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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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)
philipmgance 1
Welcome to college...I had an instructor laugh at me and ask me if I was serious.
nachi2013 4
Lol this is classic xD
munchy22 5
Pretty much all we're doing in college is to get that darn degree. Most college professors these days are a joke. My Anatomy professor doesn't even go by our textbook, most of the shit on her power point comes from the internet. Sure we can all get an education out of Google, You Tube or Wiki, but we have to deal with idiots like these just for that degree. Also make sure to go on ratemyprofessor.com and rate the hell out of that idiot.
benmec 18
Hey that's what the Internet is for
Skeeter1980 0
sounds like my kids teacher. she has them do all online courses while she sits on her ass and texts.
KZN02 18
Nyoro~n
DayWalker8686 4
You don't pay google to teach you, you pay her. Report the lazy **** monkey
nin10doadict 9
My professors are actually nice and helpful. You just have to go to them. I guess I'm luckier than I thought...
l0v3p4in 7
Sorry, OP. Had the samething happen to a friend of mine. The teacher got annoyed when asked a question. She told her, "That's what the books are for." The dean wasn't too thrilled with that response.
The_F3rris 11
Tell her you'll just take back the tuition money you wasted because you can just get your degree online using google.