Today, I wrote the most beautiful college application essay ever, ten minutes before the online deadline. Instead of clicking "submit", I clicked the button next to it that said "return". The entire essay vanished into internet wasteland. 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, after pulling an all-nighter on an essay, I submitted it one minute before the deadline and felt like a genius. Later, I reopened the file and discovered I'd uploaded the rough draft instead of the final version. The last line ended with “fix this later,” which was not my finest academic work. FML
Today, I pulled an all-nighter to finish an essay. I submitted it one minute before the deadline. Later, I opened the file to double-check and realized I'd uploaded my rough draft, containing notes like “THIS PART MAKES NO SENSE, FIX LATER.” The professor then replied, “I agree with your assessments.” FML
Today, I went to check my grade, which was posted for an essay for my comp 1 class. I got a zero. I was devastated only to find out I never actually clicked the submit document button. My grade dropped 20 points. FML
Today, after meticulously rereading my application, merging references, budgets, academic transcripts and itineraries for an amazing scholarship, I clicked submit, only to remember that the system was on Daylight Savings time, which we don't have in my state! I missed out on $2,500 by 3 minutes. FML
Today, I was writing an essay while sleep-deprived. In between actually writing, I started typing my thoughts. It was only after I’d submitted the essay that I realized that I hadn’t deleted the random words. My teacher can see my early-morning rambling about potatoes. I have no way to delete it. FML
Today, I mailed out a college application that is going to another country. I paid $250 for the application and $11 for shipping. I just realized that I forgot to sign the bottom of the application. FML
Today, after submitting my college application, I noticed that I mistyped "math enthusiast" as "meth enthusiast". FML
Today, after submitting a 500-word essay to a writing contest, I found out that I lost to someone who wrote 3 sentences. FML
Today, I borrowed my dad's laptop to type an essay. While I was saving it, I noticed some curious looking files and I opened them. They were rejection letters from all the colleges I had applied to. My dad had been forging them so he wouldn't have to pay for my tuition bills. FML
Today, I was taking a final test online that would account for 65% of my final grade, for which I'd worked extremely hard. I had one submission for the test, and my roommate thought it would be funny to click the "Submit All" Button while I was getting a glass of water. I got a 13%. FML
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Top comments
rexchanna 3
ydi for not taking the proper time to write the application. And for writing it in the browser. and for not turning it in earlier.
I_found_nemo 0
Learn a lesson, maybe? COPY AND PASTE FROM A DOCUMENT!
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imafreak2 0
what the **** are you talking about? what rules? and the #1 guy was right, why the **** are you replying to his comment if it has ******* nothing to do with his ******* coment?
GreenHacker 0
YDI. Waiting until 10 minutes before the deadline is a terrible idea, and every college application recommends you type it in a separate word processor so you can save it, then copy and paste it into your application. Better luck next year.
oy_fml 0
Hey, cut this person some slack! College apps are hard and stressful! That really sucks for you. :(
the_stereotype 0
that's exactly the point! there are other people who labor on the essay for months and turn it in before the deadline and don't get in as opposed to the OP who is writing this supposedly fantastic essay...sorry, composing the essay ten minutes before the deadline! so yeah...i don't really have any sympathy for the OP
McBadAss 0
You are so right. It is very hard and stressful to do college applications. Thats why smart people spread the stress out over a period of time longer than 10 minutes and take the care to do everything right. To be honest I had my essay written a couple months before and worked on it for a long time and then, the darndest thing happened, I went to fill out my application and everything went very smoothly. Then my application was also turned in well before the dead line. Actually I take back my first two comments, college applications aren't the hard part, the hard part is coming to the conclusion that if you find an application difficult then you should probably realize that a life of manual labor is in store for you. When you get a job at an automechanic shop, you'll probably be the guy whose sole job is to change oil and tires because you didn't get enough education to learn how to weld and aren't a good enough worker to get a promotion.
ItecKid 0
Wait...but you didn't write the essay in the submission form right? You wrote it in a word processor first..?
electrolyte9 0
I only said YDI because you self-proclaimed your work "the most beautiful college application essay ever." Also apparently you don't know what return means. (douche)
myballs 0
YDI for not saving it.
Synchestra_fml 2
It's called a word processor, you stupid twat. YDI.
zehr0 0
I doubt it was "the most beautiful college application essay ever" if it was written by a moron like OP.
raNDMGUy 5
everyone always thinks something is awesome or great when they lose it, it probably wasnt actually that good
aero_fml 0
Use Google Chrome. Get the "common sense" plugin. Works every time