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AI should help you find your footing—not take over your thinking.
- You were given AI rules.
- Maybe a warning about cheating.
- Maybe a list of approved tools.
- Maybe a professor who told you to “use it responsibly.”
But nobody showed you how to use AI when you are balancing graduate courses, teaching, work, research, and the rest of your life.
OMG...SRSLY is working on that part.
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Where this started
I thought I already knew how to use AI.
I could ask for a summary. I could generate an outline. I could paste in a reading and get back something that sounded smarter than I felt.
It saved time sometimes—but it did not always help me understand the material, make better decisions, or create a stronger learning experience for my students.
I was using AI like a calculator:
Then I realized the problem was not that I needed a better prompt.
I needed a better way to see the work.
That is where OMG...SRSLY begins.
Bring one thing
Bring the thing making the course feel harder to enter
A syllabus that seems to contain the entire semester at once
An assignment whose directions do not reveal what “good” looks like
A reading you can summarize but cannot yet explain
A course you are teaching while still learning how to teach
A week when work, school, and life are all making claims on the same hours
OMG...SRSLY helps locate the friction hiding underneath the task. Then it helps you build a source-grounded path through it using tools such as Gemini and NotebookLM.
It does not do the learning for you. It helps make the learning visible enough for you to take control again.
Meet Carl
Carl is the calm rabbit in the middle of the academic noise.
“Why don’t you already know this?”
“Where did it stop making sense?”
He reads the clues in your course materials, offers a few possible interpretations, and gives you one useful next move. You decide whether he read you correctly.
Carl’s rule: calm language, adult dignity, minimal assumptions, one next move.
Possible next moves
What might Carl help you do?
Read the course before it bites.
Carl can examine a syllabus alongside what you are worried about and identify possible skill gaps, unclear expectations, workload collisions, or missing information.
Not every warning on the syllabus needs your attention today.
Build the right NotebookLM sources.
A syllabus tells you what a course plans to cover. It usually does not teach the skills itself.
Carl helps you find useful sources tied to the specific place where you may need support—then shows you how to bring those sources into NotebookLM.
Hear the connections.
Turn carefully selected sources into an Audio Overview that explains the material calmly, defines unfamiliar terms, and gives you something useful to think about during a commute, break, or walk.
Create assignment runway.
See what an assignment actually requires, what remains unclear, what decisions still belong to you, and what you can accomplish in one realistic work session.
Ask a better question.
Sometimes the next move is not another AI output. Sometimes it is knowing exactly what to ask your professor, advisor, or course coordinator.
That counts.
For teaching assistants
If you teach while you learn, this is also for you.
Teaching assistants often occupy an unusual space. You may be expected to guide students through material you are still mastering yourself. You may know the content but have little preparation for designing a learning experience. You may be using AI to make slides, summaries, and quizzes because nobody has shown you what else is possible.
OMG...SRSLY wants to explore that “what else.”
Not more AI-generated content. Better ways to help students enter difficult material, recognize where their thinking broke, work with credible sources, and remain responsible for their own learning.
If three teaching assistants begin using AI to create genuine learning experiences instead of faster transactions, that matters.It can change what happens in dozens of classrooms.
Plain terms
What this is not
- An answer machine
- A paper-writing service
- A way around academic-integrity rules
- Another generic study-skills checklist
- A replacement for instructors, advisors, librarians, or tutors
- A system that assumes every student has unlimited time, reliable internet, or years of hidden academic knowledge
No personal student information is needed. Bring the course—not your private life.
Why does this exist?
- Because
- too many students received AI policies before they received AI literacy.
- Because
- students in developmental, bridge, gateway, and zero-credit courses are often doing high-stakes work that does not move them closer to graduation on paper.
- Because
- graduate students and teaching assistants are asked to carry multiple roles without being given a map for how those roles connect.
- Because
- rural and under-resourced colleges should not have to wait for expensive AI infrastructure before their students and educators receive meaningful support.
Come curious
Your semester left clues.
Bring one syllabus, assignment, course question, or teaching problem. Carl will read the clues. You will decide where the path goes next.
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