Official bitch about daily life in UL

Ave Sodalis · 19-11-2014 4:36pm

onethreefive wrote: »

That's something that annoys me every time I'm looking for a chair. They've been empty for ages! You could fit tables where the empty shelves are

Yup, for study week, they won't even have to buy tables, they can just bring in some from empty classrooms if they move the shelves out of the way.

Ave Sodalis · 23-11-2014 1:51pm

To the person behind me,
Too much aftershave is as bad as too little... my eyes are watering and my sinus is going crazy. It's not even a nice smell!

shano_88 · 24-11-2014 8:39pm

How early will I have to be on the library study week to get a spot or is it even worth it?

Ave Sodalis · 24-11-2014 8:49pm

shano_88 wrote: »

How early will I have to be on the library study week to get a spot or is it even worth it?

About 7 or so and queue, then wait for the madness that is study week library...

Midkemia · 24-11-2014 8:55pm

sup_dude wrote: »

About 7 or so and queue, then wait for the madness that is study week library...

but it doesn't open until 8 :eek:

Ave Sodalis · 24-11-2014 8:57pm

Midkemia wrote: »

but it doesn't open until 8 :eek:

You might get away with half seven, depending on the crowds, but given it's difficult to find a seat during semester this year, I would go early. Every year, there is a massive queue for the library and a ramage of students scrambling for seats.

Chavways · 24-11-2014 9:04pm

Why are people so obsessed with the library? I'm in a computer lab right now with at least 30 free PC's. Its such a ridiculous magnet.

Ave Sodalis · 24-11-2014 9:05pm

Chavways wrote: »

Why are people so obsessed with the library? I'm in a computer lab right now with at least 30 free PC's. Its such a ridiculous magnet.

It's not computers people be after but the access to books and quietness. Plus, those computers are disgusting, especially the fish tank, where there's a layer of gunk on the tables...

Chavways · 24-11-2014 9:06pm

sup_dude wrote: »

It's not computers people be after but the access to books and quietness. Plus, those computers are disgusting, especially the fish tank, where there's a layer of gunk on the tables...

You'll be hard pressed to find quietness in the library.

Ave Sodalis · 24-11-2014 9:13pm

Chavways wrote: »

You'll be hard pressed to find quietness in the library.

I dunno, I've been there just about every day for the last couple of weeks and it's been grand in terms of noise.

Chavways · 24-11-2014 9:15pm

sup_dude wrote: »

I dunno, I've been there just about every day for the last couple of weeks and it's been grand in terms of noise.

Maybe its just me so. I always encounter a few people talking or someone rustling away for hours on end. Can never get anything done in there.

shano_88 · 24-11-2014 10:54pm

Ya, queing at half 7 really doesnt sound appealing to me. Thats madness really. Whats it like in the evening of study week? Still the same?

Ave Sodalis · 24-11-2014 11:37pm

shano_88 wrote: »

Ya, queing at half 7 really doesnt sound appealing to me. Thats madness really. Whats it like in the evening of study week? Still the same?

It's evening now and it's only really cleared enough for available seats to be obvious in the last half hour. Study week will be packed til everyone is kicked out I would imagine. Although, as I was giving out about before, the opening hours are crap this year.

onethreefive · 24-11-2014 11:38pm

Are people allowed to leave books on the table then leave for the day? Saw people today just leaving copies on tables and then not coming back for hours.

Ave Sodalis · 24-11-2014 11:41pm

onethreefive wrote: »

Are people allowed to leave books on the table then leave for the day? Saw people today just leaving copies on tables and then not coming back for hours.

Strictly speaking, no. There are asshats that do that though and get away with it. Worse is when people save places for their friends. :mad:

My advice is, if you haven't seen them come back in an hour and a half, shove the books off the desk. This gives them plenty of time to go for lunch or whatever, which is fair enough. However, people tend to go in for 8 and then go back to bed for a few hours...

