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Overheard in Small World
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Someone who is so real for that: Last semester I hit this ground running. This semester I just hit the ground.
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Overheard in Roma
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First person: Why did you cut up all your food before eating it? Second person: Mild autism.
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Overheard at My Grandparents’
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Surprised by His Son’s Tendency to Have Eggs for Breakfast: Oh, so Paul’s an egg maven now?
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Overheard in McCosh Hall Basement.
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SPIA student: I think my preceptor is a pervert based on absolutely no evidence or reason.
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Overheard in the new Frist Health Center.
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Freshman: Should I start meditating or get a klonopin prescription?
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Overheard in London
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Child at heart: I have to apply for something to prolong this youthfulness. Realist: You mean a fellowship?
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Overheard while window-shopping
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Yearner: By acquiring something, I experience the loss. A loss by acquisition.
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Overheard under the smoking tree
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Reads too much Camus: I have the urge to say something philosophical. Naturally curious individual: Say it. Reads too much Camus: I don’t know what…I just have the urge.
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Overheard at Small World
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Poet with shoulder-length hair: Getting old and gray and the gray matter is turning into cotton candy or sometimes steel wool, but neither one is what it’s supposed to be.