The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread - Part 2

diograis · 16-09-2013 3:21pm

GodlikeRed wrote: »

Are you trolling diograis?

You posted this around a month ago

'All Ireland Scholarship: Just got my results today, my 5 best are A1, A2x2 and B1x2. Are my chances of getting it in cork any good'

If you actually read the thread, my next post said that was my sister, and I wished people luck in getting it. So no :P

saltyjack silverblade · 16-09-2013 6:35pm

They need to close some windows in the reading room. Frozen in the place.

The Black Oil · 16-09-2013 8:06pm

Buses. Always buses.

GodlikeRed · 17-09-2013 12:52am

diograis wrote: »

If you actually read the thread, my next post said that was my sister, and I wished people luck in getting it. So no :P

Aye,
Unlucky bout the supplemental results.
Try get super supps, could save you 6k!

missdisco · 20-09-2013 6:06pm

ACADEMIC REGISTRY COULD YOU ANSWER YOUR GODDAMN EMAILS! ANY OF THEM! OR THE PHONE MESSAGES! I CAN'T REGISTER AND I THOUGHT YOU'D BE DYING TO TAKE MY POSTGRAD FEES MONEY.

Seriously, it's been a month, i understand being busy, but its been a month since I first enquired! It shouldn't even be that complicated.

missdisco · 20-09-2013 6:11pm

I'd also like to say thank you to the higher education authority for requiring taught modules as part of a PhD, but I'm reassured that I'm not the only person who dislikes this.

saltyjack silverblade · 20-09-2013 6:46pm

missdisco wrote: »

ACADEMIC REGISTRY COULD YOU ANSWER YOUR GODDAMN EMAILS! ANY OF THEM! OR THE PHONE MESSAGES! I CAN'T REGISTER AND I THOUGHT YOU'D BE DYING TO TAKE MY POSTGRAD FEES MONEY.

Seriously, it's been a month, i understand being busy, but its been a month since I first enquired! It shouldn't even be that complicated.

Best go in to them. I need to get a small item on my registration filled, literally a tick in a box, and my supervisor told me to stay away. They are at breaking point there and are swamped.
I am going in Monday. Emails don't work it is better to deal with someone face to face, harder to say no.

bri007 · 20-09-2013 7:00pm

Couldnt register today, I handed in my FRS2 form a month ago into trinity. Trinity told me they have my form but are still waiting to hear back from my previous college. Surely thats what the FRS2 form was for, once its filled out should that not be sufficient?

Anyone have experience or issues about this form, and anyone know what other days I can register now?

missdisco · 20-09-2013 8:45pm

saltyjack silverblade wrote: »

Best go in to them. I need to get a small item on my registration filled, literally a tick in a box, and my supervisor told me to stay away. They are at breaking point there and are swamped.
I am going in Monday. Emails don't work it is better to deal with someone face to face, harder to say no.

that got me nowhere, and i never have the time to go in. sigh.

saltyjack silverblade · 20-09-2013 9:35pm

missdisco wrote: »

that got me nowhere, and i never have the time to go in. sigh.

You've come to the right forum

saltyjack silverblade · 17-10-2013 6:13pm

The smell of the men's toilets by the Edmund Burke theatre is nothing short of vomit inducing.

lfqnic · 18-10-2013 9:31am

The inability of a group of grown-ass, educated women to pee in the toilet and then flush the chain never ceases to amaze and dishearten me. It's a LIBRARY for God's sake. Won't somebody think of the books?!

snausages · 18-10-2013 10:18am

lfqnic wrote: »

The inability of a group of grown-ass, educated women to pee in the toilet and then flush the chain never ceases to amaze and dishearten me. It's a LIBRARY for God's sake. Won't somebody think of the books?!

They pee on the books? :eek:

lfqnic · 18-10-2013 10:22am

Ha, not yet. I was just feeling a bit Maud Flanders in my indignation

missdisco · 18-10-2013 2:07pm

the ones down in the arts building by the cafe had the worst lighting a while back, but i don't know if they're still like that. i don't go near them!

Abby19 · 18-10-2013 8:15pm

missdisco wrote: »

the ones down in the arts building by the cafe had the worst lighting a while back, but i don't know if they're still like that. i don't go near them!

The UV lights? They were there to make it harder to find veins. Those toilets are open to the public. A few pubs in the areas have the same lighting in the toilets.

missdisco · 19-10-2013 12:34pm

Abby19 wrote: »

The UV lights? They were there to make it harder to find veins. Those toilets are open to the public.

