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inspired by other uni thread.

mcgill thread or just canada general. what are you fucks studying? also what are your favorite stores in the cities you're studying in?

3rd year major in history

>> No.6399253

McGill is overrated. It's fully of dumb americans who can get in so easily.

>> No.6399282

>>6399253

best uni in montreal.
one of the only two respectable law schools in canada, with wider renown in europe than UoT. but okay m8, whatever you say.
>sad panda trashes school because he didnt get in ;_;

>> No.6399291

>>6399246
going into secound year, doing joint physics and math at mcgill

as much as i'm enjoying summer right now, i really miss being cozy inside when it's snowing and -30C

>>6399253
really? theres a larger number of americans than at other top canadian schools (see UBC), but what I was relaly shocked by was the number of frenchman from france

>> No.6399302

>>6399282
U of T is clearly superior. Don't kid yourself. McGill is strong in medicine, everything else is good but not better than U of T.

>> No.6399299

>>6399291
that's cool. had a friend who majored in physics at mcgill and is now doing a phd with a full scholarship at harvard.

>> No.6399309

>>6399246
Going next year at McGill in the Poutine major!

My favourite store is Reborn in old mtrl

>> No.6399312

Is that the school that gets bribed by asbestos companies to publish reports that say that asbestos is safe when it's clearly not and the entire world knows it?

>> No.6399316

starting ucalgary engineering in sept

>> No.6399320

>>6399302
never said it wasn't superior. but as far as law goes, mcgill is far more respected throughout the world. easier to land jobs overseas, whereas UoT grads tend to stay in toronto.

>> No.6399330

>>6399320
> le strawman

I never said it was superior but everyone everywhere else thinks McGill da best!

>> No.6399343

>>6399320
>as far as law goes.
>as far as law goes.
>as far as law goes.

trouble reading? no wonder you couldn't get in.

>> No.6399346

>>6399330
i got to western and i can say with full certainty that mcgill has WAY more international recognition than U of T in basically everything. Maybe it's not that much better of a school but it's way easier to get a job with a McGill degree than with a UofT degree

>> No.6399731

Biomed. recommend some good stores in mtl?

>> No.6399748

I go to U of manitoba

all you pretentious fucks are hatin right now

>> No.6399775

>>6399246
Honours Physics at UBC
Wish I went to the USA tho becuz Canada sux

>> No.6399816

>>6399346
i love these kids pulling this "international recognition" out of their asses

undergrad here! my school is WRECKONIZED GLOBALLY!!!!11

#frosh

>> No.6399825

Montreal is a really nice city but everything I've heard about McGill is that it attracts a really bad crowd of entitled dicks.

>> No.6399837

>>6399816
this
its literally entirely different by dept.

also if you're good you'll be good literally no matter what uni you go its all willpower+ persistence + focus

it doesn't fucking matter unless you want one of the free ride ones and if you want that you better have a 98+ average

>> No.6399939

Im in mohawk sudying computer sciences because I have no idea what to do with my life. So far things are going pretty good.

>> No.6400193
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6400193

I'm going to Ryerson. Because downtown Toronto.

I don't really have any other reasons.

>> No.6400206

senior
Finance & Stats
I'm going to Wall Street, bitches!
Pretty sure I'm gonna hate it and leave the country by 25, but whatevs.

>> No.6400285

Starting my undergrad at McGill this fall.
How hard is math at McGill?
Also I heard that the student body is really social and that the social life at McGill is unbeatable. Is this true?

>> No.6400301

>>6399939
so you see a lot of students wearing band t-shirts, old jeans and running shoes? Its the comp sci way

U of Alberta here, starting 4th year of art and design

>> No.6400308

>>6399316
get ready to be anally raped. It was easy for the first year; never went to class, reviewed the chapters in my dorm. Easy A. Second year when you jump into the labs.....

>> No.6400312

>>6400193
ryerson is so bummy

>> No.6400333
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6400333

Montreal is great. I think Tozzi is the most /fa/ shop in town. Pic related.

>> No.6400339

In 3rd year physics/math double major at UNSW (australia)

>> No.6400344

>>6399302
U of T kids are such fags. On the internet if anyone mentions anything about McGill, even if its just McGill students speaking with one another, U of T kids always feel the need to let everyone know that they are somehow "superior," even if their comment is completely off topic. Honestly, McGill may be SLIGHTLY worse than U of T in some departments, but its still a good school, and you're not stupid if you go there. Besides, Montreal is an amazing city, way better than Toronto in my opinion.

I honestly think the two schools are so close to one another that it doesn't even make a difference which one you go to. U of T kids just have this inferiority complex whenever someone mentions McGill.

Stay mad U of T and stay virgins in your shit city.

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6400354

>tfw always wanted to be a teacher
>finally graduating
>so many #yolo fuckups who went to university cluelessly all of a sudden want to be teachers too
>too many teachers
>never gonna find a consistent job

>> No.6400367

>>6400354
if a #yolo fuckup is becoming a teacher aswell then you need to reconsider your future plans. There actually becoming something, being useful for once. Why the fuck are you complaining?

