I can haz general discussion? 2!!

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Not sure of the price but anyone can rent them afaik.

Is there any curfew or anything?

Could if I wasn't blacklisted from there

Still, after all these years.

Show your card at the gates, turn up. Security will check the list of names and let you in.

Try, try not to roar drunken abuse at them.

To be fair, they'd probably let you away with one drunken yelling session. After all, banquo notched up seven offences before they banned him.

thelad95 wrote: »

Where exactly are the south campus rooms?

Opposite callan hall under the arch is where the reception is. The rooms are upstairs.

GrandBlaa wrote: »

Lads, what time does the Reading Room in the Arts Block close on Fridays/the weekend?

Is there any other place on campus to study on weekends (preferably near a power source!) once the library closes at 5:00?

Reading room

It closes at 11pm and opens around 7am (I've never been up early enough to find out exactly)

Arts block kitty has RETURNED !

aaabbbb wrote: »

Arts block kitty has RETURNED !

So has the mumps!

Alt_Grr on here was an RA for a few years. You might wait and see if he shows up here.

thelad95 wrote: »

Has anyone ever been or know anyone that was/is a Resident Assistant?

How so Joe wrote: »

Alt_Grr on here was an RA for a few years. You might wait and see if he shows up here.

Yep, I presume you want to ask questions about the job etc?

thelad95 wrote: »

Yeah what is the job like on a general sense? How often do you have to do night shifts and what are they like? Finally, I wouldn't mind working most holidays but what is the chances of being stuck with a Christmas day or New years eve shift?

In terms of shifts I'm not sure, the set up for that stuff was tweaked every year and I stopped doing the job a few years ago.

As for getting time over the Christmas holidays, usually it drops down to one person on call per night for that time of year. So your chances are 1 divided by the number of Residence Assistants.

Usually what happens is that you can swap it with someone else and usually your lucky enough to have an RA who doesn't celebrate Christmas and is willing to make a trade. (But that's never a direct swap, so expect to be doing a few busy nights for them in return)

Most of the time the job is grand, if you generally like people and don't mind sitting around a bit. Some nights are completely dead. Literally nothing happens.
Usually the first few weeks are a bit hectic, then it settles down.

Busy nights you can expect a lot of noise complaints and people getting locked out of their apartments. On occasion though in the middle of a quiet night someone will hit the fire alarm and run away. But you have to check if the building is actually on fire and turn off the alarm and replace the glass in the break glass unit. While people are standing out in the cold and complaining. (Nobody likes being woken up at 4.30 am by a false alarm)

Most people you deal with are actually sound and make the job enjoyable when times are good or at least a bit more bearable when they are not so good.

If anyone is thinking of applying, my advice is to apply.
But if you want to know more, feel free to drop me a private message.

Anyone see the e-mail on the new curriculum for first years? It looks a bit messy to be honest, there's just going to be enormous class sizes everywhere. Reducing entry routes will only increase points as well.

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

I'm curious having heard the President talking about it before. Can you post it here?

Also, hopefully without causing debate, does anyone know how much the sabbat positions get paid per year? Can't find that info anywhere.

I can't link it as it seems you can only access it through the e-mail but basically, it seems to be mainly for arts and science subjects, where there will be a common entry, you can choose up to four subjects and eventually major in one. Kind of reminds me of the American system.

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

I'm curious having heard the President talking about it before. Can you post it here?

Also, hopefully without causing debate, does anyone know how much the sabbat positions get paid per year? Can't find that info anywhere.

About €340-360 a week, depending on your previous work / tax / PRSI paid / etc.

IIRC, they used to do a 40 hour week for minimum wage back in the day, like circa 2007, but they demanded more money and the college said "OK" and increased it to around €11 an hour – and just reduced their hours so they didn't actually get more money. But that's literally a second hand story from a previous sabbath.