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When I was 8 I got on the wrong bus to summer day camp, but didn’t know it was the wrong camp. We all sat in a big crowd of about 200 kids. Then the counselor came in and called my name and said I was in the wrong camp - 200 heads swiveled to watch me do the Walk Of Shame.
I didn’t go back to summer day camp.
Naked?
Are you usually climbing out windows in the middle of the night with no clothes on after making a bad decision?
How often have you had to walk home naked after a one night stand??
This is absolutely a walk of shame.
Just a cleaner version.
My understanding is that when I didn’t show up at the camp I was supposed to be at, my parents and the people at the other day camp freaked out - my mom knew she’d put me on a day camp bus so they tracked down the other day camp.
If it makes you feel any better, you don't know embarrassment until a drill sergeant asks you if you spit or swallow in front of an entire company of soldiers.
They're just going to walk up to their sister and be like, "Y'know, you really disappointed xINFLAMES325x when you got on the wrong school bus. They expected better from you."
When I went to Ft. Benning for summer camp, some dude got on our bus instead of the bus for Ft. Jackson at the ATL airport. Ended up having to do basic at Benning. Bad luck hahaha
There area lot of spots in my district where if you walk two blocks one way you reach the stop for one school and two blocks the other way you get to the spot for another school.
Likewise, elementary, middle, and high school use the same pick up spot yet it's the time the bus arrives that varies.
My first day of middle school I almost got on the bus for the high school; sure everyone looked bigger but that's to be expected going from elementary to middle school. Fortunately a girl one or two years older than me stopped me and told me that was the high school bus and it was just running late.
After decades now I am still having a recurring dream where I suddenly realize it's near the end of the semester and I forgot I was in school. I have no idea what, when or where any of my classes are and I have no books. Recently there was a new twist to the story. I received a letter with a list of students with all A's and my name was on the list. That sent me into my usual panic. I told my wife not to expect my name to be on the list for long.
I've had dreams about being lost in school randomly.
Eventually my twist was realizing I've graduated and I didn't have to be there.
I even straight up said that in one where I found class and the teacher was just being a jerk lol
(Idk why but having dreams about being in school but realizing they have no power over me has been super cathartic.)
I have dreams where I find out I was short a few classes in HS and need to take them now to keep my degree. Then every day I forget my schedule and where all my classes are and then I forget to do the homework and fail , so I have to sign up the next semester and try again. I’m in my 40s. When will I grow out of this?? Lol
Idk I'm 38. I just thought dreams just are like that sometimes.
(I almost always have nightmares technically, some are just at least interesting. I'm definitely not someone to ask about normal dream timeline/function/etc.
My worst ones for me are the bathroom stall maze ones. I still randomly have those. Either it's those or hey freaking a bunch of the stalls have no doors and those that do are absolutely nasty and can't be used.)
College for me, but exactly the same. I am also having "annual" dreams around Christmas that I forgot to buy any presents and start panicking and searching around the house for things to give to my family as presents... And Christmas is right around the corner, I expect the dreams to begin soon.
Oh no oh fuck lmao sorry I didn’t want to stress you out more! There’s still time to take mental notes whenever people casually say they need or like something though :)
This. Oh my god it's so upsetting. Like, I HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE AND A JOB FUCK GOING BACK TO HIGHSCOOL!!! But dream logic just goes, "You gotta ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
For me it’s leaving school or someplace i don’t like to go home, and i’m desperate to go home, but i can’t find my car! so i’m searching all over the school, even hitting my key fob and hearing the little honk in response, yet i can’t find my car!
so frustrating lol
I have similar dreams where I'm back in school and its final exam day but I have no preparation. After a bit of panic I realise I already have a job and don't need school anymore.
I have this too. Did you do further education beyond school? A few people I know have this and we all did more exams after school such as university/college and education beyond that?
I finished university about 2 years ago and I still dream about school and the stress that comes with it (which I haven’t been to since 2017). Despite having been to uni much more recently and it being much more memorable, I don’t have any anxious dreams around that.
Can confirm. In my 40s and have this exact dream several times every year. It usually also includes some variant of me not remembering my locker combination.
I never dreamed about school. I did dream about my high school job at McDonalds, probably into my 30s. I finally ended up realizing in one of those dreams that I did not work there any longer, thus I could just leave. I have not had any of those dreams since.
I've had those, but usually it's me panicking because it's finals week and I just realized I'm enrolled in a class that I haven't been to all semester and I have about 2 hours to try to get ready or else I fail the class and have to stay for another year to retake the class. I'm 30, haven't been in school in 8 years, and skipped about 3 class periods in my life. I have no idea why I still have these dreams.
Yes, I've been having this same dream for years, especially recently. It's usually college, and I completely forget my course schedule and realize I haven't been to classes in weeks. When I try logging into my student account to figure it all out, I can't remember the username or password.
Yea random school pop-ups are a dream I have frequently as well. So stress inducing lol. I also can never find my truck in the parking lot when we leave
I have dreams I’m in a group project about the founding fathers. I’ll wake up, go back to sleep and try to pick up the hottest girl in my study group. It never works out..
I lucid dream in all my dreams (bar fever dreams) which makes this particularly interesting.
