Today, a professor approached me in the hall to ask if, since I'm a math major, I could tutor one of her communications majors in a required Calculus course. Apparently the volunteer tutor the school provides "is a complete dumbass." I'm the school's volunteer tutor. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, as I went into my calculus class, the teacher announced that someone had received a negative grade on the test we were getting back. I laughed and said, "Which f*cker managed to get a negative?" Turns out I'm the dumbass. FML
Today, I listened to my roommate and her friend struggle with their math homework for an hour. It wouldn't be so bad, except for the fact that I'm a math major and repeatedly offered my help. They'd rather fail math than be around me. FML
Today, a girl called me a racist, stereotyping asshole. All I did was ask a kid who happens to be Asian to tutor me in math. Which I didn't do just because he's Asian, but rather because he's in college and is actually a brilliant mathematician. FML
Today, in calculus, our substitute teacher told me I was smart. Everybody in the class, including my friends, burst out laughing. FML
Today, my math TA showed the class how one of her "dumb" students answered a test question. Everyone laughed as she wrote out the students answer, including myself, until I looked down at my answer sheet and saw that I submitted an identical answer. 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, despite doing extra credit, staying after class to have one-on-one tutoring with the TA, doing online tutoring and watching YouTube videos, I still absolutely cannot do math! I’ve been reduced to bribing my nephew to do my work for me. I’m in college. He’s in 7th grade. FML
Today, disappointed with my results on a mathematics test, I went over it and realized my teacher had added up the marks incorrectly, leaving me with 17% less than I earned. The person who's supposed to be teaching me math can't even perform basic arithmetic. FML
Today, I was working my job as a waitress near my college. I handed a customer her check, and she noticed that I had added her bill wrong. I apologized, and she pointed to my "student" labeled nametag, asking what I was studying. I said English. I'm a math major. FML
Today, my Spanish teacher told me that the reason the girl I'm tutoring hasn't contacted me yet is because she emailed the teacher saying she didn't like my name, therefore she didn't want me to be her tutor. FML
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kellster 2
You volunteer tutor?? Dude, get yourself paid for that gig! I used to tutor in university and you can make some decent cash that way! Although, no offense, but it sounds like you're not a very good tutor. So, plan: improve your tutoring, then insist on pay.
Intoxicunt 6
bastawhiz, nice to meet you. You're a complete dumb ass.
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Comments (40)
SimpleSimon 0
The truth hurts, deal with it.
FerrariCake 2
FAKE. Since when do communications majors have a "required calculus course"?
BakerMan_fml 0
Radio Communications do. The fourier series use a lot of trig too.
camo09 0
I'm a communication major... I have calcus... Calculus for dummies, but still calculus. And yes, it's required, or I definitely wouldn't have done it. Calculus
fxdxhk90 0
If you suck that much, just teach them how to differentiate and integrate using calculator software, rather then using math. Also, just teach em how to use integral sheets to look up answers. You don't actually have to teach that much calculus.
I_am_stupid_also 6
If someone is not able to understand calculus, there is a 0% probability that they will ever have the need for it in real life. Just knowing when to use it is the most important part.
TheKitsune 0
You're the ONLY volunteer tutor the school has? Small school or what?
randomness28 0
You deserve it for being a dumbass? Cmon, if you're really a shitty tutor then why not take some time to work on it first? Nobody wants to take lessons from a dumbass
01phoenix 0
Did you tell the professor that the" dumbass volunteer tutor" is smart enough NOT to tutor the kid who won't pass without your help?
myang12 0
haha.. I feel sorry for you..
Kgirl2cute 6
Or maybe we could consider that the teacher's in the wrong? Obviously the OP isn't bad at maths if the teacher specifically asked them as someone they knew was capable. Rumours and word of mouth can give you a reputation you didn't deserve - the teacher probably heard that the tutor was a dumbass and tried to find someone good at math, aka the OP.
Thekbking 11
Or the teacher only knew one math major personally. hence why the teacher asked op
insanexnh 13
Wait... then... why would he be asking you in the first place if he thought you were a "complete dumbass?"
tarabara17 15
Maybe there's more than one tutor