>> No.6400365

>>6400354
The more charismatic likable but idiotic ones that don't browse 4chan are more likely to get a job than you are. Forever a substitute.

>> No.6400377

>>6400354
>so many #yolo fuckups who went to university cluelessly all of a sudden want to be teachers too
yeah what's up with that, i've seen it too, its like the go to 'i fucked up high school' job

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6400379

what's with all of these canucks

UNC-CH here

>tfw school in south
>tfw pleb
>tfw at least grills are cute

>> No.6400383

>>6400377
they want to be "cool" teachers

>> No.6400386

>>6400383

this is so fuckin true it's insane

>> No.6400408

>>6400383
I disagree. I think people that actually have a passion for educating end up being the "cool" teachers. The people who see it as a dead end and as a Plan B or C end up as the boring, dull, self-loathing teachers that treat students like shit because their lives didnt end up how they thought it would

>> No.6400416

>>6400408
"cool" != cool

>> No.6400434

>>6400193
pls be a girl

>> No.6400442

just finished my computer science degree @ university of waterloo. working in one of the big five banks (won't say which) in downtown toronto raking in mad $$$.

and no im not asian

>> No.6400449

Amerifag here. I just sent off some application materials for a graduate (masters degree) position at the University of Windsor. Is it a pleb school or what?

>> No.6400469

>>6400449
>windsor
ye its really shit m8. lots of people from detroit decided to move there and made it even shittier

>> No.6400481

>>6400469

The town or the college? Could give two fucks about the city itself. I'm probably going to be spending at least a weekend a month in Toronto if I end up taking the position.

>> No.6400497

>>6400481
not sure about the school but it's got a white trash rep

>> No.6400567

>>6400481
Toronto is like a 3-4 hour drive from Windsor

>> No.6400598

>>6400497

Eh, I grew up in one of the white trashiest cities in California. I can probably deal.

>>6400567

I know. The SO lives there, so I've got some motivation to make the drive.

>> No.6400679

I go to Brock.
Everyone laughs when I tell them.
Shitsux, but I already have a 72k job when I graduate so they can all drown in semen.

>> No.6400686

Biology, going into U2 at McGill, second year.

>> No.6400704

>>6400679
doing what

>> No.6400709

Applying to mcgill and other schools next year
I hope they're effay

>> No.6400714

>>6400704
Computater stuff.

>> No.6400722

>>6399246
going to uni is not fa.

/thread

>> No.6400727

>>6400679

tfw I make 200k with a highschool ed in Alberta.

>> No.6400724

>>6400722
>bettering yourself and learning is not fashionable
choke on a bag of dicks

>> No.6400734

2nd Year Econ major + finance specialization in the University of Waterloo Coop program.

>> No.6400732

>>6400724

It's not, let's face it uni is a checkmark in a pleb life. I'm not saying it's not valuable, but let's not kid ourselves. It's about as un le effay as you can get.

>> No.6400738

>>6400734

Why are you on fa?

>> No.6400740

>>6400727
I hear Alberta is crazy.
24 bucks working at timmy's and whatnot.

>> No.6400745

>>6400740

Yeah, even those jobs get decent pay, but you are living in a wasteland.

>> No.6400743

>>6400738
Because it's funny, I satisfy my interest in fashion elsewhere.

>> No.6400754

>>6400732
>implying degree-depended careers like architecture and museum curation are not /fa/

>> No.6400763

>>6400754

Are you kidding? They're not.

>> No.6400759

>>6400754
Don't forget researcher! Science is /fa/ ok? ):

>> No.6400775

>>6400759

No, if you were a meth cook, you'd be fa. A reasearcher is just a fucking nerd.

As for "curating" the market has replaced the curator. The curator has no value. I curate my toilet bowl, with shit.

>> No.6400776

>waterloo
Feels like i'm in china
They all rude as fuck too

>> No.6400782

>>6400776

Shut up, you are there too. You think you are any different you fucking peasant.

>> No.6400781

>>6400442
>computer science
Shit son
U smart

>> No.6400797

>>6400782
Well being in china is meh
But chinese are all rude as fuck

>> No.6400792

>>6400782
>>6400776
Chinese people as a rule are always standoffish. I don't even go to waterloo but whenever I visit my friends the chinese always keep to themselves and won't talk to anyone not chinese. It's pretty shitty of them.

>> No.6400808

>>6400792
>see two ppl asians talking in english
>I walk pass by
>switch to chinese
I don't even know what to feel

>> No.6400803

>>6400792

Maybe you are just a kook. I'm not chinese, but I wouldn't talk to you either.

>> No.6400810

>>6400792

Being standoffish is a general rule of fa. Fuck your niceties.

>> No.6400820

>>6400803
Confirmed for chink.

>> No.6400816

>I walk pass by
fuck

>> No.6400857

>>6399253
A lot of very smart individuals from my high school in BC went to McGill; would definitely not call it over-rated. 4th year crim here, do all my shopping online doe. Sometimes hit up J. Crew or Boys. Co DT. Been meaning to check out Neighbour and Motherland doe.

>> No.6400879

>>6400857

Why don't you just say you're a huge fucking pleb. Fuck off back to mfa.

