Frustrated professor: I wanted to go back and eat my own flesh.
Portland, Oregon
Frustrated professor: I wanted to go back and eat my own flesh.
Portland, Oregon
Prof: I tend to walk around, so the students at the back of the class are just as likely to get fingered for a question as the ones at the front.
University of Guelph
Canadia
Overheard by: scared student
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
Evidence prof, about hearsay exceptions: When Lebron James makes a three at the end of a game, is it a statement? He’s not actually saying anything. Actually, often when I go to games there is a woman with Downs Syndrome who sits behind me. She’s a lovely woman… She thinks the players are talking to her.
http://overheardinlawschool.blogspot.com/2007/03/whatd-you-say-shaq.html
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
Non-native presenting for speech class: Everyone has cows in their life. Cows at home. Cows at work. Cows in our families. Cows can take over everything. But how do we get rid of the cows?
Teacher: Chaos. It’s pronounced ‘chaos.’
Truman College
Chicago, Illinois
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
International Trade professor: This may seem counter-intuitive, but why would any country agree to something that would make it worse off? Just like my first marriage, it happens.
http://overheardinlawschool.blogspot.com/
Professor: It’s debatable whether or not LSD was actually dangerous. I mostly remember the ’60s.
East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina
Visiting Chinese professor: We like Clinton for his love stories.
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma
