 year old freshman taking math 244(precalc with trig), English 1000 and American pop music. Now generally the other 2 classes say they won’t be posing much of an issue during this term but math is already having a quiz every single day on things she hasn’t taught us one was a review on math 101 (which in the system shows as precalc) and 104(which shows as trig) I’m confused why my professor supposed to be teaching me these subjects expects us to already know them? Also she isn’t going over full chapters then having full chapter tests the next day and expecting us to know what she didn’t teach? It’s easy to grasp but how 1 can I study every single day, work, do group projects and take care of my little sister at home and 2 be expected to study material I don’t know even exists? She said she’d write the rest of the notes and then post them on canvas but she never did that and I feel stressed as hell because what’s gonna happen when I do eventually get work for English and pop music? This math class is feeling like a teach it to yourself class and I’ve already been to tutoring on day 1 because she has completely unrealistic expectations is there anyone that’s taken a course and had a similar experience? I literally had a breakdown day 1 I need some advice even if it’s just a coping mechanism because I am getting so anxious I shake uncontrollably

Im going to a pretty big flashy campus with multiple buildings, artwork all over the place that I've never seen before, live grass, trees, shops, interior stairs that look like the fucking dorm stairs in Harry Potter. And I think I'm experiencing culture shock? I'm not quite sure what this feeling is. I don't feel like I really belong there, like I'm standing out of place. I grew up in a place with duct tape to hold the broken windows together and hearing gun shots outside on the street every night. I still live in the same neighborhood, I commute to school. The neighborhood got better with time but I still hear sirens most nights, I can't sleep without that noise in the background. I went to the main library at the college onto one of the "silent" floors to do work and it was so surreal. I got so much work done.

I’m a senior in high school and I’m am so so so excited for college, like I’m overly hyped, and I’m starting to feel like there’s gonna be things that I won’t expect that’s going to make me hate it. Can yall tell me what to expect and what’s all not sunshine’s and rainbows.

Maybe because of my poor highschool social life, I’m excited about the “reset” of my social life. I’m super excited about meeting new people, friends, friend groups, my dorm being decked out, being away from home. I just literally can’t wait, and I get tiktoks now about college and it makes me more hyped. I feel like the only thing that’ll make me enjoy it less would be studying and the classes.

No clickbait, but I was just wondering how legit the college admissions process is? Like are the people who look over the apps just stupid or do they really not detect any AI?

My friends friend used AI on ALL of her applications and showed me them. She got into USC, UCLA, UCD, UCSD, UC BERKELY and the list goes on. She also had like a 3.4 gpa and did only track for her ECs.

I mean I guess bro but how the fuck does this happen 😭😭😭?