Accelerated Adolescence

How about the weird things that you only hear as a science major? "Engage in random mating to maintain Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium." Or, after a lab where we played 'doctor,' with rubber gloves, scalpels, tweezers, and ethanol to sterilize everything (although, admittedly, our 'patients' were barley seeds): "I hope that's not what it's like for real surgeons. 'I THINK that's where it is, but I'm not quite sure. Just try cutting there.'"

Anyway, Mendon, I wanted to let you know that there's a little elf that lives in Wells Hall. He is much like the elves in the Elves and the Shoemaker, only instead of sewing shoes so that shoemakers can feed their families, this elf leaves little gifts that are exactly what distressed college students need to make it through the day. So, just thought you should know.

I got this one in college, written out in all seriousness:

Will you go out with me? Check yes or no.

Some more gems from MUC:

"You should have known better." [in reference to me, a Baha'i, attending a Methodist college and encountering religious prejudice]

"I spend enough time throughout the day with non-Christians. The chapel should only be open to Christians to give us a sanctuary." [yeah, we non-Christians can be so harrassing]

"Are your parents hippies?" [I was wearing cut-off jean shorts, one of my grandfather's sweater vests, and braids]

"It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." [thanks for the clarification]

"Is there a version of the Baha'i Faith where I can drink alcohol?"

These are priceless. Too bad I can't remember that far back. I'm sure your generation didn't invent 'inane'.

I forgot one of my favorites:

"Once you get a tampon in, how do you get it out?" [file that under Things Women Assume Men Know]

Here's one you're not likely to hear outside of college: "alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega." [pi rho were always my favorite part of the alphabet]

hahaha! Mark was just talking at lunch about how it became a fad at one point at Northwestern for everyone to use the word "inane" in their conversation.

Heard today at the student center, "And then he started referencing the 'Zombie Survival Guide' by Max Brooks."

and in response: "Oh my God! I have got to put that on my blog." Geek.

: )

Whats a Blog?

something you see only at college and strip clubs (?). A young lady wearing a turtleneck sweater that is obviously of high quality with hot pants that are so small and so tight that her genitalia are practically waving in the breeze and that you want to say, "honey, this isn't a dream, you really did forget to put pants on today!"