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TheBody · 12-05-2015 9:18am

mickstupp wrote: »

I have zero desire to do any study whatsoever. It's such a nice day outside I think I'd prefer to just play video games.

It's a nice day out, so you want to stay inside???

Wendero · 12-05-2015 10:04am

Is the gym open during exam seasons? What about during the summer?

PopePalpatine · 12-05-2015 10:14am

The gym is closed while the exams are on, because the sports halls are used for exams.

Wendero · 12-05-2015 10:18am

Makes sense. Does it open again once exams are over?

Alt_Grrr · 12-05-2015 10:20am

Wendero wrote: »

Makes sense. Does it open again once exams are over?

Yes.

12-05-2015 11:59am

I'm pretty sure the gym is open during exams. Open to correction though. The summer is a glorious time in the gym though, basically becomes a near private gym.

thelad95 · 12-05-2015 12:59pm

What do ye think is the latest time to get a seat in the library. Didn't get in until 10 this morning and the place was pretty full. I consider myself lucky to have gotten a seat to be honest.

suitcasepink · 12-05-2015 1:59pm

thelad95 wrote: »

What do ye think is the latest time to get a seat in the library. Didn't get in until 10 this morning and the place was pretty full. I consider myself lucky to have gotten a seat to be honest.

I think it really just depends on luck tbh
Obviously if you go as soon as the library opens youll get one, but ive never gone to the library to study before 12 and ive always managed to get somewhere. And just be clever like around lunch time/after lunch have a snoop around to see if theres a better seat available (eg a booth or one with a socket) and again around when people would be leaving for dinner.

Somehow or another Ive never had to actually walk out of the library from it.

I really should be in Maynooth right now, getting nothing done at home arghhhhhh

marko93 · 12-05-2015 4:30pm

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure the gym is open during exams. Open to correction though. The summer is a glorious time in the gym though, basically becomes a near private gym.

Pretty sure you're right. It was open during the Christmas exam period, so I don't see why it wouldn't be for the summer exams.

Pope, Gym != Sports Hall

aaabbbb · 12-05-2015 6:37pm

marko93 wrote: »

Pretty sure you're right. It was open during the Christmas exam period, so I don't see why it wouldn't be for the summer exams.

Pope, Gym != Sports Hall

Just the sports halls themselves are closed.

PopePalpatine · 12-05-2015 7:51pm

Now that I think of it, I think the gym was closed between the end of the January exams and the beginning of the second semester.

thelad95 · 12-05-2015 7:54pm

I remember people complaining last January about the sound of treadmills when doing exams.

mickstupp · 12-05-2015 8:33pm

Few years ago had a crap exam in one of the sports halls where all we could hear was muppets doing weights.

PopePalpatine · 12-05-2015 11:13pm

I think I can remember someone posting here about getting distracted by the noises made by people using the gym, and I think someone else suggested talking to the examiners about it.

Stinjy · 13-05-2015 3:14am

For those who were talking about getting seats in the library, if you dont care where you sit you should get one at any time, if you want a (working)socket you need to be in latest at 9 I found last year.. there are people there as sokn as it opens and closer to exams = less seats..

Are they still leaving notes on unattended desks?

thelad95 · 14-05-2015 3:48pm

It appears Facebook has been blocked on the college wifi..

Dickie10 · 14-05-2015 3:58pm

iv taken to studying at home, actually getting on well and saving diesel goin to maynooth ,. i plugged out broadband there for a few hours was a great job just books and notes

thelad95 · 14-05-2015 4:37pm

Does the library open earlier during exams? I've an exam at 9:30 tomorrow and I am sincerely screwed for it. Could do with some early morning cramming

Kiwi_knock · 14-05-2015 4:48pm

thelad95 wrote: »

Does the library open earlier during exams? I've an exam at 9:30 tomorrow and I am sincerely screwed for it. Could do with some early morning cramming

Library opens at 8 but you can always try the reading room in the Arts Block, that should be open from 7 onwards.

banquo · 14-05-2015 10:00pm

thelad95 wrote: »

It appears Facebook has been blocked on the college wifi..

Do you mean on college computers, or the actual WiFi?

thelad95 · 14-05-2015 10:09pm

banquo wrote: »

Do you mean on college computers, or the actual WiFi?

For like an hour today, anyone using the college wi-fi couldn't access Facebook. It was working on eduroam though.

Dickie10 · 14-05-2015 11:34pm

that could be a godsend in fairness

thelad95 · 14-05-2015 11:40pm

Dickie10 wrote: »

that could be a godsend in fairness

I think some colleges have it blocked from 9-5. It is amazing the amount of people who sit down at a valuable plug space for hours on end on Facebook. I'm one of them to be honest!

mickstupp · 15-05-2015 8:41am

Good luck everyone!

thelad95 · 15-05-2015 8:53am

Is it weird that what I'm dreading most is those eight eejits with really loud shoes who stand there looking at your ID and pencil case for half an hour each?

SiobhainD · 15-05-2015 12:49pm

Lads Is there any other place to study on campus? Can we go into empty lecture halls? I was thinking of heading into iontas but just wanted to check you even can. I've been pretty unsuccessfully in getting a seat unless i go in after 6pm or a friend leaves and gives me one. I'm not having much luck at home!

Pudsy33 · 15-05-2015 12:53pm

SiobhainD wrote: »

Lads Is there any other place to study on campus? Can we go into empty lecture halls? I was thinking of heading into iontas but just wanted to check you even can. I've been pretty unsuccessfully in getting a seat unless i go in after 6pm or a friend leaves and gives me one. I'm not having much luck at home!

I've often studied in empty lecture halls. You may not get into Iontas with the foyer being used for exams but try upstairs in JH.

thelad95 · 15-05-2015 12:55pm

SiobhainD wrote: »

Lads Is there any other place to study on campus? Can we go into empty lecture halls? I was thinking of heading into iontas but just wanted to check you even can. I've been pretty unsuccessfully in getting a seat unless i go in after 6pm or a friend leaves and gives me one. I'm not having much luck at home!

I think most of JH is locked up at the moment. I think you're best bet is to try get into the library before 10am, it seems to be prettty much full to capacity by then.

XxMCRxBabyxX · 15-05-2015 1:10pm

Pudsy33 wrote: »

I've often studied in empty lecture halls. You may not get into Iontas with the foyer being used for exams but try upstairs in JH.

Upstairs in JH are exam rooms. Don't go there.

Arts block? I normally give a space in the reading room and there's also the halls.

D_s · 17-05-2015 5:58pm

Anyone know what new building is gonna be on the construction site in North Campus beside the apartments (Not the nearly finished Eolas building, the new site right down the back by the pitches).

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