Today, I drove to my college campus for my 8 a.m. class, parked, walked the mile and a half to my classroom, just to find out class had been cancelled. The prof didn't send an email because she couldn't remember her password. I paid $1200 to be taught by this woman, who has a doctorate. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I drove 3 hours to get to a class, just to have the professor leave a note on the classroom door saying that she wasn't coming. FML
Today, I spent an excruciating hour walking to campus with a broken leg, only to find my professor had left a note on the door saying class was canceled. FML
Today, I had to go meet my professor at 12. I wound up showing up almost an hour late. Why? Because she doesn't teach at the campus I registered at. I wound up having to visit TWO different campuses before I reached the right one. FML
Today, for the first time this semester, I was able to get parking in time for my Wednesday class. The professor was sick and class was cancelled. FML
Today, I woke up at 7, got to college by 7:40 to receive an email that my 8:00 a.m. class got cancelled. I stayed there until 12:00 p.m. for my second class, to then find out that the cancelled class was the one at 12:00, not 8:00. FML
Today, my college English teacher told me if I wanted an explanation for my grade I would have to schedule a conference to come to her office. It's an online class. I took an online class because I can't come in. FML
Today, after attending lectures for months, studying for weeks, and spending hours writing a 15-page research paper, I was informed that due to technological issues during registration, I was not enrolled in the class. 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, my professor cancelled class so I turned off my alarm. When I woke up, I checked my email again. There was no email from my professor. It was a dream. FML
Today, I received an email from my professor informing me that if I missed another class, I'd be dropped from the course. I have field experience to complete tomorrow as part of my major. I emailed her two weeks ago to let her know, and we're excused by the dean. She doesn't care. FML
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Top comments
Tyrez 32
Just because you have a degree doesn't mean you are any smarter.
Emmaray 16
I'm sorry, OP. It's frustrating when professors don't make a way communicate things like that. Especially for an early morning class! Hopefully she'll learn from this experience and write down her email password, or make the password "password"... or something. Haha.
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Comments (64)
alexanderjoe10 17
Sounds like wonderful joy :(
Calkinse 13
That sucks
coried91 28
There is a button for that response.
Estrangement 25
Mmhmm.. Very insightful #2.
juicy_extasy 25
Ouch!
MJS103 15
Why do people down-vote responses like this?
smoothies14 32
Because they are thoughtless reactions that in no way contribute to an actual discussion. It's annoying and frankly makes me imagine a 12 year old writing it just because they're bored in class.
Emmaray 16
I'm sorry, OP. It's frustrating when professors don't make a way communicate things like that. Especially for an early morning class! Hopefully she'll learn from this experience and write down her email password, or make the password "password"... or something. Haha.
chinaski7628 32
I don't know why the prof didn't call the university IT or even someone in her department to send out an email blast (or at least IT could help her retrieve her password). Surely there is someone on campus who could do that.
booman342 13
What you do is ask what her password is after she resets it, and then leave sticky notes all over her classroom and car. She'll never forget again.
KVKdragon 26
That teacher really should consider downloading an app to save all her passwords and lock them if getting locked out of her email affects people such as yourself, OP
countryb_cth 38
She would probably forget that password too.
Tyrez 32
Just because you have a degree doesn't mean you are any smarter.
chinaski7628 32
I'm sure OPs prof is smart in her subject area (let's just hope her doctorate isn't in computer sciences). I had a lot of profs who were incredibly brilliant in their field, but lacked common sense. I had a logic professor who could never figure out how the campus self-serve fro yo bar worked.... It was quite the spectacle watching him. Inevitably, someone would step up and help him out.
MSCCG 16
Yeah, one degree probably doesn't make you any smarter. Two or three is a different issue. "having a degree doesn't make you smarter" is a nice catchphrase but that doesn't capture the entire picture, and allows people to dismiss academia as if anyone can get a doctorate. People forget things. It's not something restricted to dumb people.
shay_serendipity 29
I'm taking the unpopular opinion here and saying it can work vice versa- just because you aren't the brightest with technology doesn't necessarily make you any less qualified. I've had great teachers in the past who taught well but were just a little slow tech-wise.
jrapp 8
Ntbf?
Tannasgh 22
Yell at the TA...
nicole1765 14
Why? Then you are just making someone else's day worse by doing that. It is the professor's fault, not the TA's.
igg125 30
Look at the bright side, No class!!
EyRaB 17
And the downsides: 1) losing out on getting some extra sleep. 2) you now have to either make up that work yourself or have your prof speed through later material