Irish Independent/Times Exam Diaries (Should be ashamed!)

m-i-t-s-u-k-o · 12-06-2008 7:08pm

LOl besides Ross O Carrol Kelly's already done that.. Mind you Ross O Carroll Kelly is fictional.. she's not... which is what worries me...

ZorbaTehZ · 12-06-2008 7:13pm

janeybabe wrote: »

I was just thinking about my friend who got 600 first time. He went on to do medicine. He's highly intelligent and studied hard but failed chemistry in first year and had to spend the summer studyin for the repeats. Medicine is not that easy!

I can tell you as a med student, that I'd be surprised if she made it through 5 years of Medicine. Very surprised.

Conor108 · 12-06-2008 7:41pm

After a troubled night's sleep I woke up early and went online, determined to get the shoes that would kick Irish to the kerb.

I found them on eBay; a divine pair of Christian Louboutim. At $900 (€575) they were practically giving them away. Yes, it's a ridiculous luxury, but a girl's gotta do .

Oh Christ:eek: Just stay in the school love

MattD · 12-06-2008 7:49pm

Forgot to mention that shoe thing as well before. She just opitomises the D4 airhead, cash splashing, pompous cows who really should be exterminated.

Yeah, she clearly is just trying to get Medicine just to be able to say thats what shes doing. She's probably not even smart, but will just get those points cuz she knows the course like the back of her hand.

She will fail spectacularly in life.

Who even wants a doctor like that? 'Uh ya, you, loike, have a brain tumour. But your bag is divine! Whered you loike get it'

Ciks · 12-06-2008 8:00pm

It just goes to show - there must be huge flaws in the Leaving cert programme if people like that are getting such high points!:p

beautiation · 12-06-2008 8:26pm

Heartbreaker guys: Laura's taken. She must have needed to tell us that to stop all the boardsies sending in marraige proposals through the times.

Lol at her self-congratulatory "I just won't quit!" attitude, like she's some kind of heroine for enduring another year of dossing about at the institute in pursuit of her dreams. What's funny is that medicine is just as hard at the leaving, so if she continues at this rate she won't finish her undergrad for 20 years.

cHaTbOx · 12-06-2008 8:40pm

Is it just me or does she sound like that one from legally blonde??:pac:

Ciks · 12-06-2008 9:41pm

No. It's worse. Its like a bad joke - she's desperately trying to be funny be no-one's laughing. (except maybe with disbelief)

PrivateEye · 12-06-2008 10:15pm

Ciks wrote: »

she'd be sent to Iraq to do a piece on war

..for the cost of a pair of shoes, we could maybe do a fundraiser, and send her off on a little shopping trip to Basra.

the 'traumatised d4 head surronded by tanks chic' look is in.

irishbucsfan · 12-06-2008 10:18pm

I think her writing style is fantastic and the points that she makes are all interesting and I always feel intellectually revived after reading her exam diary each morning

[size=-7]just testing the water here, see what response I get to this[/size]

Livo · 12-06-2008 10:19pm

was talking to my friend's mum today who is a doctor, she said it would be a disgrace if she got into medicine. but apparently the failure rate of first year med exams is very high, if she has to do three leavings to get in in the first place how's she going to deal with that sort of pressure?

she's a fool, seriously, love how she said she hasn't got much acclaim for her column because of how preoccupied everyone is with their own exams... no love, it's cos you insist on patronising us every day by telling us how many points you have "under your baroque princess bed", how posh you are, how much your clothes cost....the list goes on....

Syferus · 13-06-2008 2:13am

irishbucsfan wrote: »

I think her writing style is fantastic and the points that she makes are all interesting and I always feel intellectually revived after reading her exam diary each morning

[SIZE=-7]just testing the water here, see what response I get to this[/SIZE]

I agree.

BarryDoodles · 13-06-2008 2:19am

The girl got 545 last year, spent more money in a minute than your parents earn in a week and has everyone reading her articles....And this girl will fail in life??? Don't think so... sounds like jealousy to me

Syferus · 13-06-2008 3:10am

BarryDoodles wrote: »

The girl got 545 last year, spent more money in a minute than your parents earn in a week and has everyone reading her articles....And this girl will fail in life??? Don't think so... sounds like jealousy to me

I'm very jealous of people who wish they were from South Dublin.

