Zoey submitted an assignment online. Moments later, she realised what she'd done.

Uni is a weird time for your brain.

You’re up all hours finishing assignments and cramming for exams, you’re probably hitting the uni bar a little harder than you should be, and… let’s be honest, on the rare occasion you actually go to lectures, you have no idea what it’s about, let alone who’s presenting it.

Well.

A college student in the US just made an embarrassing faux pas that is possibly the most apt embodiment of every uni student on the planet.

Zoey Oxley had just hit submit on her assignment and shut her laptop when she realised she’d made a very embarrassing mistake in her professor’s name.

We’re not talking a little typo here.

You see, she just couldn’t remember it, so instead, she filled out her header temporarily with ‘Professor whats his nuts,’ but forgot to make sure she’d changed it before submitting and my palms are sweating just thinking about it.

...But I'm also kinda glad I'm not the only one who does things like this. (Or rather, did things like this).

I get it, Zoey - there's a simple joy in having a little chuckle to yourself when you open up a document and see your own silly personal joke staring back at you. Bearing in mind you're probably subsisting on red bull and mi goreng, sleep deprived and suffering from mild cabin fever, so it does seem funnier than it usually would.

It's the little things.

I would have just died if anyone ever saw my dumb assignment titles, which is exactly how Zoey felt when she realised what she'd done.

Hastily typing out an apology email, Zoey tried desperately to back pedal. Her professor (who seems like a straight-up legend, to be honest), was understanding, but thought nothing of it at the time.

Until he read her assignment.

Luckily, he had one hell of a sense of humour, and when discovering the mistake, tweeted it. The tweet went viral, eventually ending up in Zoey's own feed, to which she tweeted her own side of the story.

Here's how it played out:

A student emailed me, profusely apologising for getting my name wrong at the top of their paper, and I was like, “Thanks, whatever, nbd.” Then I got to their paper and saw their instructor was “Professor whats his nuts”

— Professor whats his nuts (@Hendyhendel) September 19, 2018

A series of unfortunate events: pic.twitter.com/xSnT0JTYPV

— zo !!! (@Zoeyoxley) September 20, 2018

Both tweets include a very funny thread of responses, with people sharing their own similar stories:

I once turned in a paper with the title “Is Genocide Modern or Nahh?” and emailed my professor a long paragraph just to get back
“no problem.
Sent from my iPhone”

— Alicia Petit (@aliciaepetit) September 20, 2018

Once I emailed my professor a paper and the title was “Really bad Philosophy paper”

— Kate ????️‍???? (@LegendsLightnin) September 21, 2018

Reminded me of when my friend Jaz submitted this has her essay title and got a 2:1 pic.twitter.com/XS5H2WyAux

— Michael Cini (@MalteseCartoons) September 20, 2018

In undergrad I use to title my papers “Clever title I’ll think of later” and one time i forgot to change it. My professor returned it to me after grading it with the title circled and “?’s” around it ????

— Justice Beaver (@Oyechelle) September 20, 2018

A student of mine submitted a paper with a heading on one section as “Insert examples and shit here”. ????

— Marni Thornton (@marnithornton) September 20, 2018

freshman yr, 3 years ago I turned in my ppp that I had started and completed that night at 3 am I remember being extremely tired and typing JUST LET ME SLEEP I BEG OF YOU PLEASE. As the title of the last slide... I presented it to the whole class everybody laughed.

— Callie Hall (@CallieHaII) September 23, 2018

It's nice to know we're all as embarrassing as each other.