"As soon as I closed my laptop, it hit me." 
 
 Gather round, children, for we are here today with a lesson in why we always proofread our papers. Meet Zoey Oxley, a freshman at Ohio University. Supplied 
 
 On Tuesday, Oxley was working on a paper when she realized she couldn't remember the teacher's name. So, she put a temporary nickname in the heading. "I have always been really bad with names," Oxley told BuzzFeed News. "So, when I was writing the paper, I blanked on the professor's name and filled it in with 'Professor whats his nuts,' just as a placeholder." After joking to her friend about how bad it would be if she sent in the paper with the joke still in it, she looked over the essay and sent it in. 
 
 You probably know where this is going. Yep, she accidentally sent in the paper with "Professor whats his nuts" still in it. Supplied 
 
 Oxley realized her mistake pretty much the second it was submitted. "As soon as I closed my laptop, it hit me," she said. "And I immediately started freaking out and trying to resubmit." 
 
 When she realized she couldn't take it back, she knew there was only one thing left she could do: write an apology email. 
 
 In the email, Oxley said she was embarrassed that she'd filled in his forgotten name with "something completely unprofessional" and repeatedly apologized. "I hope that this does not reflect what you think of me and that the next assignment I can address by the correct name," she wrote. 
 
 Meanwhile "Professor whats his nuts" himself opened the apology email. He didn't mind, thinking his student just made a typo — and then he saw the paper. Supplied 
 
 John Hendel — who clarified that he's not actually a professor but a first-year MFA student teaching a general education class — said he only skimmed the email at first. "I thought they had just misspelled my name, so I appreciated the apology but didn’t put much thought into it," Hendel told BuzzFeed News. The next day, while grading papers, he saw what Oxley had been apologizing for. "I see 'Professor whats his nuts' at the top and immediately recognized the student’s name," he said. Fortunately, he had a sense of humor about it. "I found it hilarious," he said. "I went back to their email and basically said, 'Oh, THAT’S what you meant!'" 
 
 Hendel tweeted about the exchange, and people absolutely lost it. A student emailed me, profusely apologizing 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” 
 
 People have been very sympathetic to the poor student, but also they cannot stop laughing. dear student: I feel you and also lmao https://t.co/VRX3kiAxjg 
 
 And this, kids, is why I don't fuck around when I write papers I would DIE https://t.co/FPWnsCM9cv 
 
 Hendel said he didn't give Oxley a hard time, and just said, "The university would probably want me to say 'proofread your paper.'" "Which is true," he said. "But they were so apologetic already and I wasn’t bothered in the slightest, so I left it at that." 
 
 Meanwhile, Hendel's tweet was blowing up. Oxley found it after it had already gone viral, and she posted one of her own. A series of unfortunate events: 
 
 There was more than enough secondhand embarrassment to go around. LMFAOOO I will literally not show up to class again 💀💀💀 https://t.co/6zBvmN4vPt 
 
 I just fully laughed/cringed/died. I would see no alternative but to emigrate and start a new life with a different name where I could never be found. ALWAYS DOUBLE CHECK WHAT YOU'RE SUBMITTING FRIENDS. https://t.co/ZwxiDkGF4c 
 
 And now, people are sharing their similar horror stories. This is like the one time i submitted a paper and the document was titled "shit ass philosophy paper" https://t.co/iXXFqJKOgT 
 
 A partner in a law firm I worked at received a letter with the salutation "Dear Asshole." Of course, it could not have been more accurate. https://t.co/Ew9twavill 
 
 I did this with a paper title in college. pulled an all nighter, put together the differenthe section's in a file titled "Prof_X_Stupid_Boring_Class_Assignment_Complete.Doc" Forgot to change it. https://t.co/zcHV7dDJ82 
 
 Oxley has not yet had to face her teacher, and she said she "can’t decide if I’m dreading or looking forward to [class] next week." Zoey Oxley 

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 Ohio University student Zoey Oxley forgot to change her professor's name at the top of a paper she submitted. (Photo: Screengrab/Twitter) 
 
 Zoey Oxley had just submitted a paper for her viewing performance class when she realized she had done something terribly wrong. 
 
 The Lakota West graduate and Ohio University freshman studio art major didn't call her professor, John Hendel, the right name. 
 
 But this wasn't just a misspelling. 
 
 Oxley, who just began classes at the end of August, had forgotten Hendel's name when she began writing, so she used a nickname she intended to replace once finished. 
 
 That nickname? "Professor whats his nuts." 
 
