Ants in Syrup

Confession in the Stupe:

So I've noticed that here at Wheaton I've started using words like sirup and awnt instead seerup and ant. I find that it makes me sound more pretentious. Like I'm from someplace really exotic. 

So glad the $100,000 education has been worth it.

Ah, spring

This is what I heard as I was walking back to my apartment just now:

"Okay, well, you call your parents and find out what courting is, and I'll call my parents and find out what courting is, then I'll call your dad. . ."

Engaging Conversation

In saga:

"You got engaged on a blind date??"

Stalkernet.

At the Stupe:

"There's this thing called 'Intra.' I know a lot of girls... They just don't know me."

Perhaps you should be. . .

from a girl walking down the stairs in the Student Service Building:

"I'm just not used to having to think before I speak."

...Choice quote from the Northwoods campus.

Guy shoving laundry into the back of his car: "You know you're at HoneyRock when the cool thing to do on Saturday night is laundry in town."

Guy in car driving through Eagle River on Friday night: "Wow. Everything's already closed by 8:00? This is like Wheaton 2.o".

Two Responses to Finals

Option 1: Despair
Girl 1: "AAAAA. I can't do this! I'm going to faaaaaaiiilll" (Here she proceeds to bury her head in arms of girl 2 who consoles her with a reassuring voice)

Option 2: Dismissal
Guy 1: "Oh my gosh, I have so much work to do. I'm going to go back to my room and watch more episodes of Battlestar Galactica!"

She speaks truth.

"Calories don't count during finals week."

- a girl in the Stupe

Food Stereotypes

A female in a loud exclamation after someone's suggestion:
"I can't be a Vegetarian--I'm Asian!"

Moms take better notes

Guy on phone: "What did he say, Dad? N-n-n-no, n-n-n-no. You gotta give me the Mom version. I want ALL the details!"

As if he hadn't been through enough already

While in a NT discussion about the Ethiopian eunuch's salvation and subsequent baptism: "He should get circumcised too, just to be safe."

Justifying Philosophy Major Stereotypes

Guy 1 approaches Guy 2 and Guy 3 who are sitting at a SAGA table

Guy 1: "Hey, do you mind if I sit with you guys?"

Guy 2: "Well, me and Guy 3 are talking about philosophy, so. . ."

[Guy 1 sits alone at adjacent table]

Maybe not as globally-aware as we'd like to think...

Guy 1: So Bulgaria is in Western Europe?

Guy 2: Yeah, I think so.

Guy 1: Huh. . . I always thought it was in South America.

Guy 2: My mom spent a while in Bulgaria.

Guy 1: Really?

Guy 2: Yeah. Well, either there or Ethiopia.

Bromance?

In Saga tonight, from a guy having dinner with his buddies (also male):

"Sometimes I just really like to touch his muscles."

From a girl, no less.

"Why do we live in the part of the world where I have to take showers regularly?"

Gospel in the Stupe

Said to a sinner: "God looks at you and sees the righteousness of Christ"

Summertime.

Overheard in Saga, the speaker is trying to convince a girl to come work for his organization for the summer:

Guy: Women live to what? 80?
Girl: Average is 76.
Guy: (Gets out cell phone, types a few numbers in) Statistically speaking, you have 684 months left to live. This summer is just 3 of them.

At a Table of Philosophy Majors

"Sex is the answer to mind-body dualism."

Prior to African-American Church Chapel

"I'm trying to be white, but I just can't pull it off."

A Healthy Appetite for Books

Overheard in Buswell:
"Hmm, the computer says you have $65 in fines."