college

  • A Close Shave

    Once, a barber found two MIT students wanting to buy his barber pole. They offered a good price for it, so the barber sold it to them. So – these two guys drove around all day in a pickup truck carrying the barber pole. They kept getting stopped by the police, who were sure they…

  • Embarrassing Traffic Stop

    A police car pulled me over near the high school where I teach. As the officer asked for my license and registration, my students began to drive past. Some honked their horns, others hooted, and still others stopped to admonish me for speeding. Finally the officer asked me if I was a teacher at the…

  • A Distraction

    Jerry, a college freshman, was sitting in his English class. His teacher noticed that he wasn’t paying attention, so asked to see him after class. Jerry went up to the teacher’s desk, and waited while the teacher was talking to a attractive freshman girl. When he was done, he said, “Jerry, why weren’t you paying…

  • Whoops!

    Introductory Chemistry at Duke has been taught for about 50 years by Professor Bonk (really), and his course is semi-affectionately known as “Bonkistry”. He has been around forever, so I wouldn’t put it past him to come up with something like this. Anyway, one year there were these two guys who were taking Chemistry and…

  • The Acid Test

    During class, the chemistry professor was demonstrating the properties of various acids. “Now I’m dropping this silver coin into this glass of acid. Will it dissolve?” “No, sir,” a student called out. “No?” queried the professor. “Perhaps you can explain why the silver coin won’t dissolve.” “Because if it would, you wouldn’t have dropped it…

  • A Dozen, a Gross, and a Score

    A dozen, a gross, and a score Plus three times the square root of four Divided by seven Plus five times eleven Is nine squared and not a bit more.

  • College Rules

    It was the first day of college, and time for the usual ‘authoritative declaration of the not to be broken rules’. The principal, in typical intimidating fashion, addressed the students: “The female dormitory will be out-of-bounds for all male students. The male dormitory will be out-of-bounds for all the female students”. The principal, sensing he…

  • News From School

    “Dear Mother and Dad, It has been three months now since I left for college. I have been remiss in writing and I am very sorry for my thoughtlessness in not writing before. I will bring you up to date now, but before you read on, please sit down. You are not to read further…

  • Try THIS Exam, People!

    Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions. Time limit: 2 hours. Begin immediately. Art: Given one eight-count box of crayons and three sheets of notebook paper, recreate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Skin tones should be true to life. Biology: Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if this form of…

  • Ready Yet?

    The below quiz will help you to determine if you are truly ready to attend college. Answer all questions below choosing one of the multiple choice answers for each question as your answer. 1) You have five minutes to get dressed before leaving for a hot date. You suddenly realize you don’t have any clean…

  • Petty Girl

    This truly happened in an advanced oral English classroom: When the teacher asked the students: “What surprised you most in Tsinghua?” One of them answered, “Well, I’d heard that girls in Tsinghua were terribly ugly before I came here. However, when I arrived here myself, I was surprised to find there’s so many pretty girls,…

  • Teacher:…

    Teacher: Julia, how can you say Asshole in a nicer way? Julia: As holes.