Today, I was separating my notes into two piles: one to save for exam studying and one to throw out. I finished separating, picked up the junk pile, and absentmindedly shredded it. Afterwards, I looked down to see the junk pile still completely intact. Goodbye, passing grades. 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, after finishing a three-page essay for my spanish class, I went to rip up my brainstorming paper in an act of triumph. After I finished ripping it up, I looked on my desk to see my brainstorming paper fully intact, and my essay torn into bits. FML
Today, my mother decided to "help me" by throwing out the stack of papers on my desk. Unfortunately, those were all my notes for my final exams. FML
Today, I found out that my entire class, me included, has to rewrite the painfully difficult midterm we wrote last week. All this because the Professor left the exams strewn across her desk. The cleaners thought it was trash and disposed of them. FML
Today, I was taking the final exam for one of my classes. The teacher came over to my desk, grabbed my test and ripped it in half. Then he grabbed my hand and read the note I had written on it to remind myself to pay rent. FML
Today, I asked my mom if she'd seen my financial calculator on my way out to an exam. She told me she'd tossed it in the donation pile that she'd taken to the Salvation Army this morning because it was "clutter." I needed it to take an exam required to pass the class, to graduate next month. The only place to buy a replacement was closed. FML
Today, I checked over my notes from yesterday's midterm review so I could study for the test on Monday. It seems I was so exhausted, I'd done nothing but scribble unintelligibly all over the first page. FML
Today, after weeks of intense studying with the intent of pulling my grades up, I saw that in fact, they've all gone down. FML
Today, I went to drop the garbage in the compactor as I left to do some shopping. I quickly put my handbag down on the side, threw the 'garbage' in the machine, watched it do its thing, and then turned round to find... the bag of garbage on the side. FML
Today, I put all my clothes into two piles. One pile had clothes I usually wear, the other clothes I wanted to donate. When I was done, I put the piles into two jumbo trash bags. I came back a bit later and they both were gone. My mom donated both bags. I have no clothes. FML
Today, I took my binder on a short road trip two hours away from my home, so that I could study for my upcoming finals. When I got home, I realized I that had left my binder all the way there, containing my notes, classwork, homework, finals notes, etc. FML
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Top comments
WingsFan80 4
That will teach you to look first
143dav 8
Because of my constant OCD attacks and hope of passing, I always make sure to double check when I shred my paper.. I hope you can get them from someone else. Good luck on those exam.
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Comments (49)
iwadasn 33
Why would you feel the need to shred them anyway? Just toss them in the recycling.
jimbob_76592 5
Kollidge is am hard sumtimes
avifors 10
On the bright side, re-writing all of the notes will help you memorize everything
DippinGrizzly907 27
You weren't gonna pass anyways if your that absent minded
doglover100 29
Always double check.
Nat52482 25
I knew where this FML was going as soon as I saw "two piles" :1
LolitaLena 16
I just don't even understand why you would take the time to shred old school notes? I've kept all my notes through high school and college because you never know when you'll want to look back at previous classes. And I have, several times. Plus there's a huge market for a full set of notes from a course. Sold my Engineering Econ notes for $30.
TheSacredRatty 18
Keep your notes throughout the year, and get rid of them at the end. Saves you from losing or accidentally destroying them! :)
Grumpy Jack 27
Like other people said : why shredding notes ? afraid someone might read them ? You should have typed/rewritten them which helps memorizing and send the file to your own email so you can recover it. I do it with important papers so I can get them back from any connected device.