Education

Girl on cell: Yeah, last semester the professor had this obsession with mayonnaise. It was freaking everyone out.

College of Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina

Overheard by: Tori

College girl #1: It was fun because it was easy.
College girl #2: Emily*, not all easy things are fun…like, I hear you're not that fun.

Borders
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Professor: I advise you all to make love, at least once, outside in the rain. It's the best feeling in the world.

Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York

Overheard by: Mackenzie

Girl: Wow! Einstein was like really smart!

Astronomy Class
UCSC, California

Overheard by: Eric

Black professor: Actually, it wasn't neither… Excuse me, I had an Ebonics moment. Please forgive me.

Millsaps College
Jackson, Mississippi

Teacher (about poetry assignment): Some of you did a good job and wrote some wonderful things. Some of you just did the assignment. Some of you haven’t even turned it in. Those people are going to hell.

TJHSST
Alexandria, Virginia

Chick giving presentation: Because this is Russia, bitch.

High School Classroom
Englewood, Colorado

Overheard by: Julia

Mother, exiting trolley, to her son: Okay, come on, there’s people behind us.
Son: I want to say goodbye!
Mother: Oh, god.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Tutor to quiet class: Are you normally this talkative? (silence) Rightie-o, then. You know, when I went to university I practically didn't say a word for four years. It was good.

University of Western Sydney
Australia

Girl in anthropology class: So… Islam says that men can marry four wives, but women can only marry one husband. Whatever.
Professor: Let's try to maintain some cultural relativism!

Collegeville, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: nina