Overheard At McGill » math

100% Arts Student

Overheard@McGill — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:17:53 +0000

Girl: 7 Kids out of 1000? Jeez What percentage is that?

-Leacock Auditorium

Not Even Once.

tdomf_9e22f — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:41:34 +0000

Guy: How do we find out what lab group we are in? Can it be found online?
Girl: Math 139 has labs!!!!!!?????
Prof: This class has no labs.
-Math Discussion Boards

Whatever, it’s all Greek to me.

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:12:43 +0000

Student 1: (looks at paper) Wait, so what is this? Egyptian?
Student 2: No, actually that’s math…

–Trottier

Any friendship with you would have to have limits.

overheardatmcgill — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:59:16 +0000

Nerd: Your friendship is like the limit of 1/x as x approaches 0.
- Macdonald Campus

If you can’t do, teach. If you can’t succeed, teach at McGill.

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:40:11 +0000

Accounting professor: Ok take out your calculators, cuz I’m not very good at calculating things
- MGCR211 Intro to Financial Accounting

The miracle here is that they were talking to a girl in the first place.

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:54:30 +0000

[Bunch of mathies laughing/studying in Second Cup. The only girl waits for a break in the conversation]
Math Girl: “Ha, yeah. Yeah well that’s just like something my friend told me once. She said she liked her men like tea. Hot, strong, dark and sweet. Heehee.”
(all the boys just look back at their calculators)

—Second Cup

If the ringtone was “It’s Raining Men” and the prof was gay, I could see this leading into a great musical

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:01:30 +0000

(cell phone goes off with Rihanna’s SOS ringtone)
Prof: …apparently Rihanna is calling.

-Math123 Linear Algebra and Probability

And sentences isn’t English.

overheardatmcgill — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:20:00 +0000

Girl: So, 14+7…. 23.
Guy: Umm, it’s 21. Aren’t you a math major?
Girl: (Angrily) Arithmetic isn’t math!

—Burnside Basement

The Archimedean spiral freaks me out every time.

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:37:52 +0000

Student (confused by geometric shape): So, why is it called an astroid?
Prof: Because it’s spaced out!

—MATH 151

Well, one pierces my Parietal Lobe three times.

overheardatmcgill — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:26:13 +0000

Girl 1 (counting second girl’s piercings): 1, 2, 3, 4, and…5!
Girl 2: Nope! Nine! … Find the other 6 (winks)
Girl 1: You mean…the other 4?

—Biol 112, Leacock 132

Arthur Andersen, Jr. comes to McGill

overheardatmcgill — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:29:44 +0000

(Prof is talking about factorials)
Management Boy: n minus n equals four!

-MATH 123, Linear Algebra and Probability

Well, they must have been smoking up a lot in California that year.

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:53:12 +0000

Girl 1: Hey guys, guess what, today is Pi Day!
Girl 2: Oh yeah, cuz its 3/14! Nice!
Girl 3: Isn’t there another one of those holidays..like a pot one?
Girl 2: Yeah, its April 20th
Girl 1: Why 4/20?
Girl 2: Some smokers in California used to always get high at 4:20 in the afternoon.
Girl 1: That’s so cool! OMG, imagine how fun it’ll be when the year is 1420!
Girl 2: *pause* 1420 already happened…

—New Rez

And, eighth grade arithmetic.

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:58:19 +0000

Girl 1: Ugh, I got 2/8 on my last bio quiz
Girl 2: Oh, well at least that’s a solid 20 percent!
(pause)
Girl 1: Don’t you mean 25 percent?
Girl 2: ..fuck, this is why I’m failing calculus!

—Milton Gates

There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who live in New Rez.

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:52:46 +0000

Guy: What’s 14+9?
Girl: 21. (looks satisfied with her quick and “correct” answer)
Guy: Damn, you’re fast.
Girl: Haha, you thought you almost had me there.

—New Rez elevator

“OK, derive the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:00:34 +0000

Teacher: Proving the equation is easy, but how do you derive it?
Student: You google it and then confirm the answer?

—Math 249

Thus, 3.6=0, further proving that your GPA sucks.

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:26:41 +0000

TA: The x’s cancel, and you see, that leaves us with 7=3.4
(pause)
TA: hmmmm…that doesn’t look right.

Also Included: Love Calculator, an Abacus, and typing “five times seven” into Google.

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:54:34 +0000

Guy: I have 7 calculators. I have a financial calculator, I have one for adding and subtracting…
Girl: I have 2 calculators.
Guy: Only 2? How do you live with yourself?

—Schluich

Why you don’t hook up with Linguists.

overheardatmcgill — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:20:31 +0000

Guy: Three games, three teams of 11 each. thats 999 people.
Everyone looks around awkwardly.
Guy: I did my math wrong didnt I. I’m doing Literature and Linguistics as a major, I can only read!

—Gardner Rez Council

â€œTwo things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.â€

overheardatmcgill — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:01:28 +0000

Management Girl (Talking to her friend in Science): You Science people think that you know everything. Just because you’re in Science doesn’t mean that you know more than me.
Science Friend: Alright, why don’t you prove it? What does the C in E = mc² stand for?
Management girl (Being completely serious): Thats too easy. THE C stands for CHAOS!!
—Gardner

(Prof has just been explaining molecular orbitals for the last half hour)
Student: Yes but what about E = mc²?
(entire class stares in silence….)
Prof: Ok… ummm…. that has absolutely nothing to do with any of this.
—-Chem 212

[Ed Note: When one of our edtiors read these two quotes, it resulted in the following:]
(at a party)
Editor: Hey, do me a favor.
girl: Sure
Editor: What’s the e in E = mc² stand for?
Girl: (confused look) …?
Editor: E… = mc².
Girl: …?
Editor: Einstein?
Girl: What?
Editor: You just made my day, I love you.

Then go make me an eggroll.

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:43:22 +0000

Asian girl (to her gaggle of white friends): “But I just don’t get it! Like, I mean, I’m Asian, I’m not supposed to be this bad at math!”

—McTavish and Sherbrooke

…by Calculus

Alex — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:02:32 +0000

Post-Carnival Hungover Girl: Don’t you know what happened to me? I passed out in the RVC study room. I could have been raped!

“I think we went over this in class, but I was stoned at the time.”

overheardatmcgill — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:53:30 +0000

Girl: “Hey, how much was that eighth you bought last weekend?”
Guy: “Eighth? What’s an eighth? Is it like three-quarters?”

—Plateau

“Two, like my bicycle’s wheel.”

overheardatmcgill — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:29:19 +0000

Student: “I am confused by the terms unilineal and bilineal”
Professor: “Well, what does uni mean?”
Student: “I dunno, two?”

—Â Soc 247

“The people I do don’t do math either; they do me”

Alex — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:30:13 +0000

Prof: I don’t do Math; I do people
- EDEC 305

On the bright side, not much Calculus in Afghanistan

Alex — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:40:01 +0000

Canadian soldier (twists beret nervously in his hands): Yeah, I’m not really on duty right now; I’m actually going to school… I have to take CALCULUS.
McGill Girl: Really? I don’t have to take calculus.
Canadian soldier (drops beret in shock): That’s not fair!
- PE Trudeau Airport