Today, I turned in an essay about a book I'd read over the summer. My teacher later called me to her desk and began to gush about how interesting the book sounded and asked to borrow my copy. The book I wrote about isn't real, and the main characters are named after my childhood pets. FML
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Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
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, my teacher read my story about a haunted house for a class assignment. She liked it very much and turned it in to the office to be sent into a state writing competition. An hour later, I was called to the office where the guidance counselor called my work "disturbing" and said I "need help". FML
Today, I was filling out an application for a job at a local pet store. At the end of it, they wanted a paragraph about any pets I had. After a while, I found myself finishing a 3-page essay about them. That's the longest essay I've ever written. FML
Today, in class, everyone read my Creative Writing submission. It was a touching story about the unconditional love that exists between dog and his owner. Everybody unanimously agreed that it was probably about bestiality. FML
Today, I finished my position paper for my social studies class and read it to my mom to get her opinion on it. After I'm done reading it, she asks me if I copied it from somewhere because it sounded very professional and smart, and it didn't sound like me. FML
Today, I had to make up a story about my "friends" at school so my mom doesn't keep telling I'm a loser. FML
Today, I got cited for "internet plagiarism" and called to the dean's office. I'd been sitting a closed-book written exam, and my teacher had been breathing down my neck the whole time. FML
Today, my teacher started talking about me quietly to the stuffed cat, called Rufus, that she keeps on her desk. 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 was reading my students' Halloween stories I made them write for my creative writing class in high school. One of my students wrote about attacking me. She got my street address perfect and everything. FML
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tuslaw12 13
Maybe you have a natural talent in writing. You should look into writing an actual book
OfficialEarth 12
Looks like it's time to write a book
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Comments (132)
CoolCookie210 22
She probably knew you had made up the book, and was trying to get you to admit it
Cebolamole 13
You should write it down, then! You're obviously creative and imaginative enough to spark an interest through an essay! Way to go, OP! Comment here when you publish it!
bigred6693 12
Tell her you did it based on a book you (or a family member) wrote, but you or they aren't ready for anyone to read it yet
DaRito 25
YDI, teachers can tell when you make up a book. She was probably just making you confess it. Why didn't you just read a good book?
fmlsams 27
Sounds like you need to actually write a book!
cyna_g 18
You're screwed
FalloutScrolls 25
That's your cue to become an author.
trulypar 34
I bet she already knows...if you put the title of the book in your essay, she probably Googled it. I know if I was your teacher and the title was unfamiliar I would search for it. Good luck, but YDI on this one...you had plenty of time to read a real book, or at least watch a movie from a real book.
ChibiChibi_fml 28
Well you're screwed but if you wish to dig that hole deeper you could just tell the teacher that you don't own the novel in question and were in fact borrowing it from a friend who lives in another state while they were visiting over the summer. Though I hate teacher who try to assign things like this because how do they know you read anything over the summer? How is it right to try and assign homework over summer break? It's called a break for a reason.
FieldLeftBlank 20
I always had assigned reading for the summer break. Now, how many people actually completed it is debatable.
ChibiChibi_fml 28
I never had any teachers that tried to do that because it was hard enough to get people to read during the school year. Plus it was never guaranteed that the teacher who assigned the reading would still be there come the next year. Teachers were constantly quitting at my schools.
pinkgirl2 6
Why is it sooooooo hard for people to read ONE book over and ENTIRE summer? I always was in summer reading programs where there was competition to read the most books and write a book report on them (1 book = 1 point), the winners were in the 150's! Everyone read at least 20 books.
ChibiChibi_fml 28
I myself am an avid reader, on my own and I've never really understood people who flat out dislike reading. I myself did all those summer reading programs and such as well. However, my school for a while had a program called ACR and I hated it. I hated it because it forced everyone into reading levels and then told them that they could ONLY read books on the very specific ACR list that were within their assigned reading level. My reading level from 6th grade on was "11th grade to post college", the books in my level were pretty much all John Grisham, Agatha Christy, and similar novels which I hate. It almost turned me against reading completely because instead of being allowed to read books that matched my reading level that I enjoyed and writing reports and taking quizzes on those, I had to pick one off the list. The list never changed. It was torture every year. Plus teachers would yell at you if they caught you reading something that wasn't part of the ACR list during study hall.
ChibiChibi_fml 28
To be clear ACR was a during the school year only program.
beeferjay 34
read a book is a song by dmite... google it, lol