Today, my mum deleted my college research assignment on rape because the subject was too vulgar. I had worked on it for the past month and it was worth 50% of my grade. It's due tomorrow. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I am expected to write an 8 page essay, due tonight. The reason why I don't even have one page yet? My mom decided to take away the only computer I have the essay saved on because I have an 'F' in English. The essay is for English. FML
Today, I found out that my ten-page paper, which has taken me two months to construct perfectly and is worth 30% of my grade, was on the wrong book. It’s due tomorrow. FML
Today, I was trying to show my mother how much detail I'd put into a group project that I had to present tomorrow. I then deleted the project, thinking that I was just removing it from my phone. Everyone's research and my three days of hard work went with it. FML
Today, at college, I was frantically trying to finish an essay on gay rights that was due less than an hour later. In the end I failed, because the college internet filters kept classifying every single page containing the information I needed as "sex", and blocked it all. 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 lost a grade on an essay, because according to my teacher, I put much more detail into my analytical essay than I should have. FML
Today, I failed an assignment because the person I paid to do it plagiarized the entire thing. FML
Today, my baby threw up all over my homework, which I worked really hard on and is due tomorrow. Moral of the story is don’t have a kid when you're in high school. FML
Today, my brother stole my hard drive and wiped it. My hard drive had a 10-page school project on it. The project is due tomorrow. FML
Today, I found out that I chose a wrong class and my 30-page paper worth 10 credit points that I wrote for that class is basically worthless now, and my graduation might be postponed another semester just because of that. FML
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Top comments
TulipLuver 0
That is terrible! I actually think it is great that you wrote your paper on that. It is something that affects people. Believe me. I know.
m3l_fml 0
Your mom must be those strong religious people that believe rape and murder never occurs. Tell her to get out of her shell.
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BlueHurricane 0
That's why I always keep backup copies on my flash drive. But yes, you should still be able to recover the file, even if it means paying for a program to do it.
cocky 0
Normally I'm a dick in my comments, but I'll be helpful. There are programs to get files back that have been deleted. Try Smart Undelete. :)
padlarf 14
OH MANDY AND YOU CAME AND YOU GAVE WITHOUT TAKING AND I SENT YOU AWAY OH MANDY
JarJarBinks_fml 0
I lol'd, so hard
JarJarBinks_fml 0
Well, this guy lives in Australia. It's somewhere around 7pm there now. Good luck to him recovering it in time to hand it in
Finnboghi 0
It takes days to get an FML posted, dude. This was over long ago. But seriously, as others have suggested, try an undeleter. As long as nothing has been written over it (the possibility of this varies depending on the exact state of your hard drive, and many other factors), you can still get it back. Unless you're on a mac and she used the secure delete; that ensures that the erased data can never be recovered through any means.
cr4ckb0n3f4n 0
if it's on a normal hard disk, you can recover it pretty easily.
silvrdollr 0
A few solutions for the future: (1) Have a separate account on the computer for each user. Don't let your mom near your documents. (2) If your mom won't let you do #1, then look up how to protect a document from being deleted. (3) If you're on a Mac, use your "MobileMe" account to save a copy on iDisk. If you're on a Windows PC, look into online backup services so you can save a copy off your computer. (4) Flash drive backup. (5) Every now and then, e-mail a copy of the document to yourself. That way, you have a backup on the computer in your mail file (in case the Documents folder one gets trashed by mom) and probably a copy still stored on the e-mail server. (6) Force mom to call your teacher to explain what she's done. Your teacher will feel sorry for you (because teachers believe that its their duty to "liberate" intelligent kids from non-academic parents, whom the teachers think of as trailer trash, even though that may be far from the truth), and give you a good grade out of sympathy. He may start speaking to you more slowly, though, and start using smaller words.
Rakshasa23 0
@ #38 My face just slammed into a wall o' text. Nice tips though.
iJack 0
if she pays the $99 fro mobile me.
BlueAthame 0
Well she's hurting herself more if she pays your tuition.
Hyozanryu 0
YDI for writing a research paper on rape.
Hyozanryu 0
Also, on a different note, try using a deleted file recovery program.
xmagicgirlxx 0
1. password protect your computer. 2. always back up your files on a flashdrive.