Asian Visual Studies professor: Why is the lotus flower significant in Buddhist art? The lotus comes from this muddy, icky swamp water, and then it pops up and blooms really big and it’s just beautiful, and you can’t believe something so beautiful could have come from this ugly place — it’s sort of like Liv Tyler, actually.
UCSC
Santa Cruz, California
Teacher: Does anyone know how many people live in Chicago?
Student: I think it's like 7 million.
Teacher, looking at student awkwardly: I'm not quite sure it's that many.
Student: Well, that's not counting all the proverbs…
College
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Julie
Professor: Oh, yeah, I went down to Virginia and hooked up with this girl… Y’know, her dad was dead and she was kind of freaky… I shot her dog!
Hartford, Connecticut
Overheard by: Claire
Professor: What is SWOT?
Student: Strength is your wife, weakness if neighbor’s wife, opportunity is when your neighbor is away, and threat is when you are away.
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World History teacher: The Nazis imprisoned more people than just the Jews — handicapped people, homosexuals–
Bimbette, interrupting: –They had homos back then? I thought they didn’t invent that until, like, the ’70s.
Osbourn High School
Manassas, Virginia
Overheard by: This is the last time I take a class that isn’t Honors
English poetry professor: Would you be offended if I hanged myself right now?
University of Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: awesomepossum
Professor: Isaac Newton, on his deathbed, was proud to announce that he was a virgin. So if any of you want to be famous scientists, you are going to have to be willing to make a few sacrifices.
Girl, raising hand: Um.
Professor: Oh, is it too late?
De Anza Community College
Cupertino, California
Overheard by: shyinvisiblegirl loves physics
Nursing instructor, about simulation dummy: Can in blink? Yes. Can it vomit? Yes. Can it urinate? Yes. Can it tell you what hurts? Yes.
Nursing student: Can it take you on a date?
Penn Valley Community College
Kansas City, Missouri
Overheard by: Nurse Badass
Biology professor: I’m on Viagra. That’s why I look different.
Christopher Newport University
Newport News, Virginia
