Today, I asked my college chemistry teacher for some much-needed help. Instead of explaining anything to me, she scoffed that if I don't understand something, I should "just Google it." FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my professor asked me a question in class. Thinking it was a rhetorical question, I shrugged and said, "Google it." It wasn't. He stared at me in silence for the longest 10 seconds of my life. FML
Today, I was helping my kid with homework after work. I tried to Google “third grade long division explained simply.” Autocomplete filled in “because I don’t understand it either,” which I read out loud without thinking. My kid stared at me and said, “So… who’s teaching who?” FML
Today, my university professor admitted to sometimes just winging it when she's teaching. "Yeah," she said, "sometimes I just don't get this stuff either." No wonder I'm failing. FML
Today, I worked up the courage to ask a question in a packed lecture hall. The professor repeated my question, except he'd misheard me and rephrased it into something wildly incorrect. The class laughed. Instead of correcting him, I nodded. Now half the class thinks I don’t understand the difference between correlation and causation. FML
Today, I learned, 90 horrifying minutes into a college exam, that my 85-year-old calculus teacher had spent the last three weeks teaching us the wrong chapter. FML
Today, we were taking a bio quiz and I understood the subject, so the people sitting behind me asked me to help them out. Being a kind fellow classmate, I did. When the teacher got suspicious, she asked the class, "How are all of you getting the same answers?" everyone pointed directly at me. FML
Today, I was walking with my very attractive friend who I like a lot. She then told me that her roomate wouldn't be home tonight, and if I wanted, I could come over and study history. I didn't get it. I told her no thanks, that I was covered, and it was chem I needed to study. An hour later, I understood. FML
Today, after I took my first set of exams, my professor posted on Twitter, scoffing at how stupid one student's answer was. The answer he quoted was one that I wrote. FML
Today, I had a science test. A question asked, "What is the first stage of photosynthesis?" I didn't know, so just trying to be light-hearted, I wrote, "The plant must first believe in itself." My teacher didn't think it was funny, and gave me detention for insulting her intelligence. FML
Today, I was trying to finish an English assignment and I was not sure how to complete it, so I emailed my teacher to ask her for help. She told me to… flip over the assignment handout page for instructions. FML
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TupniTuptuo 29
If everyone Googled everything, no one would need to pay your teacher's salary.
jDCrackpot 7
If you're in college you're paying to be taught, not paying to google everything instead. Go above her and make a complaint and see if she still doesn't feel like doing her job.
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Comments (90)
DocBastard 40
Fortunately for you, Google is a better teacher than that twat, is more patient, and will probably explain it better. Count your blessings she didn't offer to help.
mario2012 18
The teacher could have been a male. EDIT: I reread and saw the word she. My bad.
louiseth 9
The gender is pretty much completely irrelevant in this situation. Even if the FML didn't say the word 'she', would it make a difference what assumptions people made? Stop trying to correct people on pointless little things, you'll just end out looking like a douche.
TheyCallMeDamien 18
Get a tutor or ask another professor. Some Professors are douches like that and you have to adapt.
luminos77 3
That professor is not a douche at all. Google helps teach very basic understandings of things. OP must have asked a million stupid questions causing the prof to get pissed.
Iknowsomestuff 9
So teach, are you trying too convince me that you're useless as an asshole right here? (points to elbow) Well guess what, you just convinced me. Unfortunately you can't then go to the calendar and cross off her next week of work.
TheyCallMeDamien 18
Also some people are like this in the workplace so take this as an opportunity to prepare yourself.
SqueakyChipmunk 22
You can't go wrong with Google! Oh wait.
ArielTheMermaid 17
I hate bad teachers. Maybe try to find another teacher?
gregonfire 4
Google is the answer to everything
ObeyStudKing 4
She's right. Google helps. Helps everytime I need something
dirton89 7
Don't believe everything the Internet throws at you bruddah
Pikachu17 13
**** college. Google and YouTube FTW
perdix 31
And Khan Academy
User57777 13
Let us know how that helps in life.
Branflakes78 13
then you wind up in a box or working the street corners
Angelrose2004 17
You're not hopeless, OP. Chemistry is a tough subject! Check with your school and see if they have a science lab with tutors. Fyl for having a worthless professor when tuition is so expensive!