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Pile up

By shark - 27/11/2012 03:03 - United States - Houston

Today, I was separating my notes into two piles: one to save for exam studying and one to throw out. I finished separating, picked up the junk pile, and absentmindedly shredded it. Afterwards, I looked down to see the junk pile still completely intact. Goodbye, passing grades. FML

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By thissucks - 14/09/2009 01:00 - United States

Today, after finishing a three-page essay for my spanish class, I went to rip up my brainstorming paper in an act of triumph. After I finished ripping it up, I looked on my desk to see my brainstorming paper fully intact, and my essay torn into bits. FML

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By Immafail - 20/12/2016 18:32

Today, my mother decided to "help me" by throwing out the stack of papers on my desk. Unfortunately, those were all my notes for my final exams. FML

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By HM - 06/04/2011 17:28 - Germany

Today, I found out that my entire class, me included, has to rewrite the painfully difficult midterm we wrote last week. All this because the Professor left the exams strewn across her desk. The cleaners thought it was trash and disposed of them. FML

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By Anonymous - 14/12/2009 19:36 - United States

Today, I was taking the final exam for one of my classes. The teacher came over to my desk, grabbed my test and ripped it in half. Then he grabbed my hand and read the note I had written on it to remind myself to pay rent. FML

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By Anonymous - 12/05/2019 12:00

Today, I asked my mom if she'd seen my financial calculator on my way out to an exam. She told me she'd tossed it in the donation pile that she'd taken to the Salvation Army this morning because it was "clutter." I needed it to take an exam required to pass the class, to graduate next month. The only place to buy a replacement was closed. FML

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By Anonymous - 18/02/2012 23:32 - United States

Today, I checked over my notes from yesterday's midterm review so I could study for the test on Monday. It seems I was so exhausted, I'd done nothing but scribble unintelligibly all over the first page. FML

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By Rae - 04/05/2012 21:09 - United States - Chicago

Today, after weeks of intense studying with the intent of pulling my grades up, I saw that in fact, they've all gone down. FML

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By Typrokka - 22/10/2009 17:20 - United Kingdom

Today, I went to drop the garbage in the compactor as I left to do some shopping. I quickly put my handbag down on the side, threw the 'garbage' in the machine, watched it do its thing, and then turned round to find... the bag of garbage on the side. FML

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By YYY - 29/05/2019 18:00

Today, I put all my clothes into two piles. One pile had clothes I usually wear, the other clothes I wanted to donate. When I was done, I put the piles into two jumbo trash bags. I came back a bit later and they both were gone. My mom donated both bags. I have no clothes. FML

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By Anonymous - 13/05/2016 03:46 - United States - Nampa

Today, I took my binder on a short road trip two hours away from my home, so that I could study for my upcoming finals. When I got home, I realized I that had left my binder all the way there, containing my notes, classwork, homework, finals notes, etc. FML

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WingsFan80 4

Tuesday 27 November 2012 8:51

That will teach you to look first

143dav 8

Tuesday 27 November 2012 8:52

Because of my constant OCD attacks and hope of passing, I always make sure to double check when I shred my paper.. I hope you can get them from someone else. Good luck on those exam.

Comments

iwadasn 32

Wednesday 28 November 2012 3:41

Why would you feel the need to shred them anyway? Just toss them in the recycling.

jimbob_76592 5

Wednesday 28 November 2012 4:24

Kollidge is am hard sumtimes

avifors 10

Wednesday 28 November 2012 9:17

On the bright side, re-writing all of the notes will help you memorize everything

DippinGrizzly907 27

Monday 29 April 2013 21:28

You weren't gonna pass anyways if your that absent minded

doglover100 28

Monday 3 March 2014 18:36

Always double check.

Nat52482 25

Sunday 16 August 2015 14:46

I knew where this FML was going as soon as I saw "two piles" :1

LolitaLena 16

Saturday 19 March 2016 16:47

I just don't even understand why you would take the time to shred old school notes? I've kept all my notes through high school and college because you never know when you'll want to look back at previous classes. And I have, several times. Plus there's a huge market for a full set of notes from a course. Sold my Engineering Econ notes for $30.

TheSacredRatty 18

Friday 2 March 2018 22:20

Keep your notes throughout the year, and get rid of them at the end. Saves you from losing or accidentally destroying them! :)

Grumpy Jack 26

Monday 17 January 2022 6:05

Like other people said : why shredding notes ? afraid someone might read them ? You should have typed/rewritten them which helps memorizing and send the file to your own email so you can recover it. I do it with important papers so I can get them back from any connected device.