Venus Envy
April 26, 2012
Verbatim
More →Overheard in my common room
Me: Is there anything I can help you with or answer for you before I go to sleep?
Prefrosh from Texas: ...can I have a glass of milk?
Overheard in Frist
Audacious Prefrosh: Mom, Dad, stay far behind me so people think I’m a student.
Overheard at Freshman Spring Formal
Drunk girl: I like your tie!
Drunk boy: I like your face!
Overheard in the PrincetonFML comments
Grades are petty and temporal: Honor is forever.
Honor is petty and temporal: Grades are forever.
Overheard on the Theta listserv
Senior: This side of the sorority is the real heart and sole of Theta.
Overheard outside a pregame
Drunk girl: Let’s go Ivy right now! Right now! We have to run! Run with me!
KA bro: No.
Overheard on Wikipedia
“At sign”: The at sign or @, [is] also called the ampersat, apetail, arroba, atmark, acosta, at symbol, commercial at, curlat, or monkey choad
Overheard on a Friday night
SAE boy: I’ve hooked up with Asians before, and I’ve definitely hooked up with small Asians before, but you’re the smallest and most Asian one I’ve ever seen.
Overheard in Whitman
Junior master to freshman apprentice: Just touch his genitals. He will be your slave.
Overheard outside Cafe Viv
Prefrosh 1, looking at map: Let’s go to Cafe Viv.
Presfrosh 2: No, let’s go to Frist!
Overheard in Intime
Prefrosh: So, did you guys post any Facebook statuses when you got into Princeton?
Overheard on Nassau St
Townie teen, to preppy friends: That’s really all we do. We eat and buy things.
Overheard outside Wilson
Guy: Well, I was partly raised at dinner parties.
Overheard in Wu
Theta frosh: He’s blasian? I have to meet him. I have dreams of making super-interracial children.
Overheard in Interpretations of Dreams
Freud: Indeed, even the museum of human excrement could be given an interpretation to rejoice my heart.