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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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gymbabey7 3
ur an idiot.
vexis58 1
I remember that was my first thought when teachers told us to "double space" as well. I mean, it's called the space bar, right? Double space must mean you should use double the amount of spaces! They clarified it after I turned in my rough draft with two spaces between each word, though. These comments are making me feel old. When this situation applied to me, there was no such thing as google (and even with the search engines we did have, why would I look it up if I already thought I knew what to do?) and the function on Microsoft Word to make it double spaced was not in any way easy to find.
decidedlyvague 11
No one corrected you? It seems like that's something they would've confronted you about, or something you would've noticed through their examples of proper essays that people have written. It's understandable to not realize that you're doing it wrong, but for that long is quite an impressive feat. Also, did you know that if you put your period size at 14 font it's barely noticeable in the paper's structure? Every 3-5 pages you write, the paper is increased by half a page.
StevieMarie 0
I've done that. I was in 5th grade at the time but . . . Ya know. *shrug*
sadistmonkey 19
I'm really not sure if the OP deserves it because you would think that some teacher would correct her mistake the first time she made it. The fact that she made it halfway through college without any teacher or professor telling her says a lot about the teachers.
Spoonz 4
I do that too, shhhh
StevieMarie 0
I've done that. I was in 5th grade at the time but . . . Ya know. *shrug*
Mar_Kar 9
be nice, people make mistakes.
tigerlily0708 0
how did you get that far without realizing that. Your teachers are dumb too for not explaining it to you when you turned in essays
malzi21 8
None of your teachers noticed the 2 spaces between EVERY WORD? Damn...