A professor’s hilarious blunder has turned the internet upside down. Professor Joseph Mullins took to Twitter and shared how he was hurt when none of his students showed up for his class. “Today no one showed up to my class at 8:15am. 0 students about 40,” he wrote on the microblogging website. Mr Mullins went on to explain that when he decided to write an email to his students and tell them he felt hurt, the reply he received turned his sad situation into a funny one.
“Sitting in the empty room, I email them, trying to hide my hurt feelings. Two minutes later, I get a reply: ‘Professor, we think you are in the wrong room.’ tweet from the professor.
Today no one showed up to my 8:15 class.
0 students about 40. Sitting in the empty room, I email them, trying to cover my hurt feelings.
2 minutes later I get a reply: “Professor, we think you are in the wrong room.” So anyway, I’m gonna live in a hole forever.
— Joseph Mullins (@josephmullins) February 14, 2023
In another post, Mr Mullin wrote: “My wife really wants me to mention that I was sleep deprived because I got up at 4am to play Dungeons and Dragons with my friends in Australia.” He also jokingly said that his wife is “absolutely roasting me in every group chat about my decidedly uncool reaction to this blast.”
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Mr Mullin spoke about his hilarious blunder on Wednesday and his post has since gone viral. One of his students also responded to the tweet along with the screenshot of the email the professor shared with his students.
Here I am 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/iKcBbENsOZ
— W Su (@sucamehere) February 15, 2023
Meanwhile, Internet users flooded the comments section with all sorts of reactions. Some even shared their own hilarious experiences.
“If it makes you feel any better, one day my PI was ranting about how none of her students showed up for their final exams, but it turns out she showed up on the wrong day to take the exam,” wrote an user. “It must have been my first or second AEA meetings. I walked through the lobby and met Oliver Williamson, who chaired my session the next day. I said, ‘Hi, Prof. Williamson.’ He replied, ‘Where were you? We just had our session and waited for you for 15 minutes” said another.
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A third user commented, “Please know I’m smiling with tears in my eyes out of empathy, not judgment,” while a fourth added, “My story is nowhere near as cool. For an exec teaching class (so not on a set schedule ), I was once in the right room but a week early!”
Mr Mullin’s Twitter post has been viewed more than 20 million times and garnered more than 634,000 likes.
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