The Essentials:
1) Name: Colin Macdonald
2) Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
3) Faculty/Year: Arts U3
4) Major/Minor: Joint Honours German and Italian Literature
McGill Life:
1) Clubs/Groups: Soulstice a Cappella (Music Director), Italian Studies Students’ Association
2) Favourite McGill Experience: OAP, or Soulstice concerts.
3) Favourite Class: Commedia dell’Arte
4) Least Favourite Class: FRSL 211. Learned more French from going to bars with Quebecers.
5) Craziest McGill Experience: Building an impromptu dam out of snow, gravel and found objects with a bunch of engineering students.
6) Ghetto or Plateau: Anywhere with good beer and good people.
The Good Stuff:
1) Celebrity Girl Crush: Zooey Deschanel
2) Celebrity Guy Crush: Patrick Stewart
3) Favorite Word: preposterous
4) Most Embarrassing Moment: Wetting myself onstage at age 7.
5) Guilty Pleasure Song: I don’t really think I’d be ashamed of anything anyone caught me listening to…
6) Guilty Pleasure Movie: Pitch Perfect
7) Favourite TV Show: Adventure Time
8) Favourite Montreal Place: Tam tams. I go for the drumming circles… [cough cough]
9) Favourite Montreal Restaurant: BOUSTAN (Great for take-out!)
Let’s Get Personal:
1) Single or Taken: Single I guess? I’m sort of engaged to my thesis and my a cappella group at this point.
2) Ideal Date: Building an igloo on Mont-Royal, followed by a bottle of wine and some snacks inside it.
3) Deal-breaker: Being rude to bartenders/service employees, generally ignorant/bigoted behaviour.
4) Blonde/Brunette/or Red: It varies. As long as it looks good on her.
5) Ideal Personality: Snarky, unpretentious, whimsical… down for an adventure and upfront emotionally.
Image obtained by Edmond Chung Photography