Overheard: Small Step For Frosh, Giant Leap For Mankind

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A tipster overheard the start to what will be a very, very long year for a new Columbia student:

“Wait… The Odyssey is a whole separate book?”

Another bout of sudden clarity was overheard later that day:

Girl on phone: Wait… I heard that Ferris Booth is the same as Ferris. 

You finding the syllabus online via Wikimedia Commons

5 Comments

September 12, 2012 @ 1:15 pm

Tags: harsh realizations, not only is the odyssey a whole separate book but so is the aeneid, overheard, spoiler alert: there's only one ferris

1. Anonymous says:

   8 0   September 12, 2012 @ 6:57 pm  

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   Ferris Booth Hall = in a landfill
   Ferris Booth Commons = crappy cafeteria
   Ferris = Bueller, Bueller, Bueller

2. Somewhere says:

   12 0   September 12, 2012 @ 8:23 pm  

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   a Classicist is crying.

3. Anonymous says:  

   2 2   September 12, 2012 @ 8:33 pm  

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   This aint funny. It's sad.

4. Karen Smith says:

   25 0   September 12, 2012 @ 11:03 pm  

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   So, you have Ferris, and then you have Ferris Booth, and then you have Ferris Booth Commons...

   • Gretchen Weiners says:  

     21 0   September 12, 2012 @ 11:24 pm  

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     Uh-uh, no honey, that's not how it works.

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