Today, my older brother thinks typing out a Wikipedia article for an essay is not plagiarism, because he didn't "copy and paste" it. He's in college. 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, my classmate told me she can copy an article from the internet and hand that in, as long as she cites it at the end. FML
Today, I got an A+ on a writing assignment. My teacher asked me three times if I really did write this article myself, and didn't memorise an article from the Internet. FML
Today, I turned in an overdue English assignment at college. My instructor accused me of plagiarism, writing that my sentence structure was "TO" good. Seriously? FML
Today, I got yelled at for 10 minutes by my head of department for failing one of my students for plagiarism, because, "we can't be sure." It was my work he plagiarised, but because it's not in our system, it doesn't count. FML
Today, I collected my students' final essays. One of them submitted a printout of a screenshot he took with his phone. Too bad a browser address bar was still in the shot, along with a "click to read more" link at the bottom. My students are too dumb and lazy to even plagiarize properly. FML
Today, while drunk, my brother got on my computer onto my already logged in Wikipedia account and made a few bad edits. He got me reported for vandalism, sending abusive messages to other editors, and banned from editing, pending appeal. FML
Today, my AP teacher once again accused me of plagiarism. Apparently the words "demise," "ultimately," and "rural," are too sophisticated for an 11th grade AP student to use and MUST have been copied from the Internet. FML
Today, at school, I got in trouble for plagiarizing on a paper. The subject of said paper was where I see myself in ten years. FML
Today, I got a paper back that was given a zero for suspected plagiarism. Everything I wrote was my own thought and analysis. My instructor basically thinks my paper is smarter than I am. He won't listen, even when I explain my thought processes throughout the piece. FML
Today, my brother decided to help me artificially age some of my artwork by singeing the edges slightly. Apparently "my brother set fire to my homework" isn't a valid excuse. FML
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Top comments
devildog562 33
Considering Wikipedia is often wrong and teachers can easily tell when sites are plagiarized, let him do it and learn his lesson.
Kiki242 19
He is in for some trouble. Plagiarism is not taken lightly. Also, how does he NOT know what plagiarism is? My language arts teachers and English teachers have been hammering that in since elementary school.
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Comments (70)
henrylikestreats 22
Don't say anything. Watch him freak out when he gets his paper back. Instant entertainment.
ohSNAPyall 27
What a good sibling you are.
Blippety 23
I used to think this... when I was in primary school.
xFiiRe 19
**** his life not yours!
PennyLane27 32
**** OP's life for having to grow up around this idiot!
WCARlover 35
Wow. I'd do everything I could to ensure he knows how serious that is and that he will likely be kicked out of school if he submits that.
Ichiya 29
Let the idiot fail. Us intelligent people don't want them hanging around us anyway.
itsme82 18
Put it to him this way. Would he go into a store and steal? No? Then why is it okay to steal someone else's work? You need to tell him how serious plagiarism is.
pratikp03 22
He an imbecile..***drax voice ***
worldclassrager 41
Wikipedia is editable...so of that it might be a 85-90% plagiarism...aside the point he really wasted his time
HairIsEverything 15
Actually it was changed, you can't edit information anymore.
Attacksloth 33
That's one thing I never learned in high school - proper citation. I learned very quickly though that plagiarism can result in failing a course in the best case scenario and getting criminally charged in the worst case. If I tried that crap in my current program I'd get my ass handed to me.
rainbowdonnareed 18
Teachers are on to that game! This needs a follow up so we can know if he got kicked out of school
tryle_fml 6
They let anyone go to college nowadays.