Incoming freshman, about required pre-entry reading: We should not have to be exposed to new ideas we might not agree with.
University campus
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Overheard by: yeah, now my brain hurts
Incoming freshman, about required pre-entry reading: We should not have to be exposed to new ideas we might not agree with.
University campus
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Overheard by: yeah, now my brain hurts
Freshman chick #1: It’s like, I came home and, like, three months had passed for me, but, like, not for everyone else.
Freshman chick #2: Yeah, my bed is too short now.
Denver International Airport
Denver, Colorado
Overheard by: lith
Stressed undergrad: Yeah, I have to write a 25 page paper on my experiences with racial ideology.
Bimbette: Oh my god, I would just write a list of every time I talked to a black person… But I would never be able to get 25 pages.
overheardatnu.blogspot.com
Student: Man! Question number four on that exam? The one about chickens was so hard… It took me forever.
Teacher: Well, it seemed tricky, but the problem was really pretty straightforward. It just involved birds instead of mammals.
Student: … Chickens are birds?
Bloomington, Indiana
Grad student #1: So, have you been fucking mad bitches?
Grad student #2: Well… Not really.
MIT Chemical Engineering Lounge
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Perky grad student: I got kicked out of vegetarianism for eating brains. I ate brains, I ate testicles, I ate stomachs… Stomachs are really gross.
Blacksburg, Virginia
Overheard by: Amy
Aikido student: Um, Sensei, I think there's spit on the mat…
Sensei: There's sweat on the mat?
Aikido Student: No, spit.
Sensei: Oh, spit! That's gross!
Humboldt State University
Arcata, California
Overheard by: Eli
History teacher: Ah, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Well, I definitely did the rock 'n' roll bit. Not the drugs, though. And uh… Hm. So did you all do the assignment?
11th Grade History Class
Hong Kong
China
Sheepish-looking PhD student coming out of washroom: Oh yes! I wasn't taking a shower with a glass of chardonnay! By “wasn't” I mean “was”, by “taking a shower” I mean “taking a dump”, and by “glass” I mean “bottle”. (long pause, looking down the hall) I was taking a dump with a bottle of chardonnay!
University of Northern Norway
Norway
