A university does not have people from all over the universe, but there are jokes.
“I couldn’t wait to leave school and go to university. But when I got there, it was just people from Earth” was posted on Twitter by Dan J (and others) on January 19, 2015. Authorship is unknown; it possibly originated on the Sickipedia website.
The joke has been printed on an image.
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Dan J
@Djlond
I couldn’t wait to leave school and go to university.
But when I got there, it was just people from Earth.
12:42 AM · Jan 19, 2015·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Skyskape
@Skyskape
I couldn’t wait to leave school and go to university.
But when I got there, it was just people from Earth.
12:55 AM · Jan 19, 2015·Twitter for Android
Twitter
Si
@SimonbennBenn
I couldn’t wait to leave school and go to university.
But when I got there, it was just people from Earth. Thumbs down
1:55 AM · Jan 19, 2015·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Bob Kostic
@causticbob
I couldn’t wait to leave school and go to university.
But when I got there, it was just people from Earth.
#firstdayofschool
1:22 PM · Sep 5, 2017·Twitter Web Client
Twitter
Living Sarcasm
@SarcasmLiving
I couldn’t wait to leave school and go to university.
But when I got there, it was just people from Earth.
3:34 PM · Jan 19, 2020·Twitter for Android
Twitter
QT@Anon
@QTAnon1
I couldn’t wait to leave school and go to university.
But when I got there, it was just people from Earth.
3:43 AM · Jan 20, 2020·Twitter Web App
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