Overheard at Brown

ES42: Georgaphy

2006-09-16T00:07:00.000-04:00

DRUNKETTE: Where is New Dorm?

--The Courtyard outside of Joes

Overheard by: XT

The possibilities are endless....

2006-09-14T15:04:00.000-04:00

DUDE: I have the best idea for a party....dress as your favorite crime!

--Wriston

Overheard by: A white collar criminal

TA20 Public Speaking

2006-09-14T15:01:00.000-04:00

DITZ: I mean she was so like, um I dunno, so like um, ya know what I mean....articulate!

--PO

overheard by: Just passing through

ES72 Environmental Science

2006-09-13T21:09:00.000-04:00

CHICA: I don't understand why it is like 80 degrees in the sun and then cooler in the shade. I mean shouldn't it all mix and average out....it's all the same environment....right?

--Wriston Quad

overheard by: Sonny

Welcome Back!

2006-09-07T19:15:00.000-04:00

A new year has begun at Brown! You know what that means....lost freshman, crazy parties, professors who seem nice and easy until you hit the third class. Welcome back!

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SO1 It Sucks To Be Me

2006-05-30T21:08:00.000-04:00

DRUNKETTE #1 (to KID in window): Get off your computer!
DRUNKETTE #2: Yeah, it's Saturday night!
DRUNKETTE #2: Way to fry your brain!

--Brown & Meeting

That's all, folks!

2006-05-30T20:16:00.000-04:00

OVERHEARD AT BROWN is closed for the summer. We hope you have enjoyed our good times! Congratulations to all the 2006 graduates and for the rest of you, keep talking at high volumes in public places.

xo
NERDETTE

LR101 Advanced Fiction Or Ideas For Chuck Palahniuk's Next Book

2006-05-29T11:41:00.000-04:00

FRANTIC GUY: One second. I have to go to the bathroom. I just ate an entire container of Shanghai.
[He exits. 20 minutes later he walks out, saucily leans against the door, zips his pants, fastens his belt, chats to some giggly girls, and proceeds back in.]

--Absolute Quiet Room

overheard by: annoyed Rocker

PS40 Thomas Friedman Has To Wear Diapers Too

2006-05-28T23:59:00.000-04:00

SON OF SWEATSHOP: China freaks the shit outta me.

--Keeney

overheard by: Rory

EN9 Marketing As Guerrilla Disguise Mechanism

2006-05-25T11:57:00.000-04:00

CONFUSED GIRL: Is this the toaster?

--Ratty microwave counter

overheard by: The Don

Couldn't Make Time for a Math Class at Brown, Eh?

2006-05-24T11:26:00.000-04:00

DRUNK GUY (to his friends): What is GPA? I don't even know what an average is!

overheard by: epilo

Notes from Senior Week 2006

2006-05-24T11:24:00.000-04:00

GIRL ON PHONE: No, it's not a French colony, but that's beside the point.

--Hope and John

DRUNK #1: President Simmons is my...
DRUNK #2: Mother!

--somewhere in Pawtucket

GIRL: And I got super sick, from eating.
GUY: What?!?

--Main Green

CH35 I See Live People (Cells)

2006-05-20T11:53:00.000-04:00

EGYPTOLOGY MAJOR: And then it dissapeared from the sarcophagus...
NON-PRE-MED: Wait, isn't that somewhere in the throat?

--Outside the Ratty

overheard by: The Don

Smartmovers, Bastion of Political Correctness

2006-05-20T11:38:00.000-04:00

BOSS: No, seriously, you can't make sexual euphemisms about boxes while you're working-
UNDERLING: Yes I can!
BOSS: No, you can't. It would be like if you worked for a carpet company and made jokes about...

--Brown and George St.

overheard by: NK

AN40 People Are Funny Sometimes

2006-05-16T21:59:00.000-04:00

SIR (walking past): Somebody's been stealing my mail!
LADY (at table): Nobody's been stealing your mail.

