I enjoyed Klara and The Sun :)

I liked it, audiobook is solid

This book is like a comfort book for me. I love it. I don't think I'd put it up on a pedestal or try and say it's some deeply profound thing, I just enjoyed reading it. And there are some great characters and snippets.

"If a man cannot master his circumstances, he is bound to be mastered by them."

And I think that's a great way to use it. There's such things as having prompts that are too open. I've used cgpt in similar ways as well.

Idk where I heard this, but constraint breeds creativity. Being confined to a prompt can create wonderful results. I just appreciate being able to act on an idea I may have instead.

Love this response and I agree wholeheartedly. It's not realistic for every student to do what I do. It's also not realistic for teachers to be able to make class engaging for everyone when they have so many students and so little time.

My favorite classes have been the ones where it's like 1 teacher and less than 10 students. They're amazing.

I really like what the author of this article says about giving students agency rather than having them all answer the same questions. As a young person in college, most of my assignments are rather boring to me. I've used ChatGPT on a number of things because I just didn't want to engage with the material, I didn't find it interesting. I never copied word for word of course.

With that being said, I had an English teacher who repeatedly assigned essays with topics that I just absolutely despised. They were just dreadful. I just emailed the teacher and said a more complicated version of, "Hey I don't really like this topic, I would like to do this instead, here's how it aligns with the objectives of the original assignment. Is that okay?"

I've done this multiple times with multiple professors and I have never had any of them say no. It's really hard to assign material that will be engaging for all of the students. I think it'd be better to enable students to request permission to do something else if they can articulate how it aligns with the original assignment. A student will always work harder on something they care about.

Are you in the US? Of course it depends on the area you live in but at 18 you can make much more than minimum wage. Even McDonald's starts people at $15/hr.

Just take a look around, opportunities always have a way of finding you. Experiences, even outside of HR directly, can always be leveraged for future jobs. You just have to be able to articulate it.

I'm not sure if it would be considered a coffee table book because it's the size of a regular book but my dad got me a copy of this compilation of Terry Prachett quotes.

It's nice to just open it and look at a few.

I've not read this but I have been reading Anna Karenina and I'm convinced that Russian literature is just built different.

I can't claim to be the most well read person, but there aren't a lot of books that just give me chills from describing the most basic scenes. It's a beautiful (LONG) story for sure.

Wind-up Bird Chronicle is my favorite for sure, I also like Kafka on the Shore, and Norwegian Wood.

Would also recommend finding some of his short stories. My favorite is called Sleep.

I enjoy Murakami's writing, and I've read a few of his books.

1Q84 just didn't do it for me. I've seen some people say they love it, and some say they didn't like it. I think if you're just reading it to finish it, then I would probably drop it.