Today, I had to listen to fellow classmates whine about selling one of their many houses, while I can barely afford to pay for a $100 textbook. 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, I went to the local used books store to sell all my college textbooks. I spent several hundred dollars on them in total. I ended up walking out of the shop a pathetic $3.50 richer. FML
Today, I bought my very first college textbook. I received a stack of hole-punched papers. My $195 "book" isn’t even bound together. FML
Today, I had to spend all of my money on textbooks even though my refrigerator is empty. Starving and frustrated, I called home to ask for money for groceries. My mom told me I could afford to skip a few meals. FML
Today, I bought a textbook for my college class. Not only is the £150 book only sold by our teacher, it turned out to be a piece of shit that he obviously wrote, printed, and stapled together at home. When I went to the faculty about it, I was told it's all perfectly legal, and to drop it. FML
Today, I can’t even find a place to rent. Every place has dozens of applications, with several offering well over asking price. I just graduated from college. FML
Today, I started at a new college. I bought my textbooks and went to my first class only to find out that they changed my schedule without telling me. I'd already opened the book. I could not get $200 back. FML
Today, I'm in a US college. I could've gone into a trade or internship, but no one listened. Now, while my parents brag to their friends that their child has a degree, I'll probably be spending the rest of life in crippling debt, sleeping on the side of the road, and begging strangers for table scraps. FML
Today, at my job as a fourth grade teacher, I realized that most of my students have far nicer and more expensive phones than I can afford. FML
Today, after I just bought a house that is pretty good and suits all our needs for space, my in-laws moved in because they ran into financial troubles. Guess who is stuck with all the extra expenditures? FML
Today, I told my roommates they have to go get jobs, because I can't afford to support them or their bad habits any more. They responded by pawning all my DVDs for cash to buy cigarettes. FML
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Top comments
JMichael 26
Stay in college OP, and someday you could be one of those many people.
EternalTime 7
Those books will one day earn you a house
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Comments (113)
glabberfasted 16
So? I'm sure when they were in college they were struggling financially too. That's why you go to college, so you can afford a nice life later. You can't expect to be as wealthy as someone who's worked hard longer than you have, and you certainly can't hold that against them.
glabberfasted 16
Awesome. Someone changed the FML to say "fellow students" instead of "people." Now most of our comments are moot.
NBree 3
And? Some people are lucky. Some work hard. Some need to realize what others have isn't a reflection on their own lives.
glabberfasted 16
You really shouldn't compare your life to others' like this. Some people get lucky with wealthy families, but that doesn't mean you can't work hard and earn your wealth later in life. Also, money doesn't mean their life is great.
SuperMew 22
Hard work does not always equal a good life or being wealthy. A guy who works 40 hours a week for min wage will never really make enough to buy a yacht.
bfsd42 20
#68, if your idea of wealth is owning a yacht, then good luck to you in life. There are many people who are perfectly wealthy without material possessions or vast amounts of money. Being wealthy is having what you need, not owning a yacht.
glabberfasted 16
If you work hard in college, I highly doubt you will be getting a minimum wage job.
awilso13 8
#82, I don't think you know the definition of wealthy then. You should look it up, and then get back to me.
k007dot 10
Nobody mentioned a yacht dude.
The_Tenth_Doctor 14
Nice name there.
laden_swallow09 35
Paradox!
doubleh_p 15
Ne
jc10x 8
Well you're buying those textbooks to study, get a job, and hopefully have many houses of your own, are you not?
AyeJay101 25
Look at it this way, people of different social classes are in the same college. Out shine their wallets!
perdix 31
I cried because I had no shoes . . . until I met a man who had no feet. At least, you are in school --the surest means to achieve at least a middle-class lifestyle.
TheDrifter 24
I thought that was trade school?
142_cats 13
I'm assuming you're in university. So let me say this first: Life is not fair. Some people may have over ten houses while many may not own their own house at all. It's just life. You either get busy working, or get busy dying. If you study hard with those textbooks, someday you could become one of those rich fellows with the golden pocket watches and top hat. Believe. BTW if your nickname is a reference to Doctor Who, I love you.
Mshrodes 13
I feel like some people on here do not make a difference between leading a comfortable lifestyle and being a mega rich billionaire with "golden watches" and stuff... Sure everybody should strive towards achieving a comfortable situation. I'm less sure about the other part though. Not everybody wants that. I personally believe that once you have more than enough, you should direct your priorities towards helping others. Then again, this is the real world, I know, yet somehow I always feel ill at ease with some people who get very rich and then forget what it's like to be "poor", as demonstrated every day in politics.
uarudeassbitchyo 17
Me next year