Throwaway for obvious reasons. im typing this at 3am bcs i cant sleep and im shitting myself and i need to get this off my chest before i LITERALLY explode or smth.
after covid, my uni kept their foundation courses fully online. assignments, exams, labs—all virtual. i was burned out and idk . So I started using chatgpt for everything. calculus? ai solved it, with workings and everything. lab reports? ai wrote them. essays? grammarly + ai paraphrasing. i copy-pasted answers into exams (changed a few words so it looked “real”). i didnt study. NOT ONCE.
AND IT WORKED. turnitin never flagged me. professors never noticed. i got a PERFECT 4.0 GPA. but now im in my first sem of a nutrition degree and IM SCREWED. bc here’s the truth: I LEARNED NOTHING. my “knowledge” of math, chem, bio???Wasn’t even there at the first place
why im freaking tf out:
- im “acing” my nutrition coursework… but its ALL AI. assignments? chatgpt does them. quizzes? i screenshot questions and send them to ai. professors keep praising my “insightful analysis” but every compliment feels like a knife twist.
- GUILT. NUTRITION IS ABOUT HUMAN HEALTH. how can i ethically do this?? what if i mess up a future client’s diet bc i cheated on MY ENTIRE DEGREE??
- LABS START NEXT MONTH. AI CANT PIPETTE LIQUIDS. i have to measure nutrient densities IN PERSON. what happens when i blank out and cant explain the krebs cycle to my professor’s face???
ive tried to fix this but im too far gone:
- tried rewatching old lectures… but even the introductory videoes made no sense.
- downloaded anki to memorize “glycolysis” “ketosis” etc… quit after 2 days. whats the point if i dont get the chemistry behind it?
- bought a chem textbook… its just decor now. i panic-opened it last week and cried bc i couldnt UNDERSTAND PAGE ONE.
- EVEN TRIED “LEARNING” WHILE CHEATING: like, asking chatgpt to explain stuff AS IT WRITES MY ESSAYS… but im just copying words i dont retain. its a loop of shame and panic.
the WORST PART???
i cant ask for help. if i confess to ANYONE, im GONE. my school’s academic policy is ZERO TOLERANCE. but if i dont fix this:
- ill fail my food science lab in 6 WEEKS. AI CANT SANITIZE LAB GEAR OR CALCULATE MACROS ON THE SPOT.
- my mental health is GONE. i dissociate during lectures. i have constant fear about being EXPOSED mid-presentation, staring at a room full of ppl who HATE me.
PLS—IF YOUVE BEEN HERE HOW DID YOU SURVIVE??
- how do i SOMEHOW relearn 2 YEARS of STEM basics (MATH CHEM BIO) WHILE using AI to keep my nutrition grades up??
- are there “guilty cheat” STUDY HACKS?? like using AI to TEACH ME while it does my homework?? or hiding gaps in group projects??
- should i FAKE A MENTAL BREAKDOWN to drop out?? or keep cheating until i get CAUGHT???
- HOW DO I STOP FEELING LIKE A MONSTER????
TL;DR: i ai-cheated thru a post-covid foundation program. now im “top of my class” in nutrition… but labs + guilt will destroy me. how do i unfuck 2 years of lies WITHOUT getting caught???
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So… from what you said I legitimately think the only way forward is to cut your losses and find another path forward that isn’t your current degree.
Like… idk what to tell you man this should’ve been as evident from the get go as a doctor learning medicine exclusively through AI, you won’t learn anything and it’ll come bite you in the ass sooner or later.
At least if you quit you can formulate whatever excuse you wait, I.e burnout, and leave in “grace” as opposed to getting found out.
With all that said, i hope this story is fake because it sounds like an increasingly scary and frighteningly large problem that’ll be facing universities now that LLMs are so prevalent.
I mean…….you literally have to knuckle down and study. That’s the only solution.