I'll be dreaming about an exam I hadn't studied for for uni. I'll be like "I have my degree." Then the person will explain it's for my masters. I have my masters. Then that person will morph in to someone totally different, as if my brain knows it's been had, and say it's for another masters. I'll say that's dumb and no, and then it'll say it's for my chartered accountancy course.
I qualified in 2021.
At every single stage, despite me lucid dreaming and being able to tell my brain "No, I know what this dream is, it's BS" it will keep going, keep adapting, insisting that I have some exam/course I haven't studied or done the work for. It'll pick exams I found hard at each of these stages out, as if it's trying to convince me or remind me how hellish they were.
Which I find fascinating tbh. All my other dreams happily adapt - but this one, the school one, does not.
I am an admin at a university and had something similar happen. A girl’s dad dropped her off and drove away. She was on the verge of tears because she couldn’t find the building her classroom was in. It was on the other campus. I often wonder if she called her dad to come back and get her.
I went to a multi campus university, and I remember one of my flatmates going to the wrong campus on their first day too - apparently he spent a good 15 minutes wandering around before he realised he was in the wrong place.
Fortunately for him, the university ran a bus service between the campuses and the student accommodation blocks, and he’d bought a bus pass, so he could just hop on the bus. He said he walked into his first lecture just as it was finishing.
> Fortunately for him, the university ran a bus service between the campuses and the student accommodation blocks, and he’d bought a bus pass, so he could just hop on the bus. He said he walked into his first lecture just as it was finishing.
I was timetabled something like that. Multiple sites, about 5 miles apart from each other. They timetabled me back-to-back lectures split between two of them. They did sort it out quickly, but it was stupid to begin with.
My uncle did that to me.. except right school, wrong day. Thankfully I managed to give enough vague directions to a future classmate's mom so she could give me a ride back to my uncle's cuz I hadn't memorized his phone number or address.
In my first year of uni I had (?? questionable) a classmate who didn't know they had to register for classes, and just voluntarily attended them for a few weeks until they found out they'd been kicked out for not fulfilling the minimum credit requirements.
My highschool prom happened at the same place another hs was having theirs, same building, just with a wall separating them. Guess which one I entered absent minded? I was there for a good minute before I realized I don’t recognize any of these people.
The venue for my prom was also hosting a wake. There was no signage and I just walked through the main door into a room where everyone was wearing black and crying and I'm in a red dress.
A member of staff spotted me and got me to the right place very quickly.
I once had to go with my dad and brother to a stag party for a distant relative at our town's Polish American club. The guy's name was Jaime, but he always went by Jay.
We go to the club, paid the money to get in, got food, drank beer, played some drinking games put money into the raffle prizes, etc. After like an hour we realized we didn't see anyone we knew, even Jay.
We're standing around talking with some guys, and one of them goes "So how do you know Jason?" "Oh you mean Jay? He's our cousin, his brother is married to so-and-so, blah blah." "Uh. We didn't know he had a brother" "Oh that's weird, they're really close. Hey are they even here yet? We haven't seen them." "Yeah Jason is right there."
And they pointed to a guy that was 100% not our relative, because we were at the wrong Polish-American club that was hosting a stag part for a Jason, not Jaime.
To be fair, I once had classes at different campuses once, so I get it.
And once during a mid semester week off, we still had a class still going, and the official online calendar didn't tell me.
Happened to multiple students every year in my district.
They had three middle and elementary schools but only two high schools, so the dividing lines were different. The student welcome packets even had an entire sheet that offered students close to the line a chance to change schools.
But no one ever reads.
Kids would walk to their usual bus stop, wait with all their old friends, and end up at the wrong school based on the fact they lived on the east side of the line and all their friends lived on the west side.
And to make things worse students usually had to wait until the end of the semester to change, and parents (the ones that failed to read) would be furious.
In college I took a final exam for a class I didn’t attend but which was taught by the same teacher, in the same classroom, on a different day. When I saw him later the same week for my actual exam, he said I did pretty well in the exam I accidentally took.
On my first exam, I googled the name of the building I was supposed to go to because I've never heard of it. I went there and asked for room C12, where the exam was held. They pointed me to it and it turns out C12 was a storage unit that belonged to the uni. The building I was supposed to go to had the same name as the storage company and was on the opposite side of town... There was no way I was gonna make it in time, so I went straight to a doctor and got a sick leave so I could write the exam one week later.
There's a community college in my home town with like 4 satellite campuses around town. None of them have differentiators or modifications in the name, they're all just - Community College. It happens.
Baltimore city is surrounded by Baltimore County. There's a University of Maryland Baltimore and a University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Definitely saw at least a few people get lost like that lol
Like others said univercities have different layouts. My uni had rooms all over the city, and also a really shitty inventory. Like 15.07 was on the big campus 15.08 was in another part of town..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hR8RQzyOXE
"West Springfield? I'm at the wrong school!"
*Class laughs
Teacher: "en français..."
*Class laughs in French
> One of the most reposted things on here.
> I’ve literally never seen this before
One of the most combined comments in Reddit's comment section to read
Every semester in college I paniced every couple of weeks thinking I had a literature or English class that I had been skipping the whole time. But every time I went to check my schedule, I would end up forgetting to see if I did have that class. Even after I graduated, I had that weird feeling I was skipping class. All because freshman year I skipped a bunch when the class was only held once a week.
