An actual, honest-to-goodness conversation
Ken: Have you ever met anyone who said they were going to college to get married? Because this girl I met yesterday, I asked her, so what are you going to focus on in law school, and she said, I’m looking for a husband.
Huda: Well, I’ve never met anyone who actually admitted to it, but yeah, I think there were several people at Tech who were in it for their MRS degree. You could always tell which ones—
Ken: What’s an MRS degree?
Huda: (dumbfounded) Ivan, please tell Ken what the MRS degree is.
Ivan: …
Ken: Muscular… retraction… disorder…?
Ivan: Mechanical regeneration doctorate?
Huda: M-R-S! M-R-S!
Ken and Ivan: We don’t know!
Huda: (semi-hysterical) Spell it out! M-R-S!
Ken: Well, it has to have something to do with marriage… Mars?
Huda: (finally breaking down) Mrs! It’s the Mrs. degree! M-R-S for Mrs!
Ivan: What?
Huda: I give up.