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

parker kent · 30-09-2011 4:42pm

Fad wrote: »

When and where was it advertised?

Every student received an email about the ucard. That email also directed them to this website:http://www.ucd.ie/ucard/ and http://www.ucd.ie/ucard/studentcard/

MacieC · 30-09-2011 9:54pm

Forgot ...

The RDS exams place. It's like hell on earth, the chairs really freak me out. Like double, stress exams + afraid the chair may break right in the middle of the exam (how embarrassing would that be).
Plus, it's always really cold there. I'm not even mentionning the weird smell.

Raphael · 01-10-2011 12:16pm

People who post rambling off topic discussions, and complaints about people complaining in a complaining thread so I have to tidy it up.

TimeToShine · 01-10-2011 3:28pm

how firefox is available in the start menu but you can't pin it to the desktop

windows 7, we should have an option to revert back to vista or XP.

how i can't set google as my homepage.

the lack of plugs in the library around exam time.

FB on suas computers

modules without blackboard or some form of online assistance.

computer science lecturers who still use transparency projectors

absolutely sh*t tables and chairs in the RDS, i would be seriously p*ssed if i had to take my final year exams on a wobbly table and flimsy chair in a room full of creaking.

Davidius · 02-10-2011 2:56am

I hate how crowded the place gets at the turn of the hour. You generally get people who for some reason congregate at the bottom or top of stairs. Why do people do this?

teotihuacan · 02-10-2011 5:34am

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

-The gimps who ram flyers in your face when your rushing for a lecture

-People clobbered head to toe in A&F and Hollister. What is up with that??

-People using FB on Suas computers

-The guy who wears a High-Vis jacket into lectures and constantly asks basic and pointless questions just to have his irritating voice heard. (This guy exists. He's in 4 of my 6 modules and waits behind every lecture to speak with the lecturer, probably asking stupid questions using ridiculously philosophical lingo in order to make himself sound intelligent. I have to bite my pen everytime he opens his mouth.)

-Cyclists doing 90 and nearly ending lives....

-That one RA who thinks he's running Auschwitz

-People who get to lecture theaters early, go to a completely empty row and sit right at the edge, so everyone has to climb over the fùcker.

-The evident lack of common sense in some people. (See above)

.....well that was somewhat therapeutic.

HavingCrack · 02-10-2011 3:48pm

teotihuacan wrote: »

-That one RA who thinks he's running Auschwitz

By any chance would he be the RA from another country?

littlefriend · 02-10-2011 8:37pm

HavingCrack wrote: »

By any chance would he be the RA from another country?

What does RA mean?

**Timbuk2** · 02-10-2011 8:41pm

jan shyr wrote: »

With that attitude, I hope others will continue to annoy you. You seem to deserve it.

I think the thread is intended as humour! Plus he's not wrong but all of his points!

littlefriend wrote: »

What does RA mean?

Residential Assistant, 3rd or 4th year students who work on campus residence, letting students into houses if they forget keys, breaking up parties, working as out-of-hours office staff, etc.

kev9100 · 02-10-2011 10:24pm

People who CONSTANTLY moan about/praise the SU. Besides the UCD ball, i'm really not interested in it.

The new printing system. The last one worked well, why change it?

People who ask questions in lectures. This especially applies to a certain mature student who is quite possibly the most irratating and condescending person I've ever met. She ruined last years history lectures for me.

That being said, I still really like UCD!

MacieC · 02-10-2011 10:54pm

Mature students who put themselves on a pedestal because they are supposedly older. Hence, they believe they are entitled to say to the lecturer that the other students are talking too loudly, and hence, they can't hear what the lecturer is saying.

Certain residential assistants who are totally useless (in particular those who can't see the difference between a package and an enveloppe haha).

Residences regulations for after 22.00 entries.

The whole UCD Ball wristbands disaster last year two days before the UCD Ball. What was the point of getting wristbands two days before the Ball ?! Plus, we had to get a new one everyday. Totally pointless. UCD totally went over the top, so messy. The whole UCD Ball security regulations was just ridiculous.

