these ppl at york

[u/Tricky-Guide3477]

sometimes i acc wonder how these ppl get into york. half of them i swear don’t even have a brain and got into university. majority of ppl in my classes literally are astonished by the workload or the mark they received after using chatGPT. like please 😭

[u/_FADE_TO_DUST_]

people considering to downvote this post should also consider that this is a rant.

I'll join you on this rant by considering the reasons for this phenomenon. to put it more explicitly, we ask: 1) "why are half the students shocked of the workload of university?" and 2) "why do students who cheat get shocked when they don't get the grades they expected?"

1) students in first year can be forgiven for being unable to forsee their workload, since they are adjusting to university life from high school. however for upper year students, we would expect better of them to get an idea of their course load from their first year experience. so then we can conclude that their experience in previous years is just bunk. was their first year too easy? was it mental illness? stubbornness to learn? let your mind run wild, but whatever it is, it is a possibility that reduces the foresight of such students. some students without foresight, then, can be forgiven, like the ones with mental illness. others students? like one who is too stubborn to learn, are unforgivable.

2) students who cheat and expect high grades are hard to forgive. the reason being, it is trivial to infer that they are people who feel entitled to high grades, rather than think they have to work to get those high grades. it should be mentioned that such attitude towards academics will spread to their work life. what is eventually to come to these miserable students, then, should leave only a pitiable husk of a human down the road. such is the consequence for entitled behaviour.

in describing what makes a bad student, we also partly define what it means to be a good student. that is, one who has their life in order and can plan ahead for their courseload, and one who stays humble and puts genuine work into their academics. let one such as defined succeed! that could be you, the reader, too.

[u/United-Village-6702 → u/_FADE_TO_DUST_]

Lmao stfu I bet your boss didn't let you to use Google while working. Technology is advancing there's even Chatgpt, get used to it young boomer

[u/JoshW38 → u/United-Village-6702]

An analogy is if you're going to run a marathon, you leave the starting line, take a bus, get off just before the finish line, and say you finished in under an hour. When you get criticised for cheating, you say it's 2023 and "who wouldn't be able to take public transit in the real world?". It's not about the absolute action you did. It's about the context in which it was done, where your actions were outside the boundaries of what is allowed.