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By WTFFAIL - 03/12/2009 09:08 - United States

Today, I finished a 50-page term end thesis essay on the history of Russia. Looking over the final requirements once more, I find I made just a tiny little mistake. It was supposed to be a thesis on "Prussia". The paper's due tomorrow. FML

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By Anonymous - 02/06/2020 08:00

Today, I finished writing a 60-page essay on the history and people of Australia. Turns out it's supposed to be on Austria. It's due this morning. FML

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By Gottalovepeople - 31/12/2017 01:34

Today, I found out that my ten-page paper, which has taken me two months to construct perfectly and is worth 30% of my grade, was on the wrong book. It’s due tomorrow. FML

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By Batman - 09/09/2018 23:30

Today, I finished my 83-page thesis for my Stanford class and put it on my desk. Then, as a prank, my girlfriend hid it. She forgot where she put it. The thesis is due in 3 days. FML

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By oldhabitsdiehard - 03/07/2022 14:00 - Netherlands - Wageningen

Today, I'm supposed to hand in my Master's thesis. I only very vaguely remember my enthusiasm of six months ago, but remember clearly that - this time - I was planning to start in time and avoid last-minute stress. Seeing the sun come up at 5 a.m. tells me that it was a tad too optimistic. Just ten more hours to go… FML

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By Anonymous - 09/09/2009 04:27 - United States

Today, I realized I forgot to write a 5000 word essay for my English class. I tried to be calm since I had until midnight to finish, and it was only 8pm. I typed for three hours straight,and finished the assignment. I read over the instruction again, and realized it only had to be 500 words. FML

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By _philliesfan - 14/09/2009 04:20 - United States

Today, I was prioritizing my extreme amount of homework. I read over the front page of my psychology paper seeing that it was pretty easy questions, I decided to do it last. Little did I know there was a 8 page essay on the back of the page. It's 12:19 am. FML

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By Anonymous - 09/10/2020 11:02 - United States - York

Today, I ended up being wasting an entire week on a very important scholarship essay because I thought the requirements said “3500 words” when in reality, they said “3500 characters”. FML

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By df22 - 03/07/2020 20:08

Today, I got my language final exam back. It was a 10-page essay front and back, and I saw that I received a D. The teacher told me the plot was too hard to follow and it jumped all over the place. It turns out he forgot to read the back of every page. FML

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By TeachingSucks - 17/05/2023 11:00 - United States - Cabot

Today, I'm grading final projects for a junior level college class. A student finally turned in their work, after months of encouragement and coaxing. Half of it was plain wrong, the rest had so many spelling and grammatical mistakes, it appeared to be written by a drunk autocorrect program. FML

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By schober60 - 15/09/2017 07:00 - United States - Pittsburgh

Today, I frantically finished a paper that I needed to complete before midnight about the competencies of my pharmacy school. When it came time to submit, I accidentally selected the file below my paper, which was my personal log of beer reviews and personal favorites. FML

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tiffanyheart 0

Thursday 3 December 2009 16:13

Wow. **** your life indeed. But hey, at least you can come on here and read the comments from dumber people who will say "zomg lol whut's the diffrnce?" and "Prussia iznt a country lolz!!one!!" Good luck, comrade.

Brave_Sir_Robin 4

Thursday 3 December 2009 16:13

In Soviet Russia, term paper mistakes you.

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CaliAlec 5

Friday 4 December 2009 8:09

that really does suck...50 pages? OMFG

k8t 0

Friday 4 December 2009 9:45

hand it in anyway and pretend you didn't see the mistake ;)

KGB_28 0

Friday 4 December 2009 11:56

Such total bullshit, when has anyone ever been asked to do a 50 page paper on a topic as vague as the history of Prussia? Papers are set on specific people, events or periods of time, the history of Prussia couldn't be condensed into 50 pages without some specific criteria. That's a country with only a few hundred years of history, consider the impossibility of writing the history of Russia in only 50 pages... This is clearly nonsense posted by someone who doesn't understand how history is studied at the university level. The only way this would make sense would be if the title had been something along the lines of- "Discuss the impact of Napoleon's defeat on Prussian power in Europe." (An awful title I know but it's not my area of study and I can't be bothered to legitimize some other guys bullshit) If it was a paper on something like that then you would still deserve it for not being able to read the title or pay attention to the topic, especially as you'd have had to have picked the title yourself, nobody gets set titles for works of that magnitude.

IllegalLight 0

Friday 4 December 2009 12:17

That DOES really suck, BUT you know what? YDI. If you have enough education to be assigned a 50 page thesis paper, then you should certainly be smart enough to read carefully enough so you could have differentiated a R from a P.

Butcher_1419 0

Friday 4 December 2009 13:14

hahahahahaha sucker

facu 0

Friday 4 December 2009 18:07

thats freakin hilarious

fmlfantom 8

Friday 4 December 2009 23:13

um but i think this could be fake like if you have a whole entire essay and thesis to do why would you waste your time typing out you made a mistake and wrote it all on the wrong place you would have started working right away

Ketz 0

Saturday 5 December 2009 21:46

I'll attempt to help out here. Um, I think this could be fake. (Debatable, yes) Like, if you have a whole entire essay and thesis to do, why would you waste your time typing (it) out all on the wrong place? (Not a very good question) You would (I think they meant could) have started working right away. Still doesn't make much sense, but at least it's not a run-on sentence.