Too Many Of…

When we ask a girl what she has the most, she would say “shoes!”

When we ask a guy what he has the most, he would say “car magazines!”

When we ask a university student, he/she will answer you “BOOKS!”

Starting our first semester at University, it seems like the books keep accumulating in our room.

No, actually, it might be all over the house!

For most of us, we take 4 courses per semester, as a full-time student. Each of these classes, we expect at least 1 book!

Well, yes, some classes need the study guide to go along with the textbook, so 2 books.

Ok ok, true true, some classes have also some reading materials such as business relating books or any sort of books like this, so yes, 3 books.

It keeps adding up and adding up, every semester we can get up to 6-8 books! Some that we might carry around with us all the time, in the locker, in the car, in the backpack, anywhere you can think of!

But when the semester ends, where will they go?

This is certainly a common problem for university students.

We might think of selling them out, but sometimes it’s too much trouble to do so, so we keep it.

Or it was such a good book that we might want to refer to it again when we get to write an essay, so we keep it.

How many times you said this to yourself? Where do you store your books? What do you do with them most of the time?

Share with us your tricks that you use to deal with your old books! And help others like you!

We All Had a Teacher Who Was…

Dear Fellow JMSB students,

Let’s be Honest, our experience at JMSB has not been an easy one (although the new state-of-the-art building has helped!!). Think about it: the midterms, assignments, projects (all due at the same time!!), and when you’re thinking of taking a break, think again… more assignments, presentations, and our personal favorite, FINALS!!

God forbid you get sick!! No, instead you deal with stress, anxiety, insomnia, weight loss/weight GAIN, new addiction to caffeine, wake up pills, sleeping pills (from the insomnia!), and the list goes on…These are in fact the best years of your life 😉

But nevertheless, no one understands what we go through better than our beloved teachers! Our JMSB Mentors, those that teach us the rains, educating us on the obstacles of the “Real World”, and preparing us for what’s to come, so we may some day rule the Business World!

Each one of us has a few teachers that we will never forget and who will come to mind as we look back at our JMSB years. Here are a few we nominated:

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1. The story teller:           Professor Pommainville

2. The tower:                   Professor T. Walker

3. The funny one:             Professor B. Pearce

4. The good looking one:   Professor M. Donia

5. The captivator:            Professor J. Sacksner

6. The tough one:             Professor H. Simpkins

7. The one that welcomes you with open arms: Professor B. Pearce

8. The Einstein:                Professor D. Moskovits

9. The laid back one:       Professor G. Kirsten

10. The stylish one:          Professor M. Paulin

11. The one with the bad memory:          Professor A. Raphael

12. The one that always swears: Professor D. Beauchaine

13. The drama queen:       Professor J. Riley

 

Feel free to add some good ones to our list!!!!!!!!

 

Yours,

Group 4

MB = Y

The John Molson Building (commonly called “MB Building”), which has officially opened its doors on September 2009, is a good example of Concordia’s actions to adapt to its students’ needs, in this case to the Generation Y. Indeed, there has been a tremendous improvement compared to when Concordia first started as a university back in 1974. In fact, time has changed and so have people’s needs: the archaic Hall Building, which has been glorious few decades ago, definitively does not suit today’s new values anymore. As a result, Concordia promised itself to erect an edifice that would perfectly reflect Generation Y’s new values: the state-of-the-art MB Building was born!

Following is a striking contrast between those two “generational” buildings:

 

New Generation Y Needs            

1. Availability of study areas           

     H Building: No study rooms

     MB Building: Numerous, comfortable study areas

2. Time is scarcer                        

     H Building: Fragile and slow escalators and elevators              

     MB Building: Spacious and fast escalators available

3. Ecologically-oriented               

     H Building: Energy-consuming infrastructure

      MB Building: “Solar panel”-oriented

                                  AND

     H Building: Plenty of parking spots available around the building

     MB Building: Building connected to the metro to encourage students towards public transportation 

