I can haz general discussion? 2!!

barleybooley · 15-12-2014 8:06pm

Toshi101 wrote: »

just past two of the security team at one of the entrances sitting on a wall on tinder. Working hard.

Heh heh heh not in this cold :pac:

mickstupp · 15-12-2014 9:48pm

I've dodgy knees and a bad back and I could easily outrun a bunch of those security guards.

Swan Curry · 15-12-2014 9:51pm

Stone cold sober at midday and one security guard wouldn't let me into the apartments. A few hours later, I stumbled past five of them into the same apartment. Guess they had the strict ones out early.

I thought the security were great though, they were friendly and helpful any time I spoke to them.

Westeros · 16-12-2014 10:38am

It is eerily quiet around campus today, a lot of sore heads I would imagine :P

Pudsy33 · 16-12-2014 10:43am

How was last night? Any issues? As amazed with the amount of security around yesterday. Town looks clean this morning though!

Toshi101 · 16-12-2014 11:28am

worst part about getting up to volunteer to clean the streets at 7.45 in the morning? Not being around for the photo and not being tagged as absent in it. All I want is some damn recognition!! :P

thelad95 · 16-12-2014 2:49pm

Pudsy33 wrote: »

How was last night? Any issues? As amazed with the amount of security around yesterday. Town looks clean this morning though!

Loads of people blocked Main St singing the Yaya-Kolo Toure song for about an hour. I don't think that can be put down to Xmas day. That trick is as old as the town itself.

thelad95 · 20-12-2014 12:35am

So they decide to send out an e-mail about making sure your belongings are safe before you leave at 20 to 4 on the last day of the term when the vast majority of students have probably already gone home...

suitcasepink · 20-12-2014 1:17am

thelad95 wrote: »

So they decide to send out an e-mail about making sure your belongings are safe before you leave at 20 to 4 on the last day of the term when the vast majority of students have probably already gone home...

I thought that too lol
Like I guess its common sense really, but why bother send it then as opposed to Thursday..

banquo · 20-12-2014 1:38am

thelad95 wrote: »

So they decide to send out an e-mail about making sure your belongings are safe before you leave at 20 to 4 on the last day of the term when the vast majority of students have probably already gone home...

Welcome to Maynooth.

TheBody · 25-12-2014 12:57pm

Happy Christmas everyone!

PictureFrame · 03-01-2015 7:10pm

That time of year again

:(:(

thelad95 · 03-01-2015 7:15pm

Is there any plans to change exams to before Christmas? I don't see the point starting the year so late (pretty much October), then having a mid-term break after what 4 weeks of the term? Is there a reason the college starts so late?

The next couple of weeks will be murderous and I couldn't enjoy Christmas with the exams hanging over me.

mickstupp · 03-01-2015 7:22pm

thelad95 wrote: »

Is there any plans to change exams to before Christmas?

I, for one, certainly hope not.

I need this amount of time to feel like I'm going to do my best in exams. It's awful having just a week between the end of classes and start of exams in summer. Way too much stress. Much prefer it like this.

Though I may be in a minority.

CSSE09 · 03-01-2015 8:27pm

Look on the bright side some colleges wait until the summer to do both semesters exams.

thelad95 · 03-01-2015 8:29pm

CSSE09 wrote: »

Look on the bright side some colleges wait until the summer to do both semesters exams.

I think only Trinity do that.

XxMCRxBabyxX · 03-01-2015 8:37pm

thelad95 wrote: »

I think only Trinity do that.

I think either Cork or Galway just changed over from doing it too.

PopePalpatine · 03-01-2015 8:39pm

I honestly can't make head or tail of CS258. The exam papers are like reading the most turgid of John Waters' rants.

Kiwi_knock · 03-01-2015 10:42pm

The SU last year went on a big push to move the exams before Christmas. They ran a poll on the Freshers Facebook group which largely supported moving the exams. They didn't bother asking anyone else. They then presented the findings to the University Authorities who basically didn't accept them because it was such a small sample and it wasn't representative of the whole student body. So there is no plans in the future to change the date of exams.