**Timbuk2** · 03-10-2011 9:22am

It also annoys me that there is no close Lidl or Aldi to UCD. For those staying on campus, it's a bit expensive to shop in Centra or Tesco all the time. The nearest Lidl (Dundrum) is a 25 min. walk away and the nearest Aldi is a 45 min. walk away (Rathmines - there's also a Tesco, Lidl and I think a Dunnes here too).

Raphael · 03-10-2011 12:34pm

...Ok, seriously people. This thread is not for starting interesting debates, it is for ranting about **** that annoys you. I'm going to start handing out infractions if people keep replying to posts with "Ah, it's not that bad", "God you're an awful whinger", etc.

calzini · 03-10-2011 12:51pm

Lab reports. Enough said.

Not being allowed guests over after 10pm. Especially guests that do actually live on campus, just not the same residence. It used to be midnight - midnight is a reasonable time, 10pm is not. I don't think wanting to have 2/3 friends over on a Sunday night for pizza when we get up is ridiculous. Also, having to let them out at the gate with my student card if it's after 10pm? Sorry, but what are security going to do? Keep them there all night because they don't have a merville-programmed card? They're leaving, surely that's preferable to them just going back up to my apartment for the night? So so annoying.

Having all my lectures in a classroom where the projection screen is slightly lower than all the seats (which are all on the same level bar 2 rows) so you can't see anything past the person in front of you >:( who thought that was a good idea?

RandolphEsq · 03-10-2011 1:33pm

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

It also annoys me that there is no close Lidl or Aldi to UCD. For those staying on campus, it's a bit expensive to shop in Centra or Tesco all the time. The nearest Lidl (Dundrum) is a 25 min. walk away and the nearest Aldi is a 45 min. walk away (Rathmines - there's also a Tesco, Lidl and I think a Dunnes here too).

The deals are there in Tesco, you just need to look. I assure you that Tesco is on par with Lidl and Aldi when you prey on their deals, if not cheaper in some instances.

Another 1st world concern today; the lack of covered, outdoor seating around campus. It is ridiculous how there are hardly any places to sit outside and be sheltered. Outside the JJ library, up against the wall there (where the grate runs along up to the book shop) there could be a bench to sit on. All that open area between Arts and Tierney should have covered seating instead of just gravel, that gravel area with the big pot plants just before the lake in between the JJ library and the Arts building should have some covered seating also. At least on wet days you should still be able to sit outside and be covered!

The posters should be banned from campus, they are just littering the place. TV screens could be put up in designated areas and societies can advertise on the screens instead.

Nichololas · 03-10-2011 3:28pm

All the students. Yeeugh.

honru · 03-10-2011 6:11pm

I'm satisfied with pretty much everything except the prices for food and drink in most places including the student bar. Also Blackboard could be made easier to navigate, although I feel the onus is on lecturers to make this happen. Some of my lecturers have made it very easy to work through folders and find materials, while others have documents all over the shop.

Stasya_x · 03-10-2011 6:30pm

The lack of coke on campus. I used to think I liked pepsi max. I now realise I do not thanks to UCD.

Siuin · 03-10-2011 8:32pm

I hate the people who write in library books and screw them up, or even worse- then have conversations through a book and write the most retarded things. At least the former can sometimes be useful, having fights through a book is just plain pathetic.

BarneyTrouble · 03-10-2011 10:46pm

I really cant believe nobody has yet mentioned the parking or lack thereof!

8.50 Parking everywhere
9.05 No parking anywhere????

The ****ty public transport to the largest university in the country?
Why no rail or luas spur?

Riveta · 04-10-2011 1:58pm

The printing change over is doing my nut in! Why can't they just do it all in one swoop over a weekend when it's quiet? There's not actual working card top up stations at the moment in the libaray as far as I know...

longhalloween · 05-10-2011 11:56pm

A certain history lecturer who wouldn't put notes on BlackBoard because he was afraid of his intellectual property being stolen.

History tutors who never studied the particular module they're teaching.

The distance of the college from the city centre and the need to travel to the city centre first to get any kind of transport to the college.

The fact that the college is in D4 and most accommodation is extremely expensive.
(I payed 400e a month for a box room, a friend in Letterkenny payed 360 a month for a 2 bed house)

triseke · 06-10-2011 12:04am

People stopping randomly to chat to their friends on the staircases really piss me off, especially when they give you the death stare for bumping into them...

