Overheard outside my office

A older man who talks like Matlock and looks like flintlock has had a coed cornered outside my office door for about 15 minutes while he jibberjabbered all the travails of his life; all the stuff he didn't get arrested for (because i guess because that was the shorter of the two lists), smokin' 3 packs a day before he was 16, the last time he fell off his dinosaur, etc..

As he was finishing up his verbal tome he said, "I just never could figure out what i wanted to do when I grew up."

"That should be the title of your book," the coed proffered patiently.

"What?" Matlock puffed, "I Don't Want to Be When I Grow Up?"

from a student's answer

journalists as "stenographers to power"

"Perhaps in the future all textbooks will be nothing more than learning through fun and games, too? (please?)"

neophytes

"You're such a neophyte," she announced over her shoulder.
"You're the neophyte," he quietly stumbled and got on the elevator behind her.

Super-Seekers

Two undergrads are bitching about classes in front of the Memorial Union Library, primarily distraught to discover that, somehow, they are going to be graded for participation in a 300 student class. "Come on, like it matters if i go to the lecture! How do they even know i didn't?"

Then, as i was heading into the library, one said, "shit yeah. I can't even go to discussion anymore; surrounded by all those super-seekers looking to graduate!"