Today, while correcting essays, I spilled ketchup on a student's paper. I managed to successfully turn it into a happy smiley face but when proudly looking at the result, noticed it was right next to the big "F" that I had graded it. 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, out of spite, I wrote "Ms. Piggy" instead of my professor's actual name in the heading of my essay. Guess what I forgot to do before turning it in. FML
Today, I got back my math test. Instead of taking the time to mark the mistakes, my professor just circled the bottom half of the page and wrote "OMG." FML
Today, I accidentally farted in the middle of class. Thinking I got away with it, I just kept doing my work until some kid across the room says, "I could have done better." FML
Today, I'm grading final projects for a junior level college class. A student finally turned in their work, after months of encouragement and coaxing. Half of it was plain wrong, the rest had so many spelling and grammatical mistakes, it appeared to be written by a drunk autocorrect program. FML
Today, I got an email from my professor with my grade for a paper. It said, "Solid writing, but you should have proofread your final draft more carefully." In a moment of annoyance, I typed in the reply box, "God should have proofread your FACE more carefully." My elbow hit the send button. FML
Today, I finally finished my art project, which was worth 50% of my quarterly grade. I came in first period to give it to my professor. When she turned to look at it, her elbow hit her coffee and spilled it all over the canvas. I got 60%. She said I would have had a 100%, except for the giant coffee stain. FML
Today, I turned in an essay after staying up late to work on it. I was away when the teacher assigned it, so I'd asked my friend what the subject was. It transpires that she'd given me the wrong one, all because she was mad at me for not returning her pencil. FML
Today, I was teaching a class when a student pointed out that I'd used the wrong "your/you're" while writing on the board. FML
Today, I turned in my homework. Too bad I accidentally handed in the printed answer sheet I found online to copy from. FML
Today, while studying with the girl I like, I rested my face on my book, pretending to be frustrated. When I lifted my head, I realized I'd left a greasy spot on the page from my nose. She noticed. FML
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gracehi 33
"Your failure pleases me. Mwa ha ha!"
ComoEsJuan 24
Positively reinforcing failure. Weird trick. Hope it works for you.
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Tidus0 17
Many options, rewrite the essay for the student to maintain the F credit, change the F into a B- so whilst being a pass which is an unfair advantage on the other students who actually did do a great job it will save your bacon of seeming like a heartless person.
linkinpark98 24
This is why you make eating and grading papers two separate things. When I was in 6th grade, I always received my math homework back with a coffee stain on it.
Kramer1998 20
Mr. Crocker
vargaso 17
How'd you spill ketchup?
BigBubbaJ 13
I'm rather concerned for your students if you think "...that I had graded it." is grammatically correct. No offense, but it may indeed be you that deserves that "big F" with a smiley face, OP.
drummerp64 16
"... the F that I had graded it." Seems right to me. "I had graded it an F" -> "the F that I had graded it". "I kicked the ball" -> "the ball that I had kicked". Admittedly, "which" is preferable over "that", but it's a minor mistake that I don't see as necessary to get worked up over.
igotds 16
Is an English teacher, forget comma before but?
xxtaintedd 2
You can always use a wite out. Problem solved and next time don't eat while grading papers
AndracoDragons 5
all these comments about separating eating and grading they forget open is a teacher they don't have time to make them separate tasks lol
Matttis 7
I guess that means you deserve an E for effort.
gogoakira 7
u graded the students work not essays work teach, essays are not alive