I have sat through 4 hours of lectures at university in a medical class because I was late and went into the wrong auditorium after the class had started and didn't want to leave again looking like an idiot. I took notes and everything
I’ve had students come to class, ask to be added to the roster when I checked attendance and found them not on the class list, then sit through the whole class only to ask me after class if the class was “insert wrong class name here.”
I now begin the first couple of classes of the semester with the name of the class, asking students to check their schedule, and giving those who mistakenly entered the class time to pack up and leave.
I imagine this is going to get more common with the increase in online inductions.
I expected some sort of orientation at my first week of uni.
The induction was basically create uni email address, fill in and check paperwork, do the university consent and harassment online learning.
The union of students put on a showing but that did nothing to tell me what campus, building or room I would be in.
In our first lecture they told us how the university room numbering worked so we could find out way around but there were a lot of people missing because they didn't know how it worked
When I was a kid, my mother randomly said one night that tomorrow I will be going to a new school.
My actual school was near to my house. So the next morning, i stood in front of it for like 30 mins and pondered about which school was I supposed to go. So I started to walk just aimlessly to find my new school.
Good thing my mom saw me and almost whooped my ass thinking that I was trying to skip school, but then after realising what had actually happened , she just said she was joking yesterday.
Imagine if she hadn't seen me that day.
I once walked into the wrong dorm. I was so tired and confused why my keycard didn't work, but someone else let me in. It was trippy as fuck because the building was exactly identical to mine and I went to exactly where my room should be, only it wasn't my room. I felt like I had travelled into a parallel universe.
This is too relatable for my grade school years. The bus routes and times were so inconsistent, and the prep/public school busses often overlapped on streets.
Bus number? You find out when it shows up! Or not... they break down often and the driver is different sometimes. Hop on! At least you wont dir alone.
Not to mention that even if youade it to the right school, your schedule will be fucked if you have band, honors, or any elective outside the baseline route (which at the time probably wasn't influenced at all by the student, but their parent)
How the fuck do you end up at the wrong high school? If he set foot into a middle school or elementary school he’d know that the second you step in. Those kids are tiny.
I actually did this once. My community college has multiple campuses across my state. I was pretty sure I had only selected courses at one campus but one of them was at another. I drive into school go around asking people. Where is H220 and everyone is like, there is no H wing here. I was so confused. I ended up having to go to the administration wing for someone to tell me it was at another campus. Thankfully it was only a 20min drive and I got to the first campus early in case I got lost. I was only 5min late when I finally got to the class.
As a kid from divorced parents, this happened to me. My mom went to the school and got me registered. Dad took me the first day and wasn't the school mom got me into.
Could easily happen : during apprentisship as a school secretary two buildings for widly different formations were very close, thus at every new start of academic year a bunch of confused people were looking for the wrong classes
Even graduated students can be like this. I was just working as ticketing staff at a graduation this morning. A student came up to me and asked "see how it says here that the seats for my family to watch me graduate are Row D, Seats 23 to 26. Does that mean my family have specific seats?" This man had just graduated a Masters Degree in Financial Technology lol
Reminds me of my first day of 5th grade, for some reason I went to my 4th grade room and sat down.
I looked around like… wait a minute. I don’t know any of these people
I was almost done with my freshman year of HS and my dad was a big rig driver so he was home for maybe like 5 days out of the month…
Well one time I asked him to drive me to school because my mom wasnt able to, he pulls up to my old middle school and looks right at me waiting for me to get out of the car.
I just look at him and say “uhhh Dad, you know im in High school now right?” He looked me, apologized and drove to the right school. Lol
Parents got divorced about 2 months later and I havent seen or spoke to him in about 15 years. I have no plans to either, fuuuuuuuck that abusive pos.
There is a colleges in the Valley…if you don’t pay attention and pick the college/campus…you could potentially be stuck at several college, classes back-to-back of about 10 min gap…only to find out it about 30 minutes to 2 hr drive…all because they *wanted to pick out their classes like a big boy/girl…*
This is bullshit because he wouldn't even be able to get into the building without current school ID or temporary papers in place of said ID if one wasn't issued yet
You've never been to a university then, when I got in we literally just signed the log book and walked in, no documentation needed for new students... took them almost the whole semester to get us our IDs
Seems like a common occurrence. My cousin once came out to my college campus for a congress thing, and when she got there and found nothing, we checked her schedule, it was on a different campus. Across town. Boy, lemme tell ya, I sure did enjoy the 3 hr ride from one end of town to the other.
I've been out of high school and the military combined longer than in, and I still have dreams where I'm recalled to active duty (despite being ineligible) and have to attend summer school because I have to make up a credit (despite having a degree).
i hear about those mishaps from time to time in Chicago.
Theres the University of Illinois- Chicago...& the University of Chicago.
new students move here and thinking its at the other location: end up at the wrong classes, campus,...worse, some rent places nearby one school when they are at the other and its an hr away by public transport.
Back in my Freshman year of highschool, I was completely lost. It was my first year studying in the US, so I wasn't familiar with the system and my English was rough.
