Today, I was writing an essay while sleep-deprived. In between actually writing, I started typing my thoughts. It was only after I’d submitted the essay that I realized that I hadn’t deleted the random words. My teacher can see my early-morning rambling about potatoes. I have no way to delete 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, I was writing my rough draft of an essay, and I forgot how to spell a word. I waited for auto correct to help. I was writing on paper. FML
Today, I pulled an all-nighter to finish an essay. I submitted it one minute before the deadline. Later, I opened the file to double-check and realized I'd uploaded my rough draft, containing notes like “THIS PART MAKES NO SENSE, FIX LATER.” The professor then replied, “I agree with your assessments.” FML
Today, after pulling an all-nighter on an essay, I submitted it one minute before the deadline and felt like a genius. Later, I reopened the file and discovered I'd uploaded the rough draft instead of the final version. The last line ended with “fix this later,” which was not my finest academic work. FML
Today, I realized I forgot to write a 5000 word essay for my English class. I tried to be calm since I had until midnight to finish, and it was only 8pm. I typed for three hours straight,and finished the assignment. I read over the instruction again, and realized it only had to be 500 words. FML
Today, I wrote the most beautiful college application essay ever, ten minutes before the online deadline. Instead of clicking "submit", I clicked the button next to it that said "return". The entire essay vanished into internet wasteland. FML
Today, I was taking medicine for my sinus problems and trying to write an essay. I got most of the way done, then unexpectedly fell asleep on my keyboard. When I woke up, my face was wet. I drowned my laptop in my drool. 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 realized how much I'm on the computer. I tried to "CTRL+Z" on something I wrote down on my paper. FML
Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML
Today, I’m a middle-school teacher. Handing back graded essays, only to realize halfway through that I’d left my personal notes visible on the projector. One said, “Great kid, but talks like a podcast on 1.5x speed.” The student read it out loud before I could close the tab. FML
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Glowworm56 27
To be honest, the potato rambling sounds more interesting than whatever topic you originally had to write about.
jfsiv 17
Luckily it was just potatoes. I can only imagine what half the commenters here would have been mumbling about.
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Glowworm56 27
To be honest, the potato rambling sounds more interesting than whatever topic you originally had to write about.
jfsiv 17
Luckily it was just potatoes. I can only imagine what half the commenters here would have been mumbling about.
Glowworm56 27
Knowing clearly that I have some really crazy dreams, I'm absolutely afraid to answer that question.
RichardPencil 32
I hope your teacher likes them French-fried pataters. Or vodka.
kirby1964 20
So correct the essay and explain what happened. You both will have a laugh and move on.
tonyfan00 38
Out of all the things you could have rambled about, potatoes is far from the worst...
RichardPencil 32
I’m sure you’d get an A if you finally settled that whole po-tay-to/po-tah-to thing. Just “calling the whole thing off” is a cop-out that just lets the issue fester for future generations.
Taurus_ChicKa 37
Now that's what I call a hot potato!