THE BOOK WAS WRONG!
in the book that is used in my chemistry class, there is a section full of the answers for the section review problems in the back. one small problem: some of the answers "may vary". appearantly, somebody was in such a rush to copy down the answers (again, not saying who) that they failed to notice that one of their answers was "answers may vary". Our teacher's response? "If you are going to cheat and look in the back of the book for the answers and it says 'answers may vary', do not put down 'answers may vary'"
Who's Paper is this?
not exactly that funny on it's own, but this ended up being one of two screw-ups. the person forgot to put their name on a test. fortunately, only theirs lacked a name. however...
CHECK THE BACK OF THE PAPER, DUMMY
...they had ended up skipping a full page - or should I say one side of a page. the whole class was cracking up on that one.
WAKE UP
falling asleep in class is the most difficult thing to do, right? WRONG! there is a classmate who, 9 times of out 10, missed the lecture because they were sleeping. maybe an alarm clock is in order?
When Spell-Check and Grammar-Check just isn't enough...
alright, I'll admit it. I make mistakes that are incredibly funny but are hard to notice. I found this one out right as I was handing in a "practice" Document-Based Question (the term "practice" used loosely). this is, word for word and unchanged, the phrase where my goof-up was made:
(for those that are curious, we were supposed to analyze the response in china to Buddhism.)...[the imperial court at] first declaring that the moving of a finger bone of the Buddha be destroyed...
read it carefully. notice anything odd about it? such as what's being destroyed? well, that's what was on the DBQ that I turned in today. talk about having your "off" days...
if I can remember any more goof-ups (I'll probably remember mine before others... unless they were big ones), I'll tack them on. if you have any you'd like to add here, feel free. just omit the names of who did them unless they were YOUR goofs.