A college student who suffered a very low score during an exam has a perfectly reasonable excuse why she failed: a meatball from her sandwich fell on her keyboard and abruptly exited her test midway.
The mid-exam snafu caused a 20-year-old University of Georgia student, Samantha Lee, to get a 39% score on her economics exam and a dilemma on how she would explain the situation to her professor.
Lee shared the unfortunate incident on Twitter, along with images of her email exchange with her teacher.
remember in high school teachers would be like “your college professors will not tolerate this kind of behavior” pic.twitter.com/D183VnnfFS
— slee (@samanthlee16) July 15, 2020
According to Lee, she opted to tell the truth despite the apparent silliness of the circumstances.
In an email to her economics instructor, Professor Lastrapes, Lee detailed what happened and even attached Snapchat screenshots as proof.
“Dear Professor Lastrapes,” she wrote. “I had some technical difficulties and outside distractions during the test today. Something hit my computer and caused it to submit the test when I had less than half of the questions answered. By something, I mean a meatball that had tragically fallen onto my keyboard as I was taking the exam. This said meatball caused some malfunctions with my laptop and caused the test to submit itself.”
Lee’s email was not at all demanding and simply stated what transpired during the test. She did note, however, that she could have dropped her lowest test score so it won’t affect her overall grade as per the course policy.
Professor Lastrapes decided to give Lee a chance to take the test one more time. Although, he did give Lee a word of advice in his email response, saying she should not take the test during her dinner.
Lee’s tweet soon went viral and generated a flurry of responses from people who have experienced similar “encounters” and “misfortunes.”
I once emailed a professor about having an 89.4 average and asking if he could change my score by a tenth of a point because it was so teasingly close to a 90.
He said sure…and changed my score to an 89.3.
— BD (@briskide) July 17, 2020
I went to go email my professor once and I accently hit send after the very beginning, he responded immediately pic.twitter.com/5cO3zXb2Gw
— #BLACKLIVESMATTER (@punk_daddy_gay) July 17, 2020
Same energy pic.twitter.com/DPtVp2YSec
— Kelly🌊 (@jinxingjinko) July 17, 2020
— ✡3SP TZDK TZDK TRDF🇰🇷 (@shirAdrenaline) July 17, 2020
once emailed a professor a pic of a drawbridge on the way to school that malfunctioned & got stuck in the up position with the caption “this stupid fucking bridge is stuck so I’m sitting here like a jackass” & my prof just responded “lol me too what kinda car you in?”
— Ross Vegas (@Duraraross) July 17, 2020
As someone who’s taught college classes, I can assure you that this level of excuse would have made my day.
(My fav was a student who missed an exam bc her new puppy got sick. Instead of a vet’s note, she brought the puppy when she made up the test. It peed on my office floor.)
— Joy is washing hands (@DrJoyP) July 17, 2020
I once emailed a professor about having an 89.4 average and asking if he could change my score by a tenth of a point because it was so teasingly close to a 90.
He said sure…and changed my score to an 89.3.
— BD (@briskide) July 17, 2020
Feature Image via @samanthlee16
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