M Pardon
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M Pardon
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college prof in kentucky stuck grading, but wishing she were in the archives

the concept of "required TA work" being the only thing a graduate student has to do during their degree program 😳

I'm a former Harvard PhD student. Based on my experience, current social science students probably make a bit over $250k + healthcare over 5 years, with just 784 hours of required TA work. That's almost $320/hour for the "work" and the rest is classes and your own research.

I guarantee you’re a better writer than ChatGPT. Never butcher your own writing or relinquish your own voice to put your name on the dead-eyed, mechanical hallucinations of a bunch of 1s and 0s. People who know good writing and AI have no trouble recognizing AI-generated garbage.


Since 1893, Princeton professors have left the room when students take their final exams. The idea was that if you treat students honorably, they would behave honorably. In response to AI-fueled academic dishonesty, the university just ended that system. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/…

An MIT writing professor on his students using AI: "I realized that for the first time as a writing professor, I had to deal with students producing words without work, which wasn’t quite plagiarism and wasn’t quite paying for someone else to do the job, but it felt like a kind of naive chicanery; a perversion of the contract between writer and reader." theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

“Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI.” nature.com/articles/d4158…










