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  1. that’s what matters!

  2. P1chu says:

    NOT FIRST!!!!!

  3. Aja says:

    ♪ Nothing is good enough
    For people like you
    Who have to have someone take the fall ♪

  4. JasonK says:

    *Secretly adds “Not” sign next to it*

    • D8P says:

      If a college has that name, it probably isn’t good enough

      • Nerdilicious says:

        when the school is up to capacity, wouldn’t it then be called…Fullenough College? *geeked*

      • Randolph says:

        FYI, it´s a residence in London, not an educational institution, and it is named after William Goodenough. It has a considerable endowment, which allows for lots of interesting activities, such as concerts, trips, cultural shows and the like. Actually it’s a quite a decent place to live, if you are a student in London and you might a sublet for the summer and stay in London for a relatively low price.

  5. Giea says:

    Well I’m sure this school is full of expectations.

    • fluffy says:

      Students are expected to show up.

      • Jimbo is bored♂ says:

        That takes all the fun away though. Skippin a 4pm class because you’re still too hungover is what the college experience is all about.

        • Admiral Apparent says:

          If you say so. Don’t get me wrong, I had a ton of fun in college, but I went to learn. I occasionally skipped a large lecture as a freshman, but only if I had arranged for coverage.

          I know it’s common to joke that college is a big party, but for most student partying doesn’t impinge upon learning. For those Failbloggers that are attending college soon, be serious about your studies and listen to the professors that strike a chord with you. You’ll thank me later.

          • Jimbo is bored♂ says:

            I agree with you Admiral, but I couldn’t resist the party joke. I’ve known both types, and the ones who thought college was a big party are either on the decade plan, or dropped out already. (As you can see below, I didn’t go to a normal school. We didn’t pull anything in fire school, deterence works…)

            • Admiral Apparent says:

              I know you were joking…I just wanted to point out a fallacy about the college experience for our college-bound contingent of failpeeps.

              • Jimbo is bored♂ says:

                Do we have any regulars staring down the barrel of that gun? I know BFF is a few years away yet.

                • hammykins says:

                  I’m only two years away myself.

                  • Dragonwriter says:

                    My absolute favorite students are the non-traditional or returning students. They are the ones who know a little about the world and really WANT to be there and to learn. Most (not all…just the majority) of the freshmen I teach 1) are there to fulfill their parents’ expectations, 2) are there to get out of their parents’ house, or 3) complain to me that all this work I’m giving them interferes with their partying, atheletics, frat/sorority activities.

                    I don’t think I’d mind a classroom full of Hammykinses, though! *squeeze*

                    • hammykins says:

                      I hope my professors are as good as you.
                      *squeeze back atcha*

                    • Someone Nicer than Jenny... says:

                      Yep. I loved my night classes – they were full of people that were there to learn.

                    • MLD says:

                      As a 30 year old student, I have to agree, not because it favors me, but because ALL the students I’ve had interrupt classes I’m taking, whispering or just being douches in general, are the 18-21 or so set.

                      I’ve had to interrupt classes myself because the teachers ignore the whispering and just keep going but I ind it distracting -_- So yeah, non-trad/adult students ftw :D

                • jamar says:

                  I’m going in September, but to a Chinese college instead. For the “study abroad” experience, also because 99% of my family lives near the college, but mainly because a crappy economic situation leaves me with little other choice. I was going to go to an American one but the one I already enrolled for had astronomical tuition without aid, and I screwed up the aid application (and that was last year; things got worse and my parents still insisted I had to go to college). By contrast this college is US$3500 and is one of the best-known in the country, and I also have help from family (as stated above). I’m still transferring out at the end of a year if things get better, though because Chinese college is HARD. It shows in the local entrance exams, which puts even AP exams to shame (one school expected me to be able to do 30 complex pre-calculus problems in an hour and a half without a calculator and 70-some physics/chemistry/biology problems in the space of two and a half hours; I failed that exam). And they put me in Computer Engineering instead of Computer Science, and due to the way they work they won’t let me switch majors. So I have to transfer out for that anyway.

                • NeroX says:

                  I’ve got about 5 or 6 years to go. =P

  6. D8P says:

    Still, it looks nicer than my college =P

  7. Ms B ♥ says:

    What if someone’s not good enough for Goodenough College?

  8. Evertide says:

    Gooo Flying Okays!

  9. chez says:

    Better than the universidad de moron I suppose.

  10. Someone Nicer than Jenny... says:

    I have a major case of deja vu.

