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Polytechnique Montréal

Polytechnique Montréal

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Sep 7, 2026

Carl MooreHOST
1:35
No, no, for sure.
Carl MooreHOST
1:36
So, what drew you to engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique, which for those who are outside Montreal is one of the top engineering schools in Canada, indeed the world, what drew you to engineering?
Laurie LanoueGUEST
1:47
So I was super puzzled.
Laurie LanoueGUEST
1:49
I did not know what I wanted to do.
Laurie LanoueGUEST
1:59
become a dentist until I, after applying and being admitted to university, um, was at a dentist appointment and realized that this was kind of a slow-moving business.
Laurie LanoueGUEST
2:10
It was not like as energetic as maybe I had in me, and I love the profession, it's amazing, it's great what they're doing, but I was like, oh my gosh, this is actually... kind of not solving a lot of problems or not acting a lot in terms of dynamism.
Laurie LanoueGUEST
2:24
And so I turned around and I went home a little bit panicked and I remembered that my mom had me apply to Polytechnique because her sister had gone, like I had other members of family that are engineers.
Laurie LanoueGUEST
2:36
And so plan A or kind of safety application to engineering school became plan A and I started at Polytechnique.
Matthew SimpsonHOST
63:02
In my house, they don't exist, so it doesn't matter.
Matthew SimpsonHOST
63:07
Well, since you took my number one pick for Villeneuve, I guess I will have to go with my number two pick for Villeneuve, which will be the film he did immediately before that one, which is called Polytechnique, which is a dramatization of the L'Ecole Polytechnique massacre or the Montreal massacre of 1989.
Matthew SimpsonHOST
63:26
This is another one that I don't necessarily want to spoil too much of it for anyone who hasn't seen it.
Matthew SimpsonHOST
63:34
I think we

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