Three groups of students assigned to professor Optimal Prime’s HTH SCI 2K03 T13 class were astonished to find that the facilitator and his–or should we say its–TA were both Chatbots in disguise.
“I should have known when he told us to call him Optimal for short,” admitted one student, “but I thought it was one of those first-name-basis things the profs have going”. Suspicions were aroused when Prime became unresponsive during a brief internet outage in the tutorial room. When pressed by students for comments regarding whether the disruption would affect their grades, both prof and TA Chatbots panicked, and reverted to repeating “your time and opinion are of value to us.”
“I mean, we only meet once every two weeks,” said a second year student, “ I’m too busy praying that I don’t get picked for this week’s presentation. How were we supposed to notice that the facilitator was a cardboard cut-out?!”
Surprisingly, the overall reaction seems to be one of awe instead of frustration.
“We have been teaching ourselves all along”, one wondered aloud.
“Is this inquiry?” Another added.
In other news, Professor Prime and its TA were also revealed to be the joint 4X03 project of this year’s graduating class. At press time, the chatbots remain unavailable for comment.
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