You cheated for your degree, and now you’re facing the consequences. I really can’t offer you any good advice beyond investing in energy drinks and keeping your sleep cycle consistent while you cram.
Bro did the FA and is getting the FO. Maybe do the mental-breakdown drop-out. Seems like the safest option, and you can blame the stress of keeping your perfect GPAs on it.
Bruh.
I’d ask what the fuck you thought was going to happen, but it honestly doesn’t really matter at this point.
Welcome to the find out phase.
… and this is exactly why we don’t want students to rely on AI. You took a spot in a program from someone who actually deserved it. You can either buckle down and do honest work (probably start failing because you need to understand complicated fundamental topics), or dropout for no given reason, or confess to the institution and get expelled. How can you ethically do this program? You can’t, you’ve already bombed that. If you want to continue with this area, you probably have to start over at another institution to get your basics down. Yes I’m being harsh but OP is in a situation that is the consequences of their own actions that they continued to do despite clearly knowing it was wrong. But OP you need to change something because this will continue to build and eat at you until something bad happens.
You’re not defined by how you started, but by what you choose to do now. It’s overwhelming, but if you break it down piece by piece, you can rebuild your foundation. Every expert was once a beginner who didn’t know anything either. You’re already braver than you think for facing this head-on.
There is a lesson here to be learned here, somewhere. I’m sure of it 😒😬
Fake a stroke and pretend you forgot everything.
I have no sympathy for people going into the medical field that cheat. As someone who has multiple lifelong illnesses and needs a nutritionist to to help make sure my body keeps functioning I find your behavior abhorrent
Drop out and find something that won’t ruin lives if you don’t know what you’re talking about
This is what you get for being lazy and cheating. You took the easy way out, so now you get to experience how hard things can come crashing down. If you ever graduate, I would be TERRIFIED and MORTIFIED if I was your client.
You are NOT competent to finish this degree. You are NOT competent to work in your field.
You are NOT competent to handle clients or be hired by anyone at this point.
You need to face your lies.
Skill issue or something, AI shouldn’t be used while learning because you won’t learn anything
Damnnn looks like you are fckkkkkkedd
You cheated through school and now you kind of have to live with the consequences. I don’t know what you expected.
“I cheated my way through college, now college is getting really difficult when I don’t cheat.”
FAFO.
even God won’t be able to help you bro 🙏
Pay a fuck ton of money to get an education, to ONLY learn what an education even is
And you wrote this with AI too huh
I recommend recognizing you’re having an *actual* mental break down and withdrawing from the semester for mental health reasons. Take time off and figure out what to do. Most likely, you will not be graduating with this degree, because you don’t understand it at all, but taking the mental health time (which is legitimate! You are in a mental health crisis, even if born of your own poor choices) will help you figure out if the degree is salvagable or not. And also help you figure out how to be a better person and make better choices.
Drop out or buckle down with all paper and handwritten notes.
It sucks. Your generation has the perfect storm to f**k yourself. Honestly I’m not sure a lot of my generation would have chose differently, sadly.
The only thing AI did is write this fake karma farming post.
Have you tried asking your AI for help on how to fix this mess?
Either pass or get fucked.
This is bad, mate. I’m sorry. You’ve gotta drop out and try again. AI is an invaluable tool for learning. I use it as a tutor. I watch my lectures, and have it give me practice chemistry math questions. If I don’t get it correct, I have it explain where I went wrong and have it give me new practice questions. It’s great for clarification, it’s great for finding mistakes in your essays…but that’s it. Not understand is not going to help you on your final exam. AI is great at helping you understand the content, but YOU have to actually understand the content.
>my mental health is GONE. i dissociate during lectures. i have constant fear about being EXPOSED mid-presentation, staring at a room full of ppl who HATE me.
>should i FAKE A MENTAL BREAKDOWN to drop out??
Not to sound unkind, but I don’t think you’d need to fake anything at this point, its already happening.