*pda · 13-06-2008 9:38am

is the only designer she knows of Louis Vuitton?? does she only have one pair of shoes?????? aaargh she just mentions them in the most random, unneccesaary places...!?

PurpleFistMixer · 13-06-2008 10:56am

Syferus wrote: »

I'm very jealous of people who wish they were from South Dublin.

Tallaght? I guess the Square's pretty all-encompassing...

Rosstafarian · 13-06-2008 11:33am

"DANTE THE snake shed his skin last night. Rebirth is painful, and you're not offered an epidural.

He made such a racket that my brother opted to sleep in the bathroom. He fell on the way and set off the burglar alarm. Woken so rudely, I couldn't go back to sleep so I looked over my art history notes"

What the hell is this? I thought i was reading an EXAM diary not "my pet the snake" (A snake which I feel probably doesn't exist like most things she mentions in her writing ie. her pet iguana).

She's so pretentious it makes me want to spew all over the floor and wipe it up with her article. (please excuse the revolting imagery but i feel its appropriate here).

I hope she doesn't get her points... AGAIN

eoin2nc · 13-06-2008 11:51am

''I predict that I have between 480 and 500 points already' and is predicting an A1 in classics? I hope she fails, the cocky bitch

Also at the end it says she will be writing in the 'college life'' section of the Times in the Autumn, hopefully she has to be repeat again

PurpleFistMixer · 13-06-2008 11:58am

eoin2nc wrote: »

Also at the end it says she will be writing in the 'college life'' section of the Times in the Autumn, hopefully she has to be repeat again

Dear jesus no!

And I normally like the Irish Times.

The Walsho · 13-06-2008 12:13pm

eoin2nc wrote: »

Also at the end it says she will be writing in the 'college life'' section of the Times in the Autumn, hopefully she has to be repeat again

You can't be serious?! Can the Irish Times not see how she's infuriating the public?

Livo · 13-06-2008 12:27pm

eoin2nc wrote: »

Also at the end it says she will be writing in the 'college life'' section of the Times in the Autumn, hopefully she has to be repeat again

no, no, dear god no...

Toto Wolfcastle · 13-06-2008 12:29pm

Think about it though: If she gets medicine and writes the college diary and then fails medicine that might provide some entertainment.

cHaTbOx · 13-06-2008 12:31pm

I wish i was writing about 'college life' lol.

Today, i woke up with the stench of 5 parrots on my head ,how they got there i do not know ,but they seem ever so facinated with my designer belt.Its a knocked off gucci you know..............

starkinter · 13-06-2008 12:35pm

She will fail at medicine. Repeatedly.

Cokehead Mother · 13-06-2008 12:39pm

starkinter wrote: »

She will fail at medicine. Repeatedly.

I doubt it. I get the impression that once the um... third level maitre'd shows her to the best table at the CAO bistro she'll just fail first year and then do the french/russian degree she's obviously more interested in.

BMH · 13-06-2008 12:45pm

Can't be a worse college diarist than the shut-in Polish girl that bitched about having to do pre-med and never went outside.

33% God · 13-06-2008 1:04pm

Jesus! I read her stuff yesterday, how pretentious can you get?

If she doesn;t get the points this time round then it's all a matter, 3 times, anyone could get them at that rate.

LPB · 13-06-2008 3:14pm

Laura Brady (Times Diaryist) here. First time I've come and checked out these blogs today - (too busy being self-absorbed the rest of the time I'm sure!) I have to say, I found all the people here ranting about me to be hilarious. I didn't really intend the diary's to be taken seriously. I just figured everyone was sick of hearing about 'poor stressed LC students' so I made a bit of a parody of myself to take the serious edge off things. I also had to write the columns directly after the exams, and they're obviously not my priority at this time of year. Also, I read a few posts of people saying they knew me or saw me on Leeson St, when thats just not true. I'm glad to see that the columns have at least made waves - I just thought that more people would realise that it was all supposed to be a joke.

rc28 · 13-06-2008 3:20pm

Lol I had a feeling you were having a bit of a laugh! If that really is you laura then I suppose I should congratulate you on managing to get everyone to take you seriously- your columns are entertaining and excellently written anyway.

