By winterbee123 - 25/10/2012 08:07 - United States - Portland

Today, I got back my history paper. The whole paper had been crossed out and at the end, my professor had written "Really?!" I still don't know what I did wrong. FML
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winterbee123 9

Hi all - I'm OP. I actually went to talk to my teacher and it turns out when he tells us to do "citations" he automatically assumes we know he actually means "footnotes". I accidentally started crying during our meeting and I think it freaked him out, so he's offering me a chance to rewrite it! Ah, the power of a girl's tears!

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Top comments

SortOfSexy 4

Have you thought about talking about it to her or him?

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unknown_user5566 26

Everything, apparently.

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Comments

flockz 19

everyday in class, every 3 minutes or so, you should raise your hand and ask "Really??" to whatever your teacher is saying at that exact moment.

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Welshite 39

That's what you want to do if you no longer want to live. Professors DO NOT like to be interrupted and teased like that.

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unknown_user5566 26

To be fair, Welshite, students do not like receiving meaningless feedback, either.

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unknown_user5566 26

Welshite's a professor, right? *Waits for Welshite to destroy flockz*

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Welshite 39

*grabs a baseball bat* C'mon flockz, say that ONE MORE TIME...

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ManInTheMachine 19

You're probably one of those people that quotes fictional novels and typs lik dis throughout the essay, or writes an essay like you're talking to a friend. That, my friend, is what you did wrong.

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Shadow_Phantom 26

I don't think they type in that manner... otherwise their FML submission would have probably been rejected, not accepted.

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ManInTheMachine 19

True. Maybe they did the wrong essay assignment. ****, I dunno.

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CheeseTron 15

You probably just wrote a shitty paper.

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tj4234 35

was it American history? Because if you wrote more than a sentence it was probably fictional.

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unknown_user5566 26

What? So you believe America's history is completely fake? Hmm.

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ambear26 14

This comment doesn't even make any sense. Can someone please explain to me what he's trying to say?

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ambear26 14

Thank you penguin wasn't sure what his point was trying to get across. Edit: I get thumbed down because I don't understand a comment ? What?

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smurfsarwales 9

He was making fun of how short American history is... Am I the only one actually reading people's comments?

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Ryan8878 21

Well with the frequency at which revisionist history is pushed on the populace as well as some states changing their educational texts to support a religious ideology and history as truth (Texas I am looking at you); one may assume that American history is becoming less truthful. Not to mention the apparent amnesia half of America has regarding the last decade. Some might attribute it to Romnesia. ;-)

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Psych101 9

My AP US History class that I am currently taking would beg to differ.

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tj4234 35

>.>. Guys it was just a joke. I'm a history student myself. I know that America has a lot of history, even before it was settled by Britain, France and Spain. For example, the vikings were in America :).

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ElhonnaDS 10

If you link the paper, I'm sure the rest of us could shed some light on the situation.

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jelly713 19

Grammatical errors or assumptions made without backing it up. An instructor I had crossed out a paragraph in front of me for that reason. Pretty harsh but it was as if he crossed out the whole essay except for a quarter of it.

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BananEnigma 24

I only ever got things fully crossed out if they were redundant or unnecessary.... :/. I don't understand why teachers can't just offer constructive criticism for things like grammatical errors and the like.

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katie887 2

Did u copy it? Or have completely absurd ideas?

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bReLiNg 18

I don't like those types of teachers. I have a math teacher who critiques my "8"s because they aren't "good enough" I'd just ask if you could have a redo and live with the passive aggressive jerk.

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BubbleGrunge 18

While I agree you should have asked what the problem was, your professor seems like an ass. As an educator, "really" isn't going to help you on the next essay. Some teachers shouldn't be teaching.

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