Realistically you don’t have a way to cram 2 years of learning into 6 weeks. Students do drop out of courses due to stress quite a lot, then you can use that time to figure out if STEM is even something you want to do.
Sorry, friend, I think you need to accept that this is a consequence of your own actions and cut your losses. There’s weight of your decision to use AI is obviously starting to negatively impact you greatly and there is no “fix” button at this point anyone or AI can provide you. By continuing to use AI to help with your degree, you’re only digging yourself in deeper and not actually learning anything useful. It sucks, but there is not easy solution to your problem.
Sorry dude, as a student that did use ChatGPT sometimes but used it only when I was really stuck, it’s on you for using it on everything. I have three diagnosed chronic illnesses and it was hard being online but I still made the effort to reach out to my classmates and figure out together if we understood the material then do most of the work with my own brain. I got into school to improve myself, not just to get the title of a degree. Even when my body hurt so much that I couldn’t physically type my essays so I used voice-to-text on an iPad while I laid face down on my bed and only used ChatGPT to order where my main ideas go. The least I could do is read the material and highlight it in a digital program when I didn’t have the energy to take notes. The problem you’re facing is an issue with yourself. You need to study and try to put what you learned into practice. Use your hands. Write stuff out on paper if you have to. Get back into the math. Have science videos on in the background either to get yourself into the mood or maybe get something into your subconscious. Ask for help from your classmates. Cross-reference each other’s work. Be honest that you’re mentally breaking down and having anxiety attacks. If you wanna lie, you can say you forgot. Or just redo your entire education. There is no fast solution out of this. It’s up to you.
Claim to realize that you don’t enjoy learning about nutrition and change your major. Switch to something with very little math or science. Psychology? English? History? If you felt too burned out to learn the basics, you’re going to feel burned out every day doing the job.
“How do I stop feeling like a monster?”
By accepting the consequences of your bad behaviour.
You were dishonest — you admit yourself that you cheated.
You took a spot from a more deserving candidate who would NOT have cheated.
You got “top of the class” when you neither earned it or deserved it, which also took that spot from someone who did the work.
You either need to come clean and accept the consequences, or drop out.
This is a life lesson. It is staring you in the face. Integrity and maturity means you take that life lesson and learn from it and then do better in the future.
According to the AI bros this is perfectly fine and eventually we can just cut out the middleman (you).
This is crazy, how is it possible you didn’t have a single moment of guilt? I don’t understand what garbage university would keep having virtual labs post covid. This whole post is horrifying.
Ai is a tool, especially when you deal with people’s lives and health. You should drop out instead of graduating with a lousy gpa and killing a patient with garbage advice.
Anyone telling OP to just study needs to understand how important nutrition is to your health. A diabetes patient with a bad diet is gonna keep coming back and a patient with dysphagia is literally not even able to swallow with an improper diet.
Tldr: Quit and take a gap year before you hop into your next (non-medical degree).
Yes this is assuming you even graduate, your professors aren’t fucking idiots.
“How did you survive” Assuming you don’t mean literally but more like professionally/reputation wise, yeah I really hope you don’t. You deserve every bit of fallout that comes out of this. Hopefully you’ll learn a lesson and eventually move on but that’s a long long stretch away.
I just want to tell you that even though you royally fucked up, your life isn’t over. You’re young, and in the grand scheme of your whole lifetime, two years becomes just one relatively small period of your entire timeline. Of course it feels monumental right now because you’re in this chapter and it’s your biggest one yet. But I promise you that 5 years from now, 10 years from now, this is just going to be something that happened that you worked through.
I know people who took on debt for useless grad school degrees and had to work them off for years, people who struggled with serious illness and felt set back, people who dropped out of law school or med school and essentially started over, people who went through messy divorces and had to reset their lives… Yeah it’s very much not ideal, but they all survived. Many are doing fine today.
