Today, I found out that the double spacing format in an essay refers to the space between each line, not the words. I've been pressing the space bar twice between each word all through high school and halfway through college. 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, my mom asked me why MS Word keeps underlining some words. After I tried to convince her that you're supposed to put a space after commas, she started yelling at me for making her look stupid. I can never win. 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 received a terrible grade for an essay I worked really hard on. I had two friends, one being an English major, check it over. However, apparently I "clearly didn't use spellcheck" on this essay just like the last one I submitted to her. 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, people’s spelling has gotten so bad that I do a double take whenever I see “its” used in the place it’s actually supposed to go. FML
Today, my teacher's comments on my essay read, "I know it's college, but you use a lot of unnecessary words with a lot of syllables." He basically scolded me for having a complex vocabulary. I go to an accredited state university. Nothing says "America" like under-achieving professors. FML
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, in the class I'm teaching, I assigned my students an essay to complete for homework. One student asked me if I was deducting points for bad spelling. I teach English. FML
Today, I went through my spam folder. I found out that I'd received several emails telling me that I have been sending emails containing essays for a class of mine to the wrong address. The term ended yesterday. FML
Today, I found out that my son thinks it's acceptable to use words like "on fleek" in high school level essays. FML
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TJD28 3
your a really stupid person
MrLefty 8
*You're Unless my sarcasm detector is missing something.
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sedda23 1
You're an idiot
cmars3 7
People like you are the reason that other countries think Americans are idiots.
darkforce146 5
Indeed
EPICROCKERNINJA 8
There's a thing called common sense....
jennt89 10
I did the same thing when I first got a computer back in the 6th grade lol. :)
Thtguyukno 2
Oh shit, I thought the same thing until just now....
leadman1989 16
Now your ten page reports fit on ten pages and not the previous 100. You've single handedly taken down a 500 acres of rainforest, sent 15 species into extinction, and displaced 250 indigenous people. Somewhere there's a plaque with your name on it. YDI
hiscrazygurl1 5
Really? A teacher or professor didn't ever mention it to you or maybe a class mate! U never wondered why ur paper didn't look like anyone elses. Odd!! I feel sorry for you cuz that's computers 101
Pslcybn5 7
Hahaha how'd you even make it into college??!?
MissBunnyWillEat 11
1: Do you know what the word "irony" means? Just curious.
thiscrazything 1
Lmao, all that wasted finger energy!