Today, at college, I was frantically trying to finish an essay on gay rights that was due less than an hour later. In the end I failed, because the college internet filters kept classifying every single page containing the information I needed as "sex", and blocked it all. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my mum deleted my college research assignment on rape because the subject was too vulgar. I had worked on it for the past month and it was worth 50% of my grade. It's due tomorrow. FML
Today, I got cited for "internet plagiarism" and called to the dean's office. I'd been sitting a closed-book written exam, and my teacher had been breathing down my neck the whole time. FML
Today, I am expected to write an 8 page essay, due tonight. The reason why I don't even have one page yet? My mom decided to take away the only computer I have the essay saved on because I have an 'F' in English. The essay is for English. FML
Today, I pulled an all-nighter to finish an essay. I submitted it one minute before the deadline. Later, I opened the file to double-check and realized I'd uploaded my rough draft, containing notes like “THIS PART MAKES NO SENSE, FIX LATER.” The professor then replied, “I agree with your assessments.” FML
Today, I failed on a school presentation because I was not prepared. Apparently, the fact that my computer crapped itself and started giving off smoke last period isn't a good reason for not having my presentation prepared. FML
Today, after missing college for a week due to illness, I found out my "friends" were bullshitting me about us having to write an important no-extension Biology essay. Copious amounts of my sweat, snot and tears went into that desperation-fueled nightmare. Thanks, dickheads. FML
Today, I turned in my final worth 20% of the grade. Today was also the day my internet decided to die. FML
Today, I tried to turn in a final exam online. When I went to check if it had been submitted, Blackboard told me it did. My grade told a different story. FML
Today, I've been making extremely good progress in my online class. Or at least… I was, until the deadline to complete it was suddenly pushed a whole month forward, causing me to be "behind." Then my teacher had the nerve to email me, telling me I needed to catch up. FML
Today, I lost a grade on an essay, because according to my teacher, I put much more detail into my analytical essay than I should have. FML
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Top comments
PIGaming 21
Never leave work until the last minute OP. Allow time for unexpected crisis.
BubbleGrunge 18
Gay rights are equal rights, the end! That would have been an A+ paper, OP!
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Comments (88)
sexyboi1985 27
Well this isn't your problem. Talk to someone and get it sorted ! I m sure u deserve an A+
Brandi_Faith 34
It is his problem because if he had started his essay days before, instead of waiting till the last minute, he would've realized any website he tried to view was blocked and he would've chosen another topic.
Mynamewontfi 40
YDI, if you started on it earlier, you would have known it was blocked. It's still kind of silly though, that you can't look up gay rights because it's blocked.
brand125 17
you waited til last minute, sorry but ydi
rocker_chick23 27
YDI for waiting until the last minute. Try talking to the teacher and see if you can get an extension, don't be shocked if he says no and fails you.
harley1077 9
it was on gay rights. not gay sex.
juturnaamo 29
When one person likes people of his same SEX he is said to be homoSEXual.
Kamon97 23
Inb4 comments get disabled
Mynamewontfi 40
It's kind of sad to see so many FML's about homosexuality having many deleted comments as well as the comments getting closed.
worldclassrager 41
How does gay rights fall under sex?
brand125 17
homosexual, same sex couple
baysideisacult 15
You should have started your paper earlier, then if you had any problems, you would have had time to make other arrangements. You deserved it OP
1jordan1 11
At college? Really? Jesus Christ. You're not twelve year olds looking for "boobies". You're a grown human being, there shouldn't be filters at all. It's called being an adult.
WramseyWriter 10
Is this a tiny Christian college or something why are there website filters?
Spyderbane 10
Because its a school. They tend to dislike getting their networks infected.
kotake 7
You know as much as "liberal colleges" get flack, I would rather go to a liberal college than a conservative one any day. Censorship is ridiculous... Anyway colleges tend to have a lot of their computer science and It students work at the school itself developing programs (creating opportunities for them and getting good work for the price of slave minimum wage labor). I know my university has a system that won't let you connect if it detects a virus, and gives a free scanner to eliminate viruses. So any college using "those websites are scary" obviously either has an extremely bad tech program or doesn't have a clue what they're doing. Either way undesirable and crappy (like the bob jones university of south carolina's geology department, which has no geologists because they enforce young earth creationism and can't get anyone to teach what they want because they get laughed at :P In any case any school that feels the need to block content for any reason is horrendously bad imo. I don't respect any institution that can't adequately defend itself from things it dislikes, instead having to censor them to avoid the topic.
NiceGuysDoWin 21
I assumed he was using a computer lab, where the filters are on the browsers to avoid students watching **** in a public place.