UCD irritations... ie first world problems! (See Mod Note, 1st post)

Siuin · 14-10-2011 9:15am

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

I'm in Glenomena, and the main door of the house (the one in front of the lift) has to be closed properly otherwise a loud alarm goes off, and continues to go off, until the door is closed properly. So that means that when people come in, they don't close the door fully (or leave it so it's closed, but the door hasn't clicked/locked), which makes the alarm go off continuously until somebody closes it - the person who has left the door open is usually gone up the lift or stairs at this stage and doesn't realise! Very unnecessary and irritating, I'm not sure what they were thinking when they installed that!

Omg YES!!!
I've lost count of the amount of times drunken idiots have stuck signs or bottles in the way of the door in the early hours of the morning and set that alarm blaring. I'm usually the one who has to get out of bed half-asleep looking for my key card, kick it out of the way and wander back to bed again. Whoever thinks that funny is simply an idiot.

Siuin · 15-10-2011 10:41am

Undressing in my room and realising there's a dude opposite me looking out the window...
hate the layout of campus accommodation! :P

Smeefa · 16-10-2011 7:17pm

Siuin wrote: »

Undressing in my room and realising there's a dude opposite me looking out the window...
hate the layout of campus accommodation! :P

Happened to me a couple of times last year as well! Also got woken up by some lovely builders in a cherry picker right outside my bedroom window at 7.30 one morning. They decided that was a good time to fix the drainpipes...

shofukan · 16-10-2011 7:42pm

The state of the lads jacks on the second floor in the library. For ****

[Jackass] · 17-10-2011 11:31am

The state of the lads jacks on the ground floor of library building outside the SU shop...

Also, how long does it take to post mid-term exam results?? It's MCQ, can't this be done in a day??

17-10-2011 3:32pm

The state of the lads jacks in the Eng block.

The state of the lads jacks in the Gym.

...

I see a trend emerging here - 'People who leave the jacks in a disgusting mess'

cleverclogs84 · 17-10-2011 4:29pm

MissRealist wrote: »

The fact that science no longer have a restaurant and a sandwich costs 4.50 in conway.

The new f****** printing system! Why the hell are most the printing resources given over to first years? No offence but there's a lot more of us 2nd/3rd/4th/5th years! I think it's a disgrace that they expect us to pay anything towards a new student card. They changed the system they fix the fallout. Simple really.

Nine o clock lectures when you have an hour and a half commute in.

5 hour blocks of labs and lectures without food!

Lab reports (just in general)

Wow. That made me feel better. lol

Everything I was irritated about, you just said. Particularly the 9am lectures with the long commute in.

Also people continuously talking in lectures.

People interrupting lectures with questions the lecturer answered literally 5 mins before hand.

I'm sure there's more that I can't think of right now

fairyprincessx · 17-10-2011 9:09pm

Why, in their right minds, would UCD choose the library toilets, of all the toilets in all the buildings, to put those Dyson hand dryers in?! The noise is deafening!

I'm very proud of myself when I manage to get a big desk on the Arts level, I don't plan on having that ruined when 357 people have to dry their hands with those dryers. I've heard jet engines take off with less of a din. Well, maybe not, but ye know what I mean!

RandolphEsq · 18-10-2011 5:34am

I ate two footlong meatball marinaras from Subway and am now so stuffed! Fcuk my greedy eyes!

Siuin · 18-10-2011 2:38pm

Hate it when someone insists on sitting on the edge of a row, then packs up their stuff in the end in slow motion

HavingCrack · 18-10-2011 2:45pm

People who wait until I have my laptop out and booted up and plugged into a socket before mentioning that it isn't actually working...

blondielocks · 18-10-2011 7:22pm

Starbucks is gone?!

Conor108 · 18-10-2011 7:26pm

blondielocks wrote: »

Starbucks is gone?!

Isn't it in Conway now? There's one in Quinn anyway

longhalloween · 18-10-2011 7:31pm

._. wrote: »

Another thing, the doors in the residence I live in.

It's a newly renovated one, and UCD decided it would be a fantastic idea to put those auto-close things on all the doors in the apartment, which slowly close the door most of the way, and then slam it closed as loudly as possible. If the window in the room is open it makes it bang even louder and it sounds like a truck or something just crashed into the building.

