Overheard in Frist Campus Center

Exuberant sophomore: “This is going to be such a fun study break!” Baffled straight man: “What, masturbating?”

Overheard in Frist

Supportive friend: I’m glad to brighten up your day with gossip. And not just any gossip… invented gossip!

Overheard at Frist Tables

Worn-out senior after physics lab: “I don’t care about Brownian motion! It’s random and that’s all I need to know.” Realistic junior: “That’s not true. You don’t need to know anything. 99% of people know nothing about Brownian motion and … Read More

Overheard in Frist

Writer: I feel like Freud would have a lot to say about this. Other writer: I don’t know much about Freud. Writer: Me neither.

Context: Overheard at Frist

Frosh, having just awoken from a nap: Bro, Princeton is easy. Don’t you know we have a 98% graduation rate?

Overheard outside of Frist

Philosophizing girl talking to her friend: It’s so much easier to assume that everyone is wrong than it is to assume that anyone is right.

Overheard in Frist

Introspective Sophomore: I enjoy being de-personified.

Overheard in front of Frist

Future dictator: I was thinking about applying to the honor committee so I could know what it feels like to be corrupted by power.

Overheard outside Frist

Upset sophomore: The fact that they took Supervillain Island off of Poptropica is literally a hate crime

Overheard on Frist 100 level

Smug Sophomore: I’m writing an essay for Creative Nonfiction about a mathematician’s relationship to chalkboards.

Overheard at Frist

Newly Initiated TI Sophomore, on the phone: “I can’t wait to bring you. Dad, do you want to go out? Like to a party?”

Overheard in Frist

Worried student to strangers: Have you seen a taller, older white man in pajama pants?