Student: Didn’t the ancient Romans also eat lying down?
Professor: Yes.
Student: That’s really bad for your digestion.
Professor: Well, it was good for having sex with the hired help after.
–Bard High School Early College
Student: Didn’t the ancient Romans also eat lying down?
Professor: Yes.
Student: That’s really bad for your digestion.
Professor: Well, it was good for having sex with the hired help after.
–Bard High School Early College
NYU girl #1 (singing): “Jingle bells/Jingle bells…”
NYU girl #2: Would you stop singing Christmas music, you're Jewish! Sing “Dreidel, dreidel”!
NYU girl #1: Ewwww.. No, I hate that stupid Jew song!
–Q Train
Teacher: I may kill you anyway because of that whole desperado thing.
Student: I don’t even know what desperadoes are. I just said it because you don’t like them!
Teacher: That’s reason enough.
–Brooklyn Tech
Overheard by: Liz
Awkward Japanese teacher: So you guys use text messages, right? Like… L-O-L?
(students look confused)
(awkward Japanese teacher laughs)
Student, proudly: I know: L-O-L sensei!
Awkward Japanese teacher: Oh em gee.
–Columbia University
Overheard by: vicksburg
(class is watching a science video)
Scientist in the video: The problem with the big bang is that we know nothing about it. We don't when it banged, why it banged, how it banged, what exactly was being banged…
(entire class laughs)
Smart-ass student: See, when a man loves a woman…
Smarter-ass student: Please, as if you didn't just learn that last year in bio!
–Stuyvesant High School
White student: I can’t believe you guys gave my ID to another person!
Security guard: Yeah, I’m really sorry. I wish there was a better system for doing this.
White student: Yeah, they should have all the Asian kids in a separate directory, because they all have the same last names.
–23rd & Lex
Overheard by: Darren Montalbano
HS girl #1: I have a question. No. She gotta question, but she makin’ me ask you for her because she embarrassed. What’s “drag school”? Thas where you go to learn howda be a drag queen?
Teacher guy: What? Drag school?
HS girl #2: Yeah, you said you was leavin’ us because you gotta go to drag school.
Teacher guy: Grad school. I am leaving you because I am going to grad school.
–Prospect Park BBQ
Overheard by: Lydia
Sleep-deprived art student #1: Sorry, I'm just…you know.
Sleep-deprived art student #2: Yeah, I know, me too. Do you ever just like wake up confused?
Sleep-deprived art student #1: Yeah!
Sleep-deprived art student #2: Just about like, what time even means?
Sleep-deprived art student #1: Yeah! I'm always like that.
Sleep-deprived art student #2: Me too…
–Pratt Institute
Teacher: Do you know anything about gang signs?
Ginger student: Do you think I know anything about gang signs? I'm as white as can be!
–Stuyvesant High School
Barnard girl #1: Help! My key won't penetrate the lock.
Barnard girl #2: Just spit on it.
–Barnard College