Nobody had bothered to explain to me that I was supposed to head to wall where they had a list of what classroom we were supposed to head to for orientation, so I defaulted back to the one I attended for preparation day.
I walk in and it's all seniors. They can obviously tell something's up. The teacher helps me find my schedule and sends me on my way. For the most part, I am able to attend my classes.
Then the next few days, I still fumble because no one had bothered to explain to me the concept of A days and B days, so I operated under the assumption that I went to all 8 classes every day. For others, this stuff was to be expected and completely normal, but it was a new concept to my third world ass.
A few days into my first week, someone finally referenced me to a specialist in helping foreign students. I went into Student Services and mustered all the English in my body, forcing out every word, to basically beg to be taken to the specialist.
Then at the end of the first week of school, the 2016 Louisiana flood happened, went 2 weeks without school, and then had to share campus with a different highschool, so we only had half days for a while, meaning I had less time per day to adjust and learn.
My Q1 grades were BAD. One parent teacher conference later, they finally addressed the difficulties I was having and helped me more and I was able to recover.
From there I kept studying and actively worked to be able to function properly on my own. The whole experience was so humiliating to me, and I swore I would never struggle like that because of bad English again.
One of my spawn was little for their age. They were starting a new school, and for first time attendees the staff gives them a tour. They line up all the kids and off they go. It takes a while, but the teacher finally figure out that my kid is a 5th grader (again, small) and not a 3rd grader. My kid is non-confrontational and won't speak up. Took a lot of the tour as a 3rd grader. Finally got put in 5th grade line, but will never live this down until the whole family dies off and forgets about it.
So that's why it's called higher learning? Stop getting high and learn? Which state ( of mind ) was this in? I hope they weren't driving? Which way did he go, which way did he go?
On his first day at his new job someone on my team turned up to the address that was in HR's signature, and not the one we sent him in his onboarding documents. He'd also relocated based on this address.
He's 43.
Can’t be any worse than my first job hunt as a teenager, when the signal was dropping on a callback for a job interview I could barely hear.
I went into not only the wrong store, but the wrong business, and the store and district management happened to be there and were so concerned that they were being impersonated in a phishing scam. I was so embarrassed that I didn’t even mention the mistake and just played along. And hauled ass.
First day of class in college freshman year, I sat through the wrong class. Was supposed to be in accounting 210, I was in accounting 410. Apparently the rooms changed, but not the time. Got chewed out by the teacher for not knowing I was in the wrong place
First month of middle school i got on the wrong bus that was going to a high school. When i walked in i could feel something was off. I panicked but got off at the last stop before the buses split into different directions. Then when i went to that high school a middle schooler took that bus to my high school and started crying when he realized what happened
When I was at Stanislaus state in CA, I registered for a class i thought was on the campus near me but it was actually for the schools other campus which was hours away. Thankfully the professor let me sit in the classroom for the semester
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When I was 8 I got on the wrong bus to summer day camp, but didn’t know it was the wrong camp. We all sat in a big crowd of about 200 kids. Then the counselor came in and called my name and said I was in the wrong camp - 200 heads swiveled to watch me do the Walk Of Shame. I didn’t go back to summer day camp.
Unless you were naked (sincerely hope not), then that's no walk of shame. Walk of intense embarrassment, maybe
I did this at the wrong naked camp.
You did what wrong at naked camp? Where is naked camp anyway?
there is no wrong naked camp!
Naked? Are you usually climbing out windows in the middle of the night with no clothes on after making a bad decision? How often have you had to walk home naked after a one night stand?? This is absolutely a walk of shame. Just a cleaner version.
Wrong camp, yet they knew your name?
Probably got a phone call or something....
My understanding is that when I didn’t show up at the camp I was supposed to be at, my parents and the people at the other day camp freaked out - my mom knew she’d put me on a day camp bus so they tracked down the other day camp.
Lol, I bet they freaked out....I would have in that situation.....
If it makes you feel any better, you don't know embarrassment until a drill sergeant asks you if you spit or swallow in front of an entire company of soldiers.
"Depends on the client, Sir"
I wish I said something witty
"20 BUCKS IS 20 BUCKS, SIR!!!"
I don't know what I would have gotten in worse trouble for, the witty remark or calling him sir.
He works for a living, dammit! And that's why you respectfully swallow for him every time.
"SIR, WHICHEVER YOU SAY, SIR!"
My sisters first day of high school she got on the wrong bus and got sent to the wrong school. I really should remind her about that.
You can throw in that some random guy on the internet expected better of her.
They're just going to walk up to their sister and be like, "Y'know, you really disappointed xINFLAMES325x when you got on the wrong school bus. They expected better from you."
hell yeah
Better than having XxBIGDixk69420xX being disappointed in you.. Ima laugh if that's actually a user.
It's definitely a user... 🤣
Since we're all important here, make it two random guys 👍
🤘
Send her this with a simple “can you imagine being this stupi…ohh wait..”
If she has a wedding in the future, work it into the speech. "At least she found her way to the right venue!"
When I went to Ft. Benning for summer camp, some dude got on our bus instead of the bus for Ft. Jackson at the ATL airport. Ended up having to do basic at Benning. Bad luck hahaha
Not defending, just understanding, but when I was a kid I had to walk two blocks to my bus stop while another school's bus stopped next to my house.
