Category: Cool Beans!!
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The Academic Underclass – How AI Writing is Creating a Two-Tiered System in Higher Education
Introduction: The Two-Tiered System of Academic Writing Higher education is no longer an equal playing field—it’s splitting into two distinct groups: 1️⃣ The AI Underclass – students who rely on ChatGPT and AI-generated content, submitting generic, forgettable essays that blend into the masses.2️⃣ The Academic Elite – students who invest in bespoke, human-crafted writing that…
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The AI-Generated Essay Nightmare: Students Share Their Horror Stories
I. The AI Shortcut That Became a Disaster AI essay generators seemed like the perfect shortcut for students drowning in deadlines. No more long nights staring at a blank document, no more frantic last-minute research—just type in a prompt, press enter, and get a fully written essay in seconds. It was supposed to be easy.…
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The Professors Strike Back: How AI is Making Academic Work Even Harder
I. AI Was Supposed to Make School Easier—Instead, It’s Making It Harder When AI chatbots like ChatGPT exploded onto the scene, students thought they had found the ultimate academic cheat code. No more late-night essay writing. No more scrambling for sources. Just a few prompts, a couple of clicks, and boom—an instant, polished essay ready…
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The AI Hallucination Epidemic: How Chatbots Are Getting Students Expelled
I. AI’s Hallucination Problem: Why It Invents Fake Sources AI’s greatest weakness isn’t just bad writing—it’s fabrication. Unlike human researchers who gather real sources, verify citations, and cross-check information, AI hallucinates academic references. It doesn’t know what’s real and what’s not. It simply makes things up. For students using AI-generated essays, this is a disaster…
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Ghostwriting is an Art: Why AI-Generated Essays Will Always Be Garbage
I. The Craft of Academic Writing: Why It’s More Than Just Words Some people think writing an essay is just about dumping information on a page, hitting the word count, and submitting it. But real academic writing—good writing—is much more than that. It’s an art. A craft. A skill that requires structure, flow, and argumentation.…
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The Risks of Submitting an AI-Generated Paper: An Economic Risk Analysis
With the digital age making it so easy for students to use AI-generated content for their essays, there are significant risks to doing so instead of submitting a custom written essay. Even though AI tools can offer you a free and incredibly quick solution, the economic choices of this decision go far beyond the immediate…
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Why an AI-Generated Essay Will Get You Busted: The Case for Humanized Custom Essays
As we are now in the age of artificial intelligence, we are seeing many areas of our lives revolutionized. Content creation is one such area, and the use of AI in this aspect of business is generally acceptable because there are no academic standards at play in relation to its evaluation. When it comes…
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Plagiarism Checking: Does it really work?
Plagiarism checking has become an unfortunate extra step in the drudgery of the essay writing process. Thanks to the arms race between students and teachers, the general dynamic is that all students are presumed guilty of plagiarism until proven innocent by a for-profit algorithm. With that lovely thought in mind, let’s explore the fascinating world…
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AI Essay Writing: The Risks of Using An Essay Bot
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or in a coma, you’ve probably heard about the explosion of new AI programs that help with writing. The development of a technology called GPT-3, which basically an operating system for artificial intelligence text, has kickstarted a burgeoning industry in AI essay writing. TikTok and YouTube have exploded…
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Common App Essay Prompts 2022-2023 (Part 3)
Welcome to Part 3 of our blog series on how to write the Common App essay for 2022-2023! In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the Common App essay prompts for the 2022-2023 school year and compared them to the prompts from last year, and went over the first essay option. In part 2,…
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Essays about your dysfunctional family
We are incorrigible know-it-alls, so we recently launched a Quora. Now, whenever we have downtime from slavishly polishing the world’s best essays, we’re answering some of Quora users’ toughest questions with our trademark combination of reliable information and sarcastic style. Recently, a Quora user asked, “How do you write a college essay about your family?”…
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The “perfect” personal statement
We are incorrigible know-it-alls, so we recently launched a Quora. Now, whenever we have downtime from slavishly polishing the world’s best essays, we’re answering some of Quora users’ toughest questions with our trademark combination of reliable information and sarcastic style. Recently, a Quora user asked, “How do I write a perfect personal statement as an…
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Some Thoughts on COVID Vaccines and Aspiration
By Professor Rogue I believe that COVID MRNA vaccines are safe and effective in terms of preventing severe COVID. Here at Unemployed Professors, opinions differ amongst professors, and we have all written many custom essays about COVID and its implications on the economy. I have written so many custom essays about COVID-19 that I have…
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Unemployed Professors Adds Crypto Payment Option for Customers
Unemployed Professors, one of the most trusted names in academic writing, has always put you first. It’s why we have the best professors, the best customer service, and the best sense of humor. Today, we’re proud to announce that we’ve launched a new payment option: Crypto. That’s right – you can now deposit crypto to…
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Happy Procrastinator’s Day!!
We’re sorry we forgot Valentine’s Day, and President’s Day, and even Mardi Gras. But we’ve got something even better for you than a cheesy valentine, stale candy hearts that taste like toothpaste, bad Abe Lincoln hat, or plastic beads to wear in lieu of a shirt. We know you’ve been waiting to get around…
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Dorm-et Cooking Part Two: Basic Rules
One of the best things about a rice cooker is that you can throw stuff in and walk away. This is perfect for students. But how do you decide what to cook, and why would you want to when there are microwave burritos to be consumed? If you only have a tiny fridge and…
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“Dorm-et” Cooking: The Basics
Whether you’re living at home or hunkered down in a decidedly un-fun dorm, nobody likes spending a lot of money on groceries or eating cafeteria food. And let’s face it, Hot Pockets and microwave burritos are fart and sodium bombs. But between COVID impacting university life and even how you get groceries…
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How Students Can Vote in the 2020 Election
Are you American? Do you have strong opinions about where the country is or should be going? Do you enjoy standing in line and getting stickers while watching the world burn? Are you a student confused about how to register, especially during this fabulous plague year? Then you probably want to know how you…
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Tips for maximizing online learning during COVID-19
Deleuzienne here with some tips for trying to get the most out of a disappointing term! So you’re paying tuition for a term of Zoom and quarantine. Bad luck. If it’s any comfort, your professors really would have preferred to meet in person with you, too! I’ve tried to come up with some useful and…
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Hey, welcome to our summer solstice newsletter!*
Can you believe it’s already the summer solstice? Considering that 2020 may be the longest year in human history, seems like a good time to reflect on the tsunami of current events the first half of 2020 has barfed onto us. Looking back over this year, it seems like it was only a few short…
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Letter from Unemployed Professors on Covid19
These are tough times. The whole world is shuttered, Amazon is out of everything, many people have lost their jobs and your local grocery store has turned into Mad Max cosplay. Do you battle to the death for the last package of toilet paper or do you cough on the person next to you to…
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The Fate of Universities
University education used to be much more idealistic in nature, and derived from a perceived need to enlighten and ennoble, rather than merely professionalize. Today, university education is viewed much differently. It might not be unfair, in fact, to suggest that universities today are merely glorified vocational colleges. Gone is the ‘Ivory Tower,’ replaced…
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How to Get Along with College Roommates
Even those who are highly extroverted, come from large families, and had several siblings may struggle to get along with college roommates. Lack of restraint imposed by absence of authority figures, and the more permissive moral environment on many campuses often invites college students to misbehavior. It is therefore unsurprising that those with college ambitions…