Overheard in Chancellor Green Cafe

Professor, to student: I think your thesis is funny, because it's not as academically successful but it's more . . . useful.

Overheard in Rocky dining hall

Diner: The worst part about my cousin coming out of the closet was how long it took. She was talking to me for like five hours.

Overheard in Terrace

Member, in reference to Nassau Weekly stacks stored in the club: Let's get some wire from Home Depot, bind up the stacks and make some new lounge furniture out of them.

Overheard in GEO103

Student: I'm sick of earthquakes happening while I'm taking "Natural Disasters."

Overheard on Prospect Avenue

Guy: Damn it, she's got a dude with her.
Girl: That guy is gay.
Guy: Gay like homosexual, or gay like retarded?

Overheard on Washington Road

Music Nerd: Ugh, my favorite classical music blog hasn't been updated since December.
Cutesy Girl: I know, my favorite notebook slash stationary blog hasn't been updated in over a year!

Overheard by Blair Arch

Big Dude, to Girl: Well, I don't like fairies, but I do like castles a lot.

Overheard on the snow day

Girl 1: There is so much snow, this is incredible!
Girl 2: Yeah. I haven't seen snow like this before.
Girl 1: So why aren't you acting excited? Isn't it awesome??
Girl 2: Because I'm even-keeled and I don't get excited about anything.

Overheard in Guyot

Student 1: Do you know where our lab is?
Student 2: Just go where that dragon is looking. I mean that dinosaur.

Overheard in Terrace

GIrl: . . . but you can't even see them!
Guy, slurring: I'm sorry, I can't help it. When I'm drunk . . . your boobs. . . . They're too much.

Overheard at the Wa

Boy: I don't go any more ethnic than French.

Overheard at East Pyne

Tech Guy: The professor has been injured so class has been cancelled.
Student, getting up: Cool!

Overheard in the Terrace girl's bathroom:

Blacked-out girl: But why hasn't he called??
Member: I don't know who you are.

Overheard in GEO103:

Professor: The earthquake in Haiti was the deadliest natural disaster ever to occur in the Western hemisphere. (Pause) I suppose that's excluding European colonization.

Overheard in Cafe Viv on "Art Night":

Group: (hysterical laughter for 30 seconds)
Girl: Wasn't that a great pun?

Overheard on the Dinky:

Girl #1: I know people who have never been to Twist.

Girl #2: Really?

Overheard walking back from Frist after midnight:

Girl: [To friend] I hope she doesn't think this is, like, a lesbian booty call. I really just want the adderall.

Overheard in Firestone:

Ivy Pi Phi: She was wearing that same dress from her birthday party.

Ivy Theta: Is that the night we almost got raped in the pizza parlor?

Ivy Pi Phi: Yes, and she gained like ten pounds.

Overheard in Terrace:

Bro looking into mirror of Terrace bathroom: [To himself] "My hair looks fucking awesome!"

Overheard at Ivy formals:

[someone vomits in the Mens room]

Junior: Now that's a sound I like!

Overheard in Prospect Garden

Guy: I never accept friend requests from Asians.

Girl: Why?

Guy: Well, you know, if you give a mouse a cookie...

Overheard outside Frist

Guy: I never accept friend requests from Asians.

Girl: Why?

Guy: Well, you know, if you give a mouse a cookie...

Overheard crossing Nassau St.

Housewife: —because I’m the only person who tries to tell the truth like it is—

Husband (interrupting): Yes, but half the time you tell it wrong.

Overheard outside Graduate department lounge:

Male GS: If Jesus came back today, people would probably think he was a zombie and kill him.

Female Chinese GS: Why?

Overheard at Halo pub

Obese woman: That’s right, I’ll be singing in the opera.

Patron: So... you’re an alto?

Overheard after pseudo-science lab

GS Instructor: What was she on? She looked really drunk.

Student 1: Coke, I think.

