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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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The true engineering experience is exams that ask you derive God after your homework was just 2+2. I remember hearing a rumor once that the exams were to find students who would be good to help with the professor's research.
Now that I'm on the other side of the degree with a couple years, I do think those tests were the crucible that turned us into engineers. Working through daunting, impossible questions under stress is how we developed our problem solving capability.
I do think though there's vast improvements to still be made. It's highlighted in just how many of us have anxiety and depression and become nervous wrecks. Make sure to take care of yourself and see professionals to help with that, if you need it.