AI didn’t make university easier for me; it made the work clearer . Back when the only widely used tools were ChatGPT (and briefly Gemini), I learnt that the best results didn’t come from asking a bot to “write it for me”, but from using AI to decode briefs, structure thinking, find credible sources, and pressure-test arguments. That shift alone helped me push for 75–80% work consistently. Since then, the toolkit has expanded. We now have systems that traverse citation graphs