This paper explores how the Chinese college students' life is represented in some graffiti collected in campus.The article analyzes and compares the topics of graffiti from different settings and the linguistic features they manifest.The findings show that fewer graffiti from female toilet and classroom in this university pay attention to political issues compared with the graffiti abroad.Graffiti in female toilet mainly focus on the theme of love,and are found to be more interactive in discourse.Whereas graffiti on desks tend to cover mixed themes and be less interactive.There are more graphic graffiti and exam answers on the undergraduate students' desk than on the postgraduates'.Graffiti have some linguistic features as thematization,repetition and salience,etc.