Yes, yes, 'members of the public.' Everyone knows its the Lecky Library staff!

25-10-2013 2:12pm

The ring came off my pudding can

BlutendeRabe · 25-10-2013 3:11pm

Dónal wrote: »

The ring came off my pudding can

Take my penknife, my good man.

Random_Person · 25-10-2013 4:41pm

BlutendeRabe wrote: »

Take my penknife, my good man.

I swear it's Springfield's only choice... Throw up your hands and raise your voice!

25-10-2013 7:28pm

Random_Person wrote: »

I swear it's Springfield's only choice... Throw up your hands and raise your voice!

But mainstreet's still all cracked and broken

EmmetOT · 26-10-2013 12:03am

Sorry, mom, the mob has spoken.

Jammyc · 27-10-2013 1:39am

MONORAAAAIIL!

27-10-2013 9:41am

Jammyc wrote: »

MONORAAAAIIL!

Were you sent here by the devil?

innad · 28-10-2013 8:10pm

No good sir, I'm on the level

Legion. · 29-10-2013 5:00pm

I love tourists me.

29-10-2013 11:22pm

Legion. wrote: »

I love tourists me.

Eh... Eh...

Not on your life my Hindu friend

Edmond_Dantes · 01-11-2013 1:08pm

finding the science building getting colder , minor complaint

Lawliet · 08-11-2013 6:01pm

I hate TCDwifi so much right now. Got a new laptop, windows 8, tried to connect and it wouldn't let me until I installed updates, did just that and now when I run the bradford yoke it says I don't have the right programme to run it. Why the actual fuck is this process so awkward? I was in UCD over the summer, wasn't student or staff yet I could connect to the wifi in one click. Here I've just wasted the best part of three hours trying to get online only to have to resort to using my phone

Scortho · 08-11-2013 6:28pm

The only defense I can make of tcd wifi is that it needs some sort of login.
Reason being because we're in the city centre, you'd have every tom dick and Harry using it, because because it's free.
It should however just need your student number and a password to log in and none of the rigmarole involved.

Lawliet · 08-11-2013 7:39pm

Scortho wrote: »

The only defense I can make of tcd wifi is that it needs some sort of login.
Reason being because we're in the city centre, you'd have every tom dick and Harry using it, because because it's free.
It should however just need your student number and a password to log in and none of the rigmarole involved.

Oh I totally have no problem with the login, I just don't get why trinity needs a system that's such a colossal hassle they need to run clinics to help people use it when it could be as easy as clicking connect and giving a username and password.

folamh · 08-11-2013 10:57pm

Lawliet wrote: »

I hate TCDwifi so much right now. Got a new laptop, windows 8, tried to connect and it wouldn't let me until I installed updates, did just that and now when I run the bradford yoke it says I don't have the right programme to run it. Why the actual fuck is this process so awkward? I was in UCD over the summer, wasn't student or staff yet I could connect to the wifi in one click. Here I've just wasted the best part of three hours trying to get online only to have to resort to using my phone

A lot of people on Windows 8 are having problems connecting, but apparently it's very easy to resolve. Go to the reception in Aras an Phiarsaigh and they'll sort it out for you in minutes.

Scortho · 09-11-2013 12:02am

folamh wrote: »

A lot of people on Windows 8 are having problems connecting, but apparently it's very easy to resolve. Go to the reception in Aras an Phiarsaigh and they'll sort it out for you in minutes.

In fairness anyone who's able to use a computer should be able to connect to the wifi without needing assistance. Only in trinity would they make you jump through 20 hoop first. For christ sake dublin buses wifi registration is better.

nommm · 09-11-2013 1:56am

I can't connect to the Wifi cos the security package I bought isn't approved by the system or something. I've given up trying to connect with my laptop and just use the internet on my ipod if I need to look up something when I'm in the library. It's a pain in the arse.

languagenerd · 09-11-2013 2:09am

Last year, I got stuck in an endless frustrating loop trying to connect my laptop - it wouldn't let me connect to the internet until I updated my anti-virus definitions... and I couldn't update my anti-virus definitions until I connected to the internet!

Definitely wasted several hours of my life sorting out TCD wifi connections over my 4 years in college!