>> No.6400892

>>6400879
Such an ill-heart.

>> No.6400999

Third year software engineering at McGill here.

>> No.6401026

Off The Hook, best streetwear store.

>> No.6401064

>>6400686
>>6400999

How difficult is McGill. I know its a good school, but I read on forums a lot that its really hard and the grade deflation is terrible. Im mostly concerned about Mathematics and Chem cuz those were my two worst subjects in High School, although I did fine in them, I just dont like them. Also how difficult is it to do a faculty transfer. Im in the BA and BSc interfaculty program and im not sure if I made the right choice.

>> No.6401063

I have a friend who's going to attend McGill next year. He's very excited.

>> No.6401069

Ryerson, computer engineering.

>> No.6401227

>>6400333
>6400333
shit i didnt know bout tozzi

what other lesser known /fa/ boutiques you know of

>> No.6401238

>>6401064
90 +
need a cover letter
Join shit loads of clubs nigga

>> No.6401248

>>6401238
How good is 88 with only math bringing down your average (excluding math and phys ed my average is 90+)

also im in a shitload of clubs + student council

>> No.6401252

No one at McMaster? Are we really only /r9k/ and /v/?

This is sad.

>> No.6401258

>>6401248
Take online hight school nigga
Send an email saying you are taking one more course
Raise that shit up with a easy course
https://www.virtualhighschool.com/
>it this legit?
Finished half of my grade 12 with this shit
>is it hard?
no
>is it expensive?
no

>> No.6401261

>>6401252
The fuck is mcmaster known for?
Oh ya that doctor program no one can get into

>> No.6401297

>>6401258
Wow thanks

does it work in Quebec tho

>> No.6401308

>>6401297
>quebec
shit son
You have whole different system, don'y you have grade 13?
I don't know
This is for ontario

>> No.6401320

>>6401308
yeah but grade 12-13 is like a whole different institution

it's like pre-uni

ive finished grade 11 now

>> No.6401343

>>6401320
There must be a online course thing for quebec because this is for homeschool kids or ppl who are over 20. But kids like you can take it
Just take business or something
Raise the marks

>> No.6401373

>>6399748
What high school did you go to

>> No.6401388

>>6400301
You'd be surprised. I'm in compsci in another school in Canada and it ranges, just like any other major.
It goes from really fucking /v/ to really fucking /fa/.

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6401423

... because I was too arrogant to go to Columbia after I got off the waitlist. Really regretting that now.

>> No.6401426

>>6400442
Do you think going to Waterloo gave you that position or was it your projects/GPA/internships that led to that bank job?
>compsci major
>second tier university in province
>trying to make up for it by having shitload of side projects
>made a github account but everything that i can contribute to is so complicated :(

>> No.6401437

>>6401258
I'm already accepted into mcgill. I meant how hard is the school itself

>> No.6401432

>>6400727
Them oilsands.

>> No.6401439

>>6401423
I'm from toronto btw

>> No.6401476

>>6401426
Co op
Co op is god tier
Some people are offered jobs in California from microsoft
They find you a house and a car
This isn't everyone but some who study well and did well in their co-op

>> No.6401474

>>6400808
iktf, fucking poser asians speaking english, betraying the motherland.

honestly tho, I can speak perfect fucking english without an accent, and I get along with people just fine, but CBCs are the fucking worst. I don't even know why lel

>> No.6401487

>>6401064
Great school IMO, it is really hard to get a 4.0 as it should be, first year chem is easy and first year math is hard. It's easy to transfer if you have a decent GPA (3.0+). I have a friend who switched from BA to BSc after first year.

>> No.6401509

>>6401388
I know what you are talking about. In one of my classes there is one guy who wears a protoman t-shirt almost everyday. Shit nigger, megaman music isnt that good.

>> No.6401516

>>6401487
Okay, Im actually really good at math, im just taking 3 math classes so im not sure how fucked I am

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6401562

SCar here. Not exactly fashion forward. The girls are fantastic here tho

>>6400379
>tfw Chapel Hill was my reach school
their out-of state acceptance rate is infantesimal

>> No.6401590

im going into my first year at ryerson in the fall

>> No.6401724

>>6399816
can't read that i said i go to western and i'm still saying this about mcgill

>> No.6401748 [DELETED] 

>>6401487
which ones if you don't mind my asking

>> No.6401758

>>6401432

fuck yeah, started out as MWD tech, they trained me. Now I consult, work 8 months a year made 200k last year. I'm 23

>> No.6401792

>>6399748
>manitoba
same

transferring to U of Alberta though, can anybody tell me how the Edmonton cultural scene is though (lots of arts/fashion-y shit to do?)

>> No.6401960

>>6401423
I have a friend there. Really fratty. Also, hanover sucks.

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6401973

Just graduated Georgetown.

Going to work on Wall Street. :3

>> No.6404193

>>6401792

yeah edmonton is a cultural hotbed, you fucking idiot.

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6404256

i've seen some effay people here.

i can only remember two clearly. one girl was straight streetwear with a hy and another was full goth-ninja.

