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SOCS Inside-Out: The Definitive Survival Guide

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SOCS Culture::Student Body
- Jacob Eliosoff


Student Body

The SOCS student body has several characteristics which distinguish it from the McGill population as a whole. Some of these are predicted by the rich body of folklore built up around geeks. Computer science students are still mostly male. They tend to spend a lot of time indoors, presumably sitting in front of a computer screen, and less time involved in athletic or artistic pursuits. Pale complexions, glasses, and shabby clothing are common.

Probably because they spend so much of their time in a vibrant world alien to most people, computer scientists as a group stand at a wary distance from popular culture and its attendant ceremonies, like parties, concerts, and clubs. However, this awkwardness should not be interpreted as genuinely antisocial. When at ease with friends, from within or without the department, the cs student as any other likes to joke and gripe and go out for a drink, and in this context his natural eccentricity turns to his advantage.

One of the most congenial features of McGill computer science is the number and variety of international students studying here, possibly the greatest percentage of any undergraduate program at McGill. Representatives of cultures from all over the planet meet here, adding to the atmosphere of a place where people who may seem odd at first turn out to have all sorts of stories to tell.

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