 4. Technology-centered             

     H Building: Old overhead projectors used

    MB Building: Latest multimedia educational materials used

5. Sense of belonging                  

     H Building: None                                      

    MB Building: We finally have our own building and our own identity! 🙂

Let us know what you think! What is your personal experience with this “Modern MB”? What has changed compared with the “Archaic H”? Feel also free to answer this quick poll:

Finally, following is a video displaying not only your colleagues’ opinion but also the success of this new MB Building:

You know you’re a JMSB student when…

1. You’d rather calculate NPV’s than read about Voltaire.
2. You love the fact that Desautels is not AACSB accredited, because your school is.
3. Boiler Room, Wallstreet, Glengarry Glen Ross are your favourite movies.
4. You’re amazed by functioning elevators.
5. You wonder about the practicality of degrees in most other faculties.
6. You read as much as English and history students do, and then are expected to do math.
7. Numbers are fun or at least more tolerable than reading about social issues.
8. The Starbucks staff at Guy and DeMaisonneuve know you by name.
9. You can’t pronounce half of your teachers’ names, nor can you decipher their accents but you love ‘em anyway.
10. Mancini, Pearce, Simpkins, Beauchenes, Cipriano, Kermani, and Pommainville are famous.
11. Attending a class at the Loyola campus is more daunting than figuring out a cash flow statement.
12. You wonder why the COMM course coordinators schedule their exams back-to-back-to-back.
13. You’ve taken DESC 200 and COMM 301 without putting-in an ounce of effort.
14. You think COMM 212 is silly.
15. You’ve had über lame group members to deal with in projects.
16. You’re constantly solicited to join commerce games.
17. You’ve used S.O.S. tutoring ‘cause you slacked-off in or failed to attend your math-y classes.
18. You wish your S.O.S. tutors taught some of your classes.
19. You hate the COMMs unrelated to your major.
20. You laugh at the engineering students for having an older building, and the arts students for being in arts.
21. Your teachers disparage McGilligans.
22. You have a better chance at getting a paying job after graduation.
23. You like power and money, and you’ll have some.
24. You know more international students than domestic ones.
25. There’s at least one guy in every class in a three piece suit who likely sells insurance over the phone.
26. You photocopy textbooks to save money and are upset coloured graphs turn out black & white.
27. You think it’s a long walk to the library and Hall building.
28. You refuse to register in classes in the Faubourg or LS buildings.
29. Each room has powered desks, drop-down projector screens and fewer seats in it than students.
30. The study rooms are like mini lounges to procrastinate in.
31. Every restaurant you love in the surrounding area is Asian or Lebanese.
32. You’re thrilled that you have metro access without leaving your building.
33. The world’s largest solar panel on your building doesn’t impress you that much.
34. Graduate research pertains to anything about making more money.
35. You own at least three calculators.
36. You’re annoyed that First Class opens multiple windows and keeps timing out.
37. You’ve sat through several of Andrea Harland’s presentations on research.
38. You hate proper citation and really appreciate those teachers who couldn’t care less about it.
39. You like it when teachers swear and tell you stories from experience.
40. You and/or most of your friends are type A a-holes.
41. You have a BlackBerry or iPhone with former group members and corporate contacts in it.
42. Your part-time job is not likely retail or food service.
43. Your creative energies are used in lucrative fashions rather than artistic.
44. It takes more than three years to graduate.
45. Multiple choice exams are awesome.
46. You’re sick of Chandler, Mintzberg, Greiner, Collins, Porras, Handy and Drucker.
47. Girls in nicely fitting business attire are hotter than the scantily clad.
48. Guys in suits in class are still jackasses.
49. You’re cool with being condescending to people in sociology, poli. sci., anthropology and history.
50. You write “free liberal arts degrees, take one” on toilet paper dispensers in the bathroom stalls.

Please keep this list going! Contribute! Agree, or disagree, tell us what you think. Share your JMSB experience with the rest of the student body and prospective students. Show what makes JMSB a great place to study and what contributes to its unique culture.

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