Name: Carli McDonald
Major/Minor: English Literature Major, Communications Studies and Political Science Minor
Class Year: Arts U3
Role with HC McGill: Blogger
Dream Job: Spice Girl (preferably Baby Spice)
Hometown: Montreal, Quebec
3 Favourite Places in Montreal: BDP, Crescent Sushi, McGill Campus
Favourite Class at McGill: ENGL 336 – The 20th Century Novel, with Professor Hepburn
Song currently stuck in your head: “Mercy” by Kanye West ft. Big Sean, Pusha T, 2 Chainz and “Live While We’re Young” by One Direction
Movie you watched most recently: Batman Begins
Favourite Quote: “How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being” – Oscar Wilde
Little known fact about yourself: I have the squishiest cheeks in the world
Name: Eugina Gelbelman
Major/Minor: History Honours / Russian literature and culture
Class Year: 4th year (graduating 2013)
Role with HC McGill: Blogger
Dream Job: Filmmaker (screenwriter and director)
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
3 Favourite Places in Montreal: AMC Pepsi Forum 22, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Plateau
Favourite Class at McGill: Physics 101
Song currently stuck in your head: “Call your girlfriend” by Robyn
Movie you watched most recently: The Wind that shakes the Barley
Favourite Quote: “Are you my Stalin, Dwight?” – Leon Bronstein (from The Trotsky) and / or “What we do in life echoes in eternity” – Maximus Decimus Meridius (Gladiator)
Little known fact about yourself: I think I’m funny
Name: Elizabeth Ten-Hove
Major/Minor: Joint Honours Classics and English Literature
Class Year: U3
Role with HC McGill: Blogger
Dream Job: Professor of Ancient Greek
Hometown: Concord, MA by way of Berkeley, CA and various places in the States, Canada, and the UK
3 Favourite Places in Montreal: Jean-Talon Market, Mount Royal, and The Word Bookstore
Favourite Class at McGill: CLAS 421: The Iliad
Song currently stuck in your head: “First Stasimon” from Scapegoat Carnivale’s production of The Bacchae
Movie you watched most recently: Master and Commander
Favourite Quote:
Some say thronging cavalry, some say foot soldiers,
others call a fleet the most beautiful of
sights the dark earth offers, but I say it’s what-
ever you love best.
—Sappho 16.1-4
Little known fact about yourself: I once spent a summer apprenticed to a bookbinder
Name: Alexandra Heim
Major/Minor: Bio-resource Engineering
Class Year: 2015
Role with HC McGill: Blogger
Dream Job: Urban and Sustainable Design
Hometown: Doylestown, Pennsylvania
3 Favourite Places in Montreal: Brutopia, Casa del Popolo, and Lola Rosa
Favourite Class at McGill: Principles of Ecological Agriculture
Song currently stuck in your head: “Hysteria” by Ceremony
Movie you watched most recently: Moonrise Kingdom
Favourite Quote: “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”—Orson Welles
Little known fact about yourself: I’ve acted in two, low-budget films.
Name: Jessica Gordon
Major/Minor: Major in Art History, Double minor in Communications Studies and International Development
Class Year: U3
Role with HC McGill: Photo-blogger
Dream Job: Disney princess or interior designer
Hometown: Milton, Ontario
3 Favourite Places in Montreal: lower field during frosh, Igloofest, and who doesn’t love the library at exam time?
Favourite Class at McGill: Realism & Impressionism
Song currently stuck in your head: “Wild World” by Cat Stevens…it’s catchy, no?
Movie you watched most recently: The Parent Trap
Favourite Quote: “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss
Little known fact about yourself: It wouldn’t be little known anymore if I told you…
Name: Li-Anne Sayegh
Major/Minor: Civil engineering
Class Year: U3 (graduating in December 2013)
Role with HC McGill: Photo-blogger
Dream Job: One that is a mix of architect and engineer
Hometown: Montreal, Quebec
3 Favourite Places in Montreal: Old Port, Murray Hill Park, and Lachine canal bike path
Favourite Class at McGill: BIOL 309 – Mathematical models in biology
Song currently stuck in your head: “Creep” by TLC
Movie you watched most recently: Shawshank Redemption
Favourite Quote: “We are quite complex and genuine in our own simplicity.”
Little known fact about yourself: I have a middle name that I do not use and try to hide.