RandolphEsq · 06-10-2011 2:28am

triseke wrote: »

People stopping randomly to chat to their friends on the staircases really piss me off, especially when they give you the death stare for bumping into them...

+1 to this, so annoying.

Working in a bar though I am used to pushing past people who are blocking me so almost unintentionally I find myself ushering them out of my way!

jimi_t2 · 06-10-2011 11:50am

Canvassers for Mary Davis outside the Arts Block a couple weeks back :eek: Surely this isn't allowed on campus? One of the children of the corn moved into my path to block me off at the steps, pure chugger tactics, as I was running to a lecture. Left the ****er a little less earnest to do it again.

UCD managed to double the security on campus and yet closed most of the services desks, closed the Trap and short-staffed essential services like the programme office. The level of security is completely needless btw, we didn't have any of the Pulse SS around in my first year or two in the college and got along just fine. Treat students like animals and they tend to act like animals.

Any chance they'd buy a couple of toilet seats for the lads jacks under the library? Be kinda handy after 3 years. (The new toilets by in the basement of the arts block are amazing to be fair)

Mature students over the age of 40 in undergraduate lectures, especially the freshers who pick 3rd year modules and completely ruin our tutorials with declarative statements posed as questions. Oh, and ESPECIALLY the ones in sociology tutorials who start off with ''Well, I disagree - as a mother...''

Extra points to the one in my Foucault lecture at the beginning of the year. Bit of background - Foucault engaged in gay sex but didn't consider himself a homoseuxal.

People are obviously a bit incredulous and there's a bit of laugher. Lecturer (in Th.M - 300 odd people) gives the analogy ''Well if you bake a cake does that make you a baker?''

Brazen menopausal wagon at the back shouts down from the top of the hall

''Well that's completely wrong as an analogy. A baker is an occupation, whereas homosexuality is a mental condition''

Cue 300 odd people turning slowly around to stare her out of it. The lecturer was absolutely flabbergasted - first ''question'' I've heard asked in a lecture hall of that size.

WeeBushy · 07-10-2011 4:14pm

Fantastic rant Jim. On the toilet point, the ones in daedalus were a disgrace today. Are people incapable of pissing in the bowl instead of all over the seat and floor? You'd swear someone ran in mid piss thinking the cubicle was on fire and tried to put it out, it was everywhere.

bigred100 · 07-10-2011 4:53pm

WeeBushy wrote: »

Fantastic rant Jim. On the toilet point, the ones in daedalus were a disgrace today. Are people incapable of pissing in the bowl instead of all over the seat and floor? You'd swear someone ran in mid piss thinking the cubicle was on fire and tried to put it out, it was everywhere.

And once again Piss Out Fire Man was lambasted for saving the day

Siuin · 07-10-2011 5:07pm

I really can't understand certain foreign students who come to UCD to learn English, and all the while insist on only hanging out with people who speak their mothertongue and refuse to practice outside of the bare necessity of college work. If you're going to pay all that money to come here with a specific aim, the least they could do is make an effort. Particularly annoying with some of the Spanish students who hang out in hoards screaming at each other :rolleyes:

GoldenTickets · 07-10-2011 6:51pm

How each year you overhear some sap of a first year talking about the tunnels behind the lecture theatres in the Arts Block as if they're the first people in the world ever to discover them.

How each year his douche of a friend answers by claiming he discovered a secret entrance to the tunnels when wandering around drunk and spent the night exploring the super cool subterranean campus.

Raphael · 07-10-2011 8:52pm

dyl10 & jimi, I've deleted your posts. Count yourself lucky I'm too drunk to be arsed infracting you.

Ontopic: The fact that my smartphone tells me about reported posts when I'm busily trying to get quagmired.

HavingCrack · 07-10-2011 9:29pm

RA's on massive power trips. I thought security can be bad but two of the RA's in particular make Pulse look cute and cuddly. FFS, does having 8 people in a house without any music neccessitate a fine?

RandolphEsq · 08-10-2011 1:28pm

._. · 09-10-2011 1:31am

Mods who delete my posts for absolutely no reason.

