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marvel_and_math
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Dec 24, 2025 11:13 am
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real talk
WHY is finding legit sources harder than writing the whole assignment 😭
i spent like 40 mins looking for one article and everything either has a paywall or sounds fake

someone pls tell me how y’all survive this


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coffee_zombie
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Dec 24, 2025 12:03 pm
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fr SAME
i swear half the “academic” sites be linking me to blogs from 2011
like bro i need SCIENCE not someone’s opinion from tumblr 💀


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wifi_gone_brain_gone
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Dec 24, 2025 12:39 pm
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google scholar is the only thing keeping me alive
but even that gives me PDFs written in 1804 with the tiniest fonts known to mankind


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pokemon_loser
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Dec 24, 2025 1:09 pm
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perplexity sometimes helps ngl
but once it gave me a “source” from a university that doesn’t even EXIST
so like… mixed feelings 😭


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study_gremlin
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Dec 24, 2025 1:47 pm
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if u just need someone to organize ur chaos
zotero is kinda fire
it doesn’t find sources for u but at least it doesn’t LIE


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