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 tells us more.

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!

Top comments

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

unknown_user5566 26

Comments

missababgaga 19

Well did you reread your essay before you handed it? You could have been the victim of a classic "insert something innapropriate while no one is watching" prank... before you printed it out

perdix 29

"Zuckerberg Pwns Gutenberg: Why Facebook is more important than movable type." Too self-congratulatory. F!

Your professor doesn't sound like he's doing his job very well. A good professor would have told you what you did wrong, not make fun of you and humiliate you.

I would directly approach the teacher; that isn't teaching that critiquing or criticizing. Neither of which is acceptable. You're in school to learn, not understanding the material happens but you should be given instruction on how to improve. FYL but understand the teacher isn't doing their job in this case.

Academics are supposed to encourage students towards independent / critical thinking, but in some subjects, history among them, writing ideas different from what the teacher taught is frowned upon.

perdix 29

You've got a professor who uses "Really?!" Is she a teenage girl? Is your paper peppered with LOLs, OMGs, SMHs and winky faces? What kind of college is this? Are you going to S. T. F. U?

Your teacher must not like you or he/she was just too lazy to read the paper.

TheDrifter 23

Next from OP, "The Elven Resistance And Other Heroes Of The Confederate States".

Bena_Round2long 2

My guess would be you did the whole paper wrong!