(after watching part of a video on the Rwandan genocide):

Girl #1: We didn’t get to finish it…so how does it end?

TA: (bewildered silence) —African Politics

English TA: I check overheardatmcgill.com every so often to make sure nothing I say gets on it.

—Arts Building

Prof: “Communists eat children.”
–POLI 211

Professor: The Quiet Revolution was like a giant affirmative action program for French people.
Class: Stunned silence

—POLI 326 (Provincial Politics)

Prof: When you actually think about it, French-Canadian Nationalism is a whole lot like National Socialism.
Shocked Class: …..
(N.B. National Socialism was the name of the Nazi Party)

—Canadian Nationalism Class

“So like, do people of different ethnicities have different color brains?”

Psyc311 brain lab

“Humans are retarded chimpanzees.”
–Sociology Prof, SOCI 210

[Discussing the link between water shortages and conflict]
Girl raises hand: “So, is the reason Africa has so many problems that it’s just, like, really dry?”
–in enviro201

(talking about Marx’s Conflict Theory)
Prof: so what did Marx think was needed for the people to come together?
Class: silence
Prof: MUSIC! you know, like Madonna…(pauses, begins to sing and dance) “Music, makes the people, come together…”
Class: awkward laugh
—SOCI 388

(Professor (who tries to make personal connections to all the people studied in the class) puts up a slide of a psychologist named Miller)
Prof: Now, my only connection to Miller was that he once tried to abduct my wife from a party.
Class: …
Prof: But it was just party hijinks, so I didn’t take it too seriously.

–Pysch 100