Bimbette: Oh my god! I just realized that I missed all of my classes today!
http://overheardatlc.blogspot.com/2006/10/loyola-scholasticism.html
Overheard by:
Bimbette: Oh my god! I just realized that I missed all of my classes today!
http://overheardatlc.blogspot.com/2006/10/loyola-scholasticism.html
Overheard by:
Student: Are breasts on the exam?
Professor: No, no, they’re not. Not because I don’t like breasts… I do… They’re just not on the exam.
Biology 102, Rutgers University
New Jersey
Overheard by: Marina
Professor: So, say that you’ve got Brad Pitt… And Angelina got eaten by a giant cobra. And it’s maybe a year later and Brad’s kind of eyeing Jen, and she’s eyeing Vince, and maybe he has an affair with Claire Danes. And now Brad asks you to write an elegy for Angelina. What problems might you run into?
Medieval Literature class
Hartford, Connecticut
Overheard by: Claire
Chick, responding to example question: You can’t randomly choose which woman gets an abortion and which doesn’t!
Professor: Why not?
Chick: Because some women do want to give up their babies!
Professor: I don’t care! I’m a statistician!
Statistics class, Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Overheard by: Rachel
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