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Official bitch about daily life in UL

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  • #92
    ninty9er
    Registered Users Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    ergonomics wrote: »
    4th year. Nuff said.
    +1

    I'm almost crying at the thought it's week 10 and not being able to motivate myself to study anything

    FYP meeting tomorrow to discuss starting a new topic:(


  • #93
    Harpy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭Harpy


    ninty9er wrote: »
    +1

    I'm almost crying at the thought it's week 10 and not being able to motivate myself to study anything

    FYP meeting tomorrow to discuss starting a new topic:(

    i agree, have an assignment due friday not a notion whats going on..and then another one next week.. and i don't even have a supervisor yet im scared to ask at this stage!! i think i might bite the bullet tomorrow and email some people and hopefully someone will have me at this late stage..i miss last year


  • #94
    ergonomics
    Registered Users Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭ergonomics


    People in the library who use laptop networked desks when they don't have a laptop. Why not use a normal desk?


  • #95
    Mossin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Mossin


    ergonomics wrote: »
    People in the library who use laptop networked desks when they don't have a laptop. Why not use a normal desk?

    This is also something that annoys the sh1t out of me!!


    As for my day....I had a presentation which went fantastically :)
    I'm so happy with it.

    Also, the minutes silence held in college today was excellent.


  • #96
    Harpy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭Harpy


    ergonomics wrote: »
    People in the library who use laptop networked desks when they don't have a laptop. Why not use a normal desk?

    +1 on that it wrecks me!

    also me and econometrics do not have a good relationship at the moment, im so confused with this assignment!


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  • #97
    procstar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭procstar


    ergonomics wrote: »
    People in the library who use laptop networked desks when they don't have a laptop. Why not use a normal desk?

    people that use laptops in the library in the first place; does my head in


  • #98
    Mossin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Mossin


    procstar wrote: »
    people that use laptops in the library in the first place; does my head in

    WHAT?! :eek:

    Why?

    I dont understand why this "does your head in".

    *Scratching head in utter disbelief*


  • #99
    procstar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭procstar


    Mossin wrote: »
    WHAT?! :eek:

    Why?

    I dont understand why this "does your head in".
    *Scratching head in utter disbelief*

    nothing against the use of laptops there, but only if they use them in the ground floor place. so bloody annoying trying to study when the person beside u comes in with a laptop and click clicks there way through "interesting sites" like bebo when other folks want place to study. :mad:

    added to that being asked to keep an eye on it whilst they go for a 2 hour lunch. like ya!


  • #100
    ergonomics
    Registered Users Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭ergonomics


    If the people beside you are annoying you by going on Bebo etc. then I reason you are at a laptop wired desk so you brought it on yourself.

    If they're beside you at a normal desk then yes, it is a pain, but you're just as likely to get someone chatting away about how they were 'absolutely twisted in the Lodge last night' for half an hour.

    I've never used the laptop area downstairs but considering I spent 5 minutes trying to find a laptop wired desk yesterday I'll assume there won't be anyway near enough laptop ports for everyone in the library. Anyway, my books are on the top floor at the furtherest point from the stairs. Excuse me if I'd rather not run up and down all the stairs every time I want a book!


  • #101
    procstar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭procstar


    ergonomics wrote: »

    Excuse me if I'd rather not run up and down all the stairs every time I want a book!

    u cud always walk; or get the lift ;)


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  • #102
    ergonomics
    Registered Users Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭ergonomics


    procstar wrote: »
    u cud always walk; or get the lift ;)

    And you could sit at a normal desk ;)


  • #103
    klong
    Registered Users Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭klong


    Postgrad study room locked- what the funk???


  • #104
    cson
    Registered Users Posts: 14,399 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Smell of education in here...:eek:


  • #105
    procstar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭procstar


    cson wrote: »
    Smell of education in here...:eek:

    thought that smell was just you :D


  • #106
    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,171 ✭✭✭1huge1


    procstar wrote: »
    nothing against the use of laptops there, but only if they use them in the ground floor place. so bloody annoying trying to study when the person beside u comes in with a laptop and click clicks there way through "interesting sites" like bebo when other folks want place to study. :mad:

    added to that being asked to keep an eye on it whilst they go for a 2 hour lunch. like ya!
    One thing that really annoys me is nosy people who look at what other people are doing on the internet.

