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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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
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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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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FlaminYawn 0
I've gotten into a good habit of hitting "copy" for everything I do, just in case I hit Save and it doesn't. I even "select all", then "copy" my comments on here before I submit them cuz I tend to write paragraphs and sometimes my iPhone won't enter the comment and I don't have to retype it that way. Just a good habit to be in with everything technological..highlight and COPY before you save, it only takes a second more.
xiambam 4
That does suck, and I hate to say it, but you really deserve it for waiting until the last minute to write an application essay - especially if it was a college that you really wanted to get into. Not many good things can come out of doing something right before the deadline, so let's hope you learn from your mistakes.
spyderman2190 0
YDI for waiting till 10 minutes before deadline, u coulda just rewrote it
Zanquis 22
If i had to judge the applications i would turn down any that came in on the last minute by default because it shows their lack of commitment and time management skills and save the college and you a lot of time which can be used to someone who does make the effort to succeed in life. anyway YDI, you have proven that you are not smart enough to go to college.
bugmenotmofo 34
YDI for not typing ctrl+A (mark everything) and then ctrl+C (copy) in regular intervals or writing it in word an hitting ctrl+S (save) in intervals. It would have been no problem.
mcmorrison 0
i created an account with FML just so i could make fun of you for being so pathetic for the soul fact that there is NO "return" button when filling out a college essay application...ive filled out many college essay applications online and never once has there been a "return" button...you wrote this because your so self centered that you needed extra attention...booooooooooooo wipe that face off your face...go sit in a corner and haze yourself...graduate from high school...find jesus...do something other than being dumb!
palmtrees 1
You've filled out so many because you've never actually gotten in, right? Given that you don't know the difference between "soul" and "sole"?
The_Truth84 0
or "your" and "you're" apparently....
valuemeal2 1
You really didn't think to write it in Word and copy-paste it into the text box? Are people really that dumb?
kaonashi_fml 0
That's why you always save stuff like that. And write it in Word or some other programme. And not write it ten minutes before deadline. YDI.
Boogers 0
Why wouldn't you type it on something else, save it, then copy paste it onto your own thing?!
lexthedeejay 0
it's called copy and save to word document. try it some time there Susan....