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Show 1 CI - ri- 111,1 OPINION 6.10 44 Ui Aaa,d..1.1 Coordinated deadlines beneficial to college students as telling professors to work together and then letting the rest work itself out. Staggered deadlines require planning and research; specifically, research into statistics about what deadlines will conflict for the majority of students. A post from Vassar College's official blog said: "A student's schedule of academic work is like a Chinese puzzle box there's so many parts and if one moves if a professor puts off an assignment or changes an assignment, then that affects everything else." I wouldn't expect immediate implementation of a plan for staggered deadlines across the entire campus, but if professors worked together for staggered deadlines within their own department, that would be great. The last two years of college are typically when students take mostly upper division, major-specifcourses, so a plan for staggered deadlines within each department would be helpful. This isn't a rant against spe deadlines instead of lining them all up on the same days. Mondays especially are terrible for deadlines. Who actually remembers to do their assignments over the weekend? According to a debate on debate.org, 86 percent of respondents said homework shouldn't even be assigned on weekends in the first place, with one reason being the level of stress that's induced. Personally, it would be way easier if all my major assignments weren't due on either Monday or Wednesday. Especially Monday, because that's when I copyedit the Dixie Sun News newspaper between classes. And sometimes during classes; sorry not sorry to my - BY AUTUMN NUZMAN AutumnNuzman Professors should really try coordinating deadlines with each other. I had two essays, a quiz and a major project all due on the same day. It happens to me at minimum once every single semester. Not necessarily that specific line up, but definitely something like it. III didn't know any better, I'd think professors were plotting together to make sure all their deadlines align. Simultaneous deadlines will be the death of me; unless professors Monday professors. Don't judge me. According to an article from The Washington Center at the Evergreen State College, anywhere between 50 and 95 percent of college students procrastinate. At least I try to have things done and turned in by the due date. Obviously, it's not as easy by coordinating staggered AL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 between humans and ants. "Whenever ants' pres- ence seriously conflicts with one of our goals... we annihilate them with out a qualm," he said. 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At first, it may provide tutoring to students in need, help tailor their class schedule to their nt super-intellige- 1 i , cific professors. My professors are generally accommodating. But they wouldn't need to be accommodating in the first place if there were staggered deadlines already in place. Let's stop simultaneous deadlines that create a sense of impending doom in already stressed out college students. Stagger those deadlines for the sake of sanity and mental retention rates. It will be a win-wi- n situation for students and professors if done right. biological clock, and motivate them with messages of encouragement and inspiration. But, as the AT becomes more powerful and intelligent, it may feel the need to take over all colleges, putting in place extremely strict admission demands on prospective students, firing tenured professors to t, replace them with robotic lecturers that sign any last chance agreements presented to them and work on pennies of electricity a day. "Mark my words: AT is far more dangerous than nukes," Musk said. "So why do we have no regulatory oversight? It's insane." As DSU students, and future (and current) members of a technocratic society, be wary of the grave possibilities an unregulated future can bring, and do your best to battle past the mental imagery of rogue home appliances and bipedal battle bots. You are in a unique position to choose your field and tailor your future. Consider a future that helps alleviate the problems that will burden our future society, or speak out against our reckless abandon regarding the development of Al. ic superintelligence, the fate of humanity may depend on what the superintelligence does." Because of Al, or machine intelligence being able to improve itself and invent things on its own, "machine intelligence is the last invention humanity will ever have to make," Bostrom said. 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