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.

Comments

zhangxiaouse 2

Monday 31 October 2011 15:48

too two to two.

Blacktom_fml 6

Thursday 7 March 2013 19:51

太二了，不能再傻 T .wo also means stupid in Chinese

Quasar55_fml 18

Monday 31 October 2011 15:51

Your assignment was to good too be true

perdix 29

Monday 31 October 2011 15:53

When I read this, I was praying that it wasn't from Texas. Texas gets enough grief for having idiots in positions of authority. Thank you, God, England and Herman Cain!

elliotg14 0

Monday 31 October 2011 15:56

I eat pizza and I don't like omlets or something like that.

LaDeFreakinDa 4

Monday 31 October 2011 16:06

Failed attempt to be funny is fail.

amkett 0

Monday 31 October 2011 16:03

Supposed to be "TOO good" not "to good". I guess word selection is not your strong suit?

Savra_fml 17

Monday 31 October 2011 16:13

I guess being super ******* obvious is your strong suit.

Kukua 5

Monday 31 October 2011 16:34

FML comprehension is obviously not 54's strong suit.

raphanne_fml 33

Monday 31 October 2011 17:47

I have the feeling that you're about to have a bottle of coke shoved up your arse or something including a voodoo doll...

haw008 14

Monday 31 October 2011 16:03

Teachers have programs that they can run papers through suggest that to prove your innocence!!!

evilplatypus 38

Monday 31 October 2011 16:28

Not all teachers have these programs. They aren't miraculously given to us in a secret initiation upon receiving our degrees. That being said, plagiarism isn't strictly copying from published works. If another student did the work for you that's plagiarism as well

haw008 14

Monday 31 October 2011 17:12

Well at my school all of my English professors use a university wide program. So usually at a university professors are provided a program like that.

kg163401 0

Monday 31 October 2011 16:08

Yep. Seriously!

Rick_S 3

Monday 31 October 2011 16:09

I've had that happen to me as well. Try to show your other work, of equal quality to prove that it's your work. Also, if they are accusing you of plagiarism, they should at least have to find the work you "plagiarized," right? Good luck!

aleithiera 2

Monday 31 October 2011 16:17

This FML has been done before.

marcyfrances 4

Monday 31 October 2011 16:25

well your English Professor obviously doesn't even know the correct usage of the word "to", he should have said "too good" on your sentence structure.