Today, marks my fifth day being an English teacher's assistant. I spent it like the other four days: grading and editing terrible Teen Wolf, One Direction and Doctor Who high school fan-fiction. Six months until I get out of here. 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, during a regular checkup at the dentist, I got a wisdom tooth pulled out which resulted in me looking like a fat hamster. Tomorrow is my first day as an English teacher in high school. FML
Today, the Chinese student I've been teaching English to got on stage in front of hundreds of people to read her final essay. She ended with, "What a fucking day." I don't swear, and I no longer have a job. FML
Today, I've been sick for five days and I have two college essays and a exam coming up, along with a few other assignments. I've been working non-stop for five days with less than six hours of sleep per day, and more assignments are flowing in as I am working. FML
Today, my teacher said that since I was sick last week, I had to do all the work that the others had done, which I didn't know about because no one said anything about it. So now I've got to watch a total of 5 hours-worth of documentaries, and write analysis of them. Before tomorrow. FML
Today, I was hired as a student assistant. I was excited, until I learned on my very first day that "Supporting the academic staff in their research" actually meant walking the professor's dog. FML
Today, my parents got a call from my English teacher. She told them that I have 14 days of detention because I've been cutting class. I've been there every day, but apparently she never noticed me. FML
Today, I had 15 teenagers literally laugh in my face when I asked them to be quiet. I'm a student teaching in a high school, which is the culmination of 2 years of my life and $20,000, and I might in fact actually hate doing it. FML
Today, it was the last day of school. My students shared what they thought of me. Expecting to hear wonderful things, all of their complaints can be summed up in a few words: I'm a liar, a killer of dreams, I need to grow up, and I was a big disappointment to them. I'm a first-year teacher. FML
Today, I kissed my 3.5 GPA goodbye because my English teacher was too caught up planning her parrot's birthday party to put in the credit I deserve for three different essays I completed for her class. FML
Today, I realized some of my English students have just been going to their Philosophy professor to help them complete their essays. FML
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DocBastard 40
Count your blessings - no Twilight.
ItsAUnicorn 27
Good luck with reading stories that start all innocent, cute and lovely... And always end with gay sex :)
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Comments (86)
Mynorr_ 4
poor you aha #struggle
Rainhawk94 27
This isn't twitter #gtfo
The_Tenth_Doctor 14
Whats wrong with doctor who.
siggy_mcsigx 22
Just give them all D- and be done with it!
goth_pixie 15
Doctor Who is cool, One Direction is ok, they have cool music. But really, Teen Wolf? Embarrassing.
tj4234 36
One direction are the only band I respect less than Justin Bieber. At least he attempts to write his own songs. One Direction fanfiction is a terrible idea. I mean how can you even have fanfiction about it? It's not even a television/radio show or a book... However teen wolf makes more sense, as it is a T.V. show.
upallnight11 19
I'm sorry to break it to you but one direction actually writes alot of their songs themselves. Ignorance is bliss.
Lomus 24
No, Wrong Direction really don't write their own songs - they might write, but I doubt you could call it music.
JoshTheTacoMan 19
Doctor who fan fic can be pretty good
me1224 12
You must not have been raised right, cuz Doctor Who is the shit
Epikouros 32
I remember writing a story in high school about ******* a milk bottle (yes, we still had milk bottles back then). Now I wonder what the Dr Who fans write about the sonic screwdriver.
RyuuChi93 1
I have to say, I don't want to bash people's preferences, but no matter the context/fandom, bad fanfics are bad fanfics. The OP states specifically that at least the majority of them were terrible. So yes, Doctor Who is awesome (personally I'm not a fan of One Direction, or the new Teen Wolf series), but the fanfics can be just as hit or miss as anything else.
animalxcrackers 20
Could be worse. It could be twilight fanfiction.
xnyletak 17
Welcome to the world of the literary arts. You have to sift through a pile of crap before you find gold. On a side note, I'm glad high school kids are actually doing some creative writing, even if it is fan fiction.