Overheard

April 11, 2012

Girl 1: “I’m so bummed I didn’t get a free lunch today.”

Girl 2: “OMG, there are starving children in Africa!”

Girl 1: “Yeah, and I was almost one of them today ...”

—Williamson Hall

 

“Teachers look so way different when you’re up close to them.”

—Murphy Hall

 

Professor: “Any other favorite books? Or do you all worship at the altar of Harry Potter?”

—Folwell Hall

 

Girl 1: “I want a shirt that says ‘I heart CSE boys.’”

Girl 2: “Why? You’re not even in CSE.”

Girl 1: “I know, but one day these boys are going to be rich, and I’ll learn to love them.”

—Northrop Mall

 

Professor: “When in doubt, punch somebody.”

—Hodson Hall

 

Girl 1: “I actually like some of Nickelback’s music.”

Girl 2: “You are never allowed to say that while wearing our letters.”

—Coffman Union

 

“Well I’m not that sick, I can still go drinking ...”

—Willey Hall

Guy 1: “So your soulmate is a random Japanese high school girl who you’ve been pen pals with for a week?”

Guy 2: “Uh ... yeah?”

—Walter Library

 

Girl: “The sky is relatively easy to do.”

Guy: “What?! Did you say a guy is really easy to do?”

Girl: “No, I said sky! Oh, I feel so dirty.”

—Coffman Union

 

“The uterus, if you haven’t had a baby, looks like a pear. If you have had a baby, it looks like ... a stretched-out pear.”

—Science Teaching and Student Services building

 

Guy 1: “If a woman clones herself by taking her DNA and inserting it into her own eggs, and eventually gives birth to that clone, is she the mother?”

Guy 2: “So, she’s cloning herself by giving birth to herself?”

Guy 1: “Yes.”

Guy 2: “Why do we even study together?”

—Biomedical Library

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