>> No.6406174

>>6401227
tozzi is good, the owner joey is really helpful.

les etoffes is cool if you're into christophe lemaire, ervell and shit like that.

u&i is meh, this past season they carried very little menswear so i wasn't too happy.

don't go too often, but last time i passed by boutique duo had a nice selection.

>> No.6406195

>>6400820
lol, this

>> No.6406218

I go to University of Southern Maine for Biology.
Portland has got alot of great cuisine but kinda sucks for fashion. Oh well, I spend most my time covered up by a coat anyways.
Fucking Maine.

>> No.6406453

>>6401426
gpa isn't important at all, i interned at RIM when they were cool and then at BMO doing network/system engineering for another 3 years - and they never asked me for my GPA.

just a lot of side projects (especially for RIM). once i interned one summr at BMO, they said i would pretty much be automatically enrolled in their summer internship program when I applied the next summer.

i'll be happy to answer more questions if you have any.

>> No.6406517

>Be 22
>Still at lower tier school in a program to get transfer credits for university
>Still don't know what I'd take

Future is bright bros

>> No.6406993

>>6406453
im just a bit depressed
getting rejected left and right
i applied to 27 internship positions since the first week of May. pretty low, i know.

In total ive had 3 companies actually reply.
One company i was not qualified for at all. I think they just contacted me because my cover letter was good.
Another company i had two phone interviews with. Surprisingly they weren't technical at all. The second phone interview was an interview with the engineering manager, and it was basically the same thing as the first phone screen conducted by the HR, but this guy actually talked about course work and on-the-job duties. No algorithm/programming/optimization questions.
Another company I got a phone interview and an onsite interview. I was so stoked that I got a new notebook, pen, shaved, and bought a new button up since it was a start up. The onsite interview was focused more on my side projects that were relevant to their main programming languages. Again, no actual implementation/whiteboard questions.

Only recently have I started looking at Craigslist job postings for internship positions and postings outside of my university's job postings.

>> No.6407119

I posted this in the US thread but since I'm in Canada maybe you guys will be more helpful

hey sorry for not being so informed on U.S. college admissions (I'm from Canada) but could you explain to me how does one get a 4.0 GPA? I mean, isn't that essentially a perfect score in EVERY subject? That sounds inhuman tbh. I'm probably getting this wrong but my average is around 90% this year and I suppose that translates to a 3.6 GPA? Which is nowhere near a 4.0.

Also how can you be a president of every club/organization and class? I mean where do you find time to study for all your schoolwork? I was on the student gov't last year and had a special position on it this year + a few other clubs/projects/ECs and I could barely find the time to study and have a minute of free time. Have you been class president and all that stuff throughout your whole HS career? And on top of that plenty of ECs, which ones for example?

I'm sorry this may be a little indiscreet but living in Canada makes this very confusing for me, as I'm considering applying to an Ivy and reading posts like yours discourages me a lot. I'd also have to apply for a scholarship because there is no way my parents would pay for Ivy education, and I have no idea what kind of superhuman skills one needs to have to get a full-ride scholarship or at least something that pays for most of your tuition.

I still have McGill though, it's literally right around the corner and it only costs like 3k a semester but idk if it's as restrictive as an Ivy. Also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc5vN2XReWs

+


All of my courses are IB
Does that count as extra points?
Also my school is rated best in the province I guess that gives me a little bit of an edge?

But this guy here >>6405933 has an unweighted 3.98, which translates to 99.5%, a ridiculously high average. I had an 88% 2nd semester this year, and I though it was pretty good, but the unweighted GPA equivalent is 3.52 which is horrid compared to these guys.

>> No.6407147

>>6407119
What's your intended major?

>> No.6407160

>tfw IB
>oh yeah dude hell yeah fuck yeah dude most rigorous course offered in hs omg
>3.4/4.3 gpa
>mfw

>> No.6407163

>>6407119
at the end of the day they're just grades and if you have no networks, and have a shit personality, your grades will only get you so far.

just strive for anything above a 3.3, that usually secures you a seat for grad school (albeit depending where)

>> No.6407169

>>6407119

a 4.0 means you've earned an A in all subjects which is as score >90%

in an american highschool there is hardly any excuse not to have a GPA around 4, it's so piss easy

>> No.6407193

>>6407119
high school is easy as fuck tbh, if you have problems getting straight A's you're going to have problems in a competitive college.

i went to one of the highest rated (public) unis in the US, highly rated for my major (engineering), with straight A's out of high school. ended up with like a 3.3 college gpa. meanwhile some of my classmates were easily riding 3.7/3.8.

also in my high school you could take AP classes (advanced) or CP classes (college prep). the AP classes counted for one grade higher since the material was more difficult and the classes more competitive. so a B in, say, AP bio would count for the same standing as an A in CP bio. because of that a lot of folks in my high school ended up with like 4.3 GPAs without really even trying. i took something like 10 or so AP courses.

overall i wouldn't worry too much about getting into the "top" school, more about getting into the -right- school for you. it doesn't matter so much at the end of the day the name on your diploma if you get a good GPA and good experience that shows you applied yourself.

