American Democracy Ended This Weekend

[hunter]

27. My own writing is hard-won.

I can read fairly fast and critically but I think many people here on DU would be shocked if they knew how long it takes me to write even a short post like this.

For me, writing IS thinking and I'd be too damned paranoid to let AI do any of my thinking for me. Even the little squiggly lines my web browser places under misspelled words can leave me flummoxed and cause me to lose my train of thought.

In college I minored in English hoping to improve my writing skills. This led to a lot of friction between me, my professors, their teaching assistants, and even the department chair, who began to dread meetings with me.

It took me nine years to graduate. When that time came some of the requirements for the English minor had changed and some of the classes I'd taken no longer existed. Therefore the chair of the English department had to certify that I had indeed completed all the requirements of the minor.

We scheduled a meeting which she missed for some family emergency. Then we scheduled another meeting and she simply didn't show up, for unknown reasons. A day before the hard deadline I tried to meet with her again and was told she'd already left for the summer.

I went to the assistant dean of the college, who I also had a troubled history with. He glanced over my transcripts and quickly approved the minor, telling me, "Hunter, I think you should go to graduate school, JUST NOT HERE."

I think your own writing would be better accepted on DU than any AI produce, however fractured your own writing might be.