the quotes I write down day-to-day as a university student

  • Stepha: Why are you looking like that?
  • Cailyn: Because I need to appear sober in this video
  • Stepha: You don't look sober.
  • Cailyn: Shut up! I hate you!
  • Stepha: No, you love me.
  • Cailyn: How would you know?

"I started off as being a fan boy for critical theory.. I loved the inherent ‘truthiness’, like Stephen Colbert would say."

- Contemporary Theory Professor

"Apple is probably evil. Once you get that big, that’s evil territory. That’s Walmart time."

- Contemporary Theory Professor, on the influence of Apple products.

"Next time I’ll just take the reigns, so there doesn’t have to be any democracy. Democracy is stupid."

- Contemporary Theory Professor, on class discussions.

"He’s won many upper, highest achieving awards. I can’t remember which."

- Professor of Indian Literature, on Raja Rao. 

"Ok, guys, let’s have… uhhh… let’s rock."

- World Literature Professor, trying to initiate group discussion.

"Subsitute teaching is terrible. It’s a special circle of hell. Dante doesn’t tell you about it because it’s too awful."

- Middle English Prof, on substituting. 

"The Greeks come over to Troy and fight for a number of years, boring the hell out of anyone who has to read the Iliad."

- Middle English Professor, on allusions to Greek history in texts.

"

’ Do you know anything about medieval night wear?’

’ No.’

’ That’s because there wasn’t any! So he’s naked in this bed.’

"

- Middle English Professor on Gawain’s seduction scene in Sir Gawain in the Green Knight

"I hate it when people say they’re going ‘forwards in history’. Are you going to go backwards? Do you want to go sideways in history? Crab like?"

- Gandhian History Professor, being hilarious.