Added: June 1, 1998 Submitted by Baldy
I started my first day of college with basic programming (computer technology being my
goal). I walked into class with many people who had already taken computers 101. I sat
beside a girl and started talking. During the conversation, she put her hand down on the
mouse and said, "Exactly what is this used for?".
Added: June 1, 1998 Submitted by Bill
My roommate last year took an astronomy course for advanced level seniors (college course,
mind you.) He came home with many stories of one girl's vast wealth of ignorance, but the
best one was when the girl raised her hand and asked: "What happens to the sun at
night? I mean, where does it go?" No, really, she somehow managed to graduate high
school, folks.
Added: June 1, 1998 Submitted by Bill
College. This implies that, to be a college student, one has to finish at least 12 years
of previous schooling. Well, I'm in my Bio151 class, the simplest college-level biology
course, and the instructor is lecturing on the difference between vertebrates and
invertebrates. I was just thinking how redundant this lesson for today was, when the
student next to me leans over towards me, holding a specimen jar with a large spider in
it, and asks, "Psst, yo...do spiders have bones?"
Added: June 19, 1998 Submitted by Steve
In a history class one day a blond was handing out tests. She thought she would be cute
and say "does everyone have a little testy" testy meant like doggy or mommy, not
knowing how it would come out.
Added: June 19, 1998 Submitted by Kate
It's the first day of school, ninth grade Advanced Physical Science and we walk in and sit
down, not knowing that whomever we sat next to would be our lab partner for the semester.
The girl next to me seemed nice and all was well until the teacher decided to have us all
complete a short experiment. As soon as the teacher explained the assignment, my brand-new
lab partner turns to me and asks, "H2O is water, right?" Here's the most
frightening part-- she was serious.
Added: November 11, 1998 Submitted by Rebecca
I'm a seventh grade student in Michigan. The morning before I went to school, I was on the
internet looking at this website and wrote down the URL to give to one of my friends who
was in the same "advanced" math class I was. When we had to turn in our
homework, she told the teacher (who always assigns our homework by the roman numeral
sections in the book), "I couldn't find the chapter on Romans and besides, I, II, III
and V aren't numbers anyway." after the teacher had given up on her I handed her the
paper I had written the URL on and told her "Go here on the internet." She just
gave me a strange look. The next day I thought she would be mad at me but she thanked me.
"I understand Romish [Roman] Numbers Now!!!! They were on the stories
pages!!!!!!"
Added: January 27, 1999 Submitted by Matt
A few years ago in grade 7 we had to do a report on a country. I chose Switzerland because
my grandpa was from there. Some guy in my class chose the Philippines. We did our reports
and when we handed them in I noticed his title page had a picture of the map of Canada on
it. I said "Why in the HELL do you have a Canadian map on your page???" To which
he responded "Oh no, don't tell me the Philippines are in America."
Added: January 27, 1999 Submitted by Kira
We had just finished this western movie for English class and we were discussing how it
would be to live back in the 1800's and this girl in my class said "it would probably
suck because everything was black and white back then any way." To this day she
firmly believes that before Technicolor everything was black and white.
