In this instalment of Lola’s Ongoing War With Academia , we find her reaping the benefits from Blank Entry mode — Jot’s “say whatever you need to before you combust” option. No prompts, no guardrails, no “on a scale of 1–10, how stressed are you?” interrogation. Just pure, unfiltered spiralling.
And boy, does she spiral.
Within three sentences she’s ready to rip her hair out, confessing to nightly plagiarism nightmares (fun!), catastrophic thinking, and a level of academic dread so strong it should qualify for its own dissertation. Blank Entry mode basically hands her a megaphone and lets her scream directly into the void — as intended.
Then, once Lola has fully emptied the emotional tank, Emotional Insight AI enters the chat with its soft “hey, maybe breathe?” energy.
Instead of telling her to calm down (which never works and always offends), it does the Emotional Insight AI thing:
Reframes her panic : “What if this anxiety actually proves you care?”
Gives her a gold star for effort : A prompt to acknowledge everything she poured into her dissertation
Hands her actual coping tools : A grounding exercise based on remembering earlier wins — that spark of inspiration, that perfect source discovery, that one conversation with a mentor that made her feel like a prodigy for five minutes
It gently ushers her out of doom-spiral mode and back into “I am a capable academic creature who has survived worse” territory.
In summary:
Lola vents her entire soul using the Blank Entry feature (as one should), and Emotional Insight AI picks up the emotional debris, turns it into wisdom, and hands her practical techniques for surviving the endless, cursed waiting period of academic assessment.
A perfect demonstration of the chaos-to-clarity pipeline Jot is built for.
