Grad student female: My dad's a mailman.
Grad student male: Really? Mine was a milkman.
Grad student female: There was a milkman?
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: mike sereny
Grad student female: My dad's a mailman.
Grad student male: Really? Mine was a milkman.
Grad student female: There was a milkman?
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: mike sereny
Student to friends: Ginger people are just… weird.
Ludlow
England
Overheard by: jonty bonty
Anthropology teacher: Yes, and when you see human remains… Actually, I have some bones in my car…
(class in stunned silence)
Student #1: Really?
Anthropology teacher: Oh, I always have bones in my car… I think I have some baby bones, too.
Student #1: I hope you never get pulled over.
Student #2: They'll think you're a serial killer!
Anthropology teacher: Well, I love dead bodies! I'll exhume you, I'll exhume him, I'll exhume your grandmother! I'll exhume anyone! (pause) Let me go get them.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Overheard by: He really is adorable, not creepy.
Faculty member, leading prospective student on tour: This was when we used to have emotions.
Simmons College
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Not Yet Dead Inside
Senior professor: So, Vladimir*, when will this project be finished?
PhD student: Time is a… dynamic thing!
University of Leuven
Belgium
Ski instructor: Well, at least it's snowing today. Yesterday we had rain.
First time skier: Oh, so this is snow, is it? Not rain?
Ski instructor: Well, yeah…
First time skier: So what does rain look like up here?
Smiggin Holes
Australia
Overheard by: Emma
Male systems analyst: Why don't you just finish that bottle of water? You've only got like two swallows left.
Female student intern: Oh, I've swallowed a lot more than that.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Student worker: I'm trying to figure out which class to take. I heard Dr Smith* is a big dick, though.
Graduate student #1: The word you're really looking for is “has.”
Graduate student #2: Well, I guess we all know who's getting that teaching assistant spot.
Charlestown, Illinois
Overheard by: Overworked English Grad
Student worker: Man, my mouth is really dry.
Secretary: Why?
Student worker: Because I just ate some raw nuts.
Jacksonville, Florida
Overheard by: Listening Secretary
Professor: How are you today?
PhD student: I'm not dead.
College Park, Maryland
