there are guys in my dorm who decided to play cards in the elevator
see what intrigues me about college isn’t the intellectual pursuit or the bonding or whatever, its the fact that people have the freedom to do random shit like this
Okay, everybody, I have a story about random shit in college. When I was in college, there was a particular class I took where, no matter what time you walked into class, if you made it into the room before the professor, you wouldn’t be counted late. I mean, that’s a pretty cool policy, given how some professors are really obnoxious about attendance.
Well, one time, a fellow student of mine was running late to class. As she reached the edge of the building, she saw her professor making it to the front steps (super long rectangular building here). He looks up from walking and he sees her. He then points to his watch, gives her a well-meaning “Look who’s late” face, and walks on inside.
What he didn’t know, though, was that this particular student was like freakishly good at bouldering and related climbing skills, so she was just like “Fuck it” and SCALED THE BUILDING!
She tapped on the window of the 4th floor classroom (the floors had like 20ft ceilings, so, she was quite a ways up there), nearly making one student piss himself. They opened the window, she rolled through, onto the floor, and slid into her seat about five seconds before the professor opened the door to the classroom.
He did a double take, started to say “How the hell d—” when a security guard ran in, red-faced and panting, pointed at her and bellowed “STOP DOING THAT!”
Okay random college story of my dads. He was taking a history class and they were writing a timed paper during the class and when the time ended, the professor told everyone to turn in their papers or they would not be graded.
One boy in the class wasn’t finished with his paper when the time was up so he continued to write the paper until the class finished. When it did he went to the turn in the paper. The professor told him that he could not hand in his paper outside of the time restraint because it wasn’t fair to the rest of the people in the class.
So the boy went up to the professor desk and asked “do you know who I am? DO YOU KNOW
WHO I AM??” The professor calmly told him “no I don’t know who you are.” The boy said “good!” And stuffed his paper into the stack on the professor’s desk of all the papers that had been turned on time and then walked out of the class.The professor has no choice but to grade his paper.
My favorite thing about this post is that people keep adding college stories to it and they’re so much fun to read
When my family Doctor was in medcal school, they sandwiched a guy between two mattresses held together with belts and threw him out of a second-floor window
It would be possible to add SO MANY corpse-under-a-sheet-sits-up-in-the-mortuary-and-scares-someone-shitless stories here. Apparently I did a pretty good corpse; I was in some demand for this.
Also there was the really annoying male nursing student (we had others who weren’t annoying, it was just this one guy who was a problem) and all through our pediatrics nursery rotation we made sure none of the babies whose diapers he had to change were ever dry for more than thirty seconds. Every time he changed a baby, one or another of us would come quietly along and get the baby to pee again. (There’s a reflex in neonates that you can use to trigger urination. It wasn’t OUR fault this guy never thought to use it BEFORE he changed his babies.) Then as soon as he thought he was finished, somebody would say “Oh look, this one’s wet again…” and he would have to start all over.
…And you know what? He NEVER copped on to what was happening. Jeez, I hope he became an administrator or something, because someone that unobservant would not have been good for his patients in the long run…