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Older Generations Recall Handwritten All-Nighter Papers

A tweet about Gen X writing school papers by hand draws agreeing replies from older users.

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QueenMother1976 posted that Gen X wrote 10-page papers by hand in cursive the night before they were due, without reading the book, after hearing high school kids say no generation could do so without AI. Replies from users including MAGASwifties47, dvw, ry0kiku and others described copying encyclopedia entries, working on typewriters with no delete key, or finishing a master's thesis on a typewriter, often on little sleep.

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Older Generations Recall Handwritten All-Nighter Papers

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@QueenMother1976Some high school kids were talking and said “No way Gen X wrote 10-page papers without AI.” Oh, honey. We wrote them without reading the book…the night before they were due…by hand and in cursive. We are not the same.
@QuakerNanaThis made me laugh!! But then I am 75.
@MAGASwifties47We copied the encyclopedia word for word the night before the project was due.
@dvwHell yeah we did. On zero sleep and still went to school the next day. And a lot of us got an A, no ai, no computer even. Just a fucking brain.
@itzyeoshinCheers to us who wrote assingments after assingments 😌🥹
@BeginnerAverage@QueenMother1976 Seriously though what are we going to do about the biggest generation gap in the history of humanity
@ry0kikuIf writing without AI amazes these little ones... Imagine writing papers WITHOUT COMPUTER. ON TYPEWRITERS THAT WENT "TICK TICK" AND HAD NO DELETE BUTTON. NO PPT SO PPL WROTE ON TRANSPARENT PAPERS TO PUT ON PROJECTORS Ah the times when humans still know how to use their brains
@LDejmek@QueenMother1976 I wrote my (first) Masters thesis on a typewriter.
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    @QueenMother1976Some high school kids were talking and said “No way Gen X wrote 10-page papers without AI.” Oh, honey. We wrote them without reading the book…the night before they were due…by hand and in cursive. We are not the same.
    @QuakerNanaThis made me laugh!! But then I am 75.
    @MAGASwifties47We copied the encyclopedia word for word the night before the project was due.
    @dvwHell yeah we did. On zero sleep and still went to school the next day. And a lot of us got an A, no ai, no computer even. Just a fucking brain.
    @itzyeoshinCheers to us who wrote assingments after assingments 😌🥹
    @BeginnerAverage@QueenMother1976 Seriously though what are we going to do about the biggest generation gap in the history of humanity
    @ry0kikuIf writing without AI amazes these little ones... Imagine writing papers WITHOUT COMPUTER. ON TYPEWRITERS THAT WENT "TICK TICK" AND HAD NO DELETE BUTTON. NO PPT SO PPL WROTE ON TRANSPARENT PAPERS TO PUT ON PROJECTORS Ah the times when humans still know how to use their brains
    @LDejmek@QueenMother1976 I wrote my (first) Masters thesis on a typewriter.
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