Overheard At McGill » arts

My dog ate it.

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:20:02 +0000

Prof: The most common way to experience the feeling of ecstasy is through orgasm… Have you all had orgasms? I hope so… That’s your homework tonight. Everyone needs to go home and have an orgasm.

-Arts Legacy

Well, third B.A.’s a charm, right?

overheardatmcgill — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:11:29 +0000

Girl: …and I took this course thinking it would be, like, easy, but, like, we’re learning stuff that, like, I’ve never learned before!

Guy: Yeah, totally…

-Molson

If You Can’t Remember the Date, It’s Definitely Not “Too Soon.”

tdomf_9e22f — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:56:29 +0000

Librarian:Â You do not have to cite general knowledge facts that everyone knows, such as that terrorists bombed the Twin Towers on September 11, 2000.

-Leacock 132

Don’t count your footnotes before they’re hatched.

tdomf_9e22f — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:00:32 +0000

Librarian:Â “Just start milking the bibliographic cow.”

-HIST 396

…and that’s when I switched my major to physiology.

tdomf_9e22f — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:00:38 +0000

Professor:Â There are normal and excessive sex organs. Excessive organs are like breasts in women. We’ll touch upon them next class.

-Subway in Arts

Buddy, You’re Talking to Yourself Again

tdomf_9e22f — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:41:50 +0000

Guy: If either of us was to become a paranoid schizophrenic and kill someone, I think it’s less likely to be me…

-Arts Building Steps

I’ve been confused ever since I watched the ball drop in Tiananmen Square.

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:07:08 +0000

Girl 1: So, are you coming back for New Year’s?
Girl 2: Oh, definitely… when is New Year’s this year? The 31st?
Girl 1: Yeah, I think so…

-HISP 225

Guns don’t kill people. Middle-aged white intellectual men kill people.

tdomf_9e22f — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:53:11 +0000

Prof: It’s tough to just walk into someone’s office and stab him through the heart. It’s hard! Believe me!

-Unknown Class

I tried the Asian flavor, but its parents were too strict.

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:00:14 +0000

Girl 1: God, what are you drinking?
Girl 2: Soy milk.
Girl 1: SOY WHITE MILK?

-Arts Lounge

In a globalized economy, maybe…

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:00:28 +0000

Student: Well, seeing how Egypt is in Asia, it makes sense that its on the left.
Prof: Actually Egypt is in Africa, and thats not Asia.
-English Literature

And why isn’t anybody dozing off?

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:26:03 +0000

(a girl from Arts decides to attend her boyfriend’s engineering class)
Girl: “Oh my God this is so weird.”
Guy: “What?”
Girl: “Why didn’t anybody bring their laptops?”
Guy: “Uhh.. it’s easier to write stuff down…”
Girl: “No I mean it’s so weird to be in a class where nobody is checking Facebook!”

—Macdonald Eng building

Unless by “museum” you mean “the mall” and by “check out” you mean “new shoes”!

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 27 May 2007 01:30:00 +0000

(McGill student to her groups of obviously-out-of-town friends)
Girl:…and there’s another contemporary art museum we could check out
Friend: (in snobby voice) yeah, I’m not really down with museums

-tunnel from redpath to arts building

A “Wild” Guess

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:00:25 +0000

Discussing the play, “The Wild Duck” by Henrik Ibsen.
Guy: So, how are they scaling grades in this class, anyway?
Girl: Well, everyone kinds starts out with a B- and then they see what your essay is like. If you’re the one who wrote on your test ‘Gregors is a raccoon’ then you’re towards the bottom and everyone who didn’t say ‘Gregors is a raccoon’ does better than you.
Boy: Man, I gotta read this book.
- ENGL 314

…but at least my frosh was better than yours!

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 14 May 2007 16:36:31 +0000

Talking about summer plans
Management Student 1: Yeah, this summer I am working with a Merger and Acquisition firm in Paris
Management Student 2: Awesome, I have an internship with a bank in Toronto.
Management Student 3: I am working with a stock broker back home
Arts Student: Yeah…I’m an arts kid, I work at summer camp
-New Rez Caf