--mail room

ME199 Middle East Seminar For Getting Some Culture

2006-05-15T13:43:00.000-04:00

TOOL WITH LAPTOP: And then I was like, do you even speak this language? First person singular!

-- Taste of India

overheard by: squeaky

EL16 Intro to Asking the What Now?

2006-05-15T12:15:00.000-04:00

GIRL: Either she was crying or she was rocking the you-know-what hardcore...

--outside Keeney

overheard by: CS

EL176.4 It's Becket's Birthday Somewhere

2006-05-14T11:01:00.000-04:00

Two girls are speaking an unknown language.

GIRL #1: [Unknown unknown unknown] boyfriend [unknown]!
GIRL #2: [Unknown unknown].

--outside the Ratty

SO45.2 Hereditary Titles For Fun And Profit

2006-05-11T14:07:00.000-04:00

GUY: You're the fifth?
GIRL (indicating OTHER GUY): He's the fifth.
GUY: AWE-SOME!

--outside the Ratty

PS110 Tell Me You Weren't Born In 1999

2006-05-11T10:49:00.000-04:00

GUY #1: Who's that hottie?
GUY #2: Monica Lewinsky.
GUY #1: Uh...

--[Redacted] Dorm

overheard by: Anonymous

CS15 Physical Therapy Optional

2006-05-08T22:51:00.000-04:00

STUDENT #1 (with overfilled backpack): Arrg. Why is my laptop so heavy?
STUDENT #2: It's the burden of technology.

--Hope College

overheard by: The Don

MA9 Math Is Hard, Let's Go Eat

2006-05-07T21:58:00.000-04:00

KID A: Eight hours?!?
KID B: Eight hours! I know!
KID A: That's like a day!

--Ivy Room

Something We All Love To Do (Besides Procrastinate)

2006-05-07T19:58:00.000-04:00

KID: And the house, it smelled so clean, it smelled like laundry!

--outside Store 24

I Sure Hope She Meant Cake

2006-05-06T21:07:00.000-04:00

GIRL (ominously): Just wait till five minutes from now when we get it all over your face.

--Brown St.

Why I Started This Site

2006-05-06T11:32:00.000-04:00

GUEST: Are you a student at Brown?
NERDETTE: Yes...
GUEST: Can you help me? We used to own the house next door to this building, and it looks terrible. We had a lovely garden all the way around the house, all kinds of flowers, a little goldfish pond...
NERDETTE: ...
GUEST: I lived next door and we were always very respectful. We never hung our laundry outside... Not that anyone noticed.
NERDETTE: ...
GUEST: And now it looks like a commercial building! I know it is not supposed to look like this. Oh well. Thank you.
(GUEST leaves.)

10 minutes later, GUEST re-enters
GUEST: Do you have a picture of this building?

--NERDETTE's place of work

EL18 Intro to Nonfiction

2006-05-06T09:14:00.000-04:00

BIKER: I really gotta play some more golf.

--Thayer and Meeting

I Made An Independent Concentration Of Awesome

2006-05-04T21:43:00.000-04:00

FRIEND OF BEST BROWN STUDENT EVER: And then he went to, like, tutor Spanish children -- still trashed.

overheard by: Big D

MCM120 Cinema and Elective Surgery

2006-05-04T21:42:00.000-04:00

PROF: Since Judy Garland is actually NOT a gay male...

--Barus & Holley

AC151.78 Changing Notions of Beauty in American Culture

2006-05-03T21:29:00.000-04:00

DRUNK GIRL: What a skank. And she looked so skanky! Sure she's got a nice body, but you see her face and you just think, 'Skank.'
MAYBE-NOT-AS-DRUNK GIRL: I think she's cute.
DRUNK GIRL: You're just a skank lover. I love the beauties, and you love the skanks.

--walking through Patriot's Court

overheard by: AC

It's Reading Period!

