By iAmPaul - 11/09/2014 19:16 - Canada - Ottawa

Today, I entered the lecture hall where my class takes place. I sat in the front row as usual, but I noticed that none of the other students looked familiar. I quickly realised that I was in the wrong class after a different professor showed up and told me to get out. FML
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iAmPaul 49

Hey everyone, Here's a bit more info: It's only the second week of classes, and I don't have my schedule completely memorized yet. I thought my class was at 1 PM, but I realised it was at 2:30 PM. I thought the crowd of students outside the class was pretty different from last week's (my class is a computer class - comprised of mostly males); there were mostly females there. Went in the class with everyone, sat down, waited for the prof to show up. Instead, the prof for the actual class that was happening showed up and she put up the PowerPoint for some sort of psychology class. She looked at me and told me that I'd better get out before it gets too embarrassing. I quickly and nervously packed up my things and rushed back out of the class while feverishly checking my watch and feeling the stares of 150+ students. Rookie mistake, especially for a third-year student like myself. >_

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Erto 17

Too easy, detonate yourself in a blaze of glory. You might die, but as they say in street fighter, your soul still burns.

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MLardinos 14

I was looking for a comment like this. Was starting to wonder if I was the only one to think of HIMYM.

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annarcheer 19

that's mean. he should have been nice about it

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malaak2 16

Lol the exact same thing happened to me yesterday, I just left the room laughing

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catmint 13

At least you weren't naked. Would've been a childhood nightmare come true.

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iAmPaul 49

Hey everyone, Here's a bit more info: It's only the second week of classes, and I don't have my schedule completely memorized yet. I thought my class was at 1 PM, but I realised it was at 2:30 PM. I thought the crowd of students outside the class was pretty different from last week's (my class is a computer class - comprised of mostly males); there were mostly females there. Went in the class with everyone, sat down, waited for the prof to show up. Instead, the prof for the actual class that was happening showed up and she put up the PowerPoint for some sort of psychology class. She looked at me and told me that I'd better get out before it gets too embarrassing. I quickly and nervously packed up my things and rushed back out of the class while feverishly checking my watch and feeling the stares of 150+ students. Rookie mistake, especially for a third-year student like myself. >_

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bowribbonmama 2

Don't feel bad. This happened to a student in my college today. It was in Ontario also.

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flux_panic 18

How did the teacher recognize you with 150 other students in the room?

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HeadlessSparrow 20

during my 4th year of college (I'm a 5th year now), I went to the wrong room on a different floor when it was in the middle of the semester. I got out before the class started... so it happens to the best of us!!!

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iAmPaul 49

#41 Because I had the manual for my class out on the desk/counter along with my open notebook from that other class. I stuck out like a sore thumb.

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bowribbonmama 2

No, it wasn't him. This is a small class of around 20 students and was a law class.

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simsimbeep 13

It has to happen at least once, so don't you worry.

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IAmMe204 25

I don't know if they do this in other universities, but in mine you get your schedule with all your classes throughout the week so I just take a screenshot of it and when I'm not sure of a class all I need is the photo. Anyway everyone makes rookie mistakes. :)

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iAmPaul 49

#70 - Yeah, I have that too, it's just that I guess I felt confident enough in my schedule at that point. Obviously I didn't know it well enough. :P

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sweetnsourrr 11

Some people have a photogenic memory, I'm one of them.

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iAmPaul 49

Me too, though with it only being the second week of classes along with the fact that I have other classes at 1 PM on other days of the week, I mixed them up in my head and thought it was at 1 PM, when it was really at 2:30 PM.

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dezire43 7

you do know what photogenic means right?

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Kristoffer 35

#80: His memory takes good photos.

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xlord 27

Photogenic means the inability to forget. So basically even the tiniest detail about a seemingly unimportant event would be remembered. I doubt anyone in this thread has photogenic memory.

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Catahoulaqueen_fml 17

Yeah, you guys don't know what that word means... lol Photogenic means you look good in photos. You're thinking of photographic. Don't correct someone if you don't know what you're talking about

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xlord 27

Ohh wow I feel like a huge derp now. I guess my mind kept autocorrecting it to photographic. >__

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sweetnsourrr 11

Sorry!!!! #85 Again sorry, that's exactly what I meant, I didn't realize what I typed. Knew it didn't make any sense, but went along with it anyway. I meant to say that I actually have photographic memory. photogenic memory, lol.

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geekchick88 17

First of all, it isn't a "photographic" memory. It's called an eidetic memory. Second of all, the odds of you both winning the lottery AND being hit by lightning multiple times are higher than the odds of you truly having an eidetic memory. It is so rare as to be virtually non-existent in adults and no cases have actually been proven beyond a doubt. You may have an excellent memory, but it is not eidetic.

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sweetnsourrr 11

My memory is down right awful, I can only remember faces and details about a person, but everything else I can't remember. You can be a person I don't give a flying shit about, but will forever remember your damn face.

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samuelbeathard 15

#89, photographic memory and eidetic memory are two different things. Photographic memory means that you can remember visual details very well, while eidetic memory means that you can remember every detail observed, even specific smells or sounds.

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Scotticus117 11

It's ok I showed up like halfway through a class after a friend texted me asking where I was. It was a 2pm class but for some reason I was thinking 3pm. But at my school you are allowed to sit In on classes you aren't enrolled in. I feel like the professor should've suggested that option

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knoxxx 22

I feel like after so many years with so many schedules, sometimes I would think I had a schedule memorized only to have gone to my class from the last quarter on that day during that time. Don't worry too much, OP, I think most students can sympathize with you.

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PegLegRacing 34

I can't imagine a class that large... I go to a small private school where I've had a half dozen classes of more than 25, maybe 2 of which were about 40, and I have several with less than 10.

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Khaleesi_26 30

I've done that before, except i got on the wrong bus. It's embarrassing but it happens to the best of us, so no worries OP!

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AnyaS 19

I did something similar a few years ago in college. I went to a class an hour early and sat in my usual place. It took me until about the end of class, after we did an in class paper and turned it in, to realize that I was in the wrong class. It was the same material/lesson and teacher (who didn't realize I was meant to be in the next session), just the students were different. So I shrugged my shoulders and laughed at myself for the mistake. No one ever found out and I probably did get a grade on that paper. I bet the teacher figured she put it in the wrong class file.

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buckdharma 37

Hey boy, who told you you could learn in here?

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ponylegs89 24

I once got out of one of my classes early but didn't realize it. Normally I start my next class right after I got out of the class that got out early. I walked into class thinking I was late and ran down the steps to get in my seat and someone I didn't know was sitting where one of my friends normally sat. I asked her who she was and she looked at me funny and said I was interrupting her class. I quickly apologized and ran out of there and sat outside but when that class ended I heard people walking by me and one of them went "wasn't that the girl that interrupted our class?" I about died lol

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