I'm sorry, so fucking angry. Students with sources that don't exist. Students with sources that exist but then the quotation doesn't exist.
I'm so fucking mad, because it's extra work for me (that I'm sure as hell not getting compensated for), and it also entirely defeats the purpose of the fucking class (it's writing/research, so like, engaging in a discipline and looking at what's been written before on your topic, etc.)
Kill me please. Comrades, I'm so tired. I just want to teach writing. I want to give students a way to exercise agency in the world -- to both see bad arguments and make good ones. They don't care. I'm so tired.
BTW, I took time to look up some of these sources my student used, couldn't find the quotes they quote, so told them the paper is an "A" if they can show me every quotation and failing otherwise. Does this seem like a fair policy (my thought is -- no matter the method, fabrication of evidence is justification for failing work)?
Shit like this makes me kinda glad I dropped out rather than continue in higher ed. I can see how like 80% of my classmates back then would be the people using AI now. Maybe I'll go back to school for something worthwhile one day, I did have some decent philosophy and sociology professors, but the in-major stuff was just utterly useless.
I don't even know why this inspires this sort of reaction in me, I wasn't the type to use AI for everything, and I actually was starting to kinda enjoy writing papers towards the end, it wouldn't have affected me personally much in that sense, but (among many other things) being surrounded by people who fundamentally didn't care and did their best to cheat through it, or who had clearly been failed by their prior education, was pretty demoralizing, so I guess this lands in that category