Hazing and Alcohol Education Program Assistant

Job Posting appears:

"Requirements: BA required, higher degree preferred, knowledge of Harvard College strongly preferred, personal experience with a social club or fraternity/sorority desirable. Must have good interpersonal skills and ability to work independently."

Overheard:

People definitely go to Harvard and join social clubs so they can get the in on 10 hrs a week jobs under suzy nelson. Even if they count MRS's as higher degrees, I wonder if they can fill this.

Plympton St.
Heard by: Ridic

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lovely rita

running woman: Oh wait! Wait! Oh shit. That's my car!
Meter maid: And that's your ticket!

outside OFA

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commencement IS insanity

alum 1: So I spent six years at a mental hospital. That really worked on the stress.
alum 2: (laughing) I bet!

under the belltower
Heard by: soon to be alum

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Seriously?

Girl 1: (something something) Tuscany?
Girl 2: Omygod I'm like totally gonna be there!
Girl 1: You like, look Tuscan!
Girl 2: Everything is like, so beautiful in Tuscany.
Girl 1: Are you totally coming to my art show?

courtyard
Heard by: I judged you so much just now.

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Laws of Attraction

Girl to friend: "I'm, like, more attracted to him than I was when I wasn't, before I was...you know what I'm saying?"

Annenberg
Heard by: Not typing what you're saying at all...

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Done with papers, I guess.

Guy, to his studying friend: "I have no friends, they all have exams. I can do nothing but masturbate and cry."

Lowell D-Hall
Heard by: gross

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you, sir, are failing this class

[Outlining essays for the final]
TF: So we've covered the history and the facts, what's the next step?
Guy 1: Make an argument?
Guy 2: Can I make an argument against the facts? Like, say, these are the facts, but I disagree?
TF: I mean, technically, you can do a lot of things.

review session, CGIS
Heard by: at least it's a core

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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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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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