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--Jones Freshmen Girl

"So I took the banana and should them how it was done."

_{--Ja Hong Kim}

_{"When she just tore into the banana, every guy in the pub screamed in fear."}

--Overheard discussion on the Pub's Singled Out

"You're like a piece of ugly woman magnet."

--Anonymous

"You can come in with a bend, you can come in from below, you can come in

from behind... Hey, this is a large class, I'm trying to be gender neutral."

--Dr. Cox, CAAM 335

Prof - Analyticity.

Student - Is that a word?

Prof - Sure that's a word!

--Dr. Cox, CAAM 335

"Students, I feel your pain"

--Dr. Cox, CAAM 335

"There go my chances of getting a turkey!"

--Professor as student leaves in the middle of class.

"So I'm like, `mmm!' and she's like, `mmm!'...and I think I'll just shut

up now."

--Dr. Spike Gildea, LING 200

"Yeah, I remember I was a cow....baaa baaa."

--Kos' freshman getting nostalgic on O-Week.

Though for the week:

"If I panicked every time a suicidal thought crossed my mind, I'd be dead."

Overheard in the Student Center:

He: "My sister thinks I'm a capitalist pig!"

She: "You couldn't pay me to be a capitalist pig."

"So this is to use in case a man holds a gun to your head and demands all of your money or the n^th Taylor polynomial approximation for cos x."

--Dr. Cochran, MATH 102

"Who are these masked man Taylor polynomials?"

--Dr. Cochran, MATH 102

"I want you to be Ninja integrators. You are powerful...you have techniques!"

--Dr. Cochran, MATH 102

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