If the SATs Were Actually Useful for Life

Teacher: What word do you think would fit there?
Student: Uh… “clusterfuck”?

Denver, Colorado

Posted on November 21, 2020
Colorado, Education, Questions, Students, Teachers, Words

It All Started When I Tried to Separate the Laundry…

Preppy teenage girl #1, before Sex and the City movie: Oh! I heard that Jennifer Hewitt is in this movie!
Preppy teenage girl #2: No, it's Jennifer Hudson.
Preppy teenage girl #1: Whats the difference?
Preppy teenage girl #2: Jennifer Hewitt is the white actress who made a CD and can't sing and was in the Garfield movie. Jennifer Hudson is the black girl from American Idol who won an Oscar for that movie with Beyonce.
Preppy teenage girl #1: Are either one of them singing in this movie?
Preppy teenage girl #2: I don't know.
(long pause)
Preppy teenage girl #3: Speaking of black people, I got in trouble for being racist at work today.

Plano, Texas

Posted on November 20, 2020
About celebrities, Default, Girls, Jobs & Careers, Movies, Race, Students, Teens, Texas

Which Also Explains the Peanut Butter Smears

College student: That one answer is wrong. You put a nine instead of a six.
Professor: I was probably stoned at the time.

Sussex, New Jersey

Posted on November 13, 2020
Class, Compare and contrast, Default, Drugs, Education, New Jersey, Students, Teachers, Weirdness

And Did She Swallow That?

Sophomore guy #1: She got pissy that I didn’t want to talk to her anymore.
Sophomore guy #2: What did you do?
Sophomore guy #1: I told her, ‘I have pressing GPA issues to worry about and can’t be concerned with whether or not you are going to be giving me head.’

Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire

Overheard by: steph

Posted on November 10, 2020
Gossip, New Hampshire, Students

Eventually We Worked Out a Timeshare Situation

Girl: So this girl was like: “I want half your pants!”

Hazelwood West High School
Florissant, Missouri

Overheard by: Melissa

Posted on November 6, 2020
Clothes, Girls, Gossip, Missouri, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Sexuality, Students, Teens, Wishes

Like “Melancholy” or “Pterodactyl”?

Student: What's “Nostradamus”? It that just some random, made-up word or something?

Rock Bridge High School
Columbia, Missouri

Overheard by: Kelsey

Posted on October 26, 2020
Default, Missouri, Names, Questions, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Students, Words

Someone Needs to Hold Up the Score Cards

Grad student #1: Yeah, it is really hard. They have to wait and see how much, like, brain matter they share.
Grad student #2: What does the one twin do while the other twin has sex?
Grad student #1: I think he just lays there and is really uncomfortable.
Grad student #2: Awkward.

http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2007/01/breaks-broke.html

Overheard by: llouie

Posted on October 24, 2020
Overheard at Cornell, Questions, Sex, Students

And That’s When I Got the Idea, Your Honor

Teacher: Are you guys understanding this?
Class: [Stares blankly.]Teacher: It feels like I’m taking my clothes off.
Class: What?
Teacher: I meant that this is disturbing.

Kenosha, Wisconsin

Posted on October 16, 2020
Education, Students, Teachers, Wisconsin

Or Who You Are, Really

Student librarian on cell: Hey…who is this? Bill from architecture? Well, yeah, I remember writing my name on your arm, but I like don't remember why.

Music Library, Catholic University
Washington, DC

Overheard by: So much for quiet in the library…

Posted on October 12, 2020
Colleges & Universities, Compare and contrast, Default, Memory lane, Names, On the phone, Questions, Students, Washington, DC

Put Your Hands behind Your Back and Crank Out Some Pushups

Female English major: Can boobs be considered limbs?

Queen’s University
Kingston
Canadia

Posted on October 5, 2020
Canadia, Questions, Students

Students