Student 2: No, you missed the first part of the conversation. She was reminiscing about being on coke.

GS: Well, was she drunk?

Student 2: Oh, and how.

Overheard in the U-Store

Alum: We had pizza and stuff... There was no edamame when I was at Princeton! We should head out.

Alum’s Friend: Wait, but, we are ending up in a bar at the end of the tour, right?

Overheard on Alexander Beach

Girl 1: Do you want to come to Twist?

Girl 2: Sure, I’m just gonna throw up first.

Overheard in PHI 360

Sophomore: Socrates is my homeboy,

Overheard on Witherspoon Street

5-year-old: It's Barack Obama!
Mother: Honey, not every black man is Barack Obama. [To friend.] I guess I should expose her to more diversity.

Overheard in our Spam Folder

This is your penis: 8--o
This is your penis on drugs: 8 =====O

Overheard at Terrace

Girl: Maybe I have horrible gay-dar because I'm from Texas and no one there wears skinny jeans.

Overheard in Lewis Library

Backward Cap: Well, what other job could make you at least half a mil?
Polo Shirt: A Princeton degree does a lot for you that way.
Cap (near despair): The value is decreasing now!
Shirt: You're right. A doctor, a lawyer... I'm not sure anymore.

Overheard in our Inbox

Dear Friend,
I am Mr. Wong Tung Shun Peter Jp Non
Executive Director of the Hang Seng
Bank Ltd, Hong Kong. An Iraqi named
Haider Hanoon, a business man made a
numbered fixed deposit for 18 calendar
months, this is valued to Fourty Four
million Five Hundred Thousand United
State Dollars only in my branch. We
later found out that Haider Hanoon and
his family had been killed during the
war in Gunfire that hit their home at
Mukaradeeb where his personal oil well
was. I am prepared to place you as the
next of kin to share the money with you
in half But I first will need your help.

Overheard at Charter

Friend 1: We should play squash sometime.
Friend 2: I haven’t played a sport in five years. I haven’t played a
sport that wasn’t ultimate frisbee in eight years.

Overhead in East Pyne

Student 1: When I was studying the Language of Love under Daniel Heller-Roazen . . .
Student 2 (interrupting) : Were you studying the Language of Love, or were you studying him?
Student 3: I mean, how can you know the dancer from the dance?

Overheard at Terrace dinner

Guy 1: Do you want to commit to a hate crime?
Confused kid: Wait . . . do I want to do what?
Guy 1 (louder): Do you want to commit a hate crime?
Confused kid (earnestly): Do I want to cut your hair?

Overheard in the basement of McCosh:

Guy (awkwardly): Hi, [redacted].
Girl: I bet I don't want to know what's in that paper bag!
Guy: I packed a lunch! Just kidding, they're testing my pee. Why else would the bag be so warm?

Overheard in the basement of McCosh

Guy (awkwardly): Hi, [redacted].
Girl: I bet I don't want to know what's in that paper bag!
Guy: I packed a lunch! Just kidding, they're testing my pee. Why else would the bag be so warm?

Overheard in Seminar

Professor: What we need in this classroom is cocaine. Then we can do 4 projects at once. Surely its been done before in the history of this great University.

Overheard at TI

Terrace member, to fratty friend: So, are you still committed to going into
finance, even with the recession?

Fratty friend: I don’t know. What’s the other option?

Overheard on a poster

Poverty simulation today. . . . Free lunch provided.

Overheard in Ivy

Guy, to friend, while Internet shopping: If I were a girl, I would definitely wear heels with those jeans.
[Pauses]
I just know this about myself.

Overheard at dinner

Guy: What are you studying?
Girl: German.
Guy: Oh! I know some German. “Ich bin müde.”
Guy 2: “Das Boot!”
Guy 3: “Wolf Blitzer!”

Overheard at TI, again

English major: Am I high? I took the express train to Highville; upon arrival,
I was elected mayor.