I feel like the biggest pedant here, but it won’t care because it’s an LLM. Worth reiterating that they’re just word processing programs, not some thinking AI.

Cool, TIL it’s called pica. My grandma apparently had that as she was pregnant with my mom, she would eat pieces of mortar that had fallen off of buildings…

To be fair, it’d be a lot more difficult to comment if he was in a coma.

Your old classmates who flunked during the last two years probably didn’t post about it on social media. It’s not reflective of reality, just all curation.

Trust me, you’re doing fine. My bachelor took five years to finish, and plenty of people I’ve talked to have had similar situations.