Overheard At McGill » classrooms

I told you not to leave The Bubble!

Overheard@McGill — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:40:23 +0000

Girl 1: So how are you liking Montreal?
Girl 2: I really like it, but there’s so many people who speak french, you know?

- Leacock 132

A Simple ‘I’m Fine’ Would Have Sufficed

Overheard@McGill — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:35:33 +0000

Prof: I havn’t felt particularly horny lately, actually.

-Arts Legacy

Is That A Profit In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Happy To See Me

Overheard@McGill — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:28:55 +0000

Prof: Firms get a hard on when they make profits….

- Econ 225

100% Arts Student

Overheard@McGill — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:17:53 +0000

Girl: 7 Kids out of 1000? Jeez What percentage is that?

-Leacock Auditorium

My dog ate it.

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:20:02 +0000

Prof: The most common way to experience the feeling of ecstasy is through orgasm… Have you all had orgasms? I hope so… That’s your homework tonight. Everyone needs to go home and have an orgasm.

-Arts Legacy

I can’t help it if the animals I kill have heavy flows and wide-set vaginas!

overheardatmcgill — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:00:55 +0000

Professor: The slaughter industry is the biggest user of tampons in Canada.

-Class

That F is your grade, it’s not your transcript trying to swear at you.

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:11:00 +0000

Student 1:Where is the exam? Students are telling me different things… time and place please!?

TA: The midterm is in class.

Student 2: i looked up the building code for CLASS and couldn’t find it!!

-WebCT

Why Does Michael Bay Get to Keep On Making Movies?

tdomf_9e22f — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:17:30 +0000

Prof: During the American occupation, American individuals who rewrote the Japanese Constitution made it anticonstitutional for Japan to have a standing army anywhere outside of Japan.
Girl 1: But then, how come Pearl Harbour happened??!

-Econ 335

I’ve been confused ever since I watched the ball drop in Tiananmen Square.

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:07:08 +0000

Girl 1: So, are you coming back for New Year’s?
Girl 2: Oh, definitely… when is New Year’s this year? The 31st?
Girl 1: Yeah, I think so…

-HISP 225

I can dig it.

overheardatmcgill — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:27:43 +0000

While answering questions in Essentials of English Grammar:

Prof: Sorry, I lost my train of thought. I was thinking of Samuel L. Jackson.

-ED216

Wasn’t that the season finale of What Not To Wear?

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:35:34 +0000

Professor: I don’t even turn on the television anymore. It’s just violence. It’s all rape, and gore, and homosexual pedophiles in wheelchairs who chop up grandmothers.
- 19th Century Philosophy

Don’t worry, you’ll still be able to ferret out the homosexual overtones

overheardatmcgill — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:36:28 +0000

Dude 1: I saw Rambo over the weekend.
Dude 2: Was it good?
Dude 1: It’s good if you like action movies. You should see it.
Dude 2, (trepidatiously): Yeah… I haven’t seen the first ones, though.
- cultural studies

On the first date? Just some heavy petting and intense udder-action.

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:32:39 +0000

Prof: Has anyone ever been intimate with a cow?
— Biology 205, Adams Auditorium

Big Brother Is The Name of Your Pimp.

overheardatmcgill — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:03:35 +0000

Professor: 1984 – OK, on the negative side it’s a dictatorship, so you can’t have sex when you want but on the other hand, people make your decisions for you and you’ve got a job for life.
- EAST 211

These requests for donations are killing me.

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:33:23 +0000

Prof: It took me forever to convince my university alma mater that I was dead. I had to send things back marked “deceased” for years.
- GEOG 300

Someone didn’t watch Carmen Sandiego growing up.

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:25:39 +0000

Prof: So, minimal standards of living in Canada are very different to Togo.
Student: What the fuck is Togo?
- ECON 209

This is our fourth dog in five years…

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:25:41 +0000

Prof: There are typically three signs that indicate a child may be at risk for developing pyschotic tendencies. What are they?
Student: Pyromania, mutilating or killing animals, and early sexual tendencies.
Prof: That’s right. Now if you’re a parent and your kid is having sex with flaming animals, I would get that checked out.
- McConnell 13

Asstrobiology

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:54:13 +0000

Guy: Oh My God that girl has a HUGE ass, but I love it.
- Astrobiology seminar

Due to budget cuts, Religious Studies and BioChem are now one department.

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:28:32 +0000

Prof: Now, I don’t want to alarm you, but what I am really trying to say here is if you like sex… watch out.
- BIOC 212

Fallacious Phallic Fellatio

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:02:14 +0000

Prof: So today we’ll be discussing logical fallacies.
Girl: Excuse me Professor, but does fallacy have anything to do with fellatio or fellatious? I mean they’re similar, do they have the same origin or something?
[Prof and class stifle laughter]
- Research Essay and Rhetoric Class, Sherbrooke 688

And Inroll is the capital?

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:57:20 +0000

TA: What’s the difference between Rock and Rock&Roll music
Student: Well, Iraq is a country
- pop music

Self-Worth on a Bell Curve: Counting Standard Deviations to Depression.

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:28:22 +0000

Prof: It’s the low grade that really tells you what you’re worth.
- Adams Auditorium

And the award for Most Awkward Comment Made by a Professor During a Lecture in Fall 2007 goes to…

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:17:38 +0000

(Guy gets up to leave class 10 minutes in.)
Prof: Ugh. I guess I can’t please everyone (pause). I can’t even please my wife sometimes.
- POLI 360

Anyone wishing to get an A should go to the Cathedral, get on their knees and ‘pray’.

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:27:28 +0000

Prof: Anyone with a penis the size of a Cathedral is exempt from this assignment.
(Pause)
Prof: Obviously, I won’t be doing it.

—EDEC 248

At least since 1965.

overheardatmcgill — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:57:41 +0000

Prof: Class is dismissed.
Student: I have an urgent question. Who *really* killed Jesus? I know it wasn’t the Romans.
Prof: No, it was the Romans.
- RELG 210