Colleges & Universities

20-something suit on cell (angrily): But mom, you don't understand! Everyone I know is already on the folk dancing team!

Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah

Chemistry professor: Now, it may seem that nature has gotten it wrong–but like me, nature never gets it wrong.

University of Auckland
New Zealand

Music history professor: Darwin says that the sole purpose for living things is to survive and procreate. What about us, as musicians? Do we need music to survive and procreate? Well, some people believe that music was created as a sort of mating call. Compare the reproductive life of Jimi Hendrix to the reproductive life of… well, me.
Class: Um…
Music history professor: Well, clearly I win hands-down because of all my groupies.

1 East Mount Vernon Place
Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: stravinsky

Girl #1, about girl #2's umbrella: That's so skinny!
Girl #2: Yeah, thanks.
Girl #1: You could do bad things with that…

Binghamton University, New York

Overheard by: Jillian

Girl: She came in at 5:30 in the morning. Is she like trying to beat the walk of shame rush?

University of Florida

Girl #1: After he proposed, I thought to myself, “why couldn't he have done this a few days before, so I could show off my ring at the funeral?”
Girl #2: I know, that's such a shame!

University of Delaware

Overheard by: It wasn't even THAT pretty of a ring!

Student #1: I don’t know what people are going on about. To me, ‘fuzzy logic’ and ‘rough sets’ are basically the same.
Student #2: How is fuzzy logic anything like rough sex?

University of Pretoria
South Africa

Overheard by: Daniel

Bimbette, looking at halloween costumes online with her boyfriend: Oh, look! You can go as Robin Hood and I'll be Mary Magdalene!

RIC College
Providence, Rhode Island

Geology professor, after sneezing: It's all these trees outside having all of this unprotected sex.
Student: We're just caught in the crossfire.
Geology professor: Exactly. You should see the stains on my car!

University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, Virginia

Nerdy freshman talking about philosophy: Well, it depends on what you consider real. Like is Spiderman real?
Kid sitting with him: Uh…
Nerdy freshman: Think about it! Is he?

U Mass
Amherst, Massachusetts