A Neurotic · 12-11-2013 3:59pm

Pulled the wrong piece of paper out of a hat, now have no chance of doing a research project I'm really interested in for my M.Sc

saltyjack silverblade · 12-11-2013 4:09pm

A Neurotic wrote: »

Pulled the wrong piece of paper out of a hat, now have no chance of doing a research project I'm really interested in for my M.Sc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORouZ-qOgg

Lawliet · 12-11-2013 4:35pm

A Neurotic wrote: »

Pulled the wrong piece of paper out of a hat, now have no chance of doing a research project I'm really interested in for my M.Sc

Sorry to hear.

I suggest killing the competition.

A Neurotic · 13-11-2013 11:46pm

A Neurotic wrote: »

Pulled the wrong piece of paper out of a hat, now have no chance of doing a research project I'm really interested in for my M.Sc

saltyjack silverblade wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORouZ-qOgg

Lawliet wrote: »

Sorry to hear.

I suggest killing the competition.

Just got an email saying I've been assigned my project! No idea how or why, the course co-ordinator must have decided to allocate an extra space or something. So happy.

Lawliet · 14-11-2013 6:07pm

A Neurotic wrote: »

No idea how or why,

Yeah, sure

Congrats anyway!

Hande hoche! · 20-11-2013 4:41pm

The inability of people to turn up for group assignment meetings.

languagenerd · 22-11-2013 2:21pm

The state of the ladies toilets in gym after 6pm on weekdays (particularly Wednesdays for some reason). There's never any tissue left, bins are overflowing, water on the floor... and yet there isn't really a way to complain without sounding like a weirdo!

SureYWouldntYa · 22-11-2013 6:15pm

I hate having to go into the Arts building because i know ill have to walk by dozens of people smoking. Cant wait til smoking is banned on campus

Scortho · 22-11-2013 6:33pm

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

I hate having to go into the Arts building because i know ill have to walk by dozens of people smoking. Cant wait til smoking is banned on campus

I hope they don't.
Instead of having 500 people smoking spread over 47 acres around the campus, every time I want to go outside the campus I'll have 100 congregated peoples smoke to walk through! :mad:
Also trinity has a large residential population. What happens to them?
What happens the tourists who come everyday? They can hardly keep of the grass. I suppose well have security coming along and whipping the cigarettes out of their hands.
As a non smoker I'd prefer if they left it the same.

BlutendeRabe · 22-11-2013 6:38pm

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

I hate having to go into the Arts building because i know ill have to walk by dozens of people smoking. Cant wait til smoking is banned on campus

A) Use the goddamn side entrance near the 24 hour reading room if you find it that bad. (Few people use it)

Come on. How long does it take to weave your way through the evil smokers? 5 seconds top.

C) As above, if they ban it you'll have to do the same through the Nassau street gate.

D) Your post wasn't a rant, a bitch or a moan. It was a whine.

Monsieur Folie · 23-11-2013 3:29pm

My password has suddenly stopped working for blackboard & the TCD wifi.

Perfect timing too, since this weekend is the only time so far I've had an assignment due through blackboard.

Anyone know why my account would be locked like this? I haven't forgotten my password cos it's the same one I used just yesterday that was working fine.. Guess it's over to ISS on monday morning..

Jammyc · 23-11-2013 8:27pm

Monsieur Folie wrote: »

My password has suddenly stopped working for blackboard & the TCD wifi.
Perfect timing too, since this weekend is the only time so far I've had an assignment due through blackboard.

Anyone know why my account would be locked like this? I haven't forgotten my password cos it's the same one I used just yesterday that was working fine.. Guess it's over to ISS on monday morning..

Has your password expired? It has to be changed every few months, I can't remember how often exactly but I think its roughly every 6 months or so.

Lawliet · 23-11-2013 11:49pm

Jammyc wrote: »

Has your password expired? It has to be changed every few months, I can't remember how often exactly but I think its roughly every 6 months or so.

I thought that system had stopped, I've had the same password since summer of 2012 and never been notified to change it like I use to be

lfqnic · 24-11-2013 1:12pm

Lawliet wrote: »

I thought that system had stopped, I've had the same password since summer of 2012 and never been notified to change it like I use to be

Me too...

Monsieur Folie · 24-11-2013 10:35pm

I tried again this morning and it appears to be working now. So a little bit more relaxed, although this is still rant-worthy material as I'd hoped to get all of my work done yesterday!

The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread - Part 2

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