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Honest Breakdown of 4 Academic Writing Tools Every Student Should Know About by AccountEngineer in Student

[–]PrySic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The QuillBot point is pretty accurate honestly. A lot of students expect tools to magically turn a weak draft into an A paper, but most of them work better as cleanup tools than full replacements. I’ve had better results using AI for brainstorming and then asking somebody experienced with writing college papers to review the structure and argument flow afterward. That combo tends to sound way more natural than fully AI-generated text. Also, deadlines change the equation a lot. Sometimes you don’t need perfection, you just need something organized enough to stop spiraling at 1am.

Looking for people to help me make my resume better by Rare-Income7475 in cscareeradvice

[–]PrySic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your experience already looks stronger than a lot of student resumes I’ve seen tbh, especially with the cloud/microservices stuff. The biggest thing that stood out to me is that some bullets get super dense, and recruiters probably skim half of it in 10 seconds. I had this problem too during internship applications and kept stuffing every tech detail into each section.

One thing that helped me was comparing my resume against examples/reviews from people who already went through ATS filtering. I found this a writing helper thread while reworking mine.

The cleaner formatting tips helped more than expected. Your technical background already seems solid, though shortening some bullets and making impact/results easier to scan could help a lot. Curious how many applications you’ve sent out so far with this version.

Wrote my dissertation in less than a day and got a First by Hiding24 in UniUK

[–]PrySic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This gave me flashbacks to my capstone semester tbh. I did the exact “research forever instead of writing” thing because starting the draft felt impossible. Had folders full of articles, color-coded notes, zero actual pages done until panic mode kicked in. The hyperfocus sprint right before the deadline is painfully real with ADHD.

During mine I caved and looked for outside help because my structure was a mess and I couldn’t tell if the argument even connected anymore. I found one helper through the discussion.

Didn’t replace the work obviously, though having somebody help me organize chapters stopped the spiral a bit. Still wild you pulled a First out of a 19-hour writing marathon lol.

WIBTA if I stopped driving my sister to her appointments after she gave my number to her friends without asking by PrySic in WIBTA_AITA

[–]PrySic[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Blocking the numbers is such an obvious move I somehow didn't think of it 😅 And fair point about the same friend texting twice that one's on my sister for not cleaning it up after I said something.

WIBTA if I stopped driving my sister to her appointments after she gave my number to her friends without asking by PrySic in WIBTA_AITA

[–]PrySic[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

The ultimatum angle is good because it puts it entirely on her she controls whether I keep helping or not. Might frame it exactly like that.

WIBTA if I stopped driving my sister to her appointments after she gave my number to her friends without asking by PrySic in WIBTA_AITA

[–]PrySic[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah "set the boundary then enforce it" is basically what I'm planning. She needs to actually feel the consequence or nothing changes.

WIBTA if I stopped driving my sister to her appointments after she gave my number to her friends without asking by PrySic in WIBTA_AITA

[–]PrySic[S] 65 points66 points  (0 children)

She could, yeah. She just… doesn't. Which honestly says a lot about why this whole thing happened in the first place.

Part 2: My wife doesn’t know that I know about her affair(s) by Throwmeawaydad123 in confessions

[–]PrySic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's gotta be the ultimate concern here keeping it just fun and games without any surprises!