University of the Surreal
Narrated Science Fiction Series
A gigantic Goldfish Bowl, three stories high, has appeared overnight on the university quad. No one knows where it came from. No one knows what it means. But the fish need feeding, a committee has been formed to determine how many subcommittees the situation requires, and somewhere in the Administration Building, a college president is too busy drowning in his inbox to look up.
There was, of course, another campus that once had a similarly-sized snow globe appear in its quad. It eventually consumed the entire campus. But that was another century, another country — so probably not relevant here.
University of the Surreal is a story about the things we learn not to see — and what it takes to finally look.
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TRAILER: Welcome to the University of the Surreal – University of the Surreal
TRAILER A gigantic Goldfish Bowl, three stories high, has appeared overnight on the university quad. No one knows where it came from. No one knows what it means. But the campus bureaucracy gets to work. The Faculty Senate forms a committee to determine how many subcommittees the situation requires. Consultants pitch a new software system to track Goldfish Bowl activities. There was, of course, another campus that once had a similarly-sized Snow Globe appear on its quad. It eventually consumed the entire campus. But that was another century, another country — so probably not relevant here. Have you ever watched something completely unprecedented happen — and then had to answer your emails? Have you ever been in a meeting about a meeting — and laughed so that you wouldn’t cry? I’m author and storyteller Melanie Ho, and I hope you’ll join me in a journey to the University of the Surreal, a campus where the impossible keeps happening — and somehow, that's not even the strangest partSubscribe on your favorite podcast platform, and find more campus updates at universityofthesurreal.com.Music: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Who Did That Music