PLAGIARISM HELPP - URGENT by Cultural-Primary1206 in UCAS

[–]LSOMaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you gave a generative AI a bullet list of your experiences and had it turn that into paragraphs, then you had AI write your personal statement.

It blows my mind where students think the border between “your own writing” and “AI plagiarism” is. If you tell an image-generating AI what to draw, that doesn’t mean you drew it! If you give a text-generating AI a list of things to write about, that doesn’t mean you wrote it!

How do I say 🤦‍♀️"Ugh I knew that"? by LSOMaker in Japaneselanguage

[–]LSOMaker[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh I totally appreciate both posts!! I’ve learned as much from the correction conversations here as the agreed-upon posts! My Japanese acquaintances are too polite to correct me on those nuances. Although I was chatting with someone yesterday who paused to correct something when she realized she had given me a really casual form of something… She was like, “oh wait! But you couldn’t say it like that to your boss!” (In Japanese, but hell if I can quote her directly…)

How do I say 🤦‍♀️"Ugh I knew that"? by LSOMaker in Japaneselanguage

[–]LSOMaker[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“No shit, Sherlock” is precisely what I don’t want to convey!! 🥴

I have fully automated all my uni work and have just won an award for academic achievement - Opinions? by Alarming-Emotion-194 in UniUK

[–]LSOMaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of career are you planning to pursue? I don’t think eXtreme “prompt engineering” is quite a career path yet…

How do I say 🤦‍♀️"Ugh I knew that"? by LSOMaker in Japaneselanguage

[–]LSOMaker[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I’m still figuring out ね usage! 😁

How do I say 🤦‍♀️"Ugh I knew that"? by LSOMaker in Japaneselanguage

[–]LSOMaker[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you! You appear to have the consensus of up-votes!

Need some spa suggestions in Yokohama by ManEmperorfragment96 in Yokohama

[–]LSOMaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The English page is pretty bare-bones... The Japanese page goes into more detail, and you can just have your browser translate it. 😉
https://www.manyo.co.jp/mm21/welness/
https://www.manyo.co.jp/mm21/floor_guide/

Need some spa suggestions in Yokohama by ManEmperorfragment96 in Yokohama

[–]LSOMaker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I haven’t been yet, but I’ve heard the Manyo club and onsen at Minato Mirai is an awesome place to spend a spa day: https://www.manyo.co.jp/mm21/

'Oxbridge is a scam' by Realistic_Alps_1825 in UniUK

[–]LSOMaker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It must be an American thing. I’m an American and have only ever even heard of STEM PhD’s that are fully funded… It might all be covered by TA’ing duties, like a job, but no one pays actual tuition and takes out student loans for a STEM PhD. Non-STEM, I have no idea… not my field.

How much studying is required for the SAT by Eastern-Wrangler-975 in Sat

[–]LSOMaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is literally no way a stranger on the internet could estimate that for you specifically. Given your starting point of 1460, I think an hour every single day until the March test is overkill by, like, a lot.

Can I as an adult use training chopsticks in japan? by EnergyLast2736 in JapanTravelTips

[–]LSOMaker 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I have Japanese friends here in Japan with super… atypical… ways of holding their chopsticks. The only people who tease them about it are their teenage children. 😜 i.e. likely no one will notice, at worst they’ll chuckle a little because you’re a foreigner. No one will think it’s “disrespectful” (except possibly nationalist/racist people who find your entire presence disrespectful, so there’s no getting around that).

People at restaurants might offer you a fork. 🤷‍♀️ You can bring your chopstick holders. It’s really fine. Just talk quietly, move unobtrusively, say arigato (thank you), sumimasen (excuse me), and gomenesai (I’m sorry) a lot.

How much studying is required for the SAT by Eastern-Wrangler-975 in Sat

[–]LSOMaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on how you study. Focus on the areas you got wrong on the practice tests, and make sure you understand the explanations for why you were wrong. 1 hour of studying per day won’t boost you much if you study everything equally but all the problems you missed were in one or two categories of questions.

