Quebec Tuition Hikes = Provincial Student Strike in Montreal

Downtown Winter

This is my first downtown winter... the last week has been horribly cold, icy and incredibly windy yesterday. If only every day was -10 degrees C and had no wind, then I'd actually like winter :( Oh, Montreal weather...

But winter is beautiful :) and especially at McGill! School started last week and it's wonderful to be back in a routine. I've been enjoying all of my new classes and excited to go in everyday... minus the treacherous walk to campus from the metro or train station. Arts classes are so different from Science classes. I'm not quite used to it yet. There's an enormous amount of reading and prep. But a lot easier in other ways. I haven't fallen behind too far yet and hope it stays this way! Urgh, I need a netbook. For some reason my Communications professor thinks everyone has a laptop and talks super fast. I can't write as fast as I type! This is gonna be a problem.... Oh, and I promised myself that I'd be incredibly organized this semester. I made monthly calendars with due dates on them as wallpapers! This way, I'd be able to look ahead and not be forced to procrastinate!

McGill

As I said I would, I'm posting pictures of McGill that I took before school started. School started September 1st and these pictures are long overdue! I got my wisdom teeth removed a week and a half before school started and couldn't blog at all. I was knocked out from my pain killers, there was no fighting the drowsiness. But I'm back! It might not be for long as my classes are already giving my homework.. eek!


Walk up from the main entrance to McGill. It's a beautiful campus.The Might I add that it's a massive campus also? I still can't find my way to the Rutherford Physics building...
I would not have gotten such a nice picture of this path if I took these after school started. The McGill non-academic staff is on strike and 35,000 students starting school wouldn't have been that nice of an addition to the picture. (I mostly didn't want to look like a creep)

This is the Arts building that you see at the end of the main path in the first picture. Frosh booths were up during the first two days of school at this intersection. I'm not attending Frosh, it's not my thing and I'd much rather sleep at a reasonable hour in my comfy bed. Frosh at McGill isn't as bad as those of other universities. I've heard stories from the Université de Montreal's froshes and I'd just keep away.


Must get off the computer and be productive!