Good job UCD, good job.

I took that bar off my door to stop it doing that.

What if I wanted to leave my door open UCD?! The window wont open wide enough to ventilate the room and the place smells damp from the shower!

Micklaus · 18-10-2011 9:27pm

That bloody scanner (the one on the right of the two) to enter into JJ library............I saw it getting fixed today!

Cyndaquil · 18-10-2011 9:46pm

teotihuacan wrote: »

-Having to walk through the disgusting cloud of second hand smoke outside the Newman building after a lecture. Mingin.

^ +1. Despite the fact that they are signs in that very area stating that this is banned.

Also, the way you can't edit Word documents on SUAS yet it never occurred them to block Facebook et al.

Will · 18-10-2011 10:11pm

lecture halls in health sciences, some of the rows have more or less leg room. I always seem to pick the ones with the least amount of leg room. Very frustrating.

Stasya_x · 19-10-2011 1:51pm

The cross campus sprint from Roebuck to Newman building for one stupid tutorial that's straight after a lecture..

The lack of ovens in Glenamena..I wanted pasta bake for dinner last night then remembered I don't actually posses and oven anymore.

WeeBushy · 19-10-2011 2:29pm

Not being able to access a timetable of when computer labs are reserved for classes. Very frustrating being turfed out of one, then an hour later another, then an hour later another...

beardedmaster · 19-10-2011 4:58pm

Check out the 1st floor Men's toilets in the Science block - the cubicle on the left is hilariously disgusting. And has been for the last 2 or 3 weeks at least!!

keepkeyyellow · 20-10-2011 9:31am

People shouting about politics.

'THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN A CLEAR DIVIDE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH GOING BACK TO THE CELTIC TIMES'

I've no problem with people discussing politics but you know, don't be so arrogant about it.

Wonderstruck · 20-10-2011 11:24am

No time on the library computers... my phone's given up the gun on time so I have to send e-mails to myself to get the time.

The Roebuck Run. Roebuck itself. It's inconvient to walk from where I live to and an annoying to walk across UCD too. Then three flights of winding stairs to my tutorials. :rolleyes:

**Timbuk2** · 20-10-2011 11:45am

Wonderstruck wrote: »

The Roebuck Run. Roebuck itself. It's inconvient to walk from where I live to and an annoying to walk across UCD too. Then three flights of winding stairs to my tutorials. :rolleyes:

I know a guy who had to walk from Engineering to Newstead within 10 minutes, which is even longer!

RandolphEsq · 20-10-2011 10:49pm

The lattes from the SU shop under the library are too hot!

ironclaw · 21-10-2011 8:45pm

RandolphEsq wrote: »

The lattes from the SU shop under the library are too hot!

Not to mention SU Coffee is pure and utter garbage. First roast off cuts. I drink coffee every day and its the only coffee that gives me heartburn.

Wonderstruck · 22-10-2011 5:54pm

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

I know a guy who had to walk from Engineering to Newstead within 10 minutes, which is even longer!

Urgh god rather him than me! Checked the map, it's so annoyingly twisty going there!

blahblahblah. · 22-10-2011 7:35pm

1. The new services set up, only being able to book rooms in ag. Not being able to have food or drink (non alcoholic) in any building bar the student centre...unless this has been changed??

2. How all the first years where given first picks on locker, 2nd year + have more books!

3. The lack of plugs in the library

4. The lack off food cheap food

5. The **** that the restaurant claims is food.

6. the price of books

7. the su print braking down!!

Chet T16 · 22-10-2011 7:36pm

ironclaw wrote: »

Not to mention SU Coffee is pure and utter gorrbage. First roast off cuts. I drink coffee every day and its the only coffee that gives me heartburn.

FYP

spagboll · 23-10-2011 2:20am

lecture notes not being on blackboard until after the lecture

the health science being lobby being worse to get through than coppers from 11am-2pm

having to scan student card to get out of library

Witcher · 23-10-2011 2:26am

spagboll wrote: »

having to scan student card to get out of library

+1

If I didn't have a student card how the fcuk would I have gotten in? I didn't cease to be a student while in the library.

conor.hogan.2 · 23-10-2011 11:26pm

People not knowing anything about History yet talking like they know the "facts".
Perhaps taking a history or Celtic Civ class would help.