 Oxley told The Enquirer on Friday that when she was looking over her paper, she joked about what would happen if she accidentally submitted it with said name. 
 
 She did. 
 
 Oxley detailed the mishap Thursday in a tweet that has since gone viral. 
 
 A series of unfortunate events: pic.twitter.com/xSnT0JTYPV — zo !!! (@Zoeyoxley) September 20, 2018 
 
 Oxley said she realized her mistake almost immediately after she turned in the paper. 
 
 "As soon as ... I realized what I had done, I immediately started to freak out," she told The Enquirer. 
 
 So, she wrote Hendel an email apologizing for her mistake. 
 
 "Professor Hendel, I am writing this email very embarrassingly," the email began. "As I began writing my paper, I wrote out the template. Unfortunately, I could not remember your last name, so I filled it with something completely unprofessional." 
 
 She continued: "It was my intention to change the name before submission, but it completely slipped my mind." 
 
 Oxley further apologized for the "lack of respect that was used," hoped the mistake would not reflect poorly on her and said she'd call him by the correct name next time. 
 
 Despite Oxley's attempt to resubmit the assignment, the original copy ended up in Hendel's hands. 
 
 A student emailed me, profusely apologizing 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” — John Hendel (@Hendyhendel) September 19, 2018 
 
 At first, he said in a tweet Wednesday, he was confused about why Oxley was profusely apologizing. 
 
 "I was like, 'Thanks, whatever, nbd,'" he said. "Then I got to their paper and saw their instructor was 'Professor whats his nuts.'" 
 
 Awkward. 
 
 Both Oxley's and Hendel's accounts of the incident have since taken off on Twitter, each of their tweets amassing more than 300,000 likes and tens of thousands of retweets. 
 
 Some commenters sympathized with Oxley, sharing their own mistakes to make light of what happened. 
 
 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 
 
 Less extreme but I named the file for my final AP Lit Review The Butts Karamazov & forgot to change it 😂😭🤧 — Nerée Jardan (@tropiusss) September 21, 2018 
 
 Others began editing Oxley's assignment for grammatical issues. 
 
 Forgot to indent tho.. — Christian Hood (@ChristianMich_1) September 21, 2018 
 
 should also be a comma after seminar — hannah 👻 △⃒⃘ (@HannahAngelle3) September 21, 2018 
 
 The “p” in “performance” should be capitalized. — Emily Martin (@EmileeMaree12) September 21, 2018 
 
 And, naturally, many people wanted to know how things turned out for Oxley. 
 
 Pls keep us updated on how your next class session goes!!!! 😂 — Milynne 🌺Romans (@MilynneR) September 20, 2018 
 
 oh my gosh 😂 please let twitter know what you get on the assignment — laur ✨ (@laur_reneeee) September 20, 2018 
 
 Me waiting for an update 😂 pic.twitter.com/2AK9OkM9ek — Clutch City (@hwest010) September 21, 2018 
 
 But those waiting for a response will have to be patient: The class meets only one day a week — Thursday — and class this week was canceled, according to a classmate. 
 
 Until then, Oxley is avoiding Hendel "at all costs." 
 
 "Although this ended up being a viral joke," she said, "it was still the most embarrassing thing I have ever done." 
 
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– If Monday is getting you down, we're here to supply you with a chuckle, which comes compliments of Ohio University. John Hendel is a first-year MFA student there, and received an email from a freshman in the performance studies class he's teaching, reports the Cincinnati Enquirer. BuzzFeed has a screenshot of Zoey Oxley's email, which very formally and apologetically explains that when writing a paper she forgot Hendel's name and put in a "completely inappropriate" placeholder that she forgot to edit before electronically submitting it; she discovered there was no way to fix it. "I hope this does not reflect what you think of me and that the next assignment I can address by the correct name," she concludes. Hendel read the email but says he didn't think much of it, assuming his name was just misspelled. On Wednesday he tweeted, "I was like, 'Thanks, whatever, nbd.' Then I got to their paper and saw their instructor was 'Professor whats his nuts.'" Proving himself to be a good sport (or savvy about our viral world), Hendel's Twitter name now reads "Professor whats his nuts." Oxley herself tweeted about it Thursday and has garnered more than 600,000 likes; add in the 350,000 likes on Hendel's tweet and they're nearing a combined 1 million. The Enquirer rounds up responses to the tweets—which include similar tales of woe, like one from a student who named her file "The Butts Karamazov" and forgot to edit it. (This typo is pretty darn bad.)