By Anonymous - 15/06/2011 00:59 - United States

Today, my professor handed me back a paper I spent hours hours working on. At the bottom in red it said "D" followed by, "That was a gift." FML
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synonymous 1

Spending hours working on something doesn't mean it was any good. You should think about speaking with the writing tutors on your campus.

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rhidiculous 4

ask him if it comes with a gift receipt

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Life_sucks_13 6

shoulda spent like 10 min on it.

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kalbrek009 20

did you do like most people now days and use the new version of "cliff notes" found on the Internet? if so, then...yeah you were gifted a "D". most people don't even really do the research work themselves anymore. fyl.

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apulley23 0

Perhaps it was because of a lot of careless mistakes. Like for instance, using the spelling R-E-D for the word "read."

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Blubbs9000 1

Hmm, not sure what you are getting at. Pretty confident that she was actually using the word "red" as in the color red. In other words, he wrote "D" in a red pen on the bottom of her paper. If you actually read the sentence it makes sense.

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Yoshi_Fue 9

You are an idiot if you didn't see that the spelling "R-E-D" was used to point out that the writing at the bottom was in the color, "RED."

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Zebidee 8

Your stupidity makes me weep for humanity.

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AntoshaChekhonte 6

OP, perhaps you should start earlier next time and take it to the tutors. If you don't have any of those on campus, ask your professor to look it over. Unless he's a total dick, he'll be willing to give you revision suggestions and/or steer you in the right direction. Good professors will almost always do that. If he won't, make sure to fill out the evaluation and TELL him he's a dick (and if he's new faculty, they will review those sheets at his evaluations). How long you spend on something is irrelevant if the result sucks anyway. So think of this as a learning experience, OP. Last quarter I heard my faculty adviser (a very nice, highly intelligent guy) tell a girl, "well, I really don't know what to do with this except give you a C for effort." She went over it with him for an hour, came out with two pages of notes of some kind, and a week later handed in an A paper. Maybe the same can happen to you with some work. It sounds like you have the drive necessary, you just need to find the direction to go in and apply the necessary skills (which might include admitting that you need help).

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a_nutritionist 10

i learnt this when it was too late. they feed you all this information about how youre adults now and should be able to do things without needing someone to hold your hand and guide you...then when you screw something up they wonder why you didnt seek out help. its quite annoying. the mixed messages screw a lot of people around.

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Calyx_fml 21

Go in after school and ask the teacher what was wrong with it and if she could help you to write a better one. Follow her advice. You'll get an A next time. I have a PhD. I know the game.

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A100893 30

Ask someone for a second opinion before you turn it in? Or your teacher really hates you.

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MozzarellaMonky 3

you actually have D's in BC and I think the rest of Canada we only have A B C(plus) C C(minus) F

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unknown_669 0

women are stupid and I don't respect them thats right I just have sex with 'em

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