Ninth grade English teacher: I mean, it isn’t just like, ‘Wee, the man in the moon is gettin’ laid!’
Newton North High School
Newton, Massachusetts
Ninth grade English teacher: I mean, it isn’t just like, ‘Wee, the man in the moon is gettin’ laid!’
Newton North High School
Newton, Massachusetts
Physics professor: First we’ll put it in the A hole and then we’ll put it in the other hole.
Allegheny College
Pennsylvania
Student: I was wondering what my grade is.
Instructor (after consulting grade book): You have 312 points out of 500.
Student: So that's like, what, a “b?”
Instructor: Are you failing math too?
MCCKC
Independence, Missouri
Overheard by: Not failing math
Professor: I urge you to visit the TA as well, because we have complementary viewpoints. For example, he’s with it… and I’m not.
UNC-Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Overheard by: Li’l Bit
Philosophy professor: I know you’d all rather drink a bucket of hamster vomit than read a book.
Overheard in Miami Facebook group
Overheard by: sarah
Professor, talking about archaeological surveying: Even in the mountains, people will be hunting, farming, running from the police.
Glasgow
Scotland
Overheard by: sarah
Little girl, excitedly building snowman: Mommy, look, look! This could be his hat!
Mother: No, Shelly.
Little girl, dejectedly: But mommy…
Mother, exasperated: No! It's not even proportionate to the snowman!
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Only in Boston…
Brunette: So, are you gonna get some studying done?
Blonde: No, not really…
Brunette: So, you're here just to kill time?
Blonde: Yeah, to play.
Baillieu Library
University of Melbourne
Australia
Professor, reading student midterm reviews of his teaching style: When asked the question, “what would help you understand the material better?” someone wrote “if you wore a thong.” My answer to that is, “how do you know I'm not?”
(class erupts in laughter)
University of Michigan, Dearborn
Overheard by: Nehal
