Overheard at tutoring session

Cottage girl to 30-year-old Chinese man in English, trying to explain the word “thrive”: Thriving is like… [pauses]… living your best life.

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Overheard in Cuyler

Woke white man: Elizabeth Warren sucks, but I’ll happily vote for her once Bernie Sanders dies.

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Overheard in the Scribner Room

Nass senior, on former crush: I thought he was flirting me, but it turns out he just does a lot bath salts.

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Overheard at TI

TI junior: I Juuled last week and literally had to go to confession.

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Overheard in Patton Hall

Senior lit-bro: I was actually thinking of going to a public restroom to shave my pubes because I didn’t want to shave them in ours.

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Overheard in Terrace

Artist: Just from looking at her LinkedIn profile I thought I would never be close friends with her.

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Overheard in Terrace

German major: Dude, with your outfit you couldn’t even get into Berghain.

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Overheard in Mathey

German freshman: I vud like to know more about Monica Levinsky.

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Overheard at Ivy

Terrace senior: I am a serial misgenderer.

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Overheard in GEO lecture

Curious Color Skeptic: “Am I crazy or is that orb actually orange?”

Offended neighbor: “Bro, I'm color blind.”

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Overheard at Coffee Club

Friend on couch: "Of these three books, which one did Sally Rooney write…Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, or Normal People?"

Barista tamping espresso: "Well, it's not Jane Eyre."

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Overheard in Biomedical Anthropology

Professor Alan Mann: Here is the pelvis of a 1- to 2-year-old infant. Don’t worry, it’s plastic, it’s not an ex cutie-pie.

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Overheard in our Spam Folder

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

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Overheard at Terrace

Junior girl: I feel like having a trust fund could be stressful.
WASP male: Oh, it definitely is not.

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Overheard on iMessage

A's sophomore: A lot of my sexual frustrations came out while playing the Sims.

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Overheard on iMessage

Aimless senior: Should I do Teach for America?
Mom: Does that mean you have to be a teacher?

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Overheard in the Dining Hall

RCA 1: I've always wondered what it'd be like to be tazed.

RCA 2: It'd be a fun study break.

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Overheard in ART214 Final Paper

Jewish-American Princess, in opening line: Are women crazy?

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Overheard on the Phone

Potential Hire: There are such great benefits: eternal healthcare, opportunities to move up–

Skeptic: There's upward mobility in Hell?

Potential Hire: Of course. And a great, caring boss.

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Overheard in Addy Coffee Club

Ivy Member: I *am* against abuse.

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Overheard in American Cinema

Zete senior, on Brokeback Mountain: I can’t keep Jack and Ennis straight.

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Overheard in Lewis Library

Clearly a NARP: Sometimes I wish I were an athlete. It must be great to just run around a field occasionally and pretend you’re at war or something.

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Overheard in a Reading Group about Homelessness, circa 1995

Toni Morrison: When we discuss homelessness, we rarely ask, “Why do we value the home?” What about people who have too much home? People who can’t leave home?

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Overheard in Pyne

Aesthete: I want my clothes to be like Helvetica. Minimum effort, maximum palatability.

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Overheard in Ivy

Ivy soph, after learning he was younger than the frosh with whom he was speaking: Well I’m a member here so…

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