Today, I asked my college chemistry teacher for some much-needed help. Instead of explaining anything to me, she scoffed that if I don't understand something, I should "just Google it." FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my professor asked me a question in class. Thinking it was a rhetorical question, I shrugged and said, "Google it." It wasn't. He stared at me in silence for the longest 10 seconds of my life. FML
Today, I was helping my kid with homework after work. I tried to Google “third grade long division explained simply.” Autocomplete filled in “because I don’t understand it either,” which I read out loud without thinking. My kid stared at me and said, “So… who’s teaching who?” FML
Today, my university professor admitted to sometimes just winging it when she's teaching. "Yeah," she said, "sometimes I just don't get this stuff either." No wonder I'm failing. FML
Today, I worked up the courage to ask a question in a packed lecture hall. The professor repeated my question, except he'd misheard me and rephrased it into something wildly incorrect. The class laughed. Instead of correcting him, I nodded. Now half the class thinks I don’t understand the difference between correlation and causation. FML
Today, I learned, 90 horrifying minutes into a college exam, that my 85-year-old calculus teacher had spent the last three weeks teaching us the wrong chapter. FML
Today, we were taking a bio quiz and I understood the subject, so the people sitting behind me asked me to help them out. Being a kind fellow classmate, I did. When the teacher got suspicious, she asked the class, "How are all of you getting the same answers?" everyone pointed directly at me. FML
Today, I was walking with my very attractive friend who I like a lot. She then told me that her roomate wouldn't be home tonight, and if I wanted, I could come over and study history. I didn't get it. I told her no thanks, that I was covered, and it was chem I needed to study. An hour later, I understood. FML
Today, after I took my first set of exams, my professor posted on Twitter, scoffing at how stupid one student's answer was. The answer he quoted was one that I wrote. FML
Today, I had a science test. A question asked, "What is the first stage of photosynthesis?" I didn't know, so just trying to be light-hearted, I wrote, "The plant must first believe in itself." My teacher didn't think it was funny, and gave me detention for insulting her intelligence. FML
Today, I was trying to finish an English assignment and I was not sure how to complete it, so I emailed my teacher to ask her for help. She told me to… flip over the assignment handout page for instructions. FML
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TupniTuptuo 29
If everyone Googled everything, no one would need to pay your teacher's salary.
jDCrackpot 7
If you're in college you're paying to be taught, not paying to google everything instead. Go above her and make a complaint and see if she still doesn't feel like doing her job.
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TupniTuptuo 29
If everyone Googled everything, no one would need to pay your teacher's salary.
MDTeddy 13
You have no idea now true this is. Everything you learn in a college class is pretty much found online for free. You may just have to look for it. Isn't that crazy? I know an instructor that puts all of her class asignments and stuff online so you can take all that free stuff if you are into graphic design stuff.
Qandol 26
#20, true, but isn't getting all from online sources will be plagiarism since almost every Universities or Colleges uses the Turn In system? and easy to get caught, so obviously OP's instructor some idiot lazy instructor for advising such a thing.
spiritfang11237 16
Bad Teacher: OP why don't you just google it instead of asking for my help? OP: Why don't you actually do your job and teach me?
Futacy 30
1- but without Google, OP's teacher probably wouldn't have found her job.
Goldenchest 14
1 - DALEK SEC
FlyingPie 17
#35: I believe #20 was being sarcastic. As in, you can't always Google everything, and the OP has a right to be frustrated because instructors are there to actually teach things rather than to tell students to "just Google it".
j_cat187 20
I don't know about you but I actually get a lot out of a lecture. Google has specific answers but occasionally miss key points.
patrickalamo 48
Or try ratemyprofessor.com
larouche362 10
But #20 you wouldn't be able to get Phd to get better jobs if you only used google to find everything out for college.
jDCrackpot 7
If you're in college you're paying to be taught, not paying to google everything instead. Go above her and make a complaint and see if she still doesn't feel like doing her job.
xx000o 27
Her teacher probably learned everything on Kahn.com.
luminos77 3
Yeah that's bullshit. I taught ochem lab for three years and that teacher should be fired.
DontThumbMeDown 8
Look around for another chemistry teacher and ask? Or maybe ask a friend that is really good at chemistry?
Shercock_Holmes 6
"'Why don't you google it?' is the new 'shut the **** up and leave me alone.'"
TrueTriage 16
Kinda like how Gangnam Style is the new Dougie.... Or would be a better Soulja Boy..?
DontThumbMeDown 8
More like the new dougie. Soulja boy was just terrible
BunchieRules 31
Or the new Party Rock Anthem.
gc327072 31
^the new shuffle.
anarchistpunk 3
Am i the only one who finds the Gungam thing highly annoying?
eXangelice 15
33 - yes.
CustardAndPie 13
#33- *Gangnam. I wouldn't correct you, but ****, #33, it was written correctly about four comments above you. D: Also, I actually think it's a really good song. So yes, you are the only one.
CaptainDipShit 0
33- It's Gangnam, and yes, yes you are. I think it's a little goofy, but every time I watch that video my spirits are lifted, hell, I even read somewhere that Psy made the song to make people happy and get their minds off of all the terrible things in the world.
FMLshark 12
It's her job to teach you and help students further understand the class. If she can't handle that, she definitely shouldn't be a teacher.
sidewaysponytail 0
Where do you think he gets what he teaches you? Wikipedia is my bet.
olpally 33
Google doesn't have the answers all the time... Jeez, you have a "bad teacher." lol.
flockz 20
usually when i hear the term "bad teacher" it's when my plantation shutters are closed and a lotion bottle is next to my keyboard.
BubbleGrunge 18
I'm on my second second atempt at Biology, and it's super hard. I asked my teacher for help and she told me if I didn't get it the first time, I wasn't smart enough and would never get it. Self righteous bitch.
happylawyer 16
Please, aim to prove her wrong!
pandainspandex 19
If I were you, I would absolutely make a complaint. Teachers like that should not be teachers, and can cause irreparable psychological harm to their students by saying things like that.
MrsAlexander83 10
My response would have been..."Or here's a thought...maybe I just got stuck with a douche bag professor who thinks their butt doesn't stink like everyone else's! You know what they say about teachers--those that can't do teach!". Of course, I don't really feel that way because I think teachers are vital but I would have aimed for saying something that a) couldn't get my expelled (bc I had a friend that happened to) and b) would make her mouth drop! Good luck and take it over her head! Also, go visit the science/math labs. They'll help! Maybe they aren't teaching you the way you learn!!
downtime 13
Something tells me you were stuck on question one... "Name:____________"
luminos77 3
Biology is super easy. Super easy! I'd have lost my patience with you too.
littlemsweirdo 12
Then why the hell is she a teacher? Report her ass! I guess in college the teacher expects you to know things just by long boring lectures.
luminos77 3
Intro to bio is mind numbingly easy. OP should just drop out at that point.
messianic 0
Laziness unprofessional