I much prefer starting exams after Christmas. Having one week to study everything is far too much pressure.

XxMCRxBabyxX · 03-01-2015 10:54pm

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

The SU last year went on a big push to move the exams before Christmas. They ran a poll on the Freshers Facebook group which largely supported moving the exams. They didn't bother asking anyone else. They then presented the findings to the University Authorities who basically didn't accept them because it was such a small sample and it wasn't representative of the whole student body. So there is no plans in the future to change the date of exams.

I much prefer starting exams after Christmas. Having one week to study everything is far too much pressure.

Did they? I heard nothing about that!

suitcasepink · 04-01-2015 2:19am

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

Did they? I heard nothing about that!

I remember the poll on the group page last year (I was a fresher obviously!) and it was obvious what we thought/wanted but I never heard anything after.. This poll was probably 12 months ago.

It was a strange method really, thought they'd have an actual "in college vote" or something

mickstupp · 04-01-2015 9:23am

I've often gotten the annoying impression that the SU assumes everyone is on Facebook and so don't bother themselves to announce things by other means. Certainly would've made sense asking people who were in other years, and had actually gone through a heap of exams what their opinion was.

04-01-2015 5:40pm

I'd be so pissed if that had passed on that poll alone. Is it just me or has the SU gone from bad to worse lately?

thelad95 · 04-01-2015 5:44pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I'd be so pissed if that had passed on that poll alone. Is it just me or has the SU gone from bad to worse lately?

As a fresher, I feel they could do more for us than just telling us how much craic Freshers week is and how boring lectures are.

PopePalpatine · 04-01-2015 7:21pm

I haven't stopped regretting that time I went to a protest about fees at the beginning of my second year. I spent the rest of that year catching up with the rest of the class.

barleybooley · 05-01-2015 3:29am

Wide awake. Boyfriend snoring loudly. Chances of quality sleep rapidly approaching 0. Panic over next semester rising. Sunday nights are always trolling the sh1t out of me.

barleybooley · 05-01-2015 3:31am

Deleted User wrote: »

I'd be so pissed if that had passed on that poll alone. Is it just me or has the SU gone from bad to worse lately?

Some say it all started with a man in a dress singing to the masses and urging them to "get down on Friday".

Toshi101 · 05-01-2015 5:49pm

anyone know what time the starbucks in the library closes at today?

Toshi101 · 05-01-2015 6:05pm

Toshi101 wrote: »

anyone know what time the starbucks in the library closes at today?

8 p.m

Toshi101 · 05-01-2015 6:05pm

Toshi101 wrote: »

8 p.m

Thanks!

banquo · 06-01-2015 8:25am

The Home Alone house is for sale.

How so Joe · 06-01-2015 5:22pm

banquo wrote: »

The Home Alone house is for sale.

Or it was... In 2011!

banquo · 06-01-2015 8:04pm

Oh yeah. This was in my Google News feed today! This isn't news!

How so Joe · 06-01-2015 10:17pm

banquo wrote: »

Oh yeah. This was in my Google News feed today! This isn't news!

Fact-checking. Banquo has no need of it.

mickstupp · 06-01-2015 10:19pm

FIERCE cramming going on here.

thelad95 · 06-01-2015 10:23pm

Just a few trivial questions. Do you have to sign in before an exam? Can you leave early?

Lara_15 · 06-01-2015 10:24pm

Lol exams, h8 dat

mickstupp · 06-01-2015 10:25pm

Don't have to sign in, unless that's a new rule. You leave your ID on the desk and they come around and check it, make sure you are who you are, maybe look inside your pencil case or whatever.

Think if it's a 2 or 3 hour exam, you can leave after the first hour.
If it's a 90 minute exam, you're not allowed leave.

How so Joe · 06-01-2015 10:26pm

thelad95 wrote: »

Just a few trivial questions. Do you have to sign in before an exam? Can you leave early?

