<p>We all know it's a large school, but how does everyone feel about that? Is anyone concerned about not getting the attention/help they need from professors, etc ?</p>
<p>After a talk with my favorite teacher, I became slightly concerned about this and then a major complaint from one of my sister's friends who graduated from McGill last year was that the school was just too big...</p>
<p>Any thoughts ??</p>
<p>What the friend said btw:</p>
<p>A word of warning, because I am going through a little, ahem, fallout with McGill:
McGill does not care. It just cannot be bothered. Sorry.
The upside of this is that your education is in your hands. You are free to study an interdisciplinary subject and choose what kinds of classes you want to take. The downside is that everything else is in your hands too, including figuring out requirements/paperwork BS. </p>
<p>Right now I am trying to organize my Honors thesis (which, lol , is really a post-Grad project in disguise) and I am getting NOWHERE. See, before I can enter into academic servitude, I need to find a master--but no one, not the profs, not the departments heads, seems to know what the hell is going on. My temporary honors adviser won't even respond to my questions, and my real adviser may not be coming back from sabbatical, EVER. The EAS website has different degree requirements listed depending on which section you look at. I am really, really worried because I need to have my thesis title and a supervisor by the first week of classes.</p>
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<p>It gets a little personal after that, so there you have it.</p>
<p>Ummm, so is there any way I could meet your friend on facebook or something?
Cause I'm planning on majoring in EAS and I would like someone to ask questions to about it.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Coming from a small and quite isolated boarding school... It's the reason McGill is my top choice. Seriously, I've only seriously considered schools in big cities and with 10,000+. It may suck, but my tourguide said that the professors are more than accessible if you just look (maybe not true... but it doesnt really seem that many take advantage of office hours).</p>
<p>It's a relatively big school (still half the size of Universite de Montreal and a third of University of Toronto) where you need and are expected to be independent. </p>
<p>But you can always find help if you seek it (though sometimes it may not be easy). The one thing I keep telling everyone is to seek help from your peers, the students who have been through the same experiences a year or two before you, and going through what you'll do later in your undergrad experience. Visit your departmental student society. You'll get better help that way than just dealing with the profs and administration directly.</p>
<p>Nothing is given to you automatically, but if you take the iniative, you can and will get the attention desired (again, your peers can help you find which profs will listen to you and which aren't worth talking to).</p>
<p>BIGTWIX-
I don't have her Facebook account or email address, but if you have some specific questions I can ask them for you through my sister</p>
<p>My current experience: the professors aren't going to help you unless you ask. Some have clicker questions in the middle of lectures to gauge where everyone is, others just do examples (bear in mind I only take science and math courses) without checking on the students. </p>
<p>Come finals season, everyone takes advantage of office hours, but I have a sinking suspicion if you actually establish a good relationship prior to 2 weeks before the final, they'll make more of an effort to meet with you if you contact them personally (sometimes they're steadfast about their office hours, and sometimes they like you, and'll make time outside of the proscribed slot). </p>
<p>All in all, the only crappy thing about McGill is the final weight, but you get used to it, and sometimes appreciate it. I enjoy the anonymity of the large lecture, and I don't having to take my education into my own hands.</p>
<p>Yeah I talked about this with a few friends, and I come from a really large high school so I'm used to having to be pretty independent with learning/studying on my own. We'll just have to see!</p>
<p>How big is large? Just wondering. Cause I have 2100 at my school and i never really considered it large, average by the schools nearby, but i have so many friends who think 2100 is huge, haha.</p>
<p>Slightly bigger than that, about 2800</p>