Today, I wrote the most beautiful college application essay ever, ten minutes before the online deadline. Instead of clicking "submit", I clicked the button next to it that said "return". The entire essay vanished into internet wasteland. 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, after pulling an all-nighter on an essay, I submitted it one minute before the deadline and felt like a genius. Later, I reopened the file and discovered I'd uploaded the rough draft instead of the final version. The last line ended with “fix this later,” which was not my finest academic work. 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 went to check my grade, which was posted for an essay for my comp 1 class. I got a zero. I was devastated only to find out I never actually clicked the submit document button. My grade dropped 20 points. FML
Today, after meticulously rereading my application, merging references, budgets, academic transcripts and itineraries for an amazing scholarship, I clicked submit, only to remember that the system was on Daylight Savings time, which we don't have in my state! I missed out on $2,500 by 3 minutes. FML
Today, I was writing an essay while sleep-deprived. In between actually writing, I started typing my thoughts. It was only after I’d submitted the essay that I realized that I hadn’t deleted the random words. My teacher can see my early-morning rambling about potatoes. I have no way to delete it. FML
Today, I mailed out a college application that is going to another country. I paid $250 for the application and $11 for shipping. I just realized that I forgot to sign the bottom of the application. FML
Today, after submitting my college application, I noticed that I mistyped "math enthusiast" as "meth enthusiast". FML
Today, after submitting a 500-word essay to a writing contest, I found out that I lost to someone who wrote 3 sentences. FML
Today, I borrowed my dad's laptop to type an essay. While I was saving it, I noticed some curious looking files and I opened them. They were rejection letters from all the colleges I had applied to. My dad had been forging them so he wouldn't have to pay for my tuition bills. FML
Today, I was taking a final test online that would account for 65% of my final grade, for which I'd worked extremely hard. I had one submission for the test, and my roommate thought it would be funny to click the "Submit All" Button while I was getting a glass of water. I got a 13%. FML
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rexchanna 3
ydi for not taking the proper time to write the application. And for writing it in the browser. and for not turning it in earlier.
I_found_nemo 0
Learn a lesson, maybe? COPY AND PASTE FROM A DOCUMENT!
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Devikarawr 0
fyl for obvious reasons but ydi for not drafting it on word first.
gazerock123 0
YDI! 1. Type it in Word then Copy + Paste it into the submission box. 2. Why are you submitting your application only TEN MINUTES before the deadline...? Did you even consider the possibility of high incoming traffic on that website towards that time? You could have lagged real bad or even crashed...
Ajjas013 6
How about Ctrl + S. The universal save button.
epeets 1
dude, if you're gonna type something important and long on the internet always remember to COPY AND SAVE!!
andlifesuxagain 0
Look at the bright side, you just saved a shit load of money by not flunking out...
xpxp2002 4
Simple rule for any online applications: Never type anything longer than a paragraph into an online form. Use Word/OpenOffice.org Writer/Notepad (if that's all you have) then Copy/Paste it in when you're done. If you use Word or Writer you'll even get an instant spell-check before you submit it.
sportsnut 0
YDI. you should have already have written your letters and WHY THE **** would you EVER write it IN the box they give to you...what the hell is wrong with you? its called word, google document or some other word processor, that way, when retards like you do stupid shit, you still have the document. are you really sure that you are college material. I say again YDI
IllegalLight 0
They could have meant: 1. the button acted as a back button and took them back to the previous screen or 2. they accidently had highlighted the paragraph and then got rid of it To OP - Sucks, but YDI. After all those years of high school and this age of technology, haven't you learned to back up your shit?
MoobyTheCow 2
1. If you think it's the most beautiful ever, it's probably average at best. Especially if you didn't revise it, which you probably didn't if you wrote it on the web page up to the deadline. It sounds like you rushed and half-assed it. YDI. 2. You should have applied 2 months ago. YDI. 3. You wrote it on the web page instead of a word processor. YDI.
xenomorph 0
Very likely system broken: most websites request confirmation.