Today, at school, I got in trouble for plagiarizing on a paper. The subject of said paper was where I see myself in ten years. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I got yelled at for 10 minutes by my head of department for failing one of my students for plagiarism, because, "we can't be sure." It was my work he plagiarised, but because it's not in our system, it doesn't count. FML
Today, my teacher called a friend and me out of class and told us we had been reported for plagiarism because our answers to a problem were nearly identical, and he said that I shouldn't have shared my work. This for an assignment where significant marks were awarded for collaborating with peers. FML
Today, I turned in an overdue English assignment at college. My instructor accused me of plagiarism, writing that my sentence structure was "TO" good. Seriously? 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 handed in an internship assignment that I have been working on for months. Once submitted, a pop-up showed, stating the assignment was 100% plagiarized. What was it plagiarized from? A student paper. My own, to be more specific - the exact same paper I had uploaded seconds before. FML
Today, I failed an assignment because the person I paid to do it plagiarized the entire thing. FML
Today, I got a paper back that was given a zero for suspected plagiarism. Everything I wrote was my own thought and analysis. My instructor basically thinks my paper is smarter than I am. He won't listen, even when I explain my thought processes throughout the piece. FML
Today, my AP teacher once again accused me of plagiarism. Apparently the words "demise," "ultimately," and "rural," are too sophisticated for an 11th grade AP student to use and MUST have been copied from the Internet. FML
Today, after I'd being sick all day, my boyfriend volunteered to do my very long sociology paper. I was later notified by my professor that the paper I'd submitted was completely plagiarized. FML
Today, I finished my position paper for my social studies class and read it to my mom to get her opinion on it. After I'm done reading it, she asks me if I copied it from somewhere because it sounded very professional and smart, and it didn't sound like me. FML
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Miss_Chevious 37
Jail, apparently.
Sizly 12
Maybe try talking to the teacher about how ridiculous it is to get accused of plagiarism when the topic is so limited anyways?
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Comments (49)
alexis83188 24
Are you pressing charges on yourself?
mandyn333 10
No idea why this is down voted. I guess people don't see what your saying.
Sizly 12
Maybe try talking to the teacher about how ridiculous it is to get accused of plagiarism when the topic is so limited anyways?
chosha_fml 27
This subject could easily be plagarised. It's not like the answer has to be 100% true or like no-one has similar goals to OP. And the WAY it's written could be copied, even if the content has been slightly changed.
max_dilbe 14
Maybe you happen to have a twin? :)
teentee401 37
Twins wouldn't necessarily see themselves in the same place in ten years.
Mauskau 36
Sheldon wants to be in the same place as Leonard though.
leogachi 15
@17 Sheldon's crazy, though.
43bubba34 25
He's not crazy. His mother had him tested.
Quendolin 24
Your teacher expects you to be more hipster and not as mainstream.
Miss_Chevious 37
Jail, apparently.
ColorOfSoul 19
And someone else's footsteps got him there.
magicdust95 31
Glad you are not in my school. If you were then you'd probably see yourself write the exam ten years later. but yeah, fyl.
moodyreallyrocks 27
That's just ridiculous OP! Sorry for the circumstances, hopefully everything gets better for you..
xoxoblondee 31
I got accused of plagiarizing a paper about my family once. Even when I submitted to a plagiarism checking site that said otherwise, the "lack of citations" I included was "a dead giveaway."
Myo_fml 20
How do you cite information from your family though? "and then, your father and grandmother danced the hula" (Mom. 1998. Cleveland).
chinaski7628 32
21—that is how you would cite it, except you would use your mom's actual name and cite it as an interview. In academic papers, you really are supposed to cite everything that isn't an original idea. I can't imagine anyone, though, outside of a college professor, calling plagiarism on that.... Seems excessively pedantic.
klc20071989_fml 20
There was a local college professor some years back that got fired for plagiarising himself, because he used a quote from a previous article/whatever HE wrote without citing it.
chinaski7628 32
John Fogarty of Creedence Clear Water Revival was sued for plagiarizing himself.... Apparently one of his solo songs sounded too much like a CCR song. He lost, too. You really can plagiarize anything.... That's why I always tell my students: cite, cite, cite!
chinaski7628 32
Ooo-- just double checked, he won the lawsuit because he was able to prove a difference in chords.
igotds 16
Maybe your future self turned is secretly in your class and wrote about his life? I was Back to The Future day yesterday.
Tejanoswhy 19
It's not plagiarizing if it's such a limited topic
chinaski7628 32
I've been teaching for a long time and you'd be amazed at the ways students try to cheat. You can find almost any kind of paper (even ones like this) online. Or recycle a sibling's or friend's paper. Change a few details, and presto! A plagiarized paper. Of course, if it was an in-class, timed writing, that's a bit more difficult to cheat on. Not impossible, but difficult.
Tejanoswhy 19
But how can u plagiarize the future?
chinaski7628 32
You use someone else's paper (or ideas/vision/story) and put your name on it. It's not like the teacher is going to track down students in 10 years and retroactively dock grades because the students aren't where they said they'd be... I think you're overthinking it. You can plagiarize anything.