Chick: About a year ago I discovered that everything I learned at Harvard was actually through reading Wikipedia just before the exam.
Harvard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Chick: About a year ago I discovered that everything I learned at Harvard was actually through reading Wikipedia just before the exam.
Harvard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dude: My grandmother told me never to discuss the three D’s in polite company.
Chick: Oh, yeah? What are they?
Dude: I don’t remember…
http://overheardlines.blogspot.com/2007/04/no-wonder-hes-shunned-by-society.html
Overheard by: tim
Professor: Today we’re going to be synthesizing a 6,6 nylon molecule. Who can tell me where the sixes come from?
Student: The devil!
Professor: Very good. Note the dreaded mark of the polymer beast.
Chemistry lab, Concord University
Athens, West Virginia
Overheard by: I’m also failing chemistry
Girl in dorm bathroom: I just love it when they shove evolution down my throat! That’s my favorite…
University of Wisconsin
Wisconsin
20-ish girl: So, I was thinking of ‘Liberty and Justice for Balls.’
20-ish guy: Liberty and justice for balls?
20-ish girl: Yeah, I was trying to think of a paper title.
http://www.overheardinminneapolis.com/2007/05/he_can_probably_help.html
Overheard by: um, what?
Student: Man! Question number four on that exam? The one about chickens was so hard… It took me forever.
Teacher: Well, it seemed tricky, but the problem was really pretty straightforward. It just involved birds instead of mammals.
Student: … Chickens are birds?
Bloomington, Indiana
Professor: Well, Miss Two-L, I am going to need a better legal argument than, ‘It seems really shady,’ but that’s a good start.
http://overheardinlawschool.blogspot.com/2007/05/shady-is-legalese.html
Overheard by: kks
Physics professor: Hey! Listen up! I’m tired of some of you walking out or ignoring me when we talk about the Big Bang Theory. I’m not telling you God doesn’t exist, so don’t get your panties in a bunch! You! Sit down! Let me finish!
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
History teacher: Ah, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Well, I definitely did the rock 'n' roll bit. Not the drugs, though. And uh… Hm. So did you all do the assignment?
11th Grade History Class
Hong Kong
China