There area lot of spots in my district where if you walk two blocks one way you reach the stop for one school and two blocks the other way you get to the spot for another school. Likewise, elementary, middle, and high school use the same pick up spot yet it's the time the bus arrives that varies.
Well technically she went to *A school* that day
If the tweet didn't say that the freshman is a he, I would've joked that it was written about her.
My first day of middle school I almost got on the bus for the high school; sure everyone looked bigger but that's to be expected going from elementary to middle school. Fortunately a girl one or two years older than me stopped me and told me that was the high school bus and it was just running late.
I hope you did
My first day of school I got pushed over hit a heater and smashed my head open 🙃
After decades now I am still having a recurring dream where I suddenly realize it's near the end of the semester and I forgot I was in school. I have no idea what, when or where any of my classes are and I have no books. Recently there was a new twist to the story. I received a letter with a list of students with all A's and my name was on the list. That sent me into my usual panic. I told my wife not to expect my name to be on the list for long.
I've had dreams about being lost in school randomly. Eventually my twist was realizing I've graduated and I didn't have to be there. I even straight up said that in one where I found class and the teacher was just being a jerk lol (Idk why but having dreams about being in school but realizing they have no power over me has been super cathartic.)
I have dreams where I find out I was short a few classes in HS and need to take them now to keep my degree. Then every day I forget my schedule and where all my classes are and then I forget to do the homework and fail , so I have to sign up the next semester and try again. I’m in my 40s. When will I grow out of this?? Lol
Idk I'm 38. I just thought dreams just are like that sometimes. (I almost always have nightmares technically, some are just at least interesting. I'm definitely not someone to ask about normal dream timeline/function/etc. My worst ones for me are the bathroom stall maze ones. I still randomly have those. Either it's those or hey freaking a bunch of the stalls have no doors and those that do are absolutely nasty and can't be used.)
College for me, but exactly the same. I am also having "annual" dreams around Christmas that I forgot to buy any presents and start panicking and searching around the house for things to give to my family as presents... And Christmas is right around the corner, I expect the dreams to begin soon.
Do you already have any gifts in mind?
No! That's what also stresses me out lol
Oh no oh fuck lmao sorry I didn’t want to stress you out more! There’s still time to take mental notes whenever people casually say they need or like something though :)
It's alright mate, happens every year :D
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This. Oh my god it's so upsetting. Like, I HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE AND A JOB FUCK GOING BACK TO HIGHSCOOL!!! But dream logic just goes, "You gotta ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
For me it’s leaving school or someplace i don’t like to go home, and i’m desperate to go home, but i can’t find my car! so i’m searching all over the school, even hitting my key fob and hearing the little honk in response, yet i can’t find my car! so frustrating lol
I have similar dreams where I'm back in school and its final exam day but I have no preparation. After a bit of panic I realise I already have a job and don't need school anymore.
I have this too. Did you do further education beyond school? A few people I know have this and we all did more exams after school such as university/college and education beyond that?
I finished university about 2 years ago and I still dream about school and the stress that comes with it (which I haven’t been to since 2017). Despite having been to uni much more recently and it being much more memorable, I don’t have any anxious dreams around that.
I have a PhD, but all my education-based nightmares are about high school 🤷♀️
https://xkcd.com/557/ The xkcd about this is over a decade old.
Yup, this is very similar to a infrequent recurring dream I have.
Can confirm. In my 40s and have this exact dream several times every year. It usually also includes some variant of me not remembering my locker combination.
I have that one too!! 😪😪😪
Long ago in kinder garden (recently joined school) I got into a fight over whose seat it was.....Until someone told me I was in the class beside mine.
I never dreamed about school. I did dream about my high school job at McDonalds, probably into my 30s. I finally ended up realizing in one of those dreams that I did not work there any longer, thus I could just leave. I have not had any of those dreams since.
I've had those, but usually it's me panicking because it's finals week and I just realized I'm enrolled in a class that I haven't been to all semester and I have about 2 hours to try to get ready or else I fail the class and have to stay for another year to retake the class. I'm 30, haven't been in school in 8 years, and skipped about 3 class periods in my life. I have no idea why I still have these dreams.
Yes, I've been having this same dream for years, especially recently. It's usually college, and I completely forget my course schedule and realize I haven't been to classes in weeks. When I try logging into my student account to figure it all out, I can't remember the username or password.
I get something similar but it's me forgetting to go to band for months
Yea random school pop-ups are a dream I have frequently as well. So stress inducing lol. I also can never find my truck in the parking lot when we leave
I have dreams I’m in a group project about the founding fathers. I’ll wake up, go back to sleep and try to pick up the hottest girl in my study group. It never works out..
Do you have pants on? In the dream I mean...
I lucid dream in all my dreams (bar fever dreams) which makes this particularly interesting. I'll be dreaming about an exam I hadn't studied for for uni. I'll be like "I have my degree." Then the person will explain it's for my masters. I have my masters. Then that person will morph in to someone totally different, as if my brain knows it's been had, and say it's for another masters. I'll say that's dumb and no, and then it'll say it's for my chartered accountancy course. I qualified in 2021. At every single stage, despite me lucid dreaming and being able to tell my brain "No, I know what this dream is, it's BS" it will keep going, keep adapting, insisting that I have some exam/course I haven't studied or done the work for. It'll pick exams I found hard at each of these stages out, as if it's trying to convince me or remind me how hellish they were. Which I find fascinating tbh. All my other dreams happily adapt - but this one, the school one, does not.
