(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
(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
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
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