Science

Woman in nurse scrubs: It's like my brother says, “bread is merely a vehicle for butter to enter the body”.

Italian Restaurant
Toms River, New Jersey

Woman: My legs are burning. But only because I'm putting more pressure on the gravity.

Seattle, Washington

Overheard by: Just Me

Asian kid: Damn, I can't do math.
Non-Asian kid: Somehow I doubt that.

Providence, Rhode Island

Overheard by: Jesse

Student: The form told me that there's a 2% chance that it will happen to me, but if it does happen to me, there's a 100% chance that it will happen to me.

UCLA, California

Overheard by: MaggieB

Large chick in group of students: I like science, music, dance, and you know what else I like? Anal.

Community College
Virginia

College girl: The way I see it, chemistry is just like prostitution.

Northern Michigan University

Overheard by: everyone gets screwed?

Blonde: I have this theory that babies who were born late are like always late to stuff. And babies who were born early, like premature, are always early.
Friend: Really?
Blonde: Yeah, it's like, on my resume.

Brisbane
Australia

Library patron: I'm a molecular biologist. I don't care about things I can see with my eyes.

UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Overheard by: MaggieB

Girl to friend: I was like “whatever, bitch! You're not even a real registered nurse. Like you'll be working full time in a doctor's office making $20 an hour, and I'll be a real nurse making $20,000 a year.”

Texas State University

Anthropology professor: So they tried so hard to be hetero that they just came out being really homo…
Class: (laughs)
Anthropology professor: …geneous.

Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Peter