Today, I bought a textbook for my college class. Not only is the £150 book only sold by our teacher, it turned out to be a piece of shit that he obviously wrote, printed, and stapled together at home. When I went to the faculty about it, I was told it's all perfectly legal, and to drop it. 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 bought my very first college textbook. I received a stack of hole-punched papers. My $195 "book" isn’t even bound together. FML
Today, I photocopied several hundred pages of my school's textbook because I didn't want to buy it. My school later says to just buy it and it will be reimbursed. FML
Today, I started at a new college. I bought my textbooks and went to my first class only to find out that they changed my schedule without telling me. I'd already opened the book. I could not get $200 back. FML
Today, I received a package that I thought contained a textbook for law school, for which I paid $130 used. Instead, I received a paperback novel titled "The Nosy Neighbor" by Fern Michaels. My semester starts next week. FML
Today, I asked my professor what happened to the assignment I gave him several weeks ago. Turns out he lost it, and graded me zero as a result. Now if I want a mark, he says I'll have to hand-write it all over again, but that I "probably shouldn't bother," because it was "a bit shit, really." 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 went to the local used books store to sell all my college textbooks. I spent several hundred dollars on them in total. I ended up walking out of the shop a pathetic $3.50 richer. FML
Today, I was taking the final exam for one of my classes. The teacher came over to my desk, grabbed my test and ripped it in half. Then he grabbed my hand and read the note I had written on it to remind myself to pay rent. FML
Today, I turned in an overdue English assignment at college. My instructor accused me of plagiarism, writing that my sentence structure was "TO" good. Seriously? FML
Today, I found out that my entire class, me included, has to rewrite the painfully difficult midterm we wrote last week. All this because the Professor left the exams strewn across her desk. The cleaners thought it was trash and disposed of them. FML
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littlemonster94 15
You can't trust the system! Throw it on the ground! Okay, I'm sorry.
Catkam623 27
Buy it, then take a picture of every page, put it on the Internet charge 1$ for an acc. Make money.
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littlemonster94 15
You can't trust the system! Throw it on the ground! Okay, I'm sorry.
captainObviously 15
Happy birthday to the ground!!
littlemonster94 15
I'm an adult!
cblock94 7
MAN!
ScaughtieHolden 11
I don't need no handouts.
Redoxx_fml 22
My dads not a phone!
welshjumper 4
I ain't gonna be part of this system
jarrettd 27
Pump that garbage in another mans face.
littlemonster94 15
What do I look like, a charity case? .... GROUND!
VampTat 10
The ground is green!
jezombie 22
Burn it in front of the professor. :D
starbunnytwinkle 3
The professor probably wouldn't care anyways, after all, he still got her money...
DanielT1994 19
I like 2's thinking. It's still disrespectful, just like what the professor's doing. Respect is a two-way street. If he's not going to give it to OP, he doesn't deserve it back. Although, going that out of the way to try and disrespect him might be a little drastic.
Gregory607 1
Nah, photocopy it mass produce it and sell it at £20 a peice
enbliss 10
This is only the beginning, you will soon find out that the world is filled with selfish greed
Catkam623 27
Buy it, then take a picture of every page, put it on the Internet charge 1$ for an acc. Make money.
enormouselephant 15
Or partner up with a group and make photocopies:)
LolFMLnot 10
4 that's what you call business
ironichalibut 24
34- The perfect 3 point plan. Idea, Market, Profit. You'd pass an economics class with a model like this. Except that it's illegal, but no one's watching them so who's watching you?
license2chill 5
On one hand, very smart, recouping the losses, on the other, the prof can sue you for copyright, since you are making a profit from it. What I would suggest is that, the whole class only buys one book, scan it to PDFs, and distribute between classmates discretely.
klutz44 28
I doubt the book is copyrighted because the professor printed and stapled it together at home. Scan away!
EwahWeeWah 21
That's genius and fullproof... OP should definitely do that.
misspulkadot24 17
Hey, they have the power to give or take that passing grade to let you graduate. With great power comes great responsibility...and apparently publishing rights.
fleckney26 25
In the UK, the teacher does not decide on your grade, they mark your tests, but a handful are sent off for moderation to ensure he is giving fair grades to everyone.
Sandsh8rk 36
Shovw the book up the professor's ass, since the book is full of shit.
accioshannon 17
I feel as if that's a "last resort" course of action.
DanielT1994 19
According to OP, he pulled it out of his ass. It would only be fair to put it back where it belongs.
Big_Money_27 7
Scumbag teacher...
ihaveasushicat 24
Well if he wrote it, he will probably teach out of it. And if it's a piece if shit, like you claim, at least it will be easy to study and past his class?
Ultimate_No 7
College professors love selling students their book and then never actually using it just to make extra cash
1PersonIsMyWorld 22
9-- what's a sushi cat?
fleckney26 25
No, because in England it is a national test, so if the teacher teaches the wrong thing, you'll fail the test
Ebola_fml 20
Some publishing companies give rewards to professors who require their book. I had a few classes that we never even needed to open required books for the course.
lubbockgaymale 7
The great higher education system at work! I had a professor in a masters' level BA course require we purchase a $60 'manual' at a copy center.... turns out it was all photocopies of articles from business magazines, some over 20 yrs old!, and I later found out he got 50% of the sales back in his pocket! Of course, he didn't lecture on any of the material, and it was never in a test. Oh, and the 'manual' couldn't be sold back as a used text, of course!!!!