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After waiting almost a month after filing for i765 with PP, i was scheduled for a biometrics at my old address (in Atlanta) for a date after my start date.

I can push my start date but not by so much, and so I was wondering if I could walk into the NYC ASC (201 Varrick one, my current closest location) to get it done soon. Alternatively, whether rescheduling earlier (like next week) is a possibility.

What are valid reasons they allow rescheduling for? Any help, or anyone having experience change of location in rescheduling, or NYC ASC walk in is appreciated, at any of the 4 ASCs.

Applied for i765 with PP on 18th April. Haven't received any notification for Biometrics yet. Almost everyone else I know or read about here received biometrics within a week of applying. I am pretty certain I require biometrics. Anything I can do at this point?

Start date is June 1st 😬

This is nothing new, but I feel very upset right now, so I am going to rant a bit.

I am not an ideal student. I am not a "do it for learning" person. I am not "I will never use AI" person. In fact, I am probably a bad student by those standards - but if I have an issue with this, I wonder what good students go through.

For an NLP course at a T10 school, we had to make a project report. Moderately scoped project, and definitely much less than an actual research paper. This is a team project, so 3 others apart from me. However, the ENTIRE project was basically done by 2-3 prompts. In fact, we divided the report, which had a much smaller scope. The first person, however, unknowingly or accidentally, prompted the entire project code in one go. That basically completed the entire project. The other person came and, in another prompt, added so much more to the project (Datasets, eval methods, etc., etc.) that wasn't discussed, and neither was something he was sure about.

This all happened in 1 dayish. Then one other teammate literally asked AI to write a complete report, and AI did, with all tables, text, evaluation, graphs, and everything.

When I went back to work on this, I was surprised to see everything was done. When asked why they did this, they had a response (as AI probably told them), but when I asked why we did this and not something else, or why we wrote the report a certain way, there was no real answer.

I did not make changes to the code, but I worked on the evaluation pipeline and the final report to make it a lot less generative and something with human content and reasoning.

The worst part is our final code is actually fairly good for the scope of the class. I have never felt so, for the lack of a better word, "shortcuty" in academics. I would have use AI to slowly dev the project (learning and understanding along the way), but this was just very sad, and annoying.

I love not spending hours writing boilerplate and general content for my websites, or to summarize long reports, or refine stupid emails, but this is.....whatever

That's my rant. Good day to you!

P.S: I sent this entire thing to AI to refine it, but decided against committing the irony and posting the real version.

Edit: Spelling

I am not a graduate student yet but will be in Fall. Is there a way to be added to the mailing list for coc opportunities for grad students. On the website, it says this is the one: ms-coc-official@cc.

Could not find this on the Mailman server. Is there someone I can email to get on this list?