'My new English professor is my uncle only he has no idea': 15+ Funny Back to School Flops and Mishaps

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Sep 8, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

Now that we're officially back in session, it's time for some amusing high school and college anecdotes for any folks who have confused feelings about the school year. Even if you're no longer in school and all your loved ones are out of school too, there is something about the dawn of autumn that brings back those funny, wild, and cringeworthy school memories. 

 

Of course, I have many but the one I will reflect upon today took place during orientation week from my freshman year of college. I was waiting in a long line to pick up some badge that I needed to get access to some building when a finger tapped on my shoulder. I turned around and was staring into the eyes of someone I thought was a complete stranger. 

 

"I think we were best friends in Pre-K," she told me. All of a sudden, I realized that my long-lost friend Natalie was going to be my classmate for four years. I remembered her instantly. I remembered the games we played, the fun we had, and that one unfortunate time when I accidentally slammed the classroom door behind me and her hand was there. At first, it seemed like she didn't remember that at all. She seemed to only remember the good parts. At least, I thought that was the case. 

 

After exchanging niceties for a bit, Natalie introduced me to her other friend and quickly said, "he once slammed a door on my hand." Of course, I  added, "by accident when we were five!" The energy was sucked out of the room. Natalie turned and left. It turns out that people can hold grudges for a long time, and there's nothing like a school environment to bring all that resentment back to light.

 

Keep scrolling below for these funny and cringe school stories and check out this collection of school memories for more. 

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    Rectangle - . D Will the course be hard? Back to School Will the tests be hard? . Don't know . But the paper will be soft
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    Font - literallyallie when I was in high school my AP english teacher told us we weren't allowed to eat in class so I took that as a personal challenge to see what the most ridiculous thing I could eat in class without getting caught was so I started bringing soup to class and as soon as I'd crack the lid of my thermos the tiniest bit this football player that sat like 3 rows in front of me would going "I SMELL MEAT SOMEONE HAS SOUP" and no one ever believed him thatsthatflamingo sellinbees Foot
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    Font - little-things-count-the-most: gracefulyawkward: In 8th grade I had a teacher who, if he caught you reading, would take your book away, read the ending, then threaten to tell you the ending if he caught you reading it again
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    Azure - Will the course be hard? • Don't Know Will the tests be hard? . Don't know But the paper will be soft countercontempt It's been a week and we still don't have a syllabus and I'm not entirely convinced my science prof has any clue what's going on
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    Plant - chaotic-archaeologist Follow A professor gave us an extra credit option: take a picture of yourself outside, doing something that you would not usually do. We were told not to take it too seriously. Here is my entry: I maintain that sticking my head in the mailbox is not something I do on a regular basis.
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    Font - illea: you guys all think that canada is so innocent but in grade one i had a geography teacher with three fingers and he gave me a C because i pronounced Kenya differently than him and when my mom reported it to the office we found out that he wasn't even supposed to be teaching at my school he was literally some stranger who wandered in
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    Font - bumblebeebats College professor type 1: any email you send them on Friday or after 4pm on a weekday is lost to the void. Gone. A whisper in the wind. Office hours? 7:00-7:15 on alternate tuesdays. My office is in Montana good fo luck College professor type 2: responds within 2 minutes at 3am on a weekend but only in single sentences with no punctuation DE OF todropscience this is so real that scares me #text 106,030 notes A
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    Font - iron and whine @porkironandwine If ur ever stressed pls remember I've had a professor at uni who showed up to class 30 minutes late, shirt inside out and backwards, nothing on his feet but flip flops. He sat on his desk and banged his fist on the table, actually sobbing "I hate this class so much" arandomthot Some kid probably responded with "same" out of habit Source: twitter.com
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    Font - vampireapologist college professor just said "you're probably too young to even remember this" and brought up something that happened in 2011 light-em-up-benzedrine Better than my professer that said we'd "probably recognize this from Saturday morning cartoons" then showed us a cartoon from 1935... aluminumapples New immortal vs. old immortal
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    Font - thepancousin My history teacher was taking role today and did very exaggerated formal titles for everyone (ex. Ms. *last name*, Mr. *last name*) bc he's classy like that but my non-binary was like "ohno uhoh" and he finally gets to me and goes Ms. *insert my last name*? And I go "here." And he looks at me, furrows his brows and goes “is that ur preferred pronoun?" I'm like "..nah." And he goes "okay, what is it?" And I say "um, they/ them." And he says "alright, so what formal title would
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    Font - lesbianshepard my favorite out of context quotes from my archeology professor so far in no particular order • and floridians are just as human as you and me! • and the moral of the story is that there are no deadly snakes native to alaska • you might know this guy as one of the only archaeologists cool enough to be mentioned by indiana jones it's my dream to have my name said by harrison ford • I'm not going to apologize for having this class at 6am because you paid for it and it's your f
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    Motor vehicle - narwhalsarefalling Follow .ll AT&T < Assignment 8 Inbox Dear all, 11:02 PM 11:02 PM 141 notes 0 - Ĵ 12% C a As you may have seen on the news, Ralph man in the foot late this evening. As he had all the graded assignments at his apartment and his apartment is currently a crime scene, Assignment 8: Precipitation Reactions will be dropped. Hopefully my headache goes away. MY TASOMEONE IN THE FOOT AND THE PROFESSOR WAS SO QUICK LMAOO0
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    Outerwear - classicartmeme When the teacher asks a question and you're trying to avoid eye contact phdna As a teacher, I can confirm this is exactly what it looks like from our point of view enthusispastic Including, if not especially, the guy on the far right.
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    Font - ben-c my law teacher built a ten foot fence because he hated his neighbour, but the city made him take it down because theres a five foot limit on fences, so he poured five feet of concrete on the ground and then built a five foot fence on top of that and the city tried suing him because it was ten feet but they lost because the actual fence was only five ben-c WHAT THE WHY DID THIS GET NOTES solace-itor because your law teacher defeated the law Source: viciere
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    Font - vanitybullet: so in my spanish class the teacher sometimes puts up a sign that says "no ingles" and that means we can't use any english that day in class and we have like the smartest kid who is class president and the teacher asked him something and he was about to talk in english before the teacher pointed at the sign so the guy busted out in full german and the whole class was in stunned silence and the teacher just gave a heavy sigh and left the room
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    Product - toadprince high school teachers: if you don't show up with a dress and full makeup or a fitted tuxedo to class everyday to college your professors will college professors: DAN trantifa Cheetos you I once had a professor SLAM a thermos down on his desk and say to us "there's more pressure in my sinuses right now than there is at the bottom of the sea. This thing's full of NyQuil. I'm going to drink it while I teach, and when your heads are replaced by swirling rainbows, I will cancel th
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    Font - kaijuno So my new English professor is my uncle only he has no idea because he hasn't talked to my mom in about 20 years so do you think is should tell him kaijuno You know what nevermind he's a I'm going to talk to my mom to get dirt on him so I can blackmail him if the need arises alwayswriting848 You should write a story about a boy for an assignment and include loads of life details about him that your mum tells you so that it's obviously him but change all the names then hand it in a
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