2006-05-02T09:57:00.000-04:00

GIRL HAVING "PRIVATE" CELL PHONE CONVERSATION IN THE HALL: I forgot it existed! I was like, what can I do to procrastinate? and the I was like, whoa, AIM!

--Keeney

overheard by: Anonymous

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Sorry, You Can't Get Bio Credit For That

2006-05-01T21:10:00.000-04:00

BACKWARDS CAP GUY: You have two weeks of spring break? Fuckin' fatsos!

--the Gate

PH4 That's What Reading Week Is For

2006-05-01T17:00:00.000-04:00

NERD: I often wonder what it would be like to see the physics and engineering departments in a battle royale.

--outside Macmillan

EC11 Intro to Economics of The Soul-Sucking Magazine Rack

2006-04-29T14:14:00.000-04:00

GIRL: Just don't buy anything inedible!

--Store 24

Mr. Brown Pageant?

2006-04-27T12:57:00.000-04:00

GIRL: They, like, let you take a live one! And then they put it in a bag for you! Ewwww!

--John St.

Brown's Own Odd Couple

2006-04-26T17:29:00.000-04:00

"FELIX": Um, it's called lube.
"OSCAR": Ummm..
"FELIX": Hey, I'm just saying from what I'm hearin'.

--Andrews

overheard by: Rory

If You're Reading This, You Missed Free Meta-Cone Day

2006-04-26T00:22:00.000-04:00

GUY: This is so good! It's like an orgasm in my mouth!
GIRL [having overheard him]: There are so many things I could say about that...

--Ben & Jerry's

overheard by: lf

MCM Viewing Party

2006-04-24T19:44:00.000-04:00

GIRL: A woman's place is in the home. Only Mulan and Orthodox Jews believe that.

[later]

LADY #1: Don't subjugate yourself, Mulan!
LADY #2: Don't hate, don't subjugate!

--Emery Hall

overheard by: 6/11

RS9 Sacred Stories

2006-04-24T12:09:00.000-04:00

GUY: So you're the one that gets to play God.

--Hillel

Cutting Class To Go To Health Services

2006-04-24T08:39:00.000-04:00

LOUD GIRL IN GROUP: So like, on Monday I heard my mom has herpes and I was like, "Do I have herpes?"

--George Street

overheard by: Rory

CO81.7 Art of the Joke

2006-04-23T10:36:00.000-04:00

Two identical blondes walk into a bar.

BLONDE #2: But I really like your hair!

--Spats

Department of Bimboinformatics

2006-04-22T03:18:00.000-04:00

GIRL: You haven't seen "Bring It On" before? Like, what is wrong with you?

--Keeney kitchen

overheard by: jb

Probably The Only Post Ever To Mention A Real Name

2006-04-21T00:16:00.000-04:00

TED LEO: So you call this Spring Weekend, right? [cheers] Well, that's... funny, because it's spring, and... it's almost a weekend.

--Meehan

EC11 Principles of Economics (Physics Section)

2006-04-20T12:18:00.000-04:00

MAN WITH ARM IN SLING: I hit a wall in a non-metaphorical sense. It's nice to know that if you hit something as hard as you can, you break something.

--Wilson Hall

overheard by: 6/11

Any Med Students In The Hizzy?

2006-04-19T23:45:00.000-04:00

GIRL (to BOY cracking his knuckles): When things pop that aren't supposed to, it freaks me out.
BOY: ...
GIRL: Just stop thinking. It's for the best.

--Emery Hall

overheard by: 6/11

HA86 Contemporary Architecture And A Bit Of A Crush, Really

2006-04-19T21:48:00.000-04:00

GIRL: So I was Googlestalking Professor Neumann last night...

--Outside Salomon, 12:50PM

overheard by: anonymous

FR20 Beginning French, Intermediate Judgement

2006-04-19T18:42:00.000-04:00

FILLE 1: What do you want to concentrate in?
FILLE 2: Well, I don't know. Economics or environmental science or... um...
FILLE 3: International relations?
FILLE 2: No, real economics.

