Today, I found out that my writing teacher entered in one of my paper grades wrong. After many emails, she said she can't change my grade unless I fax her the original. I need that grade fixed so I can keep my scholarship. I can’t find the paper anywhere. That one paper could cost me $30,000. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out that I chose a wrong class and my 30-page paper worth 10 credit points that I wrote for that class is basically worthless now, and my graduation might be postponed another semester just because of that. FML
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
Today, I found out that I owe my college a little over $10,000. Why? Because, due to a slight misspelling of my name, the scholarship that I have been going insane trying to meet the requirements for is not actually giving me any funding. FML
Today, I was put on academic suspension only to find out my professor entered my grade wrong. I lost my financial aid and have to explain to my parents why I’m not in college anymore. FML
Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML
Today, after turning in a paper that I worked really hard on, I got it back with a grade of 0. In the feedback section, my professor wrote: “In all my 37 years of teaching, this is by far the worst essay I have ever read.” FML
Today, my teacher told me that she couldn't find my hand-written essay on the Renaissance, and that I have to re-do it all by tomorrow. I later saw my essay on her desk, covered in a massive coffee stain that made virtually everything unreadable. FML
Today, I turned in my homework. Too bad I accidentally handed in the printed answer sheet I found online to copy from. FML
Today, I met my teacher after school to talk about a paper on which he gave me a low grade. I told him that I felt it was wrongly graded and he agreed. He lowered my score. FML
Today, I received a terrible grade for an essay I worked really hard on. I had two friends, one being an English major, check it over. However, apparently I "clearly didn't use spellcheck" on this essay just like the last one I submitted to her. FML
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designedlikedice 0
This is why you save your papers on the computer.
SlightlySadistic 0
#1: By original, the teacher means the graded copy so that she can verify that the OP isn't BSing her about the wrong grade thing. And, OP, that really sucks. I hope you find it.
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green_room119 0
you should buy a flash drive for the future
peopleplz2008 0
YDI for not typing the paper on your computer but FYL for it costing you a scholarship
LordP123 0
Do you people not understand? The professor needs the original to verify the poster actually got the grade. What would saving it on the computer do? Nothing. But yeah...that blows I can totally understand losing a paper =/ Hope you find it.
Ethanio 0
I wouldn't look for the paper, but design a plan to kill that teacher. If she has the nerve to ask you to find the original paper, after she f'd up, that she knows can cost you your scholorship, i would beat the living crap out of her.
pikachu_01 0
Ohhhh that's fuckkkeddd!!! Really hope you find it!! I agree with #98.
Jennika 0
keep looking!!! go to the school board if u have to and explain. Keep copies of the emails.
deardaniel_fml 0
lol scholarships were due long time ago
cartering 0
55 - That's exactly what I mean. You never throw out ANY GRADED paper UNTIL AFTER the semester is over. If this person is truly smart enough to have a scholarship than he/she was fully aware that she needed to keep track of all of her GRADED papers until grades were finalized (exactly what I said in my last post). Any one smart enough to get a scholarship is smart enough to realize you shouldn't ignore something when they tell you dozens of times at orientation, put notes in your syllabi, and the profs all mention on the first day of class that you need to keep copies of all your graded assignments. So this is fully a YDI. (and if you think a college student who only has a about 20 papers max to keep track of has too many to simply carry around a folder and stick the graded paper in there, what makes you all think that a professor who typically has thousands of papers to keep track of, plus plan lessons, counsel students, provide career guidance, do individual tutoring sessions, etc, can keep track of thousands of papers for students too irresponsible to keep track of their own work?)
cartering 0
66 - if it is a huge chunk of his grade than its a triple YDI, at the very least, because then he was even more aware of how important it was that he keep close tabs on this copy of the paper until grades were finalized. Unlike a paper that would have just been a small portion of his grade
Puolukka 4
And THAT is why our teachers are not allowed to hand out the originals...they give them back to us and we can look at them, make a copy if we want...but we have to give back the original and they have to keep them for a certain amount of years. It's crazy...but it makes sense to me now. Plus if it gets lost it's their fault not yours :p