Students Get Free 14 Months Of AI Gemini Advanced (Includes 2TB Google Storage) With EDU Email Address

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• How does this compare to ChatGPT for writing code?

• I had to sign in under a different email (kept getting looped around) and then register with my edu. Then canceled the subscription autopay using the link provided by another commenter, references below.
  https://play.google.com/store/account/subscriptions

  You can then turn off your app activity so it isn't stored and reviewed by wage slaves.
  https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini?utm_source=help

• I keep getting a loop. It says I'm eligible for the student discount, I click continue and then I click verify student status, I click that and I'm back to the eligibility message again. Help!

  Nevermind, I got it to work!

  • For other running into it, just start from beginning and continue button becomes upgrade button.

• My rebill date is July 22, 2026. Incidentally, the NBA finals end in late June as well so it works for both NBA, NHL, and school finals.

• Other than asking questions and getting more detailed answers than in the past is there a real world benefit to the AI portion of this for an average person that doesn't have a professional or academic use for it?

  • The deep research mode is the biggest game changer for me.. it will take a question, set out a plan to research it (subjects to google and read), then do the research and write up a detailed report. Goes much deeper than the GPT listicles, gives you some rational and sources. I think it is pretty good at filling in the gaps if you have a decision to make. Could also be good at running churning related searches?

  • This is a personal answer, realistically. I use it for trip planning and generating initial itineraries to work off of.

    • That's the exact use case I've found for it

      Stuff you're going to do be doing research on by using search engines and that's broad and just pulling together stuff from various websites anyway and isn't down to that many personal variables, etc.

      Good bit of prompt engineering can lead to neat itineraries with what are pretty generic attractions, but still, that's what I come up with on my own after hours anyway lol

    • That sounds like a good use. It takes a lot of effort to do trip planning. I'll give that a try next time I plan a trip.

• I had a 200Gb plan which was upgraded to 2TB by signing up for this. I set it to cancel when promo is over. The moment the 2TB promo ends will my emails stop coming since I'm over the free space limit? Is there a grace period of a few days to allow you to sign up for another plan?

  • No grace last time I had this situation. Your Gmail stops working sometime in the morning (not exactly at the midnight) and you do get alert if you're on android and you sign up for new plan then.
    The only issue is any email sent to you between the moment it stops working and you get new plan gets bounced back and you'll never get it. Word of caution there.
    This time I'll try to sign up after midnight but before I get alert to see if that's doable.

    • Thanks for the info. That's pretty annoying that there isn't a seamless way to prevent emails from bouncing.

      • They purposefully made it that way so you are discouraged to downgrade. There is no way to downgrade while you can upgrade with a click. Loss of email is a good deterrent to scare people from ever downgrading.

• Alumni email worked

  • Same

• Got a note saying you must re-verify by August 2025 oddly enough

  • I think if you refresh the page, it will show as "redeemed" (or something like that).

• lol, there is also a free 2-month chatGPT for verified students, but they actually use some website to verify your enrollment, so alumni email doesn't work (at least for me).

• I have a 1 year trial with the purchase of a Pixel phone. Does anyone know if this will stack with that? That one expires Nov 2025, so not sure which one I should redeem first.