Today, my English professor bragged to my entire class about how good my essay was. He kept on saying great things about it for the duration of class. To my surprise, he'd given me a C-. When I asked why, his only response was: "I'm a hard grader." 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 got the best grade in class on my economics midterm. Rather than tell me I did a good job, my professor criticized me in front of everyone about how I was working "too hard". FML
Today, I got a writing assignment back. After meeting with my professor specially after class and meticulously combing through every word of that paper, I got a low D. Turns out, he graded me down on every suggestion of his that I took. 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, I discovered that when my professor had said "For every A there will be an F," he was deadly serious. I earned a 94% mark, which in this class is known as a D. FML
Today, I had my teacher look over my essay before turning it in. He said it was extremely well-written, so I handed it in. When I got it back, the feedback he left said it was one of the worst essays he'd ever read. FML
Today, I went to get my midterm essay grade thinking I couldn't have made lower than a B. Got to class and my douchebag professor gave me an F. He wrote "Best essay I read, would've been an A if it was the right topic." I wrote on the Industrial Revolution, instead of the Scientific Revolution. FML
Today, I asked my professor what happened to the assignment I gave him several weeks ago. Turns out he lost it, and graded me zero as a result. Now if I want a mark, he says I'll have to hand-write it all over again, but that I "probably shouldn't bother," because it was "a bit shit, really." FML
Today, I got my grades back. I got a very poor evaluation for my lit class, which was odd because it didn't match the impression from my end-of-class meeting with the professor. It does, however, include a nod to the supposedly-anonymous negative class review I gave her, though. FML
Today, my teacher's comments on my essay read, "I know it's college, but you use a lot of unnecessary words with a lot of syllables." He basically scolded me for having a complex vocabulary. I go to an accredited state university. Nothing says "America" like under-achieving professors. FML
Today, I got my language final exam back. It was a 10-page essay front and back, and I saw that I received a D. The teacher told me the plot was too hard to follow and it jumped all over the place. It turns out he forgot to read the back of every page. FML
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123ika 16
Bet you didn't C that one coming! I'll let myself out.
hardcorefan16 22
That doesn't even make sense. If he loved it so much why a C-?
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Comments (60)
JustTemporary 24
If you wrote your paper anything like how you wrote your FML then you deserved that C.
IHateMyself124 23
He seems like a well C-soned teacher! (and also a complete jerkface)
TheStatue 5
Your paper was well? Why, was it sick? Clearly, your paper wasn't even GOOD. I'd likely give you an F.
Kitouran 30
#31, OP didn't say their paper was well. They said it was good.
Ozzien 26
They did before editing
my2centsworth 15
Perhaps he should've edited his paper before submitting it.
keepmelikeanoath 13
I had a teacher like that in high school! she would praise you for how much better this essay was than your last essay, then maybe score you two percentage points higher.
NightOWL666 14
Maybe he was being sarcastic and ******* with you? Either way that sucks. At least you passed though
juturnaamo 29
It's possible to have a very good essay that has technical flaws which would impact the grade.
marcranger 29
To drop what was presumably an A paper to a C-, the flaws would have to be severe enough to impact the grader's ability to understand the work...or at least, those were my standards when I was still teaching. If the paper was so technically flawed as to be incomprehensible, I highly doubt I would have been holding it up as an example to my other students.
juturnaamo 29
I'm not sure how hard a grader my old English teacher was, but she asked to share mine because she liked it and still gave me a C because I didn't cite properly. Of course, if you're going to make a big deal out of flaws, the student still needs to know what those flaws are.
courtney_leath 14
At least you got the highest grade (-: lol
guineagirl96 38
Ahh! I've had that happen before! Years ago, my english teacher spent the class period gushing about how good my poem was in front of the entire class. She then gave me a C on the poem.
danman27 15
Well then that means everyone else failed. Is there a curve?
bananassin 25
I mean, maybe he tried to make you feel better about the fact that you got a -C on your essay?