PrivateEye · 13-06-2008 3:44pm

BarryDoodles wrote: »

The girl got 545 last year, spent more money in a minute than your parents earn in a week and has everyone reading her articles....And this girl will fail in life??? Don't think so... sounds like jealousy to me

I'm not in the slightest jealous of her.

She embodies everything thats wrong with the country at the minute.
She is throwing away cash, and bragging about a pair of shoes, while people are losing jobs daily in this state.

Reality

Laura Bradys Home.Or Homes.

do you notice the gap?

It's a disgrace they think most of Ireland can relate to her. It just reinforces the old stereotype of those who read the Irish Times.
We bought it for YEARS up until last week, we've stopped for a variety of reasons, but I don't think you have to be some ABC1 type to read any newspaper....when they shove people like Laura Brady to the front of their Leaving Cert section, they are nearly justifying the image that exists of their paper.

Madame Editor is obviously very out of touch with Ireland anyway. she did call the national 'mad' last week, and they proved her right :pac:

She's so, loike, annoying.
Thats all really.

Didn't see her piece today, and I don't for a second believe thats her above....I'd expect Lord Lucan to post here first

raah! · 13-06-2008 4:01pm

Heh heh heh, there is no need to say she 'will' fail at life. She has already, after throwing tonnes of money at her education and going to the best of the best of schools, having had twice the time of a regular student, and doing garaunteed A subjects like classics (or maybe she's just doing it now), failed twice. And then to brag about what you get on your THIRD sitting of the leaving........

I would say this is more worthy of pity than jealousy. Medecine seems to be full of those types. People who do it for the sake of the social merits of saying "I'm doing medecine" and then think this makes them intelligent.

Toto Wolfcastle · 13-06-2008 4:14pm

LPB wrote: »

Laura Brady (Times Diaryist) here. First time I've come and checked out these blogs today - (too busy being self-absorbed the rest of the time I'm sure!) I have to say, I found all the people here ranting about me to be hilarious. I didn't really intend the diary's to be taken seriously. I just figured everyone was sick of hearing about 'poor stressed LC students' so I made a bit of a parody of myself to take the serious edge off things. I also had to write the columns directly after the exams, and they're obviously not my priority at this time of year. Also, I read a few posts of people saying they knew me or saw me on Leeson St, when thats just not true. I'm glad to see that the columns have at least made waves - I just thought that more people would realise that it was all supposed to be a joke.

Um, ya, I'm still not believing you! I'd say that too if people took what I wrote badly.

For what it's worth, my dad thinks your column is hilarious, but he reads them not expecting or wanting to hear about the actual Leaving Cert. Other people do want to hear about the exams. As a teacher, I read the exam coverage to find out what students thought about the exams.

Fair enough, write a humorous diary. I enjoy that type of writing. But you can be humorous while still talking about the exams. No one really cares about your life outside the exams, and it is an exam diary.

Good luck to you in whatever you do.

PS. The plural of 'diary' is not 'diary's'. Just in case you do English in college! They frown on spelling and grammatical errors in English degrees!

(Don't worry, I'm not the grammar police! I make mistakes all the time!)

raah! · 13-06-2008 4:35pm

hahhahahahahhaahha. Good one, Grammar police.

muffinman · 13-06-2008 4:35pm

:rolleyes:

Come on that's hardly her... "diaryist"?? What?

Livo · 13-06-2008 5:27pm

my boyfriend made a good point today - said she's not a crap writer, she just writes crap...

PurpleFistMixer · 13-06-2008 5:28pm

I haven't seen it, but apparently the Laura Brady column isn't in today's Irish Times, and there are some letters written in giving out about it...

BMH · 13-06-2008 5:35pm

Yeah, 3 letters about it, all in complaint. The column is there though(and I still enjoyed reading it =/)

I doubt that's her by the way, but LPB you could give a sneak-peak of tomorrow's article if you want to prove it's you...

rc28 · 13-06-2008 5:42pm

She DOES have a column in today's edition and indicates this is her last one as she only has classical studies left. Underneath it there is a sort of caption saying she will be writing about college life in the autumn in the same paper. I can't see that happening tbh as no one seems to like her but I suppose it's generating interest which is, of course, all the Irish times cares about- selling papers.

