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September is fully upon us, dear Pandas! There’s a bit of a chill in the air. The leaves are gently falling (though not if you live in Florida or anywhere else really warm). Cafes are rolling out their pumpkin spice-themed drinks. And for many students across the world, the month has heralded the end of our glorious summer and the start of the new school year.

What that means is a whole harvest of hilarious and relatable Tumblr posts and memes about being a student. Our team here at Bored Panda had the utmost pleasure of picking and plucking the best of the best student posts to share with all of you Readers, fresh from the farm to your screen. Whether you’re currently in school or at university or haven’t been inside a classroom in years, these are bound to make you smile. Especially if you’ve ever had to write a paper hours before the deadline (no judgment, we’ve all been there).

As you scroll down, remember to upvote your fave posts and let us know in the comments which of these made you laugh the hardest. Take out your pens and notebooks and let’s begin!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is there a way to make a career as a salt-water crocodile expert without doing any fieldwork? Because you really don't want to do giant crocodile fieldwork if you can help it.

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Education is all about improving our skills, forging connections with other people, and trying to get a tiny bit closer to the truth about, well, pretty much everything.

However, getting at the truth of things, whether you’re in school or college (or even at work), can be more difficult than it would seem at first glance. Learning, whether in class or when you’re an adult, means constantly staying curious about things, trying out your hand at new hobbies and interests, and questioning what you find online. This can be even harder when you realize that even the adults teaching you can make mistakes.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

During graduate school, if a professor assigned their own work, they also just provided us with a copy.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are different words for the languages spoken in China. 中文 is kind of a catch-all for any language spoken in China. 粤语 refers specifically to Cantonese. 普通话 is often translated as Mandarin, but literally means "the common language." If the slide said 我不会说中文, then "I don't speak Chinese" would be the best translation.

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Lenore Skenazy, the president of Let Grow and the founder of the Free-Range Kids movement, explained to me during a previous interview how to challenge authority figures in a friendly way if we believe that what they’re saying might be wrong. It’s as applicable to students in their communication with teachers as it is to employees who think their managers might have missed an important detail (or two!). Diplomacy and manners are incredibly important here; there’s no room for aggression because the end goal isn’t to get into an argument.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My uncle ran a funeral home. Yeah, you're not doing that job if you don't understand algebra. How long before a viewing do you pull a body out of refrigerated storage so there isn't condensation on it when the family is there? How long can you hold the service while the family flies in relatives from across the country before either decomp or freezer burn sets in? You better not just guestimate that stuff.

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At the core of challenging anyone who might be spreading falsehoods lies diplomacy. You might not like what your local authority figure is saying. You might believe that they’re spouting utter nonsense. However, instead of being combative from the get-go, it’s best to calm down and try to find some common ground. Your mission should be to learn something together with them, not to prove that you’re the best and most knowledgeable person in the classroom/office.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree completely. We always talk about symbolism in class and I just think, "I bet if we came up to the author and asked if that was symbolism they would say it was not intended." That's what would happen to me if I wrote a story anyways.

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“The key is to discover things together. If something sounds strange or unlikely, respond with curiosity—ask the person to tell you more, and how they found this information out, and where you should go if you want to delve into it further,” Lenore explained to Bored Panda.

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“Then if the sources they give you seem dubious—well, probably so is whatever they gleaned from them. But if the sources seem legit, read them with an open mind. They may be right after all!” the expert continued.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never checked my grades once during my AA or BA. I had a 3.91 GPA but the stress of seeing my grade was too great so I just ignored it. During my MA I finally started reading comments left by my professors and talking to them about my papers and stuff. I told one of my professors that I appreciated their advice one this or that and said how I regret not ever checking my grades before. They were shocked. They asked what I would have done if I had been failing a class and didn't know, I told him you always kind of know but if it had happened it would have only confirmed my deepest suspicion, that I screwed up and was a failure. I reassured him that I wouldn't have taken it hard because I loved to be proved right. He was so conflicted between laughing and worrying I was being serious. 100% serious. LOL.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the albanian flag. but is the guy on the left Tito? No, it's Albania, so it must be Enver Hoxha???

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According to Lenore, it’s not “cruel or crazy” to believe that someone out there might “have their facts wrong,” as absolutely everyone has made mistakes or been wrong about something in the past. Unless someone is very deliberately trying to deceive or manipulate you by spreading lies, it’s best not to get angry if you know for a fact that they’ve got a piece of info wrong.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Does it count if you're utter ineptitude made the teacher cry?? I didn't like fractions as a kid.

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“Ever since the Age of Enlightenment, humans have realized that the best way to get closer to the truth is by saying something out loud and seeing if it stands up to scrutiny. If not—hooray. We are one step closer to the truth because we've just jettisoned a misconception,” Lenore shared with Bored Panda.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In their defense, Merrie Melodies cartoons from the 1930s were still being shown in the 1990s, probably because licensing them for broadcast was cheap.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Chicken. We got evacuated cause some teacher nuked their chicken to charbroiled in the microwave before

Richey Baumann
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In my high school, we had, among other things: ramen that some kid forgot to add water to (acrid smoke), a piece of fish that someone put. In. A. Toaster. That went badly. Popcorn was accidentally put in for 20:00 instead of 2:00, took like 5 for it to catch on fire. In college, one dorm was evacuated because some geniuses (drunk boys, what do you expect) put a can of Aquanet (girlfriends hairspray) in a pressure cooker. It blew up and filled the whole dorm with the nasty scent.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

