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Around here it is the exact opposite. They want people who have high anxiety to work through that anxiety and make it to their appointments. Part of the healing process. Not easy and not always accessible, but definitely part of challenging and desensitizing the patient via cognitive behavioral therapy.
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Basically she is trying to learn about the book and what it means before she even bothers to attempt to try and read the material and think for herself, rather than read the book first and use some kind of guide to smooth out anything she didn't understand. Of course, by the time you are going for your Master, your are supposed to be able to figure things out on your own without running to study guides! This practice of her explains a lot. She is all about the shortcuts and cheating and zero percent brain power and creative thinking.
I also work on a novel when I'm supposed to be reading 10+ texts in a month.
In her latest video, she mentions a quote she likes, BUT she says that she likes the quote in the voice-over when it's already passed by in the editing. Good job. Didn't get to see the quote without going back.
She can't wait to "study properly" but goes through summaries and spark notes for that study. Girl please. We can tell that you don't like The Faerie Queene. Not to mention that your book has a huge water stain.
Also, I had to turn the volume on YouTube up all the way because she speaks so low. Her computer overheated? I doubt it. She hardly uses it.
I agree with her that supplementary studying is good in some cases, but I feel like she uses supplementary way too much for someone that has a ton of reading and has barely done any of it.
In her latest video, she mentions a quote she likes, BUT she says that she likes the quote in the voice-over when it's already passed by in the editing. Good job. Didn't get to see the quote without going back.
She can't wait to "study properly" but goes through summaries and spark notes for that study. Girl please. We can tell that you don't like The Faerie Queene. Not to mention that your book has a huge water stain.
Also, I had to turn the volume on YouTube up all the way because she speaks so low. Her computer overheated? I doubt it. She hardly uses it.
I agree with her that supplementary studying is good in some cases, but I feel like she uses supplementary way too much for someone that has a ton of reading and has barely done any of it.
Back when I lurked here, there was this title suggestion about Millie Brown? Zendaya? bullying someone? It was something Rumbster herself wrote in what she imagined how someone who was bullied lived lol I can't remember the exact quote but it was unbelievably stupid and hilarious. Can we make that the next title thread? I remember the suggestion had tons of votes, too.
I really wouldn't want to be in her shoes - she has chosen a masters that will be very difficult (and at Oxford). It won't be anything like doing an undergraduate degree and she will be competing against people who won't need Spark Notes. Fine to give it a go if she's interested, but also quite an intimidating prospect.
I know its been said before, but how much was her course again?
£14,480 for the course fees, plus she'll have to pay for accommodation/living costs, etc.
It's not like she'll miss the money, but £30,000+ is a ridiculous amount to waste on a degree that she has no actual interest in, won't open any doors for her, won't enjoy and that she's already tipping her hand that she'll do everything she can to cheat her way through and not learn a damn thing.
Poor Blakeney, being replaced by ChatGPT.
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I'm absolutely clueless about ChatGPT. It's not something I can use in my job and I haven't got much time to spend learning it (so I haven't bothered) but I noticed a tutor on my MA course said that some students were flagged up on a recent module for AI and plagiarism. He said AI isn't good beyond superficial reading- not sure how true that is as I am a dinosaur. Hopefully Ruby knows not to use it for actual writing but I think she shouldn't mention it at all in her study videos, tutors don't like it.
ChatGPT will give a passable summary of a novel for example, and can list things such as main themes, but if you ask it to produce actual text, it’s very generic and there will be errors mixed in with facts, and it’s hard to tell the difference unless you know the subject. I’ve used it a little for background work (for example, I asked it to summarise a novel I didn’t have time to read for a paper I was writing on theory, so I didn’t actually use anything AI produced in my writing, only the background process) but I wouldn’t rely on it to any significant extent. (I also asked it to write me a pattern for a knitted elephant, and it basically gave me instructions for knitting a tube with three holes for ”legs”, and a cuboidal trunk.)
I have a friend who teaches a music history class at the university and she says all her subpar students somehow churn out excellent essays thanks to ChatGPT a lot of students nowadays rely on it because they don't want to put in the effort. I don't know if there is a plagiarism control on AI-written content but I doubt there is a way to prove it and I think Ruby will take full advantage of it. Granted my friend's subject is very factual rather than criticism based, so maybe it will be different for topics where an actual opinion will matter.
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I came here to write this! I've just spent the last couple of weeks searching around to find reasonable travel and accomodation to visit Edinburgh next year, off-peak, for the first time. Still not cheap, then you have Ruby who gets gifted (and paid) for a second trip!
I use it to find small errors in code I write, it saves a ton of time. But I wouldn't trust it with anything major. but finding a syntax error is pretty straight forward for a machine.
what do you think tattlers? @gossip_guy need your discerning eye, can you make a conclusion out of these?
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There is functionality with Turnitin to spot AI content. https://www.turnitin.com/solutions/ai-writing I imagine it doesn't catch everything though?
I think the reflection is just these old wall sections which are positioned behind the camera.
There's also multiple cups/teapots on both sides of the table, so I think they just ordered couple of different teas/drinks at once to try.
Looks like Mummy had a coffee, a tea and a glass of water, Ruby's likely juggling a MOG OF TEAAAA ANDD AYYYY MOG OF WOORWTUHHHH to suppress her appetite again.
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I noticed she also drinks a lot of "digestive" tea and cookies. Are those laxatives? It's really common with people who want to lose weight to use laxatives frequently, and while Ruby definitely seems to me to want to be the smallest version of herself, I wasn't sure because it seemed odd that mentions it so casually in her videos.
Nah they’re just a very common biscuit here in the U.K. - and you can get tea that’s flavoured like them, so I’m guessing that’s what she means. They were created supposedly to aid proper digestion but they’re not a laxative or anything, and now you can get chocolate coated ones or just plain ones. They’re pretty much a biscuit tin staple
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