Anatomy professor: There's a little bit of failure in everyone.
Western Illinois University
Overheard by: Pixie
Anatomy professor: There's a little bit of failure in everyone.
Western Illinois University
Overheard by: Pixie
Professor: No, pondering eternal truths is not a good excuse for missing my class…I'd need a signed note from god.
Lycoming College
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: JQ
Girl: No, isn’t Macbeth the one where she gets her husband to kill Macbeth?
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Overheard by: Stu
Sorostitute #1: You can’t fail gym!
Sorostitute #2: Um, yes you can. I have a ‘U’ on my transcript in Swedish massage and yoga.
http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/
Overheard by: rv
Skanky girl sitting at outdoor lunch table: I wanna have sex on the bleachers, I wanna have sex in the classrooms, I wanna have sex in the principal's office, I wanna have sex in the teacher's lounge…
High School
Missouri
Overheard by: Jacob
English teacher: Literature just isn't exciting unless people suffer. Like Dora the Explorer, nothing bad ever happens to her. The show would be a lot better if her monkey got hit by a car and died, wouldn't it?
High School
Calgary
Canadia
Overheard by: mcoo
Gossip girl #1: Oh my god! Did I tell you that I got accepted for my exchange to Paris next year? I'm going second semester.
Gossip girl #2: Oh my god! That's amazing!
Gossip girl #1: Yeah, I'm really excited.
Gossip girl #2: That's so exciting!
Gossip girl #1: Yeah, it's gonna be amazing.
Gossip girl #2: That is so amazing.
Gossip girl #1: Yeah, I'm super excited!
Gossip girl #2: That is just so exciting!
VIA Train
Montreal to Toronto
Overheard by: The zoe
Teacher: So, for the final sentence we should get some sort of metaphor for tax cuts helping the US recession.
Student #1: Hmm… Hey, you know like, the commercial where they put gum in the hole in the dam to stop the leak?.
Student #2: Or the finger!
Teacher: Oh, you mean in the dyke!
Student #1: Yeah, so… Tax cuts would be the finger in the hole of America’s dyke?
Teacher: Maybe we shouldn’t use a metaphor.
English Essentials Class
Waimea, Hawaii
Overheard by: boehmface
Lecturer, about exam questions: I mislead you on purpose. I have to get some sense of perverse pleasure out of designing these questions. I sit at home going “aahahahahahaa!” (rubs hands gleefully)
Irish Culture Lecture
University of Zurich
Switzerland
Teacher: So when you have sex with someone who isn’t a virgin, your spirit is having sex with the spirits of everyone that person had sex with.
Religion Classroom
El Paso, Texas
