Professor: The cheeseburger was once an independent entity on my plate… and now… it’s in my belly… What was it that caused this wondrous event to occur?

Overheard in a Philosophy class, Sondheim
by Kee

Professor: I’m sure you will take your linear algebra book to the beach on Monday–don’t get sand in it–and I’ll see you on Wednesday.

Overheard in a Math class, Math/Psych
by Kee

Chubby girl: Sometimes I’d just like to be invulnerable and throw myself into that forest (motions to woodsy area near Library Pond). Or have healing powers. Though I think I’d rather have invulnerability because that way, it wouldn’t hurt. If you had healing powers it would hurt but then you could heal it. Invulnerability would be way better.
Cute friend: Yeah…
Chubby girl: (Laughs) I have a lot of X Men stuff.

Overheard on the service road behind Library Pond
by Anonymous

Student: I think I’m gonna drop this class, but come anyway to learn the material. I’ll be here, but I won’t. I’ll be like a phantom or something. That’s it, a phantom.

Overheard in Lecture Hall 8, Information Technology/Engineering Building
by Richard

Professor: Does anyone know how to write an underscore in Elvish? In high school my friends and I used to have arguments about how much should be phonetic and how much should be character by character. I would spell ‘tree,’ ‘chee’ and my friend would spell it ‘tree’ and I would say “But the T sounds like a CH!” and he would say “That’s because you’re a damn foreigner.”

Overheard in a Computer Science class, Lecture Hall 7
by Kee

Professor (about Pascal’s Triangle): So we can all do the next row without even thinking, right? Assuming we can add.

Overheard in a Computer Science class, Information Technology/Engineering Bldg.
by Kee

Professor: So how would you pass an array by value?
Student: Use pointers?
Professor: You know pointers! I swear, you all sign a pact, “We will never reveal that we learned anything in Computer Science 1.” You just violated the pact.

Overheard in a Computer Science class, Lecture Hall 7
by Kee

Professor: …32 factorial…
Student: Ooh, and they cross-cancel!
Professor: Yeah man!

Overheard in a Computer Science class, Information Technology/Engineering Bldg.
by Kee