  11. Someone Nicer than Jenny... says:

    My last day of High school the teachers made a bid deal of telling us to be prepared when we went to college – take all supplies, the teachers won’t baby us etc.
    My first day of college consisted of an ex-nun handing out a list of all the office supplies that we should bring to class, rules that she had (no gum, show up on time, etc), and told us that she would be taking attendance daily.

    It was one of the most disappointing experiences I have ever had.

    • Jimbo is bored♂ says:

      I had that too, but without the nun. I figure if I’m paying for the class I should be allowed to decide if I want to go. Oddly enough I ended up going to Fire School, and it behooves you to be present and accounted for there.

      • Someone Nicer than Jenny... says:

        I guess that was my beef about the whole thing. I am close to being a model student with the exception that I hate being told to do something I would already do anyway. It is enough to release my inner rebel.

        • Jimbo is bored♂ says:

          They controlled my inner rebel in fire school by making me run stairs in full gear. A lot of stairs…

          • Someone Nicer than Jenny... says:

            I lived in a rural area in Ga for awhile, and they would make noob firefighters mow the grass in full gear. Very funny to see.

            • Jimbo is bored♂ says:

              Georgia summer heat + bunker gear = heat stroke. That gear is really nice when it’s cold though. I’ve been out in a snowstorm in that stuff and I never felt it.

  12. Mike says:

    Here is their website:

    http://www.goodenough.ac.uk/home.html

    They’re not an academic institution, they are a residence facility catering to students attending different academic institutions. (Kind of expensive, too… US$1,200/month for a room; US$2K for a small apartment.)

  13. slatfatf says:

    i am reminded of a story i heard about jesus college in cambridge, england. it was christmas morning and the porter answered the telephone to hear the question “is that jesus?”. he obviously answered yes because cambridge colleges are known by their main name and not called with the college, so “jesus college” is “jesus” and “Magdalene (pronounced MAUDLIN) college”is just known as “magdalene”.

    so, porter answers that it is jesus and is shocked to then hear the strains of “happy birthday to you…” over the phone.

    ah the japes we play when young and drunk.

  14. udd says:

    I did my Masters degree there.

  15. SuckK says:

    Somehow, I don’t think JasonK made the cut to get in there.

  16. SomethingSomethingDarkSide says:

    I’ve actually walked by there before. My friends and I had a laugh when we saw the signage.

  17. Kurt says:

    It’s actually pronounced “Good-En-Oh”, not “Good-En-Uf”

  18. eeckthecat says:

    This is where you go after Sleptthrough Middle School and Screwdaufin High School.

    • KatzVonD♀ says:

      *snork* Funnier than the fail. *squeeze*

    • J says:

      A friend went into nursing college one day to find that the program had been changed and this was the day they were to visit the wards to which they had been assigned for practical experience. So she met her new boss and colleagues wearing a sweatshirt with a large academic-style crest, proclaiming “Toothickfor University”

  19. zippycat says:

    Viva la Mediocrity!!!!

  20. KatzVonD♀ says:

    This fail displeases me….
    The gates are closed, therefore we are not good enough.
    Well, I say thbbppptt! to you snotty college. :razz:
    *makes rude hand gestures*

  21. KatzVonD♀ says:

    Gonna go BBQ up those kids from the last fail. See y’all Monday. Bye!
    *have a nice weekend squeeze for all the FB peeps*

  22. hammykins says:

    You know, Mussorgsky is one of my favourite composers.

  23. Destinii Haruya says:

    Another definite Photoshop.

  24. Jake says:

    All you need is G.E.D. to get into G.E.C.!

  25. D says:

    It is in London, and it is a housing college… I should know I, I live there :D

  26. Music FAIL says:

    I have a teacher named that. Its pronounced Goodno

  27. danielle says:

    i don’t get it…

  28. flameow says:

    ^ A dude at my high school had this last name…and we all pronounced it as “good enough.”

  29. Someone Nicer than Jenny... says:

    Looks like things are going OK here. I am off to check my pool for trolls. Wish me luck…please.
    *gets troll fighting gear prepared*

    • Brewski says:

      When did you pool become infested with trolls??
      Oh, I haven’t done this in a long time…
      *SQUEEEEEZE!!!*

      • Someone Nicer than Jenny... says:

        Yay! Thanks for the squeeze.
        Pool trolls show up around June – peak in July and then start dwindling away around now. They are rude, abuse the facilities, and don’t take care of their kids. We even had a ‘tragic event’ about a week ago.
        *squeeze*

  30. jesi says:

    totally where i went to college. our school song was the ‘lowered expectations’ song from SNL.

  31. Sqwirk says:

    Goodenough and his friends wanted to provide able young men coming to London from the Dominions and Colonies, future leaders of what was then a large Empire.