--Main Green

Name Of Class Containing Ironic Commentary On

2006-04-19T12:21:00.000-04:00

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--Location

overheard by: Witty Alias Only Your Friends Will Know

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PY141 Age and Ageing Begins At Home

2006-04-19T12:17:00.000-04:00

GIRL: What's scary?
RC: Turning 20.
GIRL: Why is that scary?
RC: IT'S A FIFTH OF A CENTURY!

--Emery Hall

overheard by: 6/11

SC190.1 The Effects of Controlled Substances in Social Situations

2006-04-19T12:02:00.000-04:00

TOUR GUIDE WITH ACCENT: Well, let's say my roommate decides he's going to go and drink 15 shots of Tequila. We can EMS and make sure that he's safe, though I must admit, being EMSed is a bit taboo, like, "Oh well, at least I didn't get EMS last weekend."

--Keeney

overheard by: j.b.

Ladies and Gentlemen, ADOCH is here again.

PH3: Yes, Virginia, There Is A Gravitational Force

2006-04-18T12:54:00.000-04:00

KID spills water all over himself.

KID: Oh! I was trying to see which way it would fall, but apparently the floor is totally level.

overheard by: 6/11

SO2 An Introduction To Social Poke-ology

2006-04-18T02:16:00.000-04:00

BOY: "I feel a little violated... I mean [Giselle] Facebookstalked me."
GIRL: "Oh whatever, that is like everyone's dream."

overheard by: Rory

TA27 Clothing and the Human Experience

2006-04-17T03:48:00.000-04:00

CHICK: Oh my god, did you see that girl? She had, like, stuffed animals all over her. She had like a monkey on her shoulder.
DUDE: Was she hot?
CHICK: Shut up, I'm serious.

--Wayland Arch

overheard by: N.K.

BI20 I Can't Even See The Board

2006-04-16T17:15:00.000-04:00

SMARTYPANTS: Eye fungus would suck because it would suck, and you can't see.

--Keeney

overheard by: anonymous

PY50 Mechanisms of Animal Behavior

2006-04-16T10:13:00.000-04:00

MS. SUBTLETY: Yeah, you're incompatible because she's not hot.

--Brook St. toward Wickenden

overheard by: s.p.

MC66 Cinematic Coding And God, I Ought To Quit

2006-04-16T10:10:00.000-04:00

GIRL: We don't have to see this movie today. We could go tomorrow afternoon and then we could smoke.
[5-minute pause]
GIRL: Cigarettes.

--Thayer St. in line for "Thank You For Smoking"

Labels Are Odious Anyway

2006-04-15T15:23:00.000-04:00

CHICK #1: I think I'm a lesbian.
CHICK #2: Trust me, you're not.
CHICK #1: Yeah... you're right.

overheard by: CS

VA10 Studio Foundation (Body-Mod Section)

2006-04-15T13:06:00.000-04:00

FABULOUS ROOMMATE: [Jane], can I borrow some nail polish? I'm painting my nails the color of the rainbow.

--Keeney?

overheard by: Rory

99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall, 99 Bottles Of Beer

2006-04-15T10:19:00.000-04:00

INQUISITIVE YOUNG MIND: Is it safe to assume that everyone at Brown knows what a bar is?

--Fones Alley

Why Isn't Ethnic Studies Any Bigger Here?

2006-04-14T00:54:00.000-04:00

GIRL ON CELL PHONE: Wait, I can bring two hot friends! [pause] Two hot
Asian friends!

--Thayer St. front of Hegeman

overheard by: chris

Linguistics Concentrator?

2006-04-14T00:47:00.000-04:00

TIRED GIRL: Well, there are letters... that make words... that make long sentences...

--Pembroke

Future International Relations Concentrator?

2006-04-13T14:50:00.000-04:00

MAN to BOY: When we've got Osama...

