We're Guessing IT Teachers Hear This Joke a Lot

IT teacher: So if the CPU usage is really high, choose “end process tree” to kill the process.
Student in back, mumbling: That's what she said…
IT teacher: Damn right that's what she said!

Waterloo
Ontario
Canadia

Overheard by: Sunny

Posted on December 4, 2022
Canadia, Education, Teachers, Technology, Weirdness

I Wanted You to Understand How It Felt to Read Your Term Papers

Professor: I think I popped a few Oxycontins before I wrote this so it might not make any sense.

Salem State College
Salem, Massachusetts

Posted on November 30, 2022
Advice, Class, Drugs, Education, Massachusetts, Teachers

One Which Perhaps the Parrot Can Answer.

Female student to another: So, are you a pirate or a ninja?
Teacher: That's a great question!

Brisbane
Australia

Overheard by: I took a test and I'm both.

Posted on November 11, 2022
Australia, Questions, Students, Teachers, Weirdness

I Think I Read That in the Bible

Teacher: You can use stethoscopes to listen to water in trees. You should listen to thin trees and trees with less bark.
Student: Should it be hardwood or softwood?
Teacher: Softwood. You can't beat softwood.

Classroom
Alexandria, Virginia

Posted on November 2, 2022
Class, Compare and contrast, Default, Education, Questions, Science, Students, Teachers, Virginia

Anally

Sociology professor: This course is cheap, but I'm expensive, so please make use of me.

Boston University, Massachusetts

Posted on October 31, 2022
Advice, Colleges & Universities, Compare and contrast, Default, Massachusetts, Money, Teachers

“Sometimes”?

Civil procedure professor: Don't you sometimes think this class would be better if we were all a little inebriated?

Law School
Los Angeles, California

Posted on October 19, 2022
California, Colleges & Universities, Drinking & drunks, Education, Questions, Teachers

Guppy-Smuggling Is a Lost Art

Professor: You take some guppies from different populations in Trinidad, put them into little plastic bags, shove them down your pants, and smuggle them through the airport back to the lab in California. At least, that?s what we did.

http://www.overheardatumbc.com

Posted on October 13, 2022
Animals, Canadia, Colleges & Universities, Crimes, Default, Education, Overheard at UMBC, Teachers

Thankfully the Stupid Seem to Always Die Off First

Environmental science teacher: What, in your opinion, is the most pressing environmental issue our planet faces today?
Clueless redhead, raising hand unsurely: Is it… The birds?
Environmental science teacher: Excuse me?
Clueless redhead: Isn't there something up with birds? Like, aren't they dying or something?
Environmental science teacher: Um… Thousands of different animals are dying…
Clueless redhead: Oh. I thought it was just birds.

High School
Los Angeles, California

Posted on October 4, 2022
Animals, Birds, California, Compare and contrast, Death & dying, Questions, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Students, Stupidity, Teachers

Isn’t That because It’s Ann Landers’s Birthday?

Professor: Adams and Jefferson weren’t the only presidents to die on the Fourth of July. Does anyone know the third?
Student #1: Was it Monroe?
Professor: Yes, Monroe also died on the Fourth of July. Quite interesting, isn’t it?
Student #2: Is that why we celebrate the Fourth of July?

Liberal Ed floor, Columbia College
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Ready to graduate

Posted on October 2, 2022
Class, History, Holidays, Illinois, Questions, Students, Teachers