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I was just in Montreal 2 days ago and hung out with someone from McGill. The university and culture around it is essentially a pox upon Montreal. It just forms a big English ghetto, all the students there just stay in said ghetto and speak English to each other, only like 30% of the school is French and all they do is attend classes and then get the fuck out of the area because of how terrible it is.

I seriously don't understand why someone would go to school in Montreal and spend all their time in the English equivalent of Chinatown. It's a black hole in a city filled with incredible restaurants, bars, galleries, stores, culture, and art. Luckily I hung out with a born and raised Francophone Montrealer for the other day I was there and he showed me a ton of awesome stuff. As far as stores are concerned Montreal I found was actually somewhat lacking. My biggest complaint was that there was an increasing amount of stores making very international buys. In my view the whole reason you go shopping in Montreal, even if it's for the same brands you can find everywhere else is because of how the French buy and merchandize it. You could have a store in Tokyo, Montreal, and London that all buy Rick Owens but each buy would be totally different and would factor in cultural sensibilities and taste, also how it's merchandised or matched with other brands in the store and how their buys were done is huge as well, of course brand selection ties into all of this even more so. Anyway my point being, most stores in Montreal were buying the same brands as everyone else, they were picking up the same pieces as everyone else, and they were styling and merchandising them with the same brands as everyone else. It was really boring and unfortunate.

>> No.6407263

>>6407259
i have parked my butt in this thread
anorak posts incoming

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For me one of the only avant-garde stores in Montreal that truly felt French, like something I could only find in Montreal was Reborn. They've always had their own philosophy and it was cool to see it actualized in person. Unfortunately it was also the store who's layout I hated the most. It's essentially a 10 foot by 60 foot hallway with one side of the store being nothing but a massive clothing rack and the other side having the till and some wall mounted display cases and shelving with accessories and shoes. I feel like in todays world of online shopping where everything is laid out in a mechanical grid like setting, people want something more from brick and mortar stores. Reborn is the closest I've ever seen a store come to perfectly mimicking the online shopping experience. There is one long rack and you simply walk the length of it and you have then seen everything in the store, it's no different than shopping online and it's a really boring and uninteresting way to present conceptual and avant garde clothing.

The other avant-garde store in the same area as Reborn was SSENSE which is probably very well known to everyone on the board. It was kind of sad because their online buys are really quite cool but what they actually had at the retail location suffered from the exact same problem I mentioned above. It was very international and even more so, it was very much the same as everywhere else in Montreal. For example almost every store I went to had Givenchy. So did SSENSE, a ton of it actually. Meanwhile they had a lot of brands online that nowhere else in Montreal carried but they decided not to keep them stocked in the store. The two that I was personally the most interested in were Ann Demeulemeester and Rigards both of which they didn't keep on hand.

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It was really kind of frustrating and annoying, especially when the manager told me he specifically picks out the stock from the online store that gets displayed in the retail store and it's pretty much a daily / weekly process because of high sell through. That's a really cool job but I wanted to ask him what the fuck he was doing with it. The best understanding I can come to is that the store is placed in a very touristy area and is essentially catering to tourists, in fact right when I first went in there was a Chinese tourist in head to toe Givenchy buying more Givenchy so that probably answers a lot of questions.

Anything you want from the online store can be brought into the retail store within 48 hours and I assume this is how the locals shop but as someone who was only visiting for a day and a half this didn't work out for me. I did get a pair of black waxed Margiela jeans marked down from $800 to $300 so I'm pretty happy about that but I was pretty disappointed otherwise. There was plenty of other stuff on the site that I would have bought and it was probably my fault for not calling ahead but still for such a cool online store that has such a cool mix of stuff, what they actually picked to fill their brick and mortar location with was pretty lame.

Also on this street was the store / workshop of local designer Denis Gagnon, he only had a very small menswear selection but it was kind of cool. Also I don't think I've mentioned it until now but I was also really disappointed with the architecture / interior design of Montreals stores. SSENSE, Reborn, and Denis Gagnon were all very similar and very typical black stores with white fluorescent lighting. There was very little creativity there, Reborns layout was unlike anything else but I disliked it so it wasn't really a plus.

>> No.6407282

I'm doing buisness at bcit

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SSENSE and Denis Gagnon were almost identical they both had a staircase in the middle of the store that went down to a second level and pretty much the exact same decor and atmosphere. Denis Gagnon could be a nice place to get designer tier basics for a cheaper local price but it really is more womenswear orientated than menswear.

Another store I went to was Michel Brisson which was actually really solid. The buying felt more French (but not as much so as Reborn) and it seems to be really established in that they have huge buys of stuff like Jil and Dries that can only be the result of years and years of building rapport with their customers who seemed much more local than SSENSE or Reborn (and of course they would be, it's not in a touristy area and they don't sell online unlike SSENSE or Reborn). Interestingly their shoe game was really weak but the store layout was very nice and open with a sort of maze of racks that you can fully sift through by walking around the store and crossing through the middle a couple of times. Unfortunately still black with white contrast and looked the same as everywhere else interior design wise. Also almost all the Saint Laurent stuff was sold out, they had a decent bit of stuff no other store had and all in all I would actually say this is probably Montreals definitive store. Interestingly they also had a second much smaller location next to Reborn and SSENSE in the touristy area where the buy was really conservative, in fact everything felt even more like a department store buy than Holts which I'll get to next I guess.

