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Gen X Shares Handwritten Homework Tales from Pre-AI Days

Replies describe writing reports by hand and using physical encyclopedias for research.

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Posts on X recount pre-digital schoolwork. One user said they wrote 10-page papers in cursive without reading the book. Others described using outdated encyclopedias from their parents, riding bikes to libraries for more sources, writing rough then final drafts by hand, and finishing 20-page papers overnight after library research. Additional replies mentioned card catalogs, writer's cramp from cursive, and all-nighters with energy drinks. Several noted that only Gen Z had AI during their school years.

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@heygrieslyNot Gen X but I think the height of my college career was spending half the day in the library finishing up my research then throwing back energy drinks to grind out a 20 page paper in one night that got progressively more insane as I went on -- and got a fucken A+
@InsomniaLK@QueenMother1976 By hand in cursive by 2am while reading nothing sounds like a war crime to me.
@EVR_ForgeDitto. I couldn't type. Even in college. Fortunately, I like girls. 😉😂
@SharrellAnne2Indeed…🤣
@CajunVetXKids these days have no clue how we worked
@Gigi_8087@QueenMother1976 I STILL have writer's cramp....bet they don't know what that means either 😂
@cocosbrushfire@Selene_Mariposa Let’s not forget writing reports in middle school using the out of date encyclopedia set our parents bought when we were born, and then riding bikes to the library to augment our research.
@Leonitis8998Wrote a rough draft for them hoes, then a final draft.
@wordsmithI@chigrl Hell yeah! 🙌 💯 Pass the encyclopedia while I use the card catalog!
@jasonterry2024Millennials did it too. Only Gen Z had access to AI during school and college years.
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    @heygrieslyNot Gen X but I think the height of my college career was spending half the day in the library finishing up my research then throwing back energy drinks to grind out a 20 page paper in one night that got progressively more insane as I went on -- and got a fucken A+
    @InsomniaLK@QueenMother1976 By hand in cursive by 2am while reading nothing sounds like a war crime to me.
    @EVR_ForgeDitto. I couldn't type. Even in college. Fortunately, I like girls. 😉😂
    @SharrellAnne2Indeed…🤣
    @CajunVetXKids these days have no clue how we worked
    @Gigi_8087@QueenMother1976 I STILL have writer's cramp....bet they don't know what that means either 😂
    @cocosbrushfire@Selene_Mariposa Let’s not forget writing reports in middle school using the out of date encyclopedia set our parents bought when we were born, and then riding bikes to the library to augment our research.
    @Leonitis8998Wrote a rough draft for them hoes, then a final draft.
    @wordsmithI@chigrl Hell yeah! 🙌 💯 Pass the encyclopedia while I use the card catalog!
    @jasonterry2024Millennials did it too. Only Gen Z had access to AI during school and college years.
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