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Friday, May 29, 2026
Overheard in Madison 10/4

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Overheard in Madison 3/29

History professor:

The great thing about this class is that you're reading these classic works and reading them in their entirety.

Student: Yeah, I was on a date the other night, and I was able to bring up Tolstoy in small talk.

Professor: Great, did you get some skin out of that?

Girl in Chipotle:

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This is what I'll tell the old ladies at the pool club this summer when they ask what I'm doing with my life. I'll tell them I'm GOING to be a stripper. That'll be my stock response.

Girl at a house party:

Oooo, don't sit there. That couch has been through the ringer—know what I mean?

Girl in Vilas Hall:

We're real women. We listen to Janis Joplin and cry into our moccasins.

Girl in the College Library Computer Lab, on Weather underground:

Oh, ""waning gibbous."" For a second I thought it said, ""Warning: Gibbons.""

Overheard in Journalism 565:

All girls are crazy. You don't think you are going to be that girl, but then you drunk text someone 20 times,

lock yourself in the closet and listen to Hilary Duff on repeat.

Girl talking to friend while

walking down Library Mall toward State Street:

You can't recover from procrastination. It's just not possible.

People say the darndest shit, so submit your Overheards to vstatz@dailycardinal.com or comment on this week's submissions at dailycardinal.com/page-two.

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