Use AI as an assistant
AI can be a valuable assistant in your life. You can tap into it for help throughout your college experience. The list of uses is endless, but here are a few examples:
- Set up a calendar that organizes your schedule
- Create a healthy living plan, including an exercise schedule, tips for high-quality sleep, easy menus for nutritious meals and ways to avoid stress
- Help you evaluate products or services you wish to purchase
- Create itineraries for study abroad experiences and time away from campus
- Pursue an independent research project, generating ideas, conducting a literature review, running simulations and critiquing your findings
- Plan activities for your student club or other organization, such as service-learning or social events to engage group members
- Dig into social and political issues to help you consider many perspectives
- Find films, TV programs, books, music and games that fit your interests
Trust your people first
While it may be tempting to rely on AI in many aspects of your life, you should always turn to trusted family, friends, faculty, mentors, counselors, support groups or professionals for advice about issues such as:
- Difficulties with or worries over your physical health, illnesses
- Mental health questions and issues, including personal crises, emotional distress
- Complex relationship issues
- Spiritual and faith questions
- Personal legal and financial matters (never share any bank account information, passwords or other sensitive information online)
- Personal and family dilemmas, disappointments or deaths
- Important life decisions and stressors, such as career choices, your responsibilities to those in your life, struggles with addiction, and so on
