ChatGPT Didn't Take Me Very Far, Did It?

The effect of ChatGPT (CG) on teachers, assessment and other matters have been discussed in many works, but no one appears to have studied how students are actually using it. We study how students use CG for coursework, a semester long project, and summer internships. We discover that from a student's perspective, CG responses fall into three classes: it is immediately helpful, it needs user help, or it leads to unhelpful frustration. We are developing a classification of these uses as a prelude to understanding how CG can contribute to improving student learning outcomes.