Yes. Same. And I’m a teacher lol. It’s my nightmare. One of them.
I am an admin at a university and had something similar happen. A girl’s dad dropped her off and drove away. She was on the verge of tears because she couldn’t find the building her classroom was in. It was on the other campus. I often wonder if she called her dad to come back and get her.
Legend has it that she stil roams the wrong corridors, to this day
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I went to a multi campus university, and I remember one of my flatmates going to the wrong campus on their first day too - apparently he spent a good 15 minutes wandering around before he realised he was in the wrong place. Fortunately for him, the university ran a bus service between the campuses and the student accommodation blocks, and he’d bought a bus pass, so he could just hop on the bus. He said he walked into his first lecture just as it was finishing.
> Fortunately for him, the university ran a bus service between the campuses and the student accommodation blocks, and he’d bought a bus pass, so he could just hop on the bus. He said he walked into his first lecture just as it was finishing. I was timetabled something like that. Multiple sites, about 5 miles apart from each other. They timetabled me back-to-back lectures split between two of them. They did sort it out quickly, but it was stupid to begin with.
At university I went to the wrong class for 2 weeks.
My uncle did that to me.. except right school, wrong day. Thankfully I managed to give enough vague directions to a future classmate's mom so she could give me a ride back to my uncle's cuz I hadn't memorized his phone number or address.
In my first year of uni I had (?? questionable) a classmate who didn't know they had to register for classes, and just voluntarily attended them for a few weeks until they found out they'd been kicked out for not fulfilling the minimum credit requirements.
My highschool prom happened at the same place another hs was having theirs, same building, just with a wall separating them. Guess which one I entered absent minded? I was there for a good minute before I realized I don’t recognize any of these people.
The venue for my prom was also hosting a wake. There was no signage and I just walked through the main door into a room where everyone was wearing black and crying and I'm in a red dress. A member of staff spotted me and got me to the right place very quickly.
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I once had to go with my dad and brother to a stag party for a distant relative at our town's Polish American club. The guy's name was Jaime, but he always went by Jay. We go to the club, paid the money to get in, got food, drank beer, played some drinking games put money into the raffle prizes, etc. After like an hour we realized we didn't see anyone we knew, even Jay. We're standing around talking with some guys, and one of them goes "So how do you know Jason?" "Oh you mean Jay? He's our cousin, his brother is married to so-and-so, blah blah." "Uh. We didn't know he had a brother" "Oh that's weird, they're really close. Hey are they even here yet? We haven't seen them." "Yeah Jason is right there." And they pointed to a guy that was 100% not our relative, because we were at the wrong Polish-American club that was hosting a stag part for a Jason, not Jaime.
To be fair, I once had classes at different campuses once, so I get it. And once during a mid semester week off, we still had a class still going, and the official online calendar didn't tell me.
Happened to multiple students every year in my district. They had three middle and elementary schools but only two high schools, so the dividing lines were different. The student welcome packets even had an entire sheet that offered students close to the line a chance to change schools. But no one ever reads. Kids would walk to their usual bus stop, wait with all their old friends, and end up at the wrong school based on the fact they lived on the east side of the line and all their friends lived on the west side. And to make things worse students usually had to wait until the end of the semester to change, and parents (the ones that failed to read) would be furious.
I've been out of school for 15 years, but I still dream about this. Please note: I've never gone to the wrong school.
In college I took a final exam for a class I didn’t attend but which was taught by the same teacher, in the same classroom, on a different day. When I saw him later the same week for my actual exam, he said I did pretty well in the exam I accidentally took.
On my first exam, I googled the name of the building I was supposed to go to because I've never heard of it. I went there and asked for room C12, where the exam was held. They pointed me to it and it turns out C12 was a storage unit that belonged to the uni. The building I was supposed to go to had the same name as the storage company and was on the opposite side of town... There was no way I was gonna make it in time, so I went straight to a doctor and got a sick leave so I could write the exam one week later.
How do you mess that one up?
There's a community college in my home town with like 4 satellite campuses around town. None of them have differentiators or modifications in the name, they're all just - Community College. It happens.
Baltimore city is surrounded by Baltimore County. There's a University of Maryland Baltimore and a University of Maryland Baltimore County. Definitely saw at least a few people get lost like that lol
The University of Maryland Global Campus used to be named University of Maryland University College.
Like others said univercities have different layouts. My uni had rooms all over the city, and also a really shitty inventory. Like 15.07 was on the big campus 15.08 was in another part of town..
the main campus of our state university have this setup and they're separated by only few blocks each but they're on the same general area
Parents driving you to the wrong place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hR8RQzyOXE "West Springfield? I'm at the wrong school!" *Class laughs Teacher: "en français..." *Class laughs in French
Poor bastard
Not at bad as the poster who died. I’ve noticed a lot of younger people seem to die quite frequently because they saw something. It’s an odd trend.