  32. Brewski says:

    If it’s Goodenough for you, it’s Goodenough for me!
    *logs off to catch flight*

  33. Mouserz says:

    This isn’t fail, its goodenough.

  34. The Failer says:

    I Had ENOUGH OF COLLEGE

  35. ShadowTheSniper says:

    Hey if it says its goodenough, then thats just goodenough for me.

  36. Eduardo says:

    This is a WIN.

  37. enjoiIT says:

    i knew a kid whose last name was goodenough

  38. Amber says:

    clickie

  39. Victor says:

    very well I guess I should study there though

  40. joe says:

    it’s pronounced goodeno. the gh is silent

  41. Achi says:

    Why is this a fail? It looks good enough to me.

  42. Jessica says:

    OK, this one literally made me LOL. This is one of my favorites of the whole site.

  43. MRN ♂ says:

    (Yeah, this is off topic, so go away.)
    .
    Leila, sorry to pop in so long after your birthday celebration, and to leave you a greeting that will be read by hundreds of people before you even see it (if you ever do), but I just wanted to say how wonderful it is to have you on this site and how much you deserve a great day today.
    .
    Obviously I don’t really know you in the strictest sense of the word, but you seem to be a genuine kind-hearted person who is also feisty and full of joy. The few people I know in person who have all these qualities are the rare people I love to be with the most. I hope you get to see my birthday greeting to you on Monday (Sadly, I’ll probably be working – yet again – when you’re online.). Take care until we are online together again.
    .
    Now back to whatever humor, pathos and drama are unfolding here…

  44. Qwaz says:

    Ok. New favorite miniseries. I’m just gonna put all three episodes up here for all of us to enjoy if that’s alright. You may feel your IQ drop a point or two after watching ,though.

  45. notolaf says:

    I wish I had gone to that college!

  46. Timothy John says:

    It’s completely “good enough” to go to college next year. I am going to college in the Philippines on June 2010. *pops up confetti*

  47. Emperor, Tetragramaton Cleric. says:

    Admission only allowed by the administration’s head boss, Peter.

  48. Qwaz says:

    Yes! You know your own name!
    Now where did I put that laser?

  49. Cloral says:

    There’s a road not far from where I live called Goodenough. It leads up into the mountains behind Fillmore towards the California Condor Sanctuary in the Sespe Wilderness. The road and its name became a running joke for us. This is because one year we went backpacking in the sanctuary and the road was in the most god awful condition I’ve ever seen. It’s absolutely amazing we didn’t get stuck somewhere along the way. We actually passed a high-clearance four-wheel drive vehicle that had become stuck.

  50. Gtherocker says:

    Believe it or not, this is one of the most successful colleges in England.

  51. Scrappy Coco says:

    much better than South Harmon Institute of Technology (SHIT)

  52. Nice Try says:

    Failblog Fail

  53. mr. know-it-all says:

    Either photoposhed or Corel drooled.

  54. lysdexic says:

    Perhaps you’ve heard of their student club that strongly supports government work programs? It’s called “Goodenough for Government Work”.

  55. Sonia says:

    I used to walk past those gates every day to and from uni, giggled every time :)

  56. Jetterz1231 says:

    God…My cousins have a college named after them. What is the world coming to?

    (Seriously, that part of my family has the surname.)

  57. Meowth says:

    Better than the not good enough college.

  58. Jon says:

    This is Stuart Smalley’s alma mater – “You’re Goodenough, you’re Smartenough, and gosh darn it, people like you!”

  59. COndie says:

    I know a kid named Riley Goodenough… my one teacher used to call him That’lldo.

  60. turk says:

    dear FAILblog,

    please pay closer attention to the posts like this one and that ridiculous school bus/moving truck one and make sure they go to Photoshop Disasters where they belong… this shit is ridiculous, man…

  61. dynamite11 says:

    lol actually that’s my friends last name… we just his mom Mrs. G.

  62. huggieboo says:

    Home of the Good Enough Diploma.

  63. Goonwuff says:

    DUDE! Goodenough is my surname. Because I’m just awesome like that ;)

    PS. Jetterz1231 – guess we’re cousins!

  64. Reyalz says:

    Trust me its slightly better than the Notnearlygoodenough College

  65. RedFox says:

    You know what! I have been there! lol

  66.   says:

    The college might be sh*tty, but after all, it’s still good enough, lol.

  67.   says:

    No! This college is not good enough!

  68. J says:

    Goodenough is a family name of the founders whom set up the college…….

    it is not a college itself, but a residence of post grad students who study in London. They are all very bright people.

    Alot of jokes are made about the name, even by the people who live here.

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