Girl: Do you know how much inflow comes from the Colorado River?
Professor: Ummmm…yeah. I do, actually. (doesn't answer question).
UC Berkeley
California
Overheard by: not telling either
Girl: Do you know how much inflow comes from the Colorado River?
Professor: Ummmm…yeah. I do, actually. (doesn't answer question).
UC Berkeley
California
Overheard by: not telling either
Poli-Sci professor putting a picture of a panda bear on overhead projector: Well, normally we’d talk about the syllabus right now, but our department’s so cheap they couldn’t print a syllabus for each of you, so I’ll show you a picture of a panda instead.
http://www.overheardinathens.com/search?query=panda
English teacher, on The Sun Also Rises: In one sense this book is a love story between a nymphomaniac and a man without a penis… [Pause] Discuss.
Acton, Massachusetts
Girl #1, studying: I don’t want to do this anymore! In five years I’m going to be dead and I won’t care.
Girl #2: You won’t be dead in five years.
Girl #1: Well, I’m going to be really old and I’m not going to care anymore.
Girl #2: You’re not going to be old and you will care.
Girl #1: Wait… What? Care about what?
SUNY Cortland
Cortland, New York
Overheard by: Stephanie
Professor: Your paper is doing some heavy petting, but it’s not going all the way!
http://www.overheardatmcgill.com/archives/2007/04/03/but-if-youd-like-your-paper-to-round-third-come-by-my-place-for-some-extra-credit/
Third year law student #1 as assignment is handed back: I got a ‘Good.’
Third year law student #2: I got a ‘Drop out of law school.’
http://overheardinlawschool.blogspot.com/2007/02/legal-writing-destroyer-of-dreams.html
Hippie student: So, did the oil man and thong man work together?
Professor: One could only hope.
Archaeology class
http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2007/03/more-more-more.html
Overheard by: squirrely mcsquirrel
Chick #1: I don’t want to run into anyone I know in here.
Chick #2: Why not?
Chick #1: I don’t want anyone to think I am a business major!
http://www.overheardinchtown.blogspot.com/
Dude #1: Why are we walking through the engineering quad?
Dude #2: C’mon man, it’s like the hypotenuse… It makes sense!
Dude #3: Dude, we just got out of hockey and you guys are talking about fourth dimensions?
http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2006/11/halloween-mania-part-2.html
Overheard by: marcella
Professor: What song do you think represents your generation? Come on, it can be anything. It can be derogatory, it can call women hos — I don’t care.
Montclair State University
Montclair, New Jersey
Overheard by: BTAN