Stevieo · 13-06-2008 6:55pm

rc28 wrote: »

Underneath it there is a sort of caption saying she will be writing about college life in the autumn in the same paper.

I think it's comical that, after tarnishing her paper's image among households (one of today's complaint letters was from somebody's mammy!) across the country, Madam editor opts to continue publishing this ridiculous garbage in September. Still, it's to her own detriment...if it takes Ms. Brady 3 cracks at the Leaving Cert, she's going to be writing in the Times about 'college life' for YEARS to come, and judging her personality from her articles, I DOUBT she works for free...

Rosstafarian · 13-06-2008 7:20pm

LPB wrote: »

Laura Brady (Times Diaryist) here. First time I've come and checked out these blogs today - (too busy being self-absorbed the rest of the time I'm sure!) I have to say, I found all the people here ranting about me to be hilarious. I didn't really intend the diary's to be taken seriously. I just figured everyone was sick of hearing about 'poor stressed LC students' so I made a bit of a parody of myself to take the serious edge off things. I also had to write the columns directly after the exams, and they're obviously not my priority at this time of year. Also, I read a few posts of people saying they knew me or saw me on Leeson St, when thats just not true. I'm glad to see that the columns have at least made waves - I just thought that more people would realise that it was all supposed to be a joke.

Ah stop trying to redeem yourself fake Laura Brady... You're just not a likable person and that comes across in your writing. It might be because you don't talk enough about the leaving cert but more than likely it's because your head is stuck up your own arse!

MattD · 13-06-2008 7:30pm

I doubt it was a joke...

Even if it was, an exam times article in the Irish Times isnt actually the best medium to take the piss. People read those looking for someone to identify with, and someone to kinda share their stress with. Someones story so that, when they read it, they can see 'Yeah, i felt that way too' or 'Yeah, i should do that'

Yapping on about Sex and the City and 500 euro shoes is not how you do that

Toto Wolfcastle · 13-06-2008 7:40pm

Right, who wants to post up the letters of complaint for me? Or a brief synopsis of the letters.

BlueCam · 13-06-2008 7:42pm

For those looking for a further laugh: read here. Apparantly Ms. Brady is renting out her writing services for other misfortunate editors.

fated2pretend · 13-06-2008 7:43pm

I also doubt it's a joke - they already have the RO'CK column if they want to make fun of D4s, for one thing.

However, if - and it's a big if - but IF it was indeed all a big joke ... lol, we've all been majorly Keyser Sözed :rolleyes:

bitterstudent · 13-06-2008 7:51pm

Hey, did anyone check out blogwatch today? Didn't manage to get a copy today myself.

kaki · 13-06-2008 8:13pm

BlueCam wrote: »

For those looking for a further laugh: read here. Apparantly Ms. Brady is renting out her writing services for other misfortunate editors.

Laugh. Out. Loud.

bitterstudent · 13-06-2008 8:20pm

I have written a series of articles published in a leading ational newspaper but I am also open to transcribing and editing work.

"ational newspaper" :O whats an "a tional" newspaper?

meh, people are being a tad bit unfair. Her articles are amusing (sometimes for then wrong reasons). I like reading her column. She is a good writer and probably capable of doing well in freelance. So, anyone know what was in Blogwatch today?

BMH · 13-06-2008 8:22pm

BlueCam wrote: »

For those looking for a further laugh: read here. Apparantly Ms. Brady is renting out her writing services for other misfortunate editors.

I don't get the joke. She's a good writer, and seems to enjoy it, so she's looking for more opportunities to write. I've only ever heard people complain about her for not talking enough about the exam, so I don't see that being a problem if she gets a personal column that has nothing to do with exams.

PrivateEye · 13-06-2008 8:23pm

She probably considers that 'work' and all.

poor poor Laura.

raah! · 13-06-2008 8:24pm

It is her immodest and exagerated self-promotion that is funny. It also has a bit to do with the exams, she mentions them alot.

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