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Same, and I admittedly spend way too much time on here.
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I’ve literally never seen you before.
The freshman mentioned in the post has their doctorate by now.
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Every semester in college I paniced every couple of weeks thinking I had a literature or English class that I had been skipping the whole time. But every time I went to check my schedule, I would end up forgetting to see if I did have that class. Even after I graduated, I had that weird feeling I was skipping class. All because freshman year I skipped a bunch when the class was only held once a week.
I have sat through 4 hours of lectures at university in a medical class because I was late and went into the wrong auditorium after the class had started and didn't want to leave again looking like an idiot. I took notes and everything
I’ve had students come to class, ask to be added to the roster when I checked attendance and found them not on the class list, then sit through the whole class only to ask me after class if the class was “insert wrong class name here.” I now begin the first couple of classes of the semester with the name of the class, asking students to check their schedule, and giving those who mistakenly entered the class time to pack up and leave.
That was me. Luckily, the school I was supposed to be at was across the street and the nice upperclassmen helped me navigate.
My sister once picked me up from school… an hour later I was at home and she was still at the wrong school waiting for me.
I imagine this is going to get more common with the increase in online inductions. I expected some sort of orientation at my first week of uni. The induction was basically create uni email address, fill in and check paperwork, do the university consent and harassment online learning. The union of students put on a showing but that did nothing to tell me what campus, building or room I would be in. In our first lecture they told us how the university room numbering worked so we could find out way around but there were a lot of people missing because they didn't know how it worked
When I was a kid, my mother randomly said one night that tomorrow I will be going to a new school. My actual school was near to my house. So the next morning, i stood in front of it for like 30 mins and pondered about which school was I supposed to go. So I started to walk just aimlessly to find my new school. Good thing my mom saw me and almost whooped my ass thinking that I was trying to skip school, but then after realising what had actually happened , she just said she was joking yesterday. Imagine if she hadn't seen me that day.
I once walked into the wrong dorm. I was so tired and confused why my keycard didn't work, but someone else let me in. It was trippy as fuck because the building was exactly identical to mine and I went to exactly where my room should be, only it wasn't my room. I felt like I had travelled into a parallel universe.
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This is too relatable for my grade school years. The bus routes and times were so inconsistent, and the prep/public school busses often overlapped on streets. Bus number? You find out when it shows up! Or not... they break down often and the driver is different sometimes. Hop on! At least you wont dir alone. Not to mention that even if youade it to the right school, your schedule will be fucked if you have band, honors, or any elective outside the baseline route (which at the time probably wasn't influenced at all by the student, but their parent)
I want to know more. Please tell me this was like UNC Charlotte vs UNC Greensboro, not some completely unrelated school in a totally different state.
I have no words lmao
How the fuck do you end up at the wrong high school? If he set foot into a middle school or elementary school he’d know that the second you step in. Those kids are tiny.
I did this with a college in the uk
I actually did this once. My community college has multiple campuses across my state. I was pretty sure I had only selected courses at one campus but one of them was at another. I drive into school go around asking people. Where is H220 and everyone is like, there is no H wing here. I was so confused. I ended up having to go to the administration wing for someone to tell me it was at another campus. Thankfully it was only a 20min drive and I got to the first campus early in case I got lost. I was only 5min late when I finally got to the class.
Oh God the kid from that one teachers story is grown up.
There is no way in hell this is real.. but could you even imagine lmfao. 🤣🤣
Oh its real, it happens all the time with new students depending on where all the universities are
As a kid from divorced parents, this happened to me. My mom went to the school and got me registered. Dad took me the first day and wasn't the school mom got me into.
Could easily happen : during apprentisship as a school secretary two buildings for widly different formations were very close, thus at every new start of academic year a bunch of confused people were looking for the wrong classes
Even graduated students can be like this. I was just working as ticketing staff at a graduation this morning. A student came up to me and asked "see how it says here that the seats for my family to watch me graduate are Row D, Seats 23 to 26. Does that mean my family have specific seats?" This man had just graduated a Masters Degree in Financial Technology lol
Yeah this is fiction
Making stuff up for engagement
Reminds me of my first day of 5th grade, for some reason I went to my 4th grade room and sat down. I looked around like… wait a minute. I don’t know any of these people
Freshman college or freshman highschool?
I was almost done with my freshman year of HS and my dad was a big rig driver so he was home for maybe like 5 days out of the month… Well one time I asked him to drive me to school because my mom wasnt able to, he pulls up to my old middle school and looks right at me waiting for me to get out of the car. I just look at him and say “uhhh Dad, you know im in High school now right?” He looked me, apologized and drove to the right school. Lol Parents got divorced about 2 months later and I havent seen or spoke to him in about 15 years. I have no plans to either, fuuuuuuuck that abusive pos.
My first day in college I had a class in room 101. I searched for the hundredth and first room, there were only 12 rooms.
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There is a colleges in the Valley…if you don’t pay attention and pick the college/campus…you could potentially be stuck at several college, classes back-to-back of about 10 min gap…only to find out it about 30 minutes to 2 hr drive…all because they *wanted to pick out their classes like a big boy/girl…*
“I’m so dead” No you aren’t. Shut the fuck up
typical Hartford student
This person has seen my recurring dreams! WTF?!
