Professor shares son's college essay written entirely without LLM help — and it was great
arjunrajlab · x · 2026-10-16
A professor (arjunrajlab) shares that his son wrote his college application essay with zero LLM assistance — sincere, heartfelt, and distinctly his own. The father read it and gave feedback, but the son iterated entirely on his own, producing a strong final draft. He comes away optimistic that this generation of kids will be alright in the AI era.
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