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Overheard in class in response to a correct answer:

Professor Lehrich: “Fifty points to Gryffindor!”

 

Overheard in E51 as people chow down:

“Someone should know better not to put a tray of (wrapped) cookies on top of a garbage can in front of business school students.”

 

Overheard around campus:

“The real unholy trinity is (1) getting a good internship (2) getting good grades and (3) having a social life.”

 

Overheard after Finance I:

Girl: “Oh my god, this guy is our Finance TA? He is sooo hot. I am so going to recitation from now on.”

 

Overheard in Marketing Management:

Professor: “You know when you are at a club, and this girl comes up to you telling you about this brand new vodka…and then you realize she’s being paid to promote the vodka and not really talk to you…Well, folks, this type of ‘deceptive’ advertising often always causes a negative backlash.”

 

Overheard during the Brazil Study Tour class:

Guy #1: “How do you know a girl wants you to approach her in a club?”

Guy #2: “She’s breathing.”

 

Overheard around campus:

“Who wouldn’t want a sextapus?”

 

Overheard in Business Ethics:

Student: “I will be the lube greasing the invisible hand of the market.”

Overheard around campus:

Person A: “What do you want, leadership or porn?’

Person B: “Porn.””

 

Overheard in the E51 lobby:

Buyer: “Why are the Israeli C-function tee-shirts $15 when everyone else charges $10?

Seller: Because we’re Jews.

 

Overheard in Game Theory during a discussion on artificial diamonds”:

“I don’t understand why women are upset about unnatural diamonds.  Most of them are made from unnatural and artificial material themselves...”

 

From an ocean-wide email 2 hours before Econ final:

“Who is Bertrand, and what does he do?”

 

Overheard around campus:

“The second years lie to the first years about second semester being easier. If we didn’t, you would never have gotten through core, but now you did, and now you know it’s possible.”

 

Overheard in Econ:

Professor: “You knucklehead! It was the perfect teaching example, and you ruined it!”

 

Overheard during Macro class:

Professor: “Ok, now I have this person here, and now I can request services from her.”

 

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