    Also would be handy if the library would open 24hrs during december for exams. They do that in a few colleges around ireland.


  • #107
    procstar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭procstar


    1huge1 wrote: »
    One thing that really annoys me is nosy people who look at what other people are doing on the internet.

    Also would be handy if the library would open 24hrs during december for exams. They do that in a few colleges around ireland.

    if you are worried about people looking at what you're at on the internet; have you something to hide. ;)

    it would be handy for 24 hour access; but im not complaining; when i started, the library was shut at 9 each evening and closed at weekends apart from a few hours on a satuday morning when most people were in bed anyway.


  • #108
    Mimibear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭Mimibear


    ergonomics wrote: »
    People in the library who use laptop networked desks when they don't have a laptop. Why not use a normal desk?

    That really gets my goat, why dont they bloody well improve the wireless net access on the second floor as well for flips sake and I'm sure it wouldnt kill em to put a few more internet cables in...


  • #109
    Mossin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Mossin


    8 hours today in the library trying to gt work done on an fyp that had to be put in the backburner due to having so many other projects to do.
    But could a person be allowed to work in peace?!!? NO :mad:

    Every 2 minutes someone would come and talk to the person sitting next to me it was ridiculous. I tried turning up the volume on my music, but then I couldnt concentrate properly.

    If you want to talk to someone, piss off somewhere quiet like the stairs!!!


  • #110
    Funkstard
    Registered Users Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭Funkstard


    Library will be open 24 hours at some stage in the future, so sez the librarians anyway. Good to see the plaza open late too, gives a bit of life to the canopy area in the evenings.


  • #111
    DJCR
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭DJCR


    Mossin wrote: »
    If you want to talk to someone, piss off somewhere quiet like the stairs!!!

    Did you ask them to???

    If not, shame on you, you should have told them to **** off like everyone else!!

    It's the same with people using bebo on compters - if you have a project to do, get the security guard to tell them to **** off aswell!!!


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  • #112
    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,171 ✭✭✭1huge1


    Funkstard wrote: »
    Library will be open 24 hours at some stage in the future, so sez the librarians anyway. Good to see the plaza open late too, gives a bit of life to the canopy area in the evenings.
    Ya 24hr library would be great especially during exam times, it would make cramming a hell of a lot easier


  • #113
    ninty9er
    Registered Users Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    I'm currently in the middle of an assignment for tomorrow at 4 with readings to sift through that are


    T
    T H
    H I
    I C
    S K

    Oh and 2 idiots sent me an "I have 2 rooms free next semester" email today.

    ITD has been notified and the offenders have a 1mb email to collect tomorrow:mad::mad:


  • #114
    Mossin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Mossin


    ninty9er wrote: »
    Oh and 2 idiots sent me an "I have 2 rooms free next semester" email today.

    ITD has been notified and the offenders have a 1mb email to collect tomorrow:mad::mad:

    Nice one Ninty!

    Those 2 idiots received very similar emails from me telling them exactly where to go!!

    Absolutely ridiculous, it took ages to open my email account from home because of those stupid mails :mad:


  • #115
    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,171 ✭✭✭1huge1


    ya got those emails too, but its not the first time i got emails like that on my UL account though those were the largest.


  • #116
    dyl10
    Registered Users Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭dyl10


    Out of curiosity, anyone know anything about the socialist youth group in UL?
    They sound like a bunch of tards


  • #117
    ninty9er
    Registered Users Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    Incidentally someone came in to me at work yesterday to know how to send an email to all students because she got one.

    I told her, and I quote:

    "you don't because if you do you'll get an angry email from me telling you you're a pain in the hole"

    One of my colleagues thought it was harsh, but she won't go sending an email, will she!!

    Also, at least one of those emails was only to people whose names begin with letters from A-E. IDIOTS, I'll give them A&E if I get my hands on them!


  • #118
    sceptre
    Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    ninty9er wrote: »
    Incidentally someone came in to me at work yesterday to know how to send an email to all students because she got one.

    I told her, and I quote:

    "you don't because if you do you'll get an angry email from me telling you you're a pain in the hole"

    One of my colleagues thought it was harsh, but she won't go sending an email, will she!!
    About 20 people came into me last year asking either how or asking me to send one (having been sent to me by lecturers). Only one of two answers was ever given: one was almost exactly like yours above and the other was "I can but I won't and here's why..."

