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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Comments (75)
gogoakira 7
u graded the essay to be a f grade, u didnt grade IT a grade. word grade means gradient, level above or below, grade isnt the actual unit of measure chosen, so u cant say i graded it a grade, u can assign a grade unit to a grade. similar to saying i classed it an a class, no u didnt u assigned it to that class
Astrum14 24
Yeah, if you're going to try and correct someone's grammar, perhaps you should try making your comment parsable.
naiveprophet 15
First, learn to construct a sentence. Second, pick up a dictionary. "Grade" is also a verb, as in "to assign a grade."
wildnargles 15
White out is your best friend
tinkdatank 15
You bitch...
RhineBl 17
Put a "Better luck next time"?
royr7395 30
The poor paper. It's like it's being abused. First by a printer. Then by a pen. Then by ketchup..
naiveprophet 15
I steer clear from assigning letter grades. Seeing an "F" destroys a student's confidence. Of course, I'm not sure what an F and a smiley face would do to a kid's confidence...
PSYqualiac 17
Red ring of death.
T1A2Z3 35
Why would you have ketchup around papers you were grading. It's so disrespectful. I had a teacher spill juice on all our papers. How rude! We then had to keep those stained papers to try and fix our grades. Just eat somewhere and mark somewhere else!
Luke16eirb7deneuwn1 20
there's always tip-ex...