I really expected a lot from Holt Renfrew and it certainly was more forward than any of the other locations in Canada I've been to but ultimately it was a bit of a let down. T

>> No.6407299

>>6407259

Montreal kind of sucks because everything is in different areas. There are no "cool" areas just random things al over.

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Tons of really overpriced Gucci and Prada stuff with a big Givenchy buy. Also had Lanvin but only the shoes which I felt really spoke volumes about how messed up it was. (I'd always take Prada's shoes over Lanvin's and Lanvin's clothes over Prada's). Overall not even really worth checking out, the only stuff that seemed to have made it to markdown was XXL true religion gear.

I also visited the Arc'teryx store which is worth mentioning because they carried the Veilance line. More important than that they carried the pieces no one else seems to pick up like the pants, base layers, and shirts. Almost every store I went to had Veilance and it's the same story in Toronto but nowhere I've been has ever picked up much besides the jackets. So it was really worth going out of my way to see.

The last sort of designer store I checked out was Simons which was totally bizarre. The layout, interior design, and atmosphere is identical to Winners. Yet in their designer menswear section they had Comme and Yohji mainline along with Boris Bidjan Saberi (another designer that for some reason almost every Montreal store had like Givenchy) and Dirk Bikkembergs and Marc Jacobs mainline. My impression was that the buyer is definitely an older dude who was probably around in the 80's. My other impression is that this part of the store pretty much doesn't make any money and is entirely there for show. Almost everything was ridiculously marked down. I am sort of torn on the shopping experience, on the one hand it was kind of fun to try on stuff like Comme in a loud busy store with families walking behind me and no sales associates in sight as opposed to the usual sterile environment of a totally silent store with only you and a single sales associate in it. On the other hand I really felt it did a disservice to the clothes presenting them in such a pedestrian manner.

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I'm almost certain if Yohji or Rei or BBS saw their clothes being displayed like that (and marked down so heavily as well) that they would probably pull out immediately. This was certainly the strangest store I visited though so that must count for something.

The last store worth mentioning isn't really a designer place but was probably my favourite in Montreal. It's called Savoie Fils and was 1 part "art-of-manliness" general store 1 part French cafe 1 part minimal easy clothing store. They carried stuff like straight razors and clothing brands like Norse Projects and Reigning Champ. Also the coffee and menu was really solid, the store had TONS of natural light (unlike every other place I mentioned that was either in a basement or had all the blinds shut) and a very cool sort of seating area, the interior design was like a mix of old timey general store and Italian cafe. It totally felt like a store you could go to just to chat up the sales associates (which I did) and sit down and have a coffee read a book and also hit up for some really solid basics. I think it's only a couple years old but I can't say enough good things about it. The concept is really solid and feels really natural, there was no pretension and I just wish the clothes were more in line with my aesthetic so I could have bought something and supported the place (more than my iced Americano did at least). Very French and exactly the type of store Montreal needs more of. Designer stores catering to the rich tourist crowd has really hurt the shopping scene and was for sure one of the things that stood out most to me. I feel at the end of the day Toronto definitely has more variety and more interesting buys, there's very little catering to tourists and it's much more ahead of the curve in a lot of ways.

>> No.6407310

>>6407193

At the end of the day your degree and where you went to school doesn't matter either.

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Still Michel Brisson has stuff you can't find in Toronto like Dries and Saint Laurent, Savoie Fils is awesome although the clothes can all be found in Toronto at Nomad / Haven, Reborn always has cool stuff and the buyer doesn't seem to really have a lot of brand loyalty he buys what he likes and has a very French way of doing it which is a welcome change. So there is some cool stuff but I mean Denis Gagnon is nothing incredible and SSENSE is so online based I would hardly count it as a Montreal store. The Arc'teryx store is a nice edge over Toronto but I'm sure it pales in comparison to Vancouver. The Holts is a waste like every Holts and Simons is bizarre but you might find a diamond among the rough there once in awhile. All in all pretty solid and the trip really confirmed to me that the French stores care more about easy lux clothes while Toronto is more focused on crazy fashion nerd stuff, still the taint of catering to tourists is widespread in Montreal.

>> No.6407333

>>6407299
what is Le Plateau

>> No.6407331

>>6406993

This is true for 99.9 percent% of places.They wont even ask you for your degree. I's interesting where high school kids get there information. The real world is way different than what your guidance counsellors and parents tell you.

>> No.6407341

>>6407315
>see "anorak"
yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
pls post more often

>> No.6407346

>>6407259
>>6407265
>>6407280
>>6407289
>>6407301
>>6407309
>>6407315
Dude are you still in mtl

sick post(s) btw

>> No.6407372

>>6407280
what's the best example of a store with a great layout you've been in and why?

