Last summer, at my press job, my coworkers and I reviewed countless applications for a teen writer’s position. While reading the writing samples, the most jarring ones were the driest, with immaculate grammar, generic phrasing, and safe, middling viewpoints. These interruptions from the genuine, imperfect applications were unpleasant, synthetic, and unacceptable.  Since the beginning of the AI boom in my freshman year, generative AI has felt inescapable. My humanities classes

Author’s note: This sports section contains information up to January 26th. For information about Bush athletics, you can go to BushBlazersAthletics.com . For more information on sports, you can go to ESPN.com .  At the time I am writing this, almost all of Seattle is waking up after a night that felt like a dream. The Seahawks, a team that before this season had 60-1 odds to win the Super Bowl, look far and away like the best team in the NFL. They beat their divisional foe,

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