    Realised during the week that I can't set up a server-side Outlook filter with an automatic response for the allstudents address as it's not in the address book list. Bit annoying that, while if there's a workaround I'll eventually find it, if anyone knows how to add a server-side filter for a hidden distribution list, please let me know by PM.
    dyl10 wrote: »
    Out of curiosity, anyone know anything about the socialist youth group in UL?
    They sound like a bunch of tards
    Well, they're exuberant young kids who kick doors occasionally at building openings and put up lots of posters.

    Side note: I was told by someone the other night (someone being some guy in my class that I didn't realise till then suffered from myopia) that I had been the one that (and I quote) "went mental" at the psudo-protest outside the ICO building the day Martin Cullen came to town. It took me a few minutes to realise that his bad eye-witness of a friend must have noticed me going to the door that was blocked by security guards, failed to notice me getting in and, not having noticed my disappearance, assumed that I was the socialist youth kid taking a sugar-fuelled jump at the door. Obviously I wasn't, indeed I was nice and dry from the rain inside at the time, giggling both at the footlaunchers outside and inside at the egos of a small number of the ICO crowd, specifically the woman on the internal door who thought she was controlling access to the Oval Office.

    I wouldn't say that the SY crowd are a bunch of tards, though I find it hard, even using their own logic, to reconcile their stated views on the introduction of college fees (a hard no) with the views you'd expect of a group that professes to be on the side of the tired, the poor, the huddled masses and so on. Even a fuzzy socialist like me finds it hard to believe at times that they're any more than a group of middle-class kids rebelling against their parents.


  • #119
    rmacm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭rmacm


    ninty9er wrote: »
    Incidentally someone came in to me at work yesterday to know how to send an email to all students because she got one.

    I told her, and I quote:

    "you don't because if you do you'll get an angry email from me telling you you're a pain in the hole"

    One of my colleagues thought it was harsh, but she won't go sending an email, will she!!

    Also, at least one of those emails was only to people whose names begin with letters from A-E. IDIOTS, I'll give them A&E if I get my hands on them!

    Why do people have to be uncivil to others? Ok I'm no angel myself but most of the time I try to be nice...rather than telling someone that they're a "pain in the hole" could you not have explained why you wouldn't do it for her and why she couldn't do it herself?

    I thought this had been solved to a certain extent I seem to remember it being mentioned that access to distribution lists had been removed from the general populous of UL and restricted to a lucky few. Oh well it could just be me imagining stuff....if not it's refreshing to see that things haven't changed.

    Granted I still think there's a technical solution to the problem of peoples stupidity like I suggested before a message board of some manner for stuff like room rental along with removing the right to mass mail people.
    sceptre wrote: »
    Realised during the week that I can't set up a server-side Outlook filter with an automatic response for the allstudents address as it's not in the address book list. Bit annoying that, while if there's a workaround I'll eventually find it, if anyone knows how to add a server-side filter for a hidden distribution list, please let me know by PM.

    From what I remember about Exchange Server I don't think it's doable for a non public distribution list. The closest thing I can think of is an out of office reply but that will apply to everything that ends up in your Inbox (of course this can be useful for those days when you're too hung over to reply to mails). Then again it's not what you're looking for so it's probably not much use to you.
    sceptre wrote: »
    Well, they're exuberant young kids who kick doors occasionally at building openings and put up lots of posters.

    Meh you can beat exuberance out of people if you try hard enough :D


  • #120
    ninty9er
    Registered Users Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    ninty9er wrote: »
    I told her, and I quote:

    "you don't because if you do you'll get an angry email from me telling you you're a pain in the hole"
    rmacm wrote: »
    Why do people have to be uncivil to others? Ok I'm no angel myself but most of the time I try to be nice...rather than telling someone that they're a "pain in the hole" could you not have explained why you wouldn't do it for her and why she couldn't do it herself?

    You see, I didn't call her a pain in the hole, but did imply I would if she did send the email.


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  • #121
    rmacm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭rmacm


    ninty9er wrote: »
    You see, I didn't call her a pain in the hole, but did imply I would if she did send the email.

    Meh I'd imagine it's all the same from her perspective. I've no idea how I managed to type so well given how drunk I was last night.


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