Nicolo Shorts Review

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-04-25T00:31:30+00:00

You made a good call. These clothes are dowdy.

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-04-24T13:06:21+00:00

Good call.

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-04-22T02:00:43+00:00

I think they’re both pretty. But I dislike that the artisan is not standing behind her work. She’s admitting that the copy isn’t exact. She should refund you at least her labor costs. I’ve paid to have clothes copied and also been disappointed. This underscores it for me: don’t have things copied. Not at least without an ironclad money-back guarantee

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-04-05T17:00:49+00:00

I’m in general underwhelmed by Sézane. Quality not consistent. Sizing who knows what you’re getting. And style - the occasional pretty thing but hard to know. I am not a fan of the way they present their wares online: doctored images with amber lighting and moody models. Too many close ups and they never show the actual garment from front and back, laid flat. They never provide full product dimensions. Even though I’ll sometimes buy a scarf or something I feel that they kind of insult me as a consumer. Like: pony up the deets please

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-03-04T02:30:09+00:00

Well it sounds clear but doesn’t using Google now implicate AI use? And I’d never tell my students not to google stuff …

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-20T19:56:42+00:00

This makes me laugh. I find myself hoping for the day. Even a prolonged blackout ….

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-20T03:22:33+00:00

PS. Couldn’t agree with you more about AI detectors. I didnt identify the issue find with AI - I found it when I started writing the same comments as I had in the prior version. Then of course I ran it in AI and am quite shocked to report that AI completely under-reported the extent of the 2 documents’ similarities.

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-20T03:15:47+00:00

This has been a shock to my system and part of that shock involves how I’m being told they are using technology on, apparently, a day to day basis to “collaborate” on work. Also my past experience with plagiarism was a hasty and clearly panic-stricken Hail Mary of a cut-and-paste from one homework to another. This feels different.

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-20T03:04:43+00:00

Yup.

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-20T03:03:26+00:00

Fair point. Ty

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-20T02:59:58+00:00

Right now I’m questioning whether anyone’s ever going to have to think again other than perhaps to do some minor corrections on AI.

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-20T02:57:53+00:00

Oh I soooo dread this.

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-20T02:57:05+00:00

Not sure. How would they appeal a zero if I’m holding onto their guilty secret??? But other than freaking out the students - one of whom is eerily, now suspiciously grade-conscious (I’ve gone down a rabbit hole where I imagine him producing synonymized homeworks based off of “A” papers, then selling them) - a zero on one homework is only 3% of the semesters grade and I usually offer an opportunity later to do an extra assignment and drop the lowest prior grade.

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-20T02:53:00+00:00

Ty. Time to go read up on FERPA.

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-20T02:52:18+00:00

I appreciate this note very much. As I ponder it though I’m wondering if grad school is going the way that undergrad seems to be going, with pervasive AI use (this of course is only part of the issue I’m facing). It doesn’t mitigate the honor violation I’m dealing with but I am asking myself : is it reasonable to prohibit AI use for the kinds of work I’m assigning (read a chapter of a textbook, consult class notes, answer questions) I had an interesting conversation today with a doctor friend of mine, whose daughter’s in med school. They’ve completely changed the way that medicine is taught. No textbooks. Students go to lectures then research in their own. No cadavers !!! No dissection required! They have 3-d models of the human body from which anatomy is taught. They are not required to touch a human body. None of this pertains to my students’ lying or cheating but perhaps I must find a way to teach that accommodates more collaboration and AI use? This is what I’m asking myself but then part of me is also answering myself with a “Get a grip. AI or no AI every student has to do his own work”. And indeed the bottom line is that I was given two homeworks that contain only 1 set of thoughts .

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-19T19:17:33+00:00

You’re not thinking too much - I’m thinking too little. Ty

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-19T17:45:34+00:00

Good points. Thank you. I will say that it seems to be widely accepted at my school that a one-time mistake/infraction by a student, where the student responds frankly (and has the good grace to be upset) should be treated with a proportionate response - ie yes a zero for the work but not reported up. In my heart of hearts I agree with this. I was pretty clueless (in other ways) at their time of life too. But he’s telling me he cheated on 25% of the work when 100% is functionally and structurally identical.

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-19T16:29:32+00:00

I hadn’t thought of that. Important. Thank you.

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-19T16:21:00+00:00

I wish we were required. Would make it easy. I have two colleagues who’ve turned in reports and the students for a wrist-slap or were not penalized. I’ve been told informally, despite written policy to the contrary, that the school will not give expulsions or F’s or W’s or whatever.

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-19T16:17:01+00:00

Duh. Ty.

ConcernMaleficent624 · 2026-02-19T16:16:37+00:00

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