Girl 1: I think I have food poisoning.
Girl 2: Yeah, it’s going around. I had it the other day, so did my friend. It must be something in the air.
- Schulich 5

International student: I got in a car accident on my way to the airport.
Oblivious science student: OMG that’s crazy, I just don’t know how anyone manages to drive in Africa with no roads.
- Burnside Basement

Student: You know, in the circular vascatory system…wait…don’t overheard that!
-Ghetto

Prof: There are typically three signs that indicate a child may be at risk for developing pyschotic tendencies. What are they?
Student: Pyromania, mutilating or killing animals, and early sexual tendencies.
Prof: That’s right. Now if you’re a parent and your kid is having sex with flaming animals, I would get that checked out.
- McConnell 13

Prof: Now, I don’t want to alarm you, but what I am really trying to say here is if you like sex… watch out.
- BIOC 212

Arts girl: You need to get a life
Physics girl: I can’t! I’m in physics!
- Burnside Basement

Guy: Yeah, it’s like he’s fluent in science, he’s so good at it!
Girl: Science? that’s a good thing to be fluent at. I’m not even that well in ENGLISH.
- thankfully not an english class…

Prof: If you show patients with right parietal cortex damage a map of Canada and ask them to point to Quebec, they will point to the middle of the Atlantic…which is where Quebec should really be.
- ANAT321 Circuitry of the Brain

Science carnival girl: Well I got two cankers this morning… so fuck you Mark Brown*!
- Post-boat races during Science Carnival

Girl: When I was younger, I thought penises were remnants of tails.
Friends: *shocked silence*
Girl: So, you know, I thought that girls must be more highly evolved than guys because girls don’t have those little tails.
- Sherbrooke

[Talking about brain lesions.]
Guest Lecturer: “In lesion studies, if you’re looking for small effects, you’re looking in the wrong place. Usually the effects kind of hit you over the head.”
–PSYC 211 

(Studying for the midterm in Terrestrial Planets, the quintessential bird course; Girl 1 has just claimed she’ll ace the exam)
Guy: So you have Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars as the terrestrial planets.
Girl 1 (who just claimed she’ll ace the exam): Wait, Mars isn’t a planet, it’s a moon!
Guy: (Frozen with shock) Umm.. No, you’re wrong.
Girl 2: (with certainty to girl 1) No, Mercury is the moon.
Guy: (walks away in disgust)
- Walking into midterm.

Prof: …This gentleman, Louis Pasteur, was the person who gained fame for sending cows out into the pasteur to be pasteurized.
Class: (still listening in silence)
Prof: That was a joke…
- Chem 120, Am class

Girl 1: Isn’t that the guy in the Jungle Book?
Girl 2: No, that’s the kid from 3rd Rock From the Sun.
Girl 1: …Mowgli’s from space?
 - Sherbrooke and McGill College

ditzy girl: …and then she said that she had a component face!
guy: what??
ditzy girl: You know, like, in science and stuff.
guy: huh?
ditzy girl (getting annoyed): You knowwww…there’s like, little things that swirl around together and make Adam.
guy: You mean Atoms?
ditzy girl: No stupid!! The Garden of Eden.
guy: The Garden of Eden is on your face???
ditzy girl (getting really annoyed): NO idiot! That’s ridiculous. (pauses) It was on HER face.
guy (really confused): What’s your major again?
ditzy girl: Some science thing. I can’t remember
guy: I thought you were taking History?
ditzy girl: Duh!! You are so stupid sometimes. History IS science
guy: (silent)
ditzy girl: I don’t even know why I even bother with you sometimes. How did you get into McGill???
- Outside the McGill bookstore

Professor: Anyways, for the next few weeks I will be teaching you about Organic Chemistry. The reason why we decided to put a organic chunk into this course, is because a number of you will never take a organic chemistry course. And without the basics of organic chemistry you would of course live a completely and utterly meaningless life.
- CHEM 120