By Anonymous - 16/05/2009 14:20 - United States

Today, I found out that my writing teacher entered in one of my paper grades wrong. After many emails, she said she can't change my grade unless I fax her the original. I need that grade fixed so I can keep my scholarship. I can’t find the paper anywhere. That one paper could cost me $30,000. FML
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Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML
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designedlikedice 0

This is why you save your papers on the computer.

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SlightlySadistic 0

#1: By original, the teacher means the graded copy so that she can verify that the OP isn't BSing her about the wrong grade thing. And, OP, that really sucks. I hope you find it.

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blinkblink 0

Umm...#3 wrote "Save your computers on your computers." Whoops. Also, that does suck that the teacher entered the grade in wrong to begin with.

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CLW_fml 9

#60, haha @ you for being bitter over someone getting a scholarship. And everyone saying YDI, it's not his fault. The professor put in the wrong grade. It's her fault, only he has to pay for it.

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phluffmuffin 0

One paper will not cost you 30,000. The fact that you are a shitty student and failed to apply yourself will end up costing you 30,000.

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deaditegirl 0

YDI. If it was that important, you should have kept at least one backup copy until you knew everything like grades and whatnot had all gone through ok.

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graintrain 0

YDI for being too stupid to keep track of a paper that you were obviously fully aware you needed to keep track of if you wanted to keep your scholarship. How many other papers did you throw out too that could have put you in this exact same situation. If you are this stupid you really aren't deserving of that scholarship - it should go to someone with a little common sense

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cxal_fml 0

I've taken 21 credits in one semester before (including honors classes) plus worked full time while in school - never had any trouble at all saving any of graded papers, or double checking my grades to make sure everything was correct. I'd think someone who has earned a $30,000 scholarship could at the very least, keep hold of an important graded assignment for one semester. **Funny typo number 3 - how do you save your computers on your computer?

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wishfullthinking_fml 0

wow-this is a really awful sitch! Hope you found it and got that scholarship- and to all the idiots saying you should have "saved a copy" on your computer? Hello, dummies, no one saves a copy of the graded paper on their computer, have a little empathy lest karma come get your ass!

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Lelio_fml 0

oh ****.. that happened to me to. my teacher already graded it, it was a good mark, and since i got it back i deleted the paper off the computer. i lost the actual paper to.. and then the TA told me she needs it back cause she didn't record it properly o.0;;

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laurasaurusrex 0

Why are you writing about your sad life, instead of looking for the paper?

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srobhrob 0

this happened to me recently.i scored all A's on an online Intellectual Property course but the teacher gave me a C. I asked why and he said i did not take the final. I HAD taken the final, and had printed the copy to PDF of my computer as proof, but since my screen got cracked, i had to send my computer off to be repaired and did not have a copy. and Blackboard somehow erased the score and proof i had taken it. luckily the teacher let me "retake" the final (and i made 2 pts higher than i did the first time. but i still should not have had to take the exam over again. most schools hgave a policy where you can appeal to the board of appeals for up to a year after the grade was given. so appeal away. NO ONE is required to keep those papers unless the school says so, but even then, you should keep them anyway, just in case this happens. everyone is human.

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