By Brian St-Luchon Around this time of year, as the semester approaches its bitter climax, all McGill students inevitably share in some way in the most natural of McGill feelings: that certain and inescapable mix of desperation, listlessness, and lack of motivation we each know all too well. Outside the sun is shining, and we…
If These Walls Could Talk
By Kenji Marshall I’ve been finding myself glancing at clocks a lot; lecture has become a waiting game, and evenings are coupled with the complex mental gymnastics of how long I can procrastinate, do some work, and still fit in five hours of sleep. I’m ready for this year to end, and I’ll tell you…
Bring Me Back to the Good Old Days
An anonymous letter Dear Ledger, Bring me back to the good old days, where pranks were abundant and funny. Bring me back to when engineering students stole all of the toilet handles on the Concordia campus so that no one could flush the toilets. Bring me back to when engineering students painted the roof of…
Engineering Life and How To (almost) Cope
By Arman Izadi Fall 2014: A young student starts their first semester at McGill. Instantly drawn to the new social environment and extracurricular, he begins to rapidly make friends. Names and faces fly by. He feels like this is the beginning of a new stage of his life. He feels invincible, over confident and socially…
Ringing in the New Year with E-Week: A Unique Perspective
By Fariha Hassan A lot of you might have noticed a different vibe in the engineering buildings after coming back from your well-deserved break. You can almost feel the excitement, the adrenaline, the tension and the hype radiating off some of our engineering students. If you have seen students wearing different coloured Pirate of…
The Marvellous Belgian Beer Pipeline
By Nick Brunt Considering the international attention directed towards it in the past few months, the entrance of Bruges’ Halve Maan (Half Moon) Brewery is inconspicuous enough. Situated on a leafy square in the south of the city’s medieval centre, the only outward sign of its location is hardly imposing: only a modest placard marks…
McGill hosts Canadian Engineering Competition
The 2016 edition of the Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC) took place from March 3-6 2016 in Montreal QC, and was organized by the Engineering Undergraduate Society of McGill University. This event, widely regarded as one of the nation’s most prestigious Engineering competitions, annually gathers over 160 of the best and brightest Engineering students from Universities…