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They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.

Ben Cohen | Photographs by Clark Hodgin for WSJ 1-1 minutes

Ben Cohen

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Ben Cohen

| Photographs by Clark Hodgin for WSJ

May 23, 2025 8:00 pm ET

When this year’s college graduates first arrived on campus, there was no such thing as ChatGPT.

They had to use their own brains for math homework, econ problem sets, coding projects, Spanish exercises, biology research, term papers on the Civil War and the Shakespeare essay that made them want to gouge their eyes out. 

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