RandolphEsq wrote: »

http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/internet-memes-first-world-problems-but-i-already-have-the-iphone3.jpg

^ Also his, I wanted to buy that.
AND Steve Jobs died, sh!t week for technology $:\$

Shane L · 09-10-2011 4:11pm

Doubling security...I don't get it.They walk about all day with nothing to do and sometimes I get asked random questions like where am I off to or something along those lines.I honestly think they are just so bored and there was never any trouble last year all that was required was the jeep going around.

HavingCrack · 09-10-2011 6:05pm

Doubling security but cutting back on all other services. FFS, having a manned service desk in arts is surely more important than having an extra jeep driving around at 2pm.

Paul Tergat · 09-10-2011 6:55pm

smurfit librarys opening hours. for a library designed mainly for postgrads who need to be studying all year round its not open on sundays and closes early some nights during the week. pretty annoying

buzzymam · 11-10-2011 6:02pm

The clocks in the Health Sciences Lec theaters.... 3 clocks, 3 different times, 70 difference minutes between them.

Musefan · 11-10-2011 7:48pm

1. The lovely individuals who like to throw snowballs at people entering/exiting the library (managed to land one into my bag alongside my laptop-that was greatly appreciated, thanks!)

2. The lovely individuals who think it is nice to throw bottles at you when you are coming home from the library, while they are heading out.

3. Putting in a maintenance request form in residences and never getting what you requested done, and then being charged for it from your deposit.

Conor108 · 11-10-2011 9:07pm

I know it's been mentioned but Windows 7 on the SUAS computers.

I thought I was gonna graduate before it logged me in today

thimbleking · 12-10-2011 11:47am

That stupid contemplation room in Quinn is pointless, and its pointlessness annoys me.

OneOfThem Stumbled · 12-10-2011 12:37pm

Construction work on the new Science building.

It's ugly, inconvenient, I'll be long gone before it's finished, it wouldn't be of any use to me even if it was, and they still have to finish the new Student Centre and get started on the Sutherland School of Law!

Ilyana · 12-10-2011 6:24pm

Yer man singing Nessun Dorma outside the James Joyce library today...anyone hear him?!

He was quite entertaining, albeit totally distracting!

Wonderstruck · 12-10-2011 10:39pm

EmilyO wrote: »

Yer man singing Nessun Dorma outside the James Joyce library today...anyone hear him?!

He was quite entertaining, albeit totally distracting!

I heard someone signing, I think it was that in Glenmena... it was weird because I was outside and he was like three floors up!

littlefriend · 12-10-2011 11:37pm

There were 3 or 4 groups of ignorant pricks in a lecture I was in today (Millennium Development Goals) - having full blown conversations and laughing etc for the whole lecture - whilst on their laptops looking through photos on fb. Seriously why the hell bother going to the lecture if that is what you are going to do? Really annoyed me! I have to sit at the back of lecture halls atm as I can't really manage to get down the stairs nearer the front - all the talking is doing my head in.

GoldFour4 · 12-10-2011 11:48pm

Had a lecture today and the lecturer was just so utterly useless. Couldnt control a normally well behaved tutorial class. Didnt explain things at all.

._. · 13-10-2011 12:14am

The boarded off bit of land where the new law school will be built.

This pisses me off several times a day because it forces everybody going to/from Merville, Glenomena and the two Roebucks to walk along a narrow little path.
But every single time there's somebody strolling along in front of you and 9 times out of 10 there's not enough room to walk around them. Does my head in and is really annoying when I'm running late.

Ilyana · 13-10-2011 2:15am

Wonderstruck wrote: »

I heard someone signing, I think it was that in Glenmena... it was weird because I was outside and he was like three floors up!

Really? I was on the second floor of JJ library overlooking the lake and it sounded like he was right outside...perhaps he was showcasing all over UCD :pac:

bnt · 13-10-2011 6:55pm

I get annoyed when footpaths take strange routes, just to accommodate car parks etc. You can see this in e.g. the new car park outside Newstead, where the path meanders around parking spaces and ends up in the middle of nowhere; or the route from Richview & Newstead to the main campus which has been partly blocked by the new Student Centre for years now. Footpaths should go in straight lines between the places people need to be, otherwise people will just cut the corner(s) and trample the grass. It's axiomatic: to a person on foot, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

._. · 14-10-2011 12:25am

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.

**Timbuk2** · 14-10-2011 12:35am

._. 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'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!

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

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