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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Comments (131)
kaykay20 0
I'm sorry but you must really be slow not to notice that and not to realize the words only need one space between them not two.
psych10 4
How did you even get into college?
xXRiah_GirlXx 9
Really? Huh.... Learn something new everyday... I've never had to use that so I wouldn't know...
br4den 0
******* moron.
lamby1983 1
That's some messed shit, you should get check.
brianjman14 23
How did you get through high school and half of college doing that? What school did you go to?
fadingfaith 4
I thought you were suppose to that to when I had to do my first essay double spaced but I looked on google and I noticed I was wrong.
hayleclark 17
don't blame OP, blame the people who went to university to know how to do these things, who missed it on all of OP's reports (Y)
fedora11 12
Ur stupid.
frantine1027 1
you made that up. its 2011.. there's no way a teacher would have never notices two spaces between each word. plus. every program since 95 auto punctuates with a period if u hit space bar twice.