Just end this my man. Tell your parents your mental health is abysmal (which it is) and you don’t feel like this program is the right path for you for numerous reasons. And accept it for yourself that you are not going to be a doctor. Let that go and stop with the magical thinking that you can quickly “catch up”. That delusional thinking is keeping you stuck and in an extreme state of stress. Direct your attention and effort to how you’re realistically going to move forward from here.
You have a bunch of completed class credits that can likely transfer to some other type of program. You can still pursue a degree and some other career. Think about what you actually want to do—without AI of course. Find something that’s not so tied with ethics and patient outcomes, since you have not proven yourself to be reliable in that type of profession. If your patents are unwilling to keep funding your education, accept that consequence graciously and find another way through loans or whatever you need to do.
As a nurse, I hope you never see a patient in any capacity.
Buckle fown and study. Go on medical leave or do whatever you can to buy time and actually understand your field of study. Never practice it until you actually know what you’re doing.
Honestly, I agree with people saying to cut your losses and either drop out fully, or say that you need a year or two off for mental health. From then, you can either try to find a job that will allow you to advance enough that you don’t need to go back to school, or you can kick the can down the road and hope they chill out, or use that time to study something else so you can pivot and earn a degree in something different on your own merit.
I know it seems like your life is over, but it’s not! Just say your mental health is suffering (it is).
What’s going to ruin your life more: your parents being upset at you for pausing your advanced degree for a year or two (or forever), and you saying you need to pivot to another degree or something, or the absolutely nuclear fallout of them finding out that they wasted their money paying for you to cheat for 4 years?
Drop out, learn your lesson, and study next time.
I’m happy AI wasn’t around until I finished my degree. I would have failed my finals and learned nothing, an empty degree essentially.
I would fake mental health problems and drop-out, or switch degrees or opt into community college and do something else.
Im confused. You knew that day would come. All that free time that ai gave you an expo don’t think of a solution for when you have to go and do stuff in person?
This isn’t just about a degree, this is about real life, real people who trust you with their health. They need you to know your stuff. A degree is just a step, there’s an actual world out there that needs you to know something.
We can’t help you, you can take a gap year and actually study in the hopes of catching up. Or drop out. Bc the only other option is failing so hard they will figure you out and expel you
Time to switch majors to something that can’t kill people if dropping out isn’t an option. Run your credits through various other degrees – look at programs that can be done fully online (business etc) and go from there.
Nah, you’re fucked man.
You’ve cooked it and now you’ve gotta eat it.
Next time don’t be a braindead from the get go
This makes me scared for the future because you’re probably not the only one who’s done this. You’re just gonna have to cut your losses and learn from this harsh lesson in life.
It’s okay, you’re only like the second worst type of person ever.
Can’t even express your own mental breakdown like a human either. Gotta run to Reddit, with AI-generated bullet points about how you’re freaking out.
This is the cost of selling your soul, buddy.
Study or fail
DROP OUT before you ☠️ someone in the Future!!! Just blame it on mental health. One more lie can safe lives …
It is completely unethical for you to go into medical practice at this point. But you can still pull the rip cord and save a future patient from yourself.
You need to drop out.
Fake a mental breakdown (though at this point, I don’t know how much acting is required)
OR
Come clean. Face the music. Your life, as you know it will come crashing down around you, but it was a house of cards to begin with. Use this lesson for whatever you decide to do next to actually learn for yourself. It’ll be rough, but you will also finally get this off your chest and be able to move forward in peace.
Better fucking study until you see words on the wall
Can’t imagine cheating like this and thinking it’s okay
If true, have fun in the lab. Hope you have a lot of stress. Hate cheaters.
Bye bye gl hf.
sorry but i have no sympathy for you. you essentially stole a spot in a program from someone who busted their ass actually learning material.
Did the AI write this too? The bulletpoints are suspect.
Take a break for 6 months. Cite mental health or something. And use those 6 months to play catch up and address the knowledge gap.
You’ll still be lagging in areas that require actual skill building, but if you’ve ever seen an undergrad with a pipette you’re not going to stand out too much.
