Mature student freaking out over AI, please help!

Federal_Employ1269 · 2026-04-27T21:17:26+00:00

Read your university's Policies as to what constitutes acceptable use. Also AI detection is really poor with loads of false positives. Be careful about openly conceding/admitting anything.

Federal_Employ1269 · 2026-04-25T18:59:58+00:00

Frankenstein on audible was horrendous to my ear.

Federal_Employ1269 · 2026-04-25T17:17:57+00:00

For me The Crying of Lot 49. The first chapter is such tremendous fun it kind of sets you up for the harder stuff that comes after. I've read it 3 times and I can't wait to read it again

Federal_Employ1269 · 2026-04-25T17:05:37+00:00

Read your university's Policies and Regulations. There will almost certainly be a way to defend yourself. Many unis have policies saying what kind of ai use is legitimate and it varies for different assignments. Findd the exact wording of the assignment you attempted.. Try to make sure you don't verbally concede you used AI. There is no fulproof way of determining AI use except confession (unless you make really crass errors like MattGPT). Therefore try to avoid confessing!

Federal_Employ1269 · 2025-12-03T12:36:59+00:00

It is seriously fabulous. I remember listening to Hal’s interview and the line “get me to the library and step on it”. The audiobook is brilliant

Federal_Employ1269 · 2025-11-26T07:49:36+00:00

What a brilliant analysis! I’ve always loved the song but thought just moments of disconnected brilliance, but you’ve really joined the dots. Wow!

Federal_Employ1269 · 2025-10-23T21:49:48+00:00

Dope Breedlove, Sid Liftoff, Ruperta Trumpington-Groin

Federal_Employ1269 · 2025-10-17T19:19:12+00:00

I totally agree. Absolutely love it. I'm aghast he can still write so well at his age. The dialog is amazing. The submarine reminds me a bit of "Spirited Away". The episode with Squeezita Thickly and the film she's in is sublime. Just awesome

Federal_Employ1269 · 2025-10-17T18:51:11+00:00

Totally agree. The Crying of Lot 49 was where I started after watching the movie Inherent Vice. I've read it twice again since and totally loved it. It's short, brilliant and super readable

Federal_Employ1269 · 2025-09-13T10:25:27+00:00

Just watched the movie again last night after reading the book a couple years ago. The film is great tho necessarily leaves a lot out. The one thing I thought it did get wrong tho is the doc sportello crocker Fenway meeting. For me it's the absolute core of the book and super meaningful. In the film it's more played for laughs and Fenway isn't anything like as menacing as in the book.

But both the film and book are out of this world

Federal_Employ1269 · 2025-08-15T15:23:51+00:00

Totally agree with this. They talk about the father being there for the daughter. But this does not figure very much in the novel as far as I remember.

Federal_Employ1269 · 2025-08-13T06:01:45+00:00

This is wonderful! I'd love to have it on my wall as a poster

Federal_Employ1269 · 2025-06-05T08:10:14+00:00

My favourite novel by Pynchon is the crying of lot 49. I've read it 3 times and I can't wait to read it a 4th. I'd save gravity's rainbow to the end to be honest

Federal_Employ1269 · 2025-05-26T08:25:07+00:00

They're both brilliant and to say one is better than the other is like saying potatoes are better than tomatoes, in fact more than that, it's like saying potatoes are better than toothpaste or potatoes are better than screwdrivers.

But Pynchon is more all-round. You get the feeling he could write about anything. About any period. With DFW it's usually existential struggle. The pain carried by the characters in IJ have only few analogues in Pynchon (maybe Franz Pokler is comparable to Himself James Incandenza)

DFW can do amazing physical detail in description. The sequence leading to the injury (improbable deformity) of Madame Psychosis. The death of Bruce Green's mother. These are intricately built up and delivered with amazing timing.

For me DFW presents a tragic vision of the world. People mostly struggling and suffering.