2am. Dead of winter in IN. Someone did this. Seeing a parking lot of like 50ish ppl in robes/pjs/towels (some clearly were mid shower when this happened) was a sad sight to see xD it was snowing too. We all looked miserable cold tired and ready to strangle the culprit.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And it even has a specific Popcorn Button!!! LOL. What could possibly go wrong? Hmmm?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a fire alarm tech for a college I feel computationalcalculator is my spirit animal

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Eggs... Eggs are the thing to do in the microwave... In the early 80's when microwaves were a new thing in Britain, my mum tried to 'boil' an egg in our brand new machine... BOOM... Thats all i'm saying...!!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My high school got evacuated and the firefighters called because of my chemistry teacher

Nothanks L. Walk
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

THIS I have to witness *puts popcorn in without unpacking the plastic and runs off to grab trunks*

Riley Quinn
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not the popcorn. It's people. The more of them crammed in one location, the higher the chances of being extremely annoyed.

DramaDoc
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My sophomore year, my dorm kept getting evacuated due to fire alarms. Turns out a group of freshman boys had bought a fog machine for their dorm room and that's why the student handbook now banns fog machines in dorm rooms.

Judi Michelle
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair.... the very first day after moving into my freshman dorm my roommate and the two girls who lived next door put a cd in a microwave because we could. It caught fire. We threw the entire thing out the window. Following that life choice the college permanently closed all of the windows in every dorm on campus. I have no regrets

Mike Loux
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of the printer with the note about reducing usage to save money, and a reply that says with the amount of tuition they are paying, they'll print a f*****g dictionary if they want to.

Daniel Atkins
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Evacuate? I lived in the college apartments that were converted dorms they had kitchens in them and someone was always burning something on the stove so no one would leave. They had to knock and say fire drill for the fire drill.

An Co
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No popcorn? I can see no fish. I can even see no liquids (boiling mess). But what went wrong with microwave popcorn???

Bec Jac
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

they burn it, it sets off fire alarms, building has to evacuate, fire dept has to come out...its a mess. Maybe not bad at home but in a dorm with several hundred residents...

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“If it turns out that you do find some information that contradicts what the other person—your teacher or boss or anyone—has stated as true, again, the best approach is not confrontation. It's assuming that the other person didn't mean to steer you wrong,” Lenore said that we should seize the learning opportunities provided instead of being aggressive in our desire to be right.

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Laura Mende (Human)
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My economics teacher in high school. So we had online classes. He had a bottle of corona beer, but didn't like surreptitious advertising, he PUT A MASK ON THE BOTTLE. Bc Corona...

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“So if you bring in information that contradicts the person, don't say, ‘SEE??? YOU WERE WRONG!' Say something more like, ‘I was so interested in what you were talking about that I did some research and now I'm a little confused. Can we look at this together?'" Lenore gave an example of how to diplomatically challenge others.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the trick is to pick a career that you can tolerate that pays well. hardly anyone likes their job, may as well make $$$ so you can enjoy the rest of your life when you're not at work. I'm typically a pretty optimistic dude but that "do something you love and you'll never work a day in your life" crap is a lie.

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“Being accusatory only makes people defensive. So don't be rude, be engaged. This works in the classroom, in the office, and pretty much everywhere,” Lenore said that once people get defensive, the potential learning opportunity that you had might be lost. Instead, aim for helping create an environment that facilitates learning, not one that increases resentment and clashes between everyone.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And even if he did, it's behind a pay wall. Your professor won't spend any money to actually read it.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The computers at my job still have a floppy drive and can take 20 min to open a google drive link and run the powerpoint. I hate them so much

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What I hate is journals with word limits who then have reviewers or the editor ask you to add a s**t ton of explanatory material while demanding you somehow magically stay within word count guidelines

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had a guy during exams. He wore adult diapers bc he wanted to save the toilet breaks. That's what he said! 🤢

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wikipedia is often written by non experts who don't always do a good job ( looking at YOU articles on the USSR using anti- soviet references more than 30 years out of date), but it can be a good starting point for looking for other sources by checking their references. And any college level paper should require something more in depth than any encyclopedia anyway and colleges provide database subscriptions for students to academic databases

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have said this about most exams. With many people it is really proof of their ability to recall facts, not their ability to use them.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"12 hours of homeword daily" ? 8 hours of class + 8 hours of sleep + 4 hours of basically all the little things you need to do for physical and commute resons, + 2 hours of small entertainment to not kill yourself = no more hours left for homeworks.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Work minimum wage jobs while paying back hundreds of thousands in student loans.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Not feeling well have the day off" (didnt bother finding a sub) also had a teacher cut class like 1 hr early cause they didnt feel like getting into the next subject that day n didnt get enough sleep xD

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We know that is what you do, but we do like to give you the option. It also means you have ZERO excuse for being late

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I STILL!!! have nightmares of that feeling. That feeling of inevitability that comes when you are so far behind that there's not a chance of catching up. That's when the additional work is added on and you start sinking into a pool filled w your own tears. Yeah. I still have that nightmare sometimes.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once had the opposite happen: I did careful analysis and research and got marked down because the professor didn't agree with my opinion. And that's about when I decided that English literature was not a good path for me.

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