I was very mad and sad reading this, but my main takeaway from this is: you now know how easy this was.
Next time you need emergency surgery or help, I really hope your MD took their schooling more seriously than you took yours. You’ll always have a seed of doubt.
Get a tutor. People struggle and panic and forget things sometimes so ask them to help explain things from the start. You may also not be understanding it because you’re wrapped up in guilt and panic as well, which makes it harder to process things. Take it slow. Pretend you’re doing it from the start and begin with basic concepts. Cut out ChatGPT so you don’t develop more of a reliance and insecurity.
Yeah dude this is why cheating is harmful to the cheater. What were you expecting lol
This one’s all you my guy
Funny enough, does anyone else feel like this post looks like it was written by AI?
“HOW DO I STOP FEELING LIKE A MONSTER????”
Maybe try stopping the bad thing youre doing
Did you write this using AI??
I’m going to try to give you some practical advice since most comments seem to be ppl ripping you to shreds. You can’t learn that material in time to pass the lab portion of your classes. It’s just not possible. Stress/anxiety interferes with our ability to think critically. You’re not going to be able to learn anything while you are this stressed out. So I recommend dropping out of your courses and taking a semester off to re-evaluate. You can blame it on poor mental health or just say you decided you want to do something else. It feels like the end of the world, but it’s really not. Ppl change their minds and drop out all the time. Afterwards, you should see if you can transfer your credits towards another degree in an area where you are competent (STEM is hard and not everyone can handle it; there are easier degrees out there). Or if higher education isn’t for you, you can go to trade school or just start working full-time. There are plenty of skills that can be learned on the job. What you absolutely should not do is try to fake it thinking you can fool everyone forever. You can’t. And there are potential ethical and legal consequences, besides getting kicked out of school, for pretending to be competent in an area where you really are not, especially in healthcare. You can’t fuck around with other people’s health.
In sum, you need to: (1) drop out; (2) either transfer your credits to an easier program or pursue a trade or find a job that doesn’t require higher education; and (3) see a psychiatrist. #3 isn’t meant as a dig at you; your actions suggest you might have some untreated mental health issues.
This post looks like chatgpt wrote it. 🫠
There has been lectures about technology making people more and more dumb. I’m glad to see this comeback on them. Especially in a field where other lives are at risk.
FAFO
I can’t feel sorry for you at all. If I found out people cheated with AI I fuckin turned them in, no other thought. AI has been a fucking plague on me since people figured to cheat with it, as someone who at least had the dignity to fail a class on my own merits, I have no respect for this path you’ve chosen and I genuinely hope you fail, we don’t need any more uninformed, lazy people in the world polluting the work force and the population with their shams. You’ve dug your own grave. My only advice is quit now and go actually study something and learn something you can use in life. I’m just happy you couldn’t incompletely bumble your way into a profession where your lack of knowledge gets people hurt.
I hope that you get found out, to be honest. You deserve the consequences
This post is terrifying and maddening. Call me a hater, but I hope OP crashes and burns hard for this.
How many of our future doctors and healthcare workers are using AI to bypass actual learning? Thank goodness for labs I guess…
Might as well ask ChatGPT this, not reddit
Just quit.
You didn’t do any of the work to actually learn anything of your field.
I’m studying to become an MLT. not once did I cheat. All my stuff is online as well, except for clinicals.
MY JOB HAS THE POTENTIAL TO END OR SAVE A LIFE. IF I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IM DOING, I COULD KILL SOMEOME.
Don’t be selfish. Be honest and quit your degree.
This is a great example of why so many degrees will be completely replaced in 10 to 15 years.
Use AI only to understand things you don’t understand. What you are doing is 100% unacceptable.
Ah, massive engagement over a 100% ChatGPT generated rage bait, almost forgot about dead internet theory for a moment
Idk, maybe ask AI how to unfuck yourself. Letting the robot do all the heavy lifting has worked well thus far.