No, they'll check your student card during the exam, you don't have to sign in beforehand.
You can leave early if the exam is two hours or more - after the first half hour, iirc, but it's a few years since I was doing exams, so I'm open to correction on that.

Kiwi_knock · 06-01-2015 10:34pm

The only thing you have to do is check your seat number beforehand, that will be on a sheet outside the exam hall. You can't leave a 45, 60 or 90 min exam early. For 2 and 3 hour exams, you can leave after the 1st hour but can't leave in the last 20 mins.

JellyBeans92 · 06-01-2015 10:50pm

Does anyone know when the timetables for the semester 2 exams will be published? I know I'm getting ahead of myself here, just I've an invitation to a celebration abroad towards the end of May and need to RSVP, book flights etc.
:pac:

suitcasepink · 06-01-2015 10:53pm

JellyBeans92 wrote: »

Does anyone know when the timetables for the semester 2 exams will be published? I know I'm getting ahead of myself here, just I've an invitation to a celebration abroad towards the end of May and need to RSVP, book flights etc.
:pac:

It's not usually until April I think is it?
I'm going to a concert myself on the 28th and I'm praying I don't have a half 3 exam that day.. Especially as I think many of my exams next semester are 3 hours

PopePalpatine · 06-01-2015 11:08pm

I honestly can't find anything on the NUIM website about bus timetables for the exams. It's pretty tempting to just get a bus to Dublin and a train out to Maynooth just so I'm not paying the usual wanker whose bus I take. He's an absolute prick to deal with.

mickstupp · 06-01-2015 11:11pm

JellyBeans92 wrote: »

Does anyone know when the timetables for the semester 2 exams will be published? I know I'm getting ahead of myself here, just I've an invitation to a celebration abroad towards the end of May and need to RSVP, book flights etc.
:pac:

They start on May 15th and run for two weeks. If you book anything for the end of May, before you see the timetable, I think you're probably asking for the universe to slap you across the head.

Of course, I'm not recommending this... but there's always the repeats in August. It'll cost you, though.

PopePalpatine wrote: »

I honestly can't find anything on the NUIM website about bus timetables for the exams. It's pretty tempting to just get a bus to Dublin and a train out to Maynooth just so I'm not paying the usual wanker whose bus I take. He's an absolute prick to deal with.

That's what I have to do, adds an hour onto the journey each way. Pain in the head.

suitcasepink · 07-01-2015 2:08am

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/at-least-four-women-killed-in-collision-near-athy-co-kildare-1.2057166

Tragic doesnt begin to cover it...
Thoughts are with their familys and friends.

Westeros · 07-01-2015 2:51am

deise_girl wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/at-least-four-women-killed-in-collision-near-athy-co-kildare-1.2057166

Tragic doesnt begin to cover it...
Thoughts are with their familys and friends.

Awful awful news! And to think I'm stressing over exams. Thoughts with all their family and friends.

TheBody · 07-01-2015 9:34am

They said on Today FM this morning that the girls were students from Maynooth University.

GarIT · 07-01-2015 10:58am

TheBody wrote: »

They said on Today FM this morning that the girls were students from Maynooth University.

The Gardaí haven't released the identities yet so I doubt it, or at least I doubt it has been confirmed.

suitcasepink · 07-01-2015 11:15am

GarIT wrote: »

The Gardaí haven't released the identities yet so I doubt it, or at least I doubt it has been confirmed.

A few of the papers were calling last night that the 5 of them were on their way back to Maynooth University.
The SU president has mentioned on the FB pages that the HQ would be open for people needing to talk, so unless they've been told?

spurious · 07-01-2015 12:24pm

Please, a number of families and friends of these women are grieving.
Let's not speculate on any possible causes of the accident. The Garda investigation will deal with that.

I myself went to a college that suffered a similar loss of life the year before I started. Its effect was felt in the college for years. R.I.P.

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