Miscellaneous: Today, I turned in an overdue English assignment at college....

By Anonymous - 31/10/2011 10:09 - United Kingdom

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

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By R - 05/09/2016 10:27 - Australia - Melbourne

Today, my teacher called a friend and me out of class and told us we had been reported for plagiarism because our answers to a problem were nearly identical, and he said that I shouldn't have shared my work. This for an assignment where significant marks were awarded for collaborating with peers. FML

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By Anonymous - 15/08/2021 22:01

Today, I failed an assignment because the person I paid to do it plagiarized the entire thing. FML

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By Anonymous - 10/11/2009 06:43 - United States

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

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By Anonymous - 10/06/2014 15:05 - Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur

Today, I got cited for "internet plagiarism" and called to the dean's office. I'd been sitting a closed-book written exam, and my teacher had been breathing down my neck the whole time. FML

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By dumbteacher - 23/05/2011 14:35

Today, my AP teacher once again accused me of plagiarism. Apparently the words "demise," "ultimately," and "rural," are too sophisticated for an 11th grade AP student to use and MUST have been copied from the Internet. FML

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By Anonymous - 10/04/2021 13:01 - Australia - Sydney

Today, I got yelled at for 10 minutes by my head of department for failing one of my students for plagiarism, because, "we can't be sure." It was my work he plagiarised, but because it's not in our system, it doesn't count. FML

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By jzidar24 - 22/10/2015 02:37 - United States - Bloomfield Hills

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

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By oh dang /: - 25/05/2011 11:34

Today, I turned in an essay after staying up late to work on it. I was away when the teacher assigned it, so I'd asked my friend what the subject was. It transpires that she'd given me the wrong one, all because she was mad at me for not returning her pencil. FML

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By badessaymyass - 17/04/2014 19:59 - United States - Phoenix

Today, I had my teacher look over my essay before turning it in. He said it was extremely well-written, so I handed it in. When I got it back, the feedback he left said it was one of the worst essays he'd ever read. FML

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By ScreweD- - 16/11/2015 21:39 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I got a writing assignment back. After meeting with my professor specially after class and meticulously combing through every word of that paper, I got a low D. Turns out, he graded me down on every suggestion of his that I took. FML

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Monday 31 October 2011 15:14

*facepalm*

LaDeFreakinDa 4

Monday 31 October 2011 15:14

I'm fairly positive that due to the quotation marks OP's professor was the one who used the wrong form.

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vipirius 18

Monday 31 October 2011 15:29

Maybe your prof is just jelly lol

DocBastard 38

Monday 31 October 2011 15:29

I swear to Brian Boitano that if I see one more person say "omg you used the wrong 'to'", I will quietly fume and curse your name and stick pins in your voodoo doll's genitals.

vipirius 18

Monday 31 October 2011 15:32

Well said my good sir. On behalf of every non-idiot fml user out there I give you 10000 internetz.

LaDeFreakinDa 4

Monday 31 October 2011 15:45

Oh shit he's swearing on figure skating CHAMPION. You better watch your life. Or get a athletic cup.

LaDeFreakinDa 4

Monday 31 October 2011 15:47

hey y'all. Oh no! A typo! an*

aequitas740 0

Monday 31 October 2011 16:34

Awesome south park reference.

theevilduchess 12

Monday 31 October 2011 17:07

I feel your pain. I get it. Everyone went to basic English classes. Maybe OP made a spelling error... Or they weren't really thinking about. Either way *banging my head against a wall* stop it!

chelseaaababyyy 17

Monday 31 October 2011 18:48

95 - you in no way understood what 28 was talking about..

fish1806 0

Monday 31 October 2011 15:31

Y u mad?

Savra_fml 17

Monday 31 October 2011 16:33

Go fish.

Savra_fml 17

Monday 31 October 2011 15:31

Did you reference your work properly?

3RR0R404 0

Monday 31 October 2011 15:35

Fail horribly, succeed greatly.

leadman1989 15

Monday 31 October 2011 15:38

That is just two bad. On the other hand clown masks and effects make up are half off... :D

nationalcrisis 8

Monday 31 October 2011 15:39

Yep, been there done that. Has happened to me about once a year since last year in high school, all the way through college including my thesis -.- I know your pain bro'.

weepingangel_fml 7

Monday 31 October 2011 15:39

It was overdue. You're lucky the teacher even graded it.

MysticKnight 3

Monday 31 October 2011 15:40

If you really has what it takes, stand front and center of the classroom, suggest the instructor to give you any topic, write about it with skills on the blackboard in front of everyone and prove your instructor wrong.