Professor: So programs can’t be specific. If you were to make a program that took 5 and 2 and got 7 every time, no one would want to use your program. But if you made a program that took any two numbers and added them together … well, no one would want to use that program either, but at least it would do something.
Overheard in the Engineering Building
by UMBC Student
Professor: Males are a lot easier to understand… in more ways than one, actually.
Overheard in Lecture Hall 5, Engineering Building
by Michael S.
Professor: Either everybody is very shy… or they don’t have pancreases.
Overheard in Lecture Hall 5, Engineering Building
by Michael S.
Guy on computer: Whenever I see “brown bag,” I just think of shit in a bag. Especially when it’s on the OIT website. I can’t be the only one.
Overheard in a Computer Lab, Engineering Building
by The [formerly] red-headed step child
Professor: I suppose you’re all wondering why there’s stalks of corn sprouting out of the floor.
Overheard outside of an Ecology Class, Engineering Building
by Captain Fig Johnson
Professor: If a surgeon tells you they’re going to remove the 90% of your brain you don’t need, run like hell.
Overheard in a Psychology class, Engineering Building
by Moo
Professor: I guess thats why they call it blue balls, because of all the blue balls.
Overheard in the Engineering Building
by Animated Antmo
Professor: Good thing there wasn’t a test for left and right in grad school. I would have failed.
Overheard in a Chemistry class, Engineering Building
Captain Fig Johnson
Professor: You take some guppies from different populations in Trinidad, put them into little plastic bags, shove them down your pants and smuggle them through the airport back to the lab in California. At least, that’s what we did.
Overheard in a Biology class, Engineering Building
by Eleanor Rigby
Professor: Look at you, a bunch of killing, raping, horrible people.
Overheard in a Biology class, Engineering Building
by Eleanor Rigby
