BBC's The Social has a fun little video about Aberdeen's best "Book Nooks". I think I did most of my reading in my dorm room, or else in the SOC. However, my favorite memory of reading in Aberdeen took place during the Summer of 2013, on a bench in St. Nicholas Kirkyard, when I read a significant portion of Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers.
The other item, also from the BBC: Are Scottish students using AI to cheat their way to a degree? Per the article:
More than 600 Scottish students were accused of misusing AI during part of their studies last year - a rise of 121% on 2023 figures.It's interesting how the world advances. During my tenure at Aberdeen, all of our assignments had to be submitted via TurnItIn, which scanned them against the Internet to determine whether they'd been plagiarized. My is an eighth grade English teacher, and her pupils do most of their assignments on Chromebooks utilizing Google Classroom resources, so she's had to adapt to leverage AI herself, while preventing AI tools from disrupting the overall learning process. It would seem that she's in good company among Scottish university instructors.