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>>6407301
>Boris Bidjan Saberi (another designer that for some reason almost every Montreal store had like Givenchy)
i don't know how related this is but...
i find the same when i walk around New Zealand and talk to SA's on the floor.
Most of the time they're exceptionally familiar w/ BBS and not so much about Inaisce, Sruli Recht, Y Project, Rick (they know of, but not as much detail) etc.
It always bewildered me because I've always thought that BBS was sort of on the fringe and if you knew of BBS you must have a certain level of 'cultural' knowledge and would probably be quite familiar w/ a lot of others mentioned. More often then not they don't know any outside of Rick and his shoes.

How did BBS become so global? Is he just so in tune w/ what communities here like? But the idea that people in Montreal are also picking up despite the existence of more 'historically rich' designers says something.

BBS and gloabalisation, how how how how?

>> No.6407389

>>6407380

fuck, you sound like such a cunt!

>> No.6407393

>>6407380

fuck, you sound like such a cunt!

>> No.6407408

>>6407380

fuck, you sound like such a cunt!

>> No.6407412

>>6407389
>>6407393
>>6407408
rip turnleft

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>>6407412
welp

>> No.6407444

>>6407346

Nope, it was just a day and two half days (flying in, flying out and what not) got in seeing all the stores I wanted to (except Les Etoffes which was closed and maybe some places like Ogilvys and Duo but they weren't essential for me). It's a really cool city though, I wish I could have had more time especially for things like Au Pied du Cochon and the Architecture museum which were both closed on the days I was there (Monday, Tuesday). Also of course things like the museums in general and botanical gardens and just more restaurants in general too. I got to try out La Banquise which was a long time coming for me and also this bar that actually doesn't have a name yet because it's only a couple months old I guess. It was in the same neighbourhood as Fairmont Bagel (which was totally awesome btw) and basically looked exactly like the bar from Casablanca. All the waiters sported colonial English moustaches and it was really the type of tongue in cheek theme bar that you'd never get away with in Toronto.

All in all though I don't think I'd ever be able to live there, it's just too damn fun, everything is always open and there's always something to do. Everyone is a friend in Montreal and you can just walk down the street and get dragged into a party that lasts all night. I need the cold rigidness of Toronto, it's the only way for me to get any work done. It really made me appreciate Quebec / French nationalism though. The French really have something good going and it's worth protecting. The whole world shouldn't be like Toronto but if you need to hunker down and get serious work done, the fact that everything closes at 9 certainly helps though lol.

>> No.6407458

>>6407444
holy shit i live in mtl and have never heard of that bar

is it cheesy or cool becasue I rly want to go drink gin in the bar from casablanca but I want it to be cool

also good on you for realizing that Quebec nationalism isn't a ridic cause.

>> No.6407465

>>6400679
I also go to brock. Never see any /fa/ people, not even a single dadcore fags

>> No.6407497

>>6407282
I heard BCIT business is hard as fuck. your take?

And if you feel comfortable, why did you choose business at BCIT over university?

>> No.6407507

>>6407163
This.

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>>6407380

The other thing I think is strange is when I was first introduced to BBS in 08 he was pretty closely associated with Damir Doma. I believe reading they were both friends or something and were bringing this sort of drapecore aesthetic to the global scene and BBS was all black and DD was all white and they were like ying and yang or something.

Today the perception of them is totally different. BBS got featured in Hypebeast mag who essentially told me that he was always a skater and always into hip hop and that he's essentially this designer who is subverting avant-garde by making high brow avant-garde clothes that are influenced by skaters and hip hop. Which I never heard of until recently and really to me seems like total bullshit and some sort of marketing ploy. BBS seems like he is trying exceptionally hard to posture himself as one of the brands this big wave of rappers wearing avant-garde are into and yet I don't see anyone really buying into that no matter how much lip service he gets.

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>>6407529

Damir Doma I may as well talk about since I mentioned him, I dunno what his deal is. He seems hell bent on basically becoming a lifestyle brand or something. I don't think any other young avant-garde designer has more heavily embraced the luxury brand business model. He's done a diffusion line, fragrance line, shoe line, sunglasses line, etc. all before even having been around for 5 years. I will say this, he has massive balls. Normally you get all of those things as a result of being really successful and marketable. I think he just started doing all of them and people assumed he had to be successful and marketable, it really seems like he faked it till he made it. Or maybe I'm totally out of touch and he really is a star designer who everyone loves but I feel like his stuff is really meh and he's just saturated the market by striking while the iron was hot and unloading all this stuff super quickly and now he's really dug out a good niche as a sort of filler brand for stores. It seems like almost everyone carries Damir Doma something but how many people are actually carrying the mainline and having it sell? He's seriously like a little tiny luxury house, making clothes for image and then actually selling nothing but sunglasses and t-shirts. It's just bizarre because of how young and avant-garde he is.

Back to BBS though, yeah I don't have a clue why so many stores have him, maybe he has a really aggressive agent or something.

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>>6407529
boris' aesthetic definitely draws from that culture in a sort of superficial way, especially in the photography. i don't have much else in the way of input. i was excited after the first few seasons and then it all dried up.

