<p>oh awesome! i keep seeing the same people on all of these mcgill groups and it makes me feel a little stalkery. i am glad someone else is doing the same thing though.</p>
<p>haha im on the myspace class of 2010 group too...im "founder of le caucus".</p>
<p>i just made an account so i could join the group....i was pretty happy to see that i cant join for 7 days after making the account. bulll</p>
<p>jap979...haha, yeah i've seen you leave comments on myspace. we all really are turning into forum stalkers. seriously, imagine what it'll be like when we actually get to McGill and start seeing all these people walking around. when i went to a McGill campus connect, i saw a few kids from the myspace group, and, yeah, it was kind of awkward because how do you approach someone with - um, hi, i've seen you on the internet/we've chatted. lol. but nonetheless, being in these groups has been very helpful for me and it's nice to start chatting with some future mcgill 2010-ers.</p>
<p>lol you can so approach me and i wont care. we can form our own club @ mcgill...forum stalkers. lol.</p>
<p>theres this other forum too on <a href="http://www.studentawards.com....its%5B/url%5D">www.studentawards.com....its</a> all canadian tho and quite a few mcgill threads.</p>
<p>Hey guys. I am the dad of a upcoming second year student at McGill. She did radical frosh and found it much more to her liking than the traditional frosh. (There are two parts of frosh week- your faculty frosh and the student union frosh.) You can tell your parents for me that they DO NOT want to be around during frosh week--it will not be good for you or for them. Everything you have heard about frosh is true and parents are much better off not knowing. Even so, you will want to be with your new friends--so if your parents want to spend time in Montreal ( and who doesn't) go a few days early, stay in a hotel and have them move you in- then leave after that. McGill does have a one day parents orientation and alumni tent which I went to with my d. Last year there was a livejournal group that met in person during orientation and became good friends.</p>
<p>If you want your parents to feel better have them read a new book called "Binge" which reviews drinking on 12 elite campuses, including McGill. The author concludes that because McGill has an 18 year old drinking age, it has much less of a drinking problem than Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. After the first several weeks, a student has to work too hard to party too much anyway.</p>
<p>If any parent wants to send me a private meassage, I will be glad to answer questions as best as I can.</p>
<p>hmm...when does frosh week (both traditional and radical) start? my parents have been mumbling about them joining me lately..</p>
<p>what's with this whole radical vrs. traditional frosh thing? i thought radical frosh was a part of the other, no? hmm. oh well, im a pretty radical person so i'll probably join their little mcgill world of things.</p>
<p>Radical Frosh is an alternative to Traditional Frosh; it costs $50 however. The link is buried here somewhere...</p>
<p>nope radical and traditional are really different.</p>
<p>radical is more workshops, student activism, tours of montreal whereas traditional is mostly about the booze.</p>
<p>sullen hall single =(</p>
<p>(i wanted greenbriar double)</p>
<p>anyone have the site for the normal frosh week?</p>
<p>i don't think there is one, or if there is, it is buried pretty deeply. we should be getting stuff in the mail about registering for frosh activities soon though.</p>
<p>wow. radical frosh looks amaaazing. i'm definitely, definitely doing that. as if man. wowowwow.</p>
<p>radical frosh is actaully really crap if ur a normal university student...hahahha...honestly its so retarded...</p>
<p>anyway the real frosh is insane, 5 days of partying....obiviously everyone here i assume is gonna do tat..lol</p>
<p>i doubt they would make a site about it....i dont think they would want parents or people to know exactly what goes on during frosh...</p>
<p>yeah good point</p>
<p>well i guess im 'retarded' cause i actually care about politics and dont find the idea of being surrounded by drunken frat boys 24/7 to be particularly interesting. fair enough if thats what you like but i find the idea of having a few pints and getting to meet a bunch of really chill people to be far more appealing than binge drinking my way through the first week of uni.</p>
<p>Radical Frosh is not about sitting down and listening to a Noam Chomsky lecture, it's more about exploring the side of Montreal that most McGill students will never see (because a lot of McGill students are really just glorified tourists who live in Montrela 8 months out of the year solely for the bars, strip clubs and dance clubs). There is alcohol involved, the only difference is there won't be an third year there who will be trying to hook get with the first year girls by getting them to drink copious amounts of alcohol. This is why I say to all first years, learn to say No. Radical Frosh usually has a better concert too, although I admit, last year's booking of K-os wasn't too shabby on the part of SSMU. Honestly, whatever you do, you'll get more than your fair share of the traditional Animal House type college experience because you get to do TWO DIFFERENT FROSHES. Hell, you might even do three. Concordia holds their Frosh the week after McGill does so if you feel like taking Radical Frosh somehow deprived you of the alcohol you needed to survive, do Concordia Frosh (and then join AA).</p>
<p>i got rvc single, and while it wasn't at the end of my list, i REALLY wanted to be up on teh hill in Upper Rez.... is it worth trying to switch or is rvc really not that bad? i went to a super strict boarding school and was looking forward to living with boys, but if rvc is ok then i'll stay.. any suggestions? Stay at rvc or is it worth it to attempt a switch??</p>
<p>A little deprived and desperate, huh?</p>
<p>I guess you can bring guy friends to hang around in RVC.</p>