--Thayer St. trolley stop

Now that we're all outside enjoying this freakish Rhode Island spring, we're all in each other's faces even more. Make it worth it! Send in your I-swear-I-was-just-walking-bys to overheardbrown AT gmail.com.

PS40: Like "Alias," But With More Reading

2006-04-12T13:46:00.000-04:00

GIRL: I'm leaving again for like five or six days.
GUY: You're like...you're like a spy or something. [Josephine], International Girl of Mystery.

overheard by: 6/11

ES49 Environmental Science

2006-04-10T23:30:00.000-04:00

ACTIVIST: ...and here's a sheet with some tips for conserving
energy.
NOT: Maybe next we can work on conserving paper.

overheard by: 6/11

CG41 Intro to Linguistics

2006-04-10T16:24:00.000-04:00

CHICA: Well, it wasn't a bad nickname... You think that's bad? Do you know what they used to call me?

--the Ratty

Anatomy? Or Visual Art?

2006-04-10T02:03:00.000-04:00

UNKNOWN: Wait a minute. The salt penis is still there!

--Marcy House

overheard by: Adam Kidabra

EL61 Contemporary Literature Means Beards

2006-04-09T09:58:00.000-04:00

THINKER: I always feel like it's 1984 when I go in here and there are no razor blades.

--CVS

LR11 Beginning Fiction Writing

2006-04-08T15:27:00.000-04:00

DUDE: Hey, what's up? I just wanted to... What? Was I interrupting something? Oh, no, you were NOT. You were NOT just having sex. You were NOT.

--OMAC

overheard by: lola

The Watson Institute for International Relations With The Undead

2006-04-07T23:46:00.000-04:00

PROFHEAD: Is there room for another zombie film, or is the market saturated?

--Barus & Holley

We'd love to print the answer to this question, but the speaker requested confidentiality. Can't win 'em all! Go spy on some regular folks and e-mail your tips to overheardbrown [at] gmail [dotcom].

PY150 Animal Behavior, Plus I Have A Roommate

2006-04-07T20:25:00.000-04:00

GUY: I haven't jizzed in a really long time...

--Ivy Room

overheard by: CS

And They Say Brown Doesn't Have A Dating Scene

2006-04-06T20:24:00.000-04:00

GIRL: Okay, okay, serious question.
BOY: Shoot.
GIRL: If you could be any Monopoly piece, which would you be?
BOY: [ponders deeply]

--Andreas

overheard by: Rory

RS10: Intro to Christianity

2006-04-06T17:34:00.000-04:00

[LADY and SIR are waiting in line. BUSKER is standing in a bus shelter behind them.]

BUSKER: Help please! Help, please!
LADY: Good thing we didn't get here any later.
BUSKER: I'm a veteran. I'm a veteran!
LADY: How long is this line?
BUSKER: I'm a veteran!
LADY: Jesus Christ.
BUSKER: Jesus Christ?!? Jesus Christ?!?
SIR: That's right, you're talking to her.

--Downcity

PS40 International Conflict and Commiseration

2006-04-06T00:44:00.000-04:00

GIRL: ...and then they'll go to the genocide meeting.
GUY: Wow, I wonder what their minutes look like.

--Wilson Hall

overheard by: 6/11

TA22 The Art of Verbal Communication

2006-04-04T21:42:00.000-04:00

GIRL ON CELL: I. Phone-tagged. Him. Into. Submission.

-Wriston Quad

overheard by: Adam Kidabra

Everything From The V-Dub, We Hope

2006-04-04T14:23:00.000-04:00

GUY ON CELL PHONE: Hurry up and get down here! I've got some for ya... What? What? Everything! Everything you want!

--MoChamp Arch

VA10 Studio Color Happy Yay Foundation

2006-04-04T01:06:00.000-04:00

GIRL (to OTHER GIRL): What the fuck are you wearing?!? Are you wearing a pink shirt?!?

