Memos and Memories

I just had a mini nightmare/daydream about failing a class at Gallaudet…

I have by this time an anonymous blog I love to write in almost daily and I write about everything and anything because being at Gallaudet always gets my creative juices flowing like a great big waterfall.

So I’ve got this assignment I need to complete by such and such a date and it’s to be an essay for an English Honors Creative Writing class or something. I’m so proud of what I’ve written out that I went and blogged it first before handing it in to the professor….

The next day I hand in the same essay all typed neatly and EDITED by yours truly *giggle* to perfection. The professor is busily gathering up all the other essays that they don’t pay any individual attention to mine at the moment which is fine. It’s been shuffled in the pile along with the others and I’m happy enough to have it all done-done with, you know?

The next week, we all get our essays back and I am DEVASTATED to see my essay marked with a big fat “F” on the whole entire front page… along with the word “plagiarism” splashed in bright BLOOD RED ink.

I squirm in my seat and literally keep my eyes glued on the big clock in the front of the classroom, right behind the professor standing in front of it… I’m very upset but trying my best to keep myself composed during the rest of the class while counting every single second… willing the hands on the clock to move faster.

Finally, PAH! class is over and I wait until I am the only one left in the room with the professor. Sternly, they look at me and shake their heads. I watch in disbelief as they tell me they make it a habit of theirs to consistently check the internet for any likeness of all the essays they receive from students to prevent plagiarism. Mine, they say, has been copied WORD FOR WORD from this very well written blog that they found on the internet by an anonymous person!!!

I fell to the floor laughing my face off… and still wrestling with whether I should cry, too… I then “woke up” from my little daydream. That’s it.

Moral of my daydream? PUBLISH MY NAME ON MY NEW BLOG!!!!

Carrie Gellibrand

Filed under: Uncategorized on February 7th, 2007