A semester’s worth of overheards from the latest issue of The Blue & White! Prof. Paul Olsen, beginning his section of the Life Systems course: “Get out your clickers. It’s my first time, so be gentle. That didn’t exactly come out how I wanted.” ** Overheard in the Westside checkout line: Boy: “I feel like […]

Guy to girl, in conversation: “Ok good. Because nothing happened…” [Pause] “But we did use a condom.” Image via Flickr/victoriapeckham

The setting: Butler’s Catalog Room. The players: two freshman girls reading To The Lighthouse. A few alcoves over, a table is loudly laughing. Girl #1: That girl’s been laughing for hours. Girl #2: She’s probably reading To The Lighthouse. Ba-dum ching! Photo via Wikipedia

Overheard on 115th and Broadway Columbia senior: “I don’t want to leave college, but if I don’t, my gravestone will read, ‘Nearly Graduated.’” Photo via Wikimedia Commons

Overheard on College Walk: Guy 1 to Guy 2: “These buildings were built in, like, 1403.” Photo via wikimedia

Little kid, maybe 13 years old, wearing a backpack walking with classmates. With a concerned look at the ashtrays outside of Hamilton: “I know there’s a lot of peer pressure at college, but why does everyone have to smoke so much?”

“This is not the most important question I’ll ask today, but how many of you think that Cornell can beat Kentucky?” -Ira Katznelson, 20th Century American History, God Among Men

Spring break was going to be so productive.

A girl outside Carman, on the phone and seemingly near tears: “I’m just SO stressed and SO nervous that I’ll wind up in a McBain double!”

A lovely spring afternoon on the Steps. A man wearing a tie-dye shirt gives some advice to a friend: “It’s spring, so you need to get Tevas. These things are unstoppable!”

Midterms are upon us, and everyone just has to know about it. Here are some digital overheards from Facebook that remind us that break is so close yet so far away: But what’s this? A bonus overseen! A Bwogger reported that last night, a Butler employee was seen carrying two empty 40’s of Bud Light […]

Bwog received this text message from a visiting friend: “Whats the part of your library where people have sex?”

In Carleton lounge, a woman runs in the door towards two men at a table, gushing apologies… Woman: “So sorry I’m late! The weather’s crazy out there.” Man1: <glances out window at mild drizzle> Woman: “You know…puddles.”

Sitting next to two girls eating lettuce with balsamic vinegar and wearing the same brown boots and sweaters: “I just feel like birthdays are so cliché.” “Wait, why is no one washing their face?  Is it National Don’t-Wash-Your-Face Day?” After some thought… “I’m a pseudo-vegetarian.  But doesn’t that apply to fish as well?”

Bwog loves nothing more than snow. Take a little time out of the day to appreciate its many manifestations of beauty. A slavic languages professor wringing out his hat in front of the elevator: “Oh dear, oh God almighty, I am wet from the snow.” The tables outside of Kent have been overturned… by snowy […]