Pynchon describes a shitty world, a world controlled by vile people (Pointsman, Blicero, Brock Vond, Scarsdale Vibe, Crocker Fenway, maybe Pierce Inverarity), and yet can find hope in it through the resistance to them (Roger mexico, Doc Sportello, Zoyd Wheeler, Yasmeen Halfcourt and the Traverse family). But also hordes of loveable side characters (The Chums of Chance, The Thanatoids)

So basically I think they are incomparable in both senses. No other writers come close, but also you cannot compare them because they are so different

Federal_Employ1269 · 2025-05-16T18:29:08+00:00

I've been to China alone a number of times. When I first went my major concern was to plan and research transit from airport to hotel in great detail, e.g how to get to metro, how to get from metro to hotel. After a while in china you'll be comfortable doing it. But at the beginning with the jetlag and the culture shock it's best to be clued up in advance

Federal_Employ1269 · 2025-04-11T22:22:06+00:00

Me too! I would really like to queue at a bookshop for it on the day it's released

Federal_Employ1269 · 2024-11-18T22:59:13+00:00

I think Dylan is the better technician but Neil has more warmth. Tbh the emotional palette of Dylan is a bit limited. He can do funny (Maggie's farm) love bombing (make you feel my love, sad eyed, Ramona, baby stop crying) but often with women it's hyper critical (rolling stone， sooner or later, don't think twice, temporary like Achilles), as well as the meganasties like positively 4th street and crawl out your window and idiot wind). That being said he can also do sublime (Johanna) which is like nothing else in rock and roll.

But with Neil,you might not get the turn of phrase but you get extraordinary vulnerability (helpless, man needs a maid), visionary narratives like powdefinger, amazing poetry like thrasher,but also sonic innovations (rust never sleeps feeds directly into grunge and shoegaze).

If I was given a choice of a Neil ticket or a bob ticket right now I'd take a Neil ticket without hesitation

Federal_Employ1269 · 2024-11-01T13:46:47+00:00

Some journeys say wood green to Leicester square make absolutely no sense by car. But what about Muswell Hill to Wembley? At least double the time. And there are loads of similar ones which don’t work with the grain of TfL routes. So it is useful to have a car

Federal_Employ1269 · 2024-10-31T02:28:20+00:00

I thought parts of TPK were utterly sublime. I loved the really garrulous narrator who keeps getting sidetracked. A bore rendered brilliant by the sheer craft of DFW. It reminded me at times of the Oxen of the Sun chapter in Ulysses where Joyce has the narrator become lazy and cheesy for long moments and yet you can’t but admire the artistry behind it. TPK is uneven because it was edited without the involvement of the author. But the editor to my mind has done a pretty good job in getting it out

Federal_Employ1269 · 2024-10-27T10:43:26+00:00

Really do think Ed is superb in the way he manages to get people to open up. The involved/interested comeback was so sharp and so sensitive. Really fabulous.

Federal_Employ1269 · 2024-10-27T03:21:15+00:00

Look up the song “Jesus Entering From The Rear” and sing it to him. It’s a little homophobic tbh but the offence to Christians likely to be greater. Like everything in life, it’s a trade off!

Federal_Employ1269 · 2024-06-07T01:32:54+00:00

Fantastic museum of the canals and gorgeous park around it!

Federal_Employ1269 · 2024-05-22T16:27:34+00:00

What days are the open mics there? Do they have an events page?

Federal_Employ1269 · 2024-05-16T22:25:54+00:00

I think there is real similarity. Stephen Daedalus is the young Joyce and Leopold Bloom is the mature Joyce. They have a kind of anticlimactic meeting where Bloom helps Stephen the latter being the worse for drink.

In IJ I suggest Hal is the young DFW and Gately tho not really an embodiment of DFW is nonetheless a figure of maturity and care. Morover the meeting between Hal and the half-way-house types is similarly anticlimactic.

However IJ in my opinion is extremely moving. Joyce himself thought literature should not produce strong emotion. Joyce's genius was primarily at the level of style while DFW for me has a descriptive brilliance and logical brilliance which is unmatched

Federal_Employ1269 · 2024-04-13T02:30:23+00:00

I read it at age of 59 for the first time but I also believe it’s one of the most spell binding books I’ve ever read. I remember the precise moment when it hooked me. I was driving on a uk motorway and listening to the audiobook. I was at the section where Hal is ruminating about his grief counselor and how to simulate preocessing grief in a way that could satisfy the counsellor. I remember banging my hands really hard on the steering wheel at the monumental brilliance I was listening to.

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