>> No.6407595

>>6407458

My francophone friend took me to it, if you know Big in Japan I guess the owner sucked or something and most of the staff left and they started this new bar which they still haven't come up with a name for it yet so people have just been calling it either by the street address (which I have since forgotten lol) or "the moustache bar" or even "the secret bar" also I think the owner is planning or naming it les étrangers but nothing has happened yet. It's in that area with Fairmont Bagel and all the Orthodox Jews, it's across the street from a really fancy Greek restaurant. I wish I could figure out more details to give you. If you just go wandering around for it don't do it during the day though it seriously looks like a furniture store or something when it's all closed up haha.

Also yeah it's extremely cool, very chill, and the drinks were great.

>> No.6407592

Rye High for ComSci. Too stupid/Lazy to try and get into UofT.

>tfw okay with mediocrity

Hope my opportunities out of Ryerson won't be too terrible.

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>>6407529
>>6407534
That stuff on BBS and DD and their relationship is really interesting. Was unaware of it but when you think about it you can definitely draw links in thinking and design between the collections (maybe less so now especially w/ DD being a bit more 'radical').
Yeah the BBS thing seems really ;s
i've always heard that he's sort of 'skater/street + military inspired' or w/e but when I looked at the later collections i couldn't really pull much more out than antarctic militia or s/t.
very sort of dissonant w/ what is preached about him.

I've only really ever been aware of Mainline and SILENT. Didn't know he was balls deep in random lines.
I also don't see many pieces of DD mainline outside of a select few people and I get the impression that he has really limited runs (or at least he used to) of his pieces.
I really thought a lot of his 07-10 work was REALLY strong but I rarely could find someone w/ pieces and pictures so never really understood where he was 'financially'.
But maybe I'm just thinking about pieces that I really fell in love w/ not coming up since his shoes are pretty well spread.
>please someone, give me a AW10 coat, any coat and whatever coat
>aking clothes for image and then actually selling nothing but sunglasses and t-shirts.
haha, exactly.

also, braided scarves man
WHERE DID THEY GO
PLEASE SOMEONE WHERE ARE THEY!

>thank you based fagorak B)

>> No.6407728

>>6407642
>thank you based fagorak B)

ur not cool turnleft every remembers how hard he stomped you

>> No.6407825

>>6407444
Shit, im going to McGill this fall and I don't speak french. Im not at all opposed to learning, in fact my goal is to gain a commanding knowledge in french. The way you portrayed living in Montreal, and the students at McGill worries me. Im attending for financial reasons, and im really hoping to work hard in college while still having fun.

>> No.6407831

>>6407642

>thank you based fagorak B)

u will never ether him back

>> No.6407872

>>6407465
Yeah they are all pretty bad.
But so was I in first year. Dunno how it is now, I've been on coop and other stuff for a while now.

>> No.6407912

>>6399246
I'm studying Political Science at UVic and will hopefully be studying law at UofT in a few years. I might transfer to UBC for the second half of my undergrad though. Four Horsemen is probably the best shop in Victoria.

>> No.6407995

>major
Super liberal arts at University of Toronto
>shopping
Depends what you're into. There's almost something for everyone, but it can almost always be found cheaper online. Toronto is stupidly expensive when New York is close enough to take a shopping trip to

>> No.6408008

>>6407995
>almost always be found cheaper online
teach me your ways
everytime i shop online the duty fees kill me at the door

>> No.6408246

sfu film student
i am prepared for a life of poverty dont worry

>> No.6408251

>>6408008
i live in tfot and i buy all my shit on forums and ebay

fuck retail, i'm gonna be making dollar when im done so i'll just get a functional wardrobe then

>> No.6408294

>>6399253
you think McGill is overrated?
man if you ever meet a Queens student holy fuck they are retarded

>> No.6408336

>>6408008
I have an American shipping address and I'm there about four times a year, and for things from Europe/anywhere else I'm usually just lucky that they're flat-packed. Once I bought a pair of shoes for like $100 and the box was huge/heavy and I had to pay $60 in customs fees BUT I was out of the country and they wouldn't keep it at the UPS store until I got back. It was the biggest pain.

If it's UPS usually I pretend I'm not home at the first knock and wait til the next day when I know what the charges will be. My Canada Post delivery woman and I have a secret knock. Three knocks means there is a customs fee, two knocks mean there isn't, anything else and I don't answer. I realize this all makes me sound like a crazy person, but rushing to put pants on only to be solicited by anyone is the biggest waste of time.

>>6408294
I always perceive Queens to be like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhJdgiTnJCw

>> No.6408376

>>6408336
uoft would never make something this cool
fuck this uni

>> No.6408383

>>6404193
More than Winnipeg? Doubtful

>> No.6408414

>>6408383
Fuckin love Corydon and Osborne Village

>> No.6408653

Go to mcgill, electrical and computer engineering. Really love michel brisson and off the hook.

>> No.6408742

>>6407595
that restaurant is quite possibly milos

>> No.6408826

>>6408414
Only 2 places in Winnipeg that are fun

>> No.6409034

Calgary is very /fa/. University of Calgary is pretty good.
The only problem with Calgary is that it's stupid expensive. Especially for clothing.

>> No.6409096

>>6409034
>expensive for clothing
same with the rest of canada m8

>> No.6409363

>>6400377
it's because they can't be a PE teacher without qualifications in any other teaching fields

>> No.6410050

>>6408826
no you're just not trying