--Josiah's

MC120: Cinema, Industry, And Really Hot People

2006-04-03T19:19:00.000-04:00

"STRAIGHT" GUY: Oh my god, Angelina totally stole Brad from
everyone else.

--Keeney

overheard by: anonymous

Another Johnson & Wales Transfer, No Doubt

2006-04-03T12:44:00.000-04:00

GUY: They have a jail in Martha's Vineyard? I bet it's really nice. I bet they serve prime rib.

--Emery

overheard by: 6/11

What Happens On Thayer Street During Spring Break

2006-04-02T11:22:00.000-04:00

HIGH SCHOOL BOY: Starbucks is cool.

--Thayer & Angell

HIGH SCHOOL GIRL: I mean, I know she said it was true, but she is, like, so wrong.

--Thayer & Waterman

BOY OF INDETERMINATE AGE: There were like so many balls in there! I know that sounds crazy. [fiendish cackle]

--Thayer & Meeting

Thank goodness you're back! Send in what you've heard to overheardbrownATgmailDOTcom.

In case you haven't noticed...

2006-03-27T12:43:00.000-05:00

It's spring break! Stop reading this page and go get a margarita made in your mouth!

No, seriously, we'll be back April 2nd. Stay tuned.

Waiting for Simmons

2006-03-24T08:22:00.000-05:00

CHICK 1: Yes?
CHICK 2: Yeah.
CHICK 1: Yeah?
CHICK 2: Yeah. Yeah?
CHICK 1: Yes.

--the Ratty

Just Two Days Before A Whole Week Of Not Eating At The Ratty

2006-03-23T19:49:00.000-05:00

LACTOSE-INTOLERANT #1: You know, there's no actual soy milk. You can't milk a soy.
LACTOSE-INTOLERANT #2:...just trust the process, damn it! You know that's how they get chocolate milk, they milk the brown cows.

overheard by: 6/11

Lunchtime

2006-03-22T21:23:00.000-05:00

SKETCHY GUY 1: You sure that's the caf, man? That ain't look like no caf I ever seen!
SKETCHY GUY 2: Ya, man. I can see 'em in there walkin around wit trays and food.
SKETCHY GUY 1: Aight, let's just bust in there then.

--Wriston

overheard by: RB

Off To Health Services

2006-03-22T20:46:00.000-05:00

DUDE WITH ARM IN SLING: I hit a wall in a non-metaphorical sense. It's nice to know that if you hit something as hard as you can, you break something.

--Wilson

overheard by: 6/11

The beauty of spring break being just around the corner? People start saying even weirder stuff, 'cause they're too stressed to watch themselves! Send in the catch of YOUR ears to overheardbrownREMOVE@gmail.com. Don't forget your Overheard alias, or else I'll make one up for you, and you probably won't like it.

Why Doesn't Brown Have A Human Sexuality Course? Harvard Does...

2006-03-22T18:28:00.000-05:00

GEEKETTE: Everybody has exams this week. I just had two this morning.
DORKETTE: You had two babies this morning?

--Fones Alley

EC133: The Economics of Competitive Eating

2006-03-22T03:39:00.000-05:00

GUY: Does anyone else ever drink grapefruit juice just for the challenge? [silence, followed by laughter] Just me, then.

--The Ratty

overheard by: 6/11

CH35: Organic Chemistry, Including The Gross Stuff

2006-03-21T17:54:00.000-05:00

DOC-TO-BE: Whatever's in this cold finger looks delicious.

--lab

overheard by: CS

And the Debate Over TWTP Continues

2006-03-21T05:41:00.000-05:00

GUY #1: It's pop.
GUY #2: Soda
GUY #1: Pop.
GUY #2: Soda. This is why diversity sucks.

--Brown & Olive

overheard by: 6/11

MCM 240 The Aesthetics of Fandom

2006-03-21T02:26:00.000-05:00

FAN: I've got an idea! Okay, so there was this thing on "Star Trek: Voyager"...