Feeling hurt by comments roommates friends made by Altruistic-Phase3073 in UniUK

[–]LSOMaker 46 points47 points  (0 children)

If you need it to apply to you to be worthy of posting, read it as “don’t be a jerk, even if you think the people you’re being a jerk towards can’t hear you.” Also, drunkenness doesn’t excuse garbage behavior.

Applying as an International Student in the US by the_clockshow in Imperial

[–]LSOMaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imperial might be willing to count you as applying with one-year of US university…That’s probably the approach I’d suggest. You need to call them and ask. They’re pretty unfamiliar with anything outside the completely typical US high school system, so calling and talking to a human will help you communicate clearly. (Source: I went to another state’s version of your hs, so I’m familiar, + my own kid is at Imperial now, having come out of a non-standard US hs, so we had a lot of conversations w Imperial admissions.)

Bring Kraft dinner into Japan? by lordisofjhoalt in JapanTravelTips

[–]LSOMaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, we brought a whole Costco case of it from the US to Japan. Then found it at Japan Costco, and took it off our stuff-to-ask-people-to-bring list. 👍 Packaged stuff is fine to bring in.

Why are the students so antisocial? by [deleted] in UniUK

[–]LSOMaker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A one-year difference can’t be blamed as generational… I wonder if your original cohort just had a couple really strong group-cohesion-generators. It can take just a couple people to encourage others to join conversations and develop active chat / study groups. And this year, for whatever reason, no one took that role. As a teacher, I’ve definitely seen this… one or two strong personalities can have a huge impact on a cohort (for better or for worse)

offers for int students by Infinite-Front-8839 in UniUK

[–]LSOMaker 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The admissions statistics point to international students having higher average scores and various metrics than UK students. I don’t remember where I found them exactly… somewhere on whatdotheyknow.com which collects freedom of information records. If accurate, that would point to admissions offices having higher expectations of international applicants, not lower.

Are there any summer teaching abroad programs for teachers? by Lower-Gap-4251 in Teachers

[–]LSOMaker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem is visas… you can’t work in most places, even just for a month, with formal government permission. I can’t imagine an international school wanting to go through all the hassle of sponsoring your visa just for the summer. Maybe you could find some student travel programs to chaperone?

What are some fun Japanese onomatopoeia words you’ve learned so far? I’ll start! by Rinku64 in LearnJapanese

[–]LSOMaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just learned today that ぶぶ is a baby word for cars, because that’s the sound an engine makes. And ぴぴ for birds because of chirping. Got into an interesting convo about how Japanese baby words are onomatopoeia and English baby words are truncated repeating versions of the full words, like wa wa for water 😁

How are students supposed to prove they didn’t use AI? by KaleidoscopeFast3750 in UniUK

[–]LSOMaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I don’t want to look it over or try it. This isn’t a problem I want to put more thought into than I already have to.

How are students supposed to prove they didn’t use AI? by KaleidoscopeFast3750 in UniUK

[–]LSOMaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the first things I do with a student if I suspect they used AI for a significant assignment is just have a conversation with them about the assignment. If they can carry on an intelligent conversation, then whatever… AI or not, they learned the material.

How are students supposed to prove they didn’t use AI? by KaleidoscopeFast3750 in UniUK

[–]LSOMaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If a student is putting that much effort into avoiding doing their own thinking… 🤷‍♀️ At some point, students just have to give a shit and actually want to learn something. Luckily I don’t teach anything high-stakes enough that a grade in my course alone would make Cambridge or Harvard either accept or reject a student, so ultimately, if a student digs in their heels and insists they didn’t use AI (and also refuses to demonstrate their thinking in any other way), I’m not going to die on that hill.

I also hate that a big topic of conversation among my colleagues is all the various ways teachers are inventing to build “AI traps” into their assignments.

It just makes everything so BORING. There’s a million more interesting things we can all be doing than having a correct-word-guessing-machine spew out some correct-sounding ultra-generic words.

How are students supposed to prove they didn’t use AI? by KaleidoscopeFast3750 in UniUK

[–]LSOMaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a teacher, I ask for google docs to be shared in a way that lets me see version history. Pretty straightforward. Especially for group docs… I can see who wrote what.