Today, I realized that my Twitter profile was very public when my business professor made fun of student tweets in class. My tweet went, "Totally bullshitting this business report" about the report I'd just handed in, worth a large portion of my grade. 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, after I took my first set of exams, my professor posted on Twitter, scoffing at how stupid one student's answer was. The answer he quoted was one that I wrote. FML
Today, I got the best grade in class on my economics midterm. Rather than tell me I did a good job, my professor criticized me in front of everyone about how I was working "too hard". FML
Today, my university professor asked us to submit anonymous course feedback. I wrote three paragraphs criticizing his lectures. Ten minutes later, I realized I'd left my full name at the bottom of the page. FML
Today, my college instructor told me I hadn't actually failed a big exam as he originally said. It turns out he'd mixed me up with another student. Now thanks to the power of gossip, half my class thinks I slept with him so he'd switch my grade with the other student's. FML
Today, as a teaching assistant, I somehow uploaded my personal notes instead of the lecture slides. My “notes” included reminders like “slow down, idiot”, “this makes no sense”, and “students will hate this part.” Several students emailed me saying they appreciated the honesty. I would've appreciated the ground opening and swallowing me whole. 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 gathered the courage to participate in a class discussion. My professor laughed at me. 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, we got a notification about a test in my official college group. I decided to bitch about it with my friends in our group… Unfortunately, I didn't realise I'd actually said all of it in the official college group. FML
Today I woke up feeling good and ready for my online business class final, only to find that it had somehow been submitted and graded with a zero. FML
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HowieDoIt 21
Your grade is sure to take a tumblr.
logic368 8
Once you tweet it, it's public info!
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logic368 8
Once you tweet it, it's public info!
whos_ur_daddy1 19
Gotta be careful what you post!
jessi_sunshine 26
In more ways than one. The Library of Congress catalogs every tweet ever made.
kyu_Q 19
YDI. I have no sympathy for people who post the dumb shit they do on twitter or Facebook and then get busted.
mk58 31
Your prof must have lot of time on his hands to be snooping through his students' tweets.
lilhellian 27
It doesn't really take that much time.. He gives out a test, that gives him free time on the computer..
mk58 31
True, but you would expect that they would have better things to do with their time. They're professors, for heaven's sake. Usually it's the teaching assistants that find out the odd things that students post, which is why I thought it was weird.
sux4u121 10
Mk58, so basically what you're saying is, professors shouldn't have any free tome and they should ALWAYS have work to do? That's pretty dumb if you ask me.
mk58 31
That's not what I said at all. I said that you would expect that they would have less time to go through 200+ students' tweets (assuming that OP is still doing their undergrad).
mk58 31
Forget it. I just thought it was a little odd. Perhaps it's just some professors. I was in sciences in my undergrad and all of my profs always made themselves seem super busy.
emilyjgraham 34
49, of course they may have appeared busy but they were also probably checking tweets!
diaspora_fml 26
Do you understand what a twitter feed is? Tweets scroll right on by without "going through" anything, and the words "bullshit business report" would stand out to a business professor on report day.
jameen 11
Well that was unexpected... But seriously dude, get some security settings
twaumat 28
or, you know, actually do the work?
VeganVampyre 27
Nahh, highly overrated.
HowieDoIt 21
Your grade is sure to take a tumblr.
WCARlover 35
With a name like yours, great things should be expected of you. Awesome comment lol
perdix 31
#5, he might as well Facebook it, he's going to get Kik'd out. He shouldn't Yelp about it, because he hasn't shown a Flickr of Pinterest in the subject.
HowieDoIt 21
Yahoo would he would get caught in his laziness? He should really set his AIM higher, because he's in a Monster of a problem right now.
ughnotthatgirl 9
He's Insta-ntly out of the game.
littlekellilee 45
That's the same thing as those people talking about cheating on Facebook some years ago. Because it was on Facebook it was public, so it was proof. They got kicked out of University. Just be happy you didn't tweet about ripping off someone else's paper!
DocBastard 40
This FML could vie for the record for the greatest number of "YDI" votes of all time. If you're going to do something half-assed, at least have the sense not to brag about it, mormon. Maybe when your professor makes your grade just as bullshit as your report, you'll learn a very valuable lesson.
BlowinChronic 18
Hey, not every Mormon half-asses business reports and brags about it.
BulldogHoops 14
THOSE DAMNED MORMONS!
perdix 31
#7, is this a massive auto-correct fail or is there some kind of collective brain fart going around where everyone writes "Mormon" when they mean "moron?"
DocBastard 40
I swear I wrote "moron"! This is some Church of Latter Day Saints conspiracy, I tell you!
NurseJonathan 9
I think it's the Illuminati that set him up for this one.
Xatraris 38
Off subject of the Mormons out there, but damn, Doc, the patient in your pic had such a great night his ass needed a drink. That's some scary stuff.
NurseJonathan 9
The patient could not relieve the stress bottled up! *Ba-dum shh!*
TourettesGuyFTW 26
Doc, why you hating on Mormons? Such a racist! (NB: see next FML for ref)
maosquare 18
Mormonism is not a race.
perdix 31
Are you kidding? Business reports are total bullshit! He probably thought you were brown-nosing to get a better grade.
Connect 10
You're a mormon, OP. Of all the useless crap people tweet, you tweet that.
perdix 31
#9, look out, Mitt Romney is going to come kick your ass. Mormons with MBAs won't put up with the kind of shit you're slinging.
Connect 10
You mods really don't like me do you? You wanna have a reason to delete or change my posts. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
LaLince 40
YDI (You Dumb Idiot)
MeLikeBigBoom 8
Yeah, believe it or not, employers stalk future employees on social networking sites before they're hired to see if their personality is acceptable for the job.
lochiamochia 25
Good reason not to have any social networking site be identifiable by your real name. Always keep the virtual world and real world separate if you have any inclination to type/say/do something stupid.