What do they really make OF us?
Sitting/working in the Yard waiting for my wrestling-team buddy to get us coffee. Two elderly women pass by:
Granny 1 to Granny 2:
"This school has to have SOME dumb people in it... you know, like the wrestlers or the hockey players. Everyone else is probably pretty smart, though."
Blanket
Heard by: Friend of Harvard wrestler
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What do they really make us?
Sitting/working in the Yard waiting for my wrestling-team buddy to get us coffee. Two elderly women pass by:
Granny 1 to Granny 2:
"This school has to have SOME dumb people in it... you know, like the wrestlers or the hockey players. Everyone else is probably pretty smart, though."
Blanket
Heard by: Friend of Harvard wrestler
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omg it was so baaad
Girl in Annenberg (dismayed): It was so gross! There was just frosting everywhere ! My face on a cake!
The Berg
Heard by: B & T
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Veritas
On paper that the TFs said was due the 9th...
Professor: "Well, let's extend it to the 12th. Sound good?"
Students: *applause*
Professor (gesturing): "Remember: Nice professor, EVIL TFs."
WJH
Heard by: he also narrates manga aloud...with the voices
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because reading period destroys your soul
(Two guys walking in through the back entrance and then going down the sketchy dungeon-like stairs):
Guy 1: "And...we're back...to the batcave."
Guy 2: "It's so nice outside...why are we HERE?"
the batcave
Heard by: on my way OUTSIDE
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April showers ...
girl walking to party: "Why is it so cold outside? I mean it's May 4th already!"
my friend: "It's May 3rd ..."
Mass. Ave
Heard by: kidnthebrook
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Everyone's a little bit racist...
Girl 1: Ok, this is going to be bad, but at the concert I saw this girl playing and I was like... why are her eyes closed? Does she know the music so well?
Girl 2: She was blind, right?
Girl 1: No, she was Asian... I saw her blink later
Lowell
Heard by: me.
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those are some talented dead people...
Guy: Those languages are going to be lost soon. I mean, there's only about 2000 speakers left- and most of them are dead!
tutorial
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I prefer “by robots”…
Girl 1: “World domination by pastry! That’d be SWEET!”
*pause as the others figure out this is a pun*
Girl in group: “Oh! I get it!”
lowell
Heard by: Kind of paying attention
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the dangers of public transport
Guy [on phone]: Well my hip is a little sore, but nothing else... nope, not a scratch. Yeah, I mean, who gets hit by a bus and walks away untouched?
Winthrop courtyard
Heard by: confucius say, man who runs after bus gets exhaust
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Can I come?
Girl: "Can I just build my own universe and corral all the people I like and approve of in it?"
Computer lab
Heard by: evil dictator
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overheard: meta ed.
Girl: ...I'm just afraid that this is going to bite us in the ass.
Guy: Yeah, he's got very muscular ears so he probably can hear...
in the yard
Heard by: strolling by
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So that's why...
Guy 1: You know what I just realized we were doing wrong? We weren't breathing!
Guy 2: [speechless]
Leverett
Heard by: I am still breathing
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not thinking I'll take this class
Girl: "I took a class from Samuel Huntington, you know, Clash of Civilizations Sam Huntington. He reminded me of this priest that I stopped going to church because I hated him so much. Old bald turtle man with bulging eyes."
Lowell
Heard by: entertained
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debt and death...
Girl 1: "...and then i could legally declare myself dead."
Girl 2 [thoughtful]: "eh, but then you'd have a whole bunch of psycho people declaring themselves dead to get away with shit. not to mention people with bad credit."
Girl 1: "the bad credit part works out just fine."
stairwell
Heard by: me
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Hard Parts
To person heckling him about his provocative swagger at HRO rehearsal:
"Well, you know what...I'm just going to go back inside and warm up because some of our parts are harder than your-oh god. i'm just going to walk away now."
Lowell Lecture Hall
Heard by: the heckler
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taking notes
“He looks a little, um…Neanderthalish…but he looks like an ambitious Neanderthal!”
--Prof. describing a 1960s poster of a Japanese salaryman
core
Heard by: amused
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Quite desperate...
Guy to girl: "Yeah, if Kirkland were a woman, I'd totally f*ck it."
Kirkland Courtyard
Heard by: A little scared
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Sexy... kinda
First girl: ::large belch::
Second girl: Well, that was sexy.
First girl: I know, doesn't that make you wanna just go and jack off?
Adams Dining Hall
Heard by: burpsgallor
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Nope, only Torahs and Terrorism
Definitely not Jewish: I didn't know they had music in Israel.
Lowell Dhall
Heard by: Yael Naim
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