--Salomon

PY50: Mechanisms of Animal Behavior

2006-03-20T19:41:00.000-05:00

DUDE #1: "That is such a huge penis! It's ridiculous."
DUDE #2: "Well, that's because it's a horse."

--Keeney

overheard by: Adam Kidabra

BC168: Drugs and Alcohol Addiction in The Freshman Dorm

2006-03-20T19:36:00.000-05:00

DRUNK GUY: Why can't I get organized and fuck people while I'm drunk?

--Pembroke

overheard by: 6/11

EC69: Economics in Everyday Life

2006-03-20T16:50:00.000-05:00

STOCK ADDICT #1: Dude, my stocks are doing great! 6 of my 11 positions are up.
STOCK ADDICT #2: You know what? You can just get on my cock.
STOCK ADDICT #1: Well, that position doesn't have any long-term growth potential.

--Keeney

overheard by: Adam Kidavra

Napoleonette Dynamite

2006-03-20T11:19:00.000-05:00

GIRL 1: Do you think they serve breakfast tea all day?
GIRL 2: God Jenny!... [short pause] It's not like I’ve ever been here before either, how should I know?

--TeaLuxe

overheard by: CJ

The Housing Lottery Starts Tomorrow... Do You Have A Plan?

2006-03-20T01:14:00.000-05:00

GABBY: I keep seeing this cat around here!! We should get a cat next year. Do you want a cat?
BLABBY: Uh... is that even allowed in Grad Center?
GABBY:... We could keep it outside.

-- Thayer & Angell

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2006-03-20T01:00:00.000-05:00

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IR128: Global Security After the Cold War

2006-03-19T10:21:00.000-05:00

STUDENT: Once I was like, "Mommy, are we ready for avian flu?" and she just starts laughing.

overheard by: Rory

EN122: Neuroengineering: Control of Eye Movement

2006-03-18T14:15:00.000-05:00

Girl #1: Hey! How's it going!
Girl #2: I have an eye infection.
Girl #1: Oh. (straightfaced) See you later.

--Wriston Quad

overheard by: Tyler

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I'm an Exchange Student at Johnson & Wales

2006-03-18T12:08:00.000-05:00

#1: Yo, yo, I'ma tell you all somethin' about lobster but ya'll neva
gon' eat lobsta' again aight?
#2: Man, I'ma eat lobsta 'til I die, go ahead.
#1: Look you gotta promise me you gonna eat lobster again, or else I'm
not gonna say nothin' man.
#2: Fine, fine, I promise I'll eat lobsta again!
#1: Yo, guess what the cockroach is descended from?
#2: What?
#1: LOBSTA N****
#2: OH SHIT!

--RIPTA #60

overheard by: Andrew

Is This What They Mean By 'Senior Orientation'?

2006-03-18T09:52:00.000-05:00

PROFETTE: Career services have these tests that can tell you a lot of things! Like, 'You should be a longshoreman.'

PROFETTE: To find a job, you have to start looking around.

PROFETTE: You should take the GRE in the next two months, because you're only going to get dumber.

PROFETTE: Another option a lot of graduates choose is working for a non-profit, which is the same as working in another business except that it's not for-profit work.

PROFETTE: Say you discover the joys of statistics.

PROFETTE: 20 years from now, presumably if Brown still exists, you can contact those professors -- if they're still alive --

PROFETTE: There's a reason your graduate student TAs look so unhappy. Undergrad is just a delightful bonbon-eating experience.

--overheard by: not your department

CH35 Organic Chemistry Part 1

2006-03-17T17:23:00.000-05:00

BROWN-PROUD: I pierced my nipple so many times that it's like, permanently erect.

overheard by: Rory

EL61: For Those Who Have Not Read 'The Great Gatsby'

2006-03-14T00:27:00.000-05:00

KULTUR: I could be a gangster if my name wasn't so Jewish!

--Young Orchard