Siuin · 23-10-2011 11:28pm

Blay wrote: »

+1

If I didn't have a student card how the fcuk would I have gotten in? I didn't cease to be a student while in the library.

Maybe it's to stop people from losing their cards in the library?
I've lost count of the amount of library cards I found jammed into books as bookmarks in the council library

AdamD · 24-10-2011 5:36pm

The walking shelter thingies end before the restaurant - end up getting soaked going in and out of Quinn

24-10-2011 6:36pm

Badly set up drainage meaning the walkway area is flooded out in several places.

Witcher · 24-10-2011 6:40pm

The queue to get into the library today..at one stage there were 3 rows, each the length of the lobby there waiting to go in.

Conor108 · 24-10-2011 6:47pm

Blay wrote: »

The queue to get into the library today..at one stage there were 3 rows, each the length of the lobby there waiting to go in.

Yeah what the hell was going on?? I know the left turnstile was broken but even still the queue was to the door!

Will · 24-10-2011 7:00pm

Cycling home today (even though it isn't UCD's fault)

Stasya_x · 24-10-2011 7:05pm

The mature students who thought it was totally ok to skip the massive queue for the library today. Took great pleasure in calling them out on it when they tried to go in front of me.

Siuin · 24-10-2011 7:10pm

Stasya_x wrote: »

The mature students who thought it was totally ok to skip the massive queue for the library today. Took great pleasure in calling them out on it when they tried to go in front of me.

G'wan ya good thing! :P

Would have loved if someone yelled "no privileges here, gramps- this ain't the bus!"

alan4cult · 24-10-2011 8:07pm

Blay wrote: »

+1

If I didn't have a student card how the fcuk would I have gotten in? I didn't cease to be a student while in the library.

It's to stop multiple people going in on the same card. If you photocopied/handed back your card to your friend then they could also get in. It's also so that they know when the last person leaves the library at night.

Digits · 24-10-2011 8:49pm

Anyone see the flooding at the side of Belgove (behind the library)? Theres a merc stuck in the flood atm.

geetar · 24-10-2011 10:44pm

delayed notifications about closures that were no doubt going to hear tomorrow...

HavingCrack · 24-10-2011 11:50pm

L wrote: »

Badly set up drainage meaning the walkway area is flooded out in several places.

UCD is actually well known for having appallingly bad drainage in most of it's older areas.

Fergus_Nash · 25-10-2011 1:03pm

The guy beside me right now in the library with the heaviest breeding possible. Also I can hear his music. Also that I didn't start my essays earlier.

Sl!mCharles · 25-10-2011 1:24pm

there's a guy actually breeding next to you? IN THE LIBRARY??

WeeBushy · 25-10-2011 2:00pm

Fergus_Nash wrote: »

The guy beside me right now in the library with the heaviest breeding possible. Also I can hear his music. Also that I didn't start my essays earlier.

Giggidy giggidy goo.

keepkeyyellow · 25-10-2011 4:48pm

Sl!mCharles wrote: »

there's a guy actually breeding next to you? IN THE LIBRARY??

Those damn vetinary students...

Ilyana · 27-10-2011 12:33am

The not-very-competent doctor in the health centre. I had to remind her to ask me if I was on any medication!
She just said she presumed I wasn't

MissRealist · 27-10-2011 9:28am

EmilyO wrote: »

The not-very-competent doctor in the health centre. I had to remind her to ask me if I was on any medication!
She just said she presumed I wasn't

Nice... I tend to go in and tell them what's wrong with me and what I need. The last one I saw asked me why I was there if I already knew. I can't write a prescription. Idiots.

Ilyana · 27-10-2011 10:23am

MissRealist wrote: »

Nice... I tend to go in and tell them what's wrong with me and what I need. The last one I saw asked me why I was there if I already knew. I can't write a prescription. Idiots.

That's ridiculous. I was telling my bf about it and he was like 'Go to a real doctor' :pac:

UCD irritations... ie first world problems! (See Mod Note, 1st post)

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