Today, I finished my position paper for my social studies class and read it to my mom to get her opinion on it. After I'm done reading it, she asks me if I copied it from somewhere because it sounded very professional and smart, and it didn't sound like me. 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 got a paper back that was given a zero for suspected plagiarism. Everything I wrote was my own thought and analysis. My instructor basically thinks my paper is smarter than I am. He won't listen, even when I explain my thought processes throughout the piece. FML
Today, I turned in an overdue English assignment at college. My instructor accused me of plagiarism, writing that my sentence structure was "TO" good. Seriously? FML
Today, at school, I got in trouble for plagiarizing on a paper. The subject of said paper was where I see myself in ten years. FML
Today, I got an A+ on a writing assignment. My teacher asked me three times if I really did write this article myself, and didn't memorise an article from the Internet. FML
Today, my classmate told me she can copy an article from the internet and hand that in, as long as she cites it at the end. FML
Today, after having too many projects for end of term, I asked to borrow my sister's paper that she used for the same class last year. After submitting it online, I found the example paper that the teacher handed out. My teacher used my sister's paper from last year as an example for us. FML
Today, after I'd being sick all day, my boyfriend volunteered to do my very long sociology paper. I was later notified by my professor that the paper I'd submitted was completely plagiarized. FML
Today, I handed in an internship assignment that I have been working on for months. Once submitted, a pop-up showed, stating the assignment was 100% plagiarized. What was it plagiarized from? A student paper. My own, to be more specific - the exact same paper I had uploaded seconds before. FML
Today, I failed an assignment because the person I paid to do it plagiarized the entire thing. FML
Today, I submitted my 5000 word assignment. When I got home, my mother asked if I'd checked it through one more time like she always warned me to do. I hadn't, therefore hadn't noticed the paragraph on page 11 that she'd written, telling me to pay attention to the small details. FML
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teiso_fml 0
I've had a similar experience in highschool. It was a presentation that we had to partner up for, and I happened to partner with one of the smartest girls in class. Incidently, we both left it to the last minute (both of us to blame - we were both lazy) but then, the day before, I got an idea of what to do and wrote the whole thing. Afterwards, the teacher said, "That was one of the best and cleverest presentations I've come across in a long time." Everyone thought that my partner came up with it all and I did nothing. No one believed that it was my idea at all.
TomFantastic 0
Yeah I really hate it when I get told my writing seems professional.
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idkweird 0
It could just be that she hasn't read your stuff in a long time. TBH, when my brother sent me his last essay to have me look it over, I was IMPRESSED. It was FAR better than anything I had read of his before. I figured my mom helped him, but she didn't, lol. It's a compliment that she almost didn't believe you'd written it!
Mike_H0ck 1
who cares?
Newbie21 1
Nickel05 15
Take it as a compliment and stop complaining about it!
yourefreakindumb 0
So what's the problem? You don't sound like a nerd dingus, that's what she's sayin.
jupiterguyy 0
in my opinion I think it was just yur mom sorta sarcastly trying to tell yu indirectly that yur paper was great
wiird0 0
it must have been really good
lives_ppl 0
People really should know that others usually talk differently in everyday situations from when they write formal papers...
tbaaaby 0
the teacher thought my friend did that an had her rewrite parts of it then took off 20% because of it. she wrote the whole thing herself.
XxCoolPersonxX 0
doesnt that mean your mom gave it ?