Statistics professor writing on board: I’ll leave the numbers out because I always get them wrong anyway.
University of Chicago
Illinois
Overheard by: too early for this class
Archive for the ‘Class’ Category
You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
MBA #1 whispering: Every time [the professor] says, ‘investment of comparable risk,’ don’t you feel like he is saying, ‘rodents of unusual size’? Like in The Princess Bride?
MBA #2: You don’t like Accounting, do you?
http://overheardatkmc.blogspot.com/2006/10/rouss.html
When You Locate the Controls Of Your Spacecraft
Quirky lesbian professor leading class in Kegel exercises: And everybody squeeze, hold, hold…release and squeeze, two, three…release.
Ditzy Indian, after shiver spasm: It gives me the willies!
Quirky lesbian professor: It’s great, right!
Health Ed Class
Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York
Overheard by: Trying not to laugh at all the serious faces trying to hide these private exercises
Which Also Explains the Peanut Butter Smears
College student: That one answer is wrong. You put a nine instead of a six.
Professor: I was probably stoned at the time.
Sussex, New Jersey
Sentence Fragments Baaaad!
Professor: I want to please you… Not with goats, but with sentences.
Greek Class
UCLA, California
Overheard by: shepherd
You Can Cry Afterwards and He Can’t Tell
Girl: It’s not “oh, I got laid underwater.” It’s that I got to know the person and got close to them before I went underwater.
Psychology Class
University of Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Emily
…A Metaphor I Would Know Nothing About
Professor: The Government was spending money like a drunken sailor in a Tijuana whorehouse.
Macroeconomics Class
University of California
Overheard by: Econometrically Bored
Isn’t Saying “We’re Texas Lutherans” Sufficient?
Professor: Everyone who thinks it’s this answer jump up and say, “I’m brilliant!”
(nobody moves)
Professor: Everyone who thinks it’s this answer jump up and say, “I’m not so brilliant, yet.”
(nobody moves)
Professor: Everyone else jump up and say, “I’m inhibited!”
Organic Chemistry Class
Texas Lutheran University
Overheard by: Kimberly
Unlike My Grading Scale
Professor: The guillotine was humane. It was just humane many thousands of times.
Oberlin, Ohio
Overheard by: Secret Spy
The Large Group Ones Are a Logistical Nightmare
Peer-taught health class leader: Small group condom practice! Wooot!
Eugene, Oregon
Overheard by: nyssa
