Miscellaneous: Today, I wrote the most beautiful college application essay ever,...

By Anonymous - 16/10/2009 20:56 - United States

Today, I wrote the most beautiful college application essay ever, ten minutes before the online deadline. Instead of clicking "submit", I clicked the button next to it that said "return". The entire essay vanished into internet wasteland. FML

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By PineappleOfMyEye - 13/12/2018 12:30

Today, I went to check my grade, which was posted for an essay for my comp 1 class. I got a zero. I was devastated only to find out I never actually clicked the submit document button. My grade dropped 20 points. FML

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By PoorForever - 28/02/2016 13:53 - Australia - Heritage Park

Today, after meticulously rereading my application, merging references, budgets, academic transcripts and itineraries for an amazing scholarship, I clicked submit, only to remember that the system was on Daylight Savings time, which we don't have in my state! I missed out on $2,500 by 3 minutes. FML

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Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew!

By Anonymous - 15/08/2017 11:30 - New Zealand - Auckland

Today, I was writing an essay while sleep-deprived. In between actually writing, I started typing my thoughts. It was only after I’d submitted the essay that I realized that I hadn’t deleted the random words. My teacher can see my early-morning rambling about potatoes. I have no way to delete it. FML

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By Anonymous - 15/01/2011 01:05 - United States

Today, I mailed out a college application that is going to another country. I paid $250 for the application and $11 for shipping. I just realized that I forgot to sign the bottom of the application. FML

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Close, but no cigar

By RIPcareer - 18/10/2015 19:18 - United States - Ellicott City

Today, after submitting my college application, I noticed that I mistyped "math enthusiast" as "meth enthusiast". FML

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By Anonymous - 24/05/2018 19:00

Today, after submitting a 500-word essay to a writing contest, I found out that I lost to someone who wrote 3 sentences. FML

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By Anonymous - 06/08/2009 00:47 - United States

Today, I borrowed my dad's laptop to type an essay. While I was saving it, I noticed some curious looking files and I opened them. They were rejection letters from all the colleges I had applied to. My dad had been forging them so he wouldn't have to pay for my tuition bills. FML

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Roommates from hell

By Failure - 09/11/2009 22:13 - United States

Today, I was taking a final test online that would account for 65% of my final grade, for which I'd worked extremely hard. I had one submission for the test, and my roommate thought it would be funny to click the "Submit All" Button while I was getting a glass of water. I got a 13%. FML

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Notebooks out, plagiarists!

By What am I doing with my life? - 22/05/2014 16:47 - United States - Aurora

Today, I collected my students' final essays. One of them submitted a printout of a screenshot he took with his phone. Too bad a browser address bar was still in the shot, along with a "click to read more" link at the bottom. My students are too dumb and lazy to even plagiarize properly. FML

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By Anonymous - 09/09/2009 04:27 - United States

Today, I realized I forgot to write a 5000 word essay for my English class. I tried to be calm since I had until midnight to finish, and it was only 8pm. I typed for three hours straight,and finished the assignment. I read over the instruction again, and realized it only had to be 500 words. FML

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rexchanna 3

Saturday 17 October 2009 2:08

ydi for not taking the proper time to write the application. And for writing it in the browser. and for not turning it in earlier.

I_found_nemo 0

Saturday 17 October 2009 2:09

Learn a lesson, maybe? COPY AND PASTE FROM A DOCUMENT!

Comments

CyclonePsycho 1

Saturday 17 October 2009 3:53

Despite what you may think, "beautiful" essays are hardly perfect and amazing on their very first draft. Especially when they are written in the browser. If you didn't have the sense to use a Word (or some sort of equivalent) document as a back-up, and if you didn't have the sense to plan ahead, then you don't have the sense to write fantastic essays. Don't wait until the last minute. YDI.

fuckyou1337 0

Saturday 17 October 2009 3:54

Also with most typed things on the web if you go to another page and hit the "back" button in your browser it stays there.

xd0rkiee 0

Saturday 17 October 2009 4:35

YDI. Any good writer knows not to write their first draft on the computer. WRITE IN ON PAPER FIRST. It wasn`t as good as you thought.

LemonFairy 0

Saturday 17 October 2009 4:41

While OP does completely and utterly deserve it, hand-writing doesn't work for some people just like typing doesn't work for some people. You can't generalize what a "good writer" does and does not do, because the writing process is unique for each person. (...You can totally blame Zinsser for this comment. I finally picked up a copy of "On Writing Well" and I've been at it most of the night. *is shot for being an uber dork*)

iwadasn 32

Saturday 17 October 2009 4:48

So you're one of those people who thinks that if people don't have the exact same writing technique as you, then they're not good writers?

DameGreyWulf 0

Saturday 17 October 2009 8:14

I have never once written an essay draft on paper first, except when I was in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

PandaPandaPandaX 0

Saturday 17 October 2009 13:45

All of my high school teachers have encouraged me to write drafts on paper. It's not unheard of...

sopranosongbird_fml 0

Saturday 17 October 2009 4:47

The "most beautiful"? Gross.

604 11

Saturday 17 October 2009 4:55

Look on the bright side, if you can't even click the correct button to apply it's extremely unlikely you would have been accepted by the college (assuming they have some sort of screening process / minimal standards). Sooo, basically you just saved yourself a lot of disappointment. What's there to be all FML about?

Torskerl 0

Saturday 17 October 2009 4:57

This is why you write the essay in Word, save it, then copy and paste. YDI moron.

komodo65 6

Saturday 17 October 2009 4:58

you gotta microsoft word that shit. YDI.

satanstoystore 0

Saturday 17 October 2009 5:08

its an application. if you cant pass the application procedure, then (rightfully so) you shouldnt be accepted. maybe next year you will be mature enough to plan ahead. wanting it badly isnt sufficient.