Drop out now. If you really want to commit to this, use the next year or two to ACTUALLY learn the material WITHOUT the help of AI. Then if you ACTUALLY feel competent enough, you can go back. But by no means should you continue with the path you’re on.
You will permanently fuck people up if you somehow manage to get this degree. Don’t fucking do that. Not only is it morally and ethically wrong, you’ll probably get thrown into prison. I don’t think you want that.
Drop out now. Who the fuck cares if people won’t like that. They sure as well won’t like if you actually GET the degree and start fucking people up.
Readily available Gen AI really found its footing around 2020, and that means we’re right on time to watch a whole cohort of college grads (and “grads” is doing heavy lifting there, I know) walk the stage and grab a degree they didn’t earn. Teachers, medical professionals, accountants, you name it. The public will be the ones to pay the price, as this is sure to only further incentivize omnipresent Big Tech to reduce human workforces.
You should seriously drop out temporarily while your GPA is perfect, take time off and either study back into being on track or use your perfect GPA to change majors where you may take a small step back but won’t flame out in a blaze of unglory
Did you learn nothing from the Indian university student who essentially did this exact same thing, came to the US, kept cheating and faking marks, put it on Reddit, the university found out about it and he was kicked out and sent back home?
You need to withdraw. There is no way you can learn the years of building block basics you’ll need. Take a semester off, see a therapist, enroll in basic courses at a community college and start from scratch. STOP CHEATING NOW AND STOP USING AI. You will never actually learn anything. You need to withdraw from school or you WILL be expelled soon.
People like you shouldn’t be anywhere near a medical profession. This is so insulting to people who actually put in the work to learn and want to make people’s lives better. Why did you even pick this field? Money? Drop out and make room for someone who actually cares about the health of their future clients enough to pay attention in class.
I hope you enjoy your much deserved meltdown.
Sincerely, someone who is graduating this week with a well earned degree with 0 ‘help’ from AI.
I’d really like to be sympathetic, but I just can’t. I got overwhelmed my first semester of college and flunked out because I got behind and had no idea how to open my mouth and ask for help because I’m a perfectionist, so I either do it perfectly the first time or fail. Going from a small high school to a massive university was cultural shock. Flunking out was a wake up call, and I took a semester off and started again at a new college that was much smaller, and I was able to graduate with my bachelor’s degree and a pretty good GPA, but I still struggled. Come to find out almost a year after I graduated, it’s because I’m autistic and ADHD with several mental health issues. But, even though it was hard and I had a lot of mental and physical health issues weighing me down, I was still able to do it by working hard and reaching out to professors when I felt myself getting overwhelmed and confused. I had to care and put in the hard work myself, even when it wasn’t easy.
As someone who has a lot of medical needs, I would hate to have you or anyone like you having ANYTHING to do with handling my health!
Kids down to middle schoolers are doing this. Imagine from middle school Onward people doing this.
please know, if ur going into healthcare, this information will not just be on “entrance labs”. You will be expected to know this information inside and out. You absolutely will hurt someone if you as the provider (future RD?) don’t understand their condition/dietary needs/caloric needs.
Yes we use AI for MD scribes, some nursing ventures, writing prompts as well as having a resource to explain things. But the HUMAN is expected to have a base knowledge source, which you’re currently lacking.
Even if u somehow make it through the lab…you will get caught on the job or when u sit for boards because AI isn’t there to catch your fall.
Without passing judgement on your actions, I think the best thing you could do, assuming that you’re actually interested in obtaining this certification, is request an immediate emergency medical leave, sighting severe mental health concerns. Assuming this is approved, you will have to spend the time you are on leave diligently studying everything that you cheated your way through, and hope that by the time you return you can pass the practicals. If the institution you attend requires a more substantial degree of confidence in your story then you’ll need to go to a doctor and tell them you’re having a serious mental health episode and cannot continue your studies. While this is a self-made problem, it is still a very difficult problem nonetheless, so best of luck to you.