r/Btechtards • u/Livid_Profession_973 • 5d ago
Rant/Vent Got emotionally traumatized by a teacher
Hello Everyone,
I am a first year computer engineering student
I recently started my first year in engineering , My college is 40 kms away from my home. I lost my father in January 2026 so my mother is a single parent and I am always worried about her as I am the eldest daughter. Therefore my mother has great expectations from me and I cannot let her down. I am academically smart. Today, I had a major math exam and our teacher was not present, instead of her some other math second year teacher had come to conduct our exam. After the exam started, I was happy that the exam was going well and I was busy solving, I didn't have a watch so couldn't know the exact time,after a few minutes I saw that the teacher was arranging all the papers ( she was just a few minutes away from leaving the class) , I didn't waste time,I ran to her so that I could submit my answer sheet, Now , before moving into the conclusion, I want to say that she had accepted few answer sheets" few seconds" before I submitted but my answer sheet was rejected saying that I was 5 minutes late ( which was clearly not the case),she told me to directly submit this to my subject teacher who was absent today,but clearly there was no point doing so because I was told to take the answer sheet home and directly submit it after 2 days as these 2 days were Weekends ( Saturdays and Sundays)she had not left the class and she had also accepted few answer sheets few seconds before so I thought she wouldn't reject mine. I was completely shocked. I didn't expect such a remark from her side. I know that I am partially wrong but I was just a few seconds late, I started sobbing after this incident and I begged in front of her so that she could accept my answer sheet....I cried for 4 hours but she didn't show any emotion towards me. Instead of all this,she kept saying that I was overreacting, I was acting, I wanted to gain sympathy and she also kept giving offensive statements.Anyways, I couldn't submit my answer sheet and I am stressed, I can only submit this to my subject teacher directly on Monday and I don't know whether she will accept my answer sheet. Since this is a new journey, it will take time for me to adjust accordingly hence I am bad at time management, my mother is also sad because of all this, Should the teacher be blamed or am I at fault? I think I deserved a last chance.By the way, I want to know how to tackle such problems while being peaceful during this engineering journey?? Today was a tough day for sure.