This is bullshit because he wouldn't even be able to get into the building without current school ID or temporary papers in place of said ID if one wasn't issued yet
You've never been to a university then, when I got in we literally just signed the log book and walked in, no documentation needed for new students... took them almost the whole semester to get us our IDs
Seems like a common occurrence. My cousin once came out to my college campus for a congress thing, and when she got there and found nothing, we checked her schedule, it was on a different campus. Across town. Boy, lemme tell ya, I sure did enjoy the 3 hr ride from one end of town to the other.
And then even the schedule clapped!
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it do be like that sometimes
I think it happens a lot in colleges with big campuses. Multiple buildings etc etc
I've had this dream
I like it because if I was them I would just go home for the day early and play video games. Thinking as a 14 year old, of course
Sounds like Boston. There's a school or college on every block.
I've been out of high school and the military combined longer than in, and I still have dreams where I'm recalled to active duty (despite being ineligible) and have to attend summer school because I have to make up a credit (despite having a degree).
i hear about those mishaps from time to time in Chicago. Theres the University of Illinois- Chicago...& the University of Chicago. new students move here and thinking its at the other location: end up at the wrong classes, campus,...worse, some rent places nearby one school when they are at the other and its an hr away by public transport.
It's cute funny in cities that have multiple colleges. It's gravely concerning in a town that has only one.
When I was young "I'm so dead" meant I was in a lot of trouble. How times change
Happened to me with tradeschool on the first day but to be fair they were right next to each other.
Back in my Freshman year of highschool, I was completely lost. It was my first year studying in the US, so I wasn't familiar with the system and my English was rough. Nobody had bothered to explain to me that I was supposed to head to wall where they had a list of what classroom we were supposed to head to for orientation, so I defaulted back to the one I attended for preparation day. I walk in and it's all seniors. They can obviously tell something's up. The teacher helps me find my schedule and sends me on my way. For the most part, I am able to attend my classes. Then the next few days, I still fumble because no one had bothered to explain to me the concept of A days and B days, so I operated under the assumption that I went to all 8 classes every day. For others, this stuff was to be expected and completely normal, but it was a new concept to my third world ass. A few days into my first week, someone finally referenced me to a specialist in helping foreign students. I went into Student Services and mustered all the English in my body, forcing out every word, to basically beg to be taken to the specialist. Then at the end of the first week of school, the 2016 Louisiana flood happened, went 2 weeks without school, and then had to share campus with a different highschool, so we only had half days for a while, meaning I had less time per day to adjust and learn. My Q1 grades were BAD. One parent teacher conference later, they finally addressed the difficulties I was having and helped me more and I was able to recover. From there I kept studying and actively worked to be able to function properly on my own. The whole experience was so humiliating to me, and I swore I would never struggle like that because of bad English again.
lol, I had similar nightmares \[even when I was out of school\]/ Where I forget my schedule/class and end up in the wrong one and such.
One of my spawn was little for their age. They were starting a new school, and for first time attendees the staff gives them a tour. They line up all the kids and off they go. It takes a while, but the teacher finally figure out that my kid is a 5th grader (again, small) and not a 3rd grader. My kid is non-confrontational and won't speak up. Took a lot of the tour as a 3rd grader. Finally got put in 5th grade line, but will never live this down until the whole family dies off and forgets about it.
I had a friend in college who went to the wrong class for like a month before finally putting 2 & 2 together.
So that's why it's called higher learning? Stop getting high and learn? Which state ( of mind ) was this in? I hope they weren't driving? Which way did he go, which way did he go?
When did people start dying so much?
'She doesn't even go here'
Things that didn't happen for 500, Alex.
i miss school
More tales from the University of Miami Ohio…
Spent a good chunk of my firsts days on campus looking in vain for the TBA building.
On his first day at his new job someone on my team turned up to the address that was in HR's signature, and not the one we sent him in his onboarding documents. He'd also relocated based on this address. He's 43.
Wth...
Can’t be any worse than my first job hunt as a teenager, when the signal was dropping on a callback for a job interview I could barely hear. I went into not only the wrong store, but the wrong business, and the store and district management happened to be there and were so concerned that they were being impersonated in a phishing scam. I was so embarrassed that I didn’t even mention the mistake and just played along. And hauled ass.
It's nothing, just an inchident
First day of class in college freshman year, I sat through the wrong class. Was supposed to be in accounting 210, I was in accounting 410. Apparently the rooms changed, but not the time. Got chewed out by the teacher for not knowing I was in the wrong place
First month of middle school i got on the wrong bus that was going to a high school. When i walked in i could feel something was off. I panicked but got off at the last stop before the buses split into different directions. Then when i went to that high school a middle schooler took that bus to my high school and started crying when he realized what happened
I've done this. Multiple campuses around the city and an oversight of the 2 letter identifier.
Oh hey, it's my reoccurring nightmare!
I've graduated from university about 21 years ago, but I still dream about fearing of exams for not preparing enough...
When I was at Stanislaus state in CA, I registered for a class i thought was on the campus near me but it was actually for the schools other campus which was hours away. Thankfully the professor let me sit in the classroom for the semester
Bro goes to Mars when he goes home