There was a girl across from me during the week and there was only two books in the desk beside her, no laptop or anything. A girl I know spent about an hour looking for a seat so I pointed out the one that had the books on it. She asked the girl across from me if it was free. The girl said no, the girl had gone for food a while ago. My friend sat down and said she'd get up whenever the girl came back or when a seat freed up, and the girl across from me was giving her daggers. Sure enough, five minutes later, someone left and my friend took that desk instead. About an hour later, the girl who "went for food" came back, picked up the books and put them on the desk of the girl across from me. Turns out she was saving a seat. Pity my friend didn't stay there... The girl was annoying anyways. I cracked my hands because they get stiff and start to seize every few hours. The looks she gave me was something along the lines of http://cdn29.elitedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/large33.jpg which would have been fine if it was a reaction but she continued to do it until I took notice of her :pac:

MaroonAndGreen · 25-11-2014 12:03am

Got nobody to go to DIE with on Thursday, sickened is an understatement :pac:

tommullane · 25-11-2014 4:32pm

As study week fast approaches need to adjust the bodys sleeping pattern

jamo2oo9 · 26-11-2014 10:04pm

What's the story about study week next week? Do we have lectures and tutorials? I know labs aren't on now as they're finished this week but what about tuts and lecs?

wnolan1992 · 26-11-2014 10:08pm

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

What's the story about study week next week? Do we have lectures and tutorials? I know labs aren't on now as they're finished this week but what about tuts and lecs?

If your lecturers haven't said anything, you don't have lectures or tutorials next week.

Some lecturers hold extra classes in Week 13, but it's a module-by-module thing.

jamo2oo9 · 26-11-2014 10:11pm

wnolan1992 wrote: »

If your lecturers haven't said anything, you don't have lectures or tutorials next week.

Some lecturers hold extra classes in Week 13, but it's a module-by-module thing.

Ah understood then. Looks like I only have 2 lectures next week. Could be more as I don't know anything else for my remaining module which is tomorrow!

Thanks!

onethreefive · 28-11-2014 10:11pm

Do you need to pass all aspects of a modules assessments to pass the module overall? Say if I did terrible in the exam but had got over 40% from assignments or vice versa would I pass?

iLaura · 28-11-2014 10:18pm

onethreefive wrote: »

Do you need to pass all aspects of a modules assessments to pass the module overall? Say if I did terrible in the exam but had got over 40% from assignments or vice versa would I pass?

It depends on the lecturer, but unless said otherwise you need to pass all aspects of the module to pass overall

Precious flower · 29-11-2014 11:21pm

Where's my Christmas tree!? I'll never get to see it looking lovely in the library now! It feels like we're finishing earlier than usual.

Precious flower · 01-12-2014 4:08pm

Think I may have a touch of the auld SAD. Hate when the weather is like this, muggy and dreary as well as the fact that it's darker sooner. Always feel unmotivated to get any work done. Just feel like going to bed on days like this!:D

Chris Martin · 02-12-2014 1:23am

Precious flower wrote: »

Think I may have a touch of the auld SAD. Hate when the weather is like this, muggy and dreary as well as the fact that it's darker sooner. Always feel unmotivated to get any work done. Just feel like going to bed on days like this!:D

Damn it! If the Christmas tree was there it would lift your spirits!
In previous years the tree and the ****e weather have spurred me on, working hand in hand to keep me in the library until stupid O Clock.
Get onto reception and get them to send out a 'Missing Xmas Tree' email..

Ave Sodalis · 02-12-2014 2:24pm

I'm starting to really hate my supervisor...

Had presentations yesterday, mine went badly, supervisor got brunt of questions because my course director knew that I hadn't a clue what was going on. Went in for a meeting today, supervisor asks me where I got that idea from and did I not that it was actually this other idea... despite the fact she has my page proposal, my ten page proposal and my ethics forms, all which outline what I thought the project was going to be on, all which she said was fine (except ethics which she didn't bother reading). So now I've to essentially do an entirely new FYP by Thursday because that's when the last ethics is due and most of that has to be done by tomorrow for a pilot study.

So that's twelve weeks of work down the drain, and another twelve weeks of work has to be crammed into two days. All my lit review is useless, everything. Wouldn't mind if the other lecturers didn't just say in the end that it just needs more direction. Oh no, she had to go change everything, and then blame me for not understanding her in the first place...

daniels.ducks · 02-12-2014 3:50pm

sup_dude wrote: »

I'm starting to really hate my supervisor...

Had presentations yesterday, mine went badly, supervisor got brunt of questions because my course director knew that I hadn't a clue what was going on. Went in for a meeting today, supervisor asks me where I got that idea from and did I not that it was actually this other idea... despite the fact she has my page proposal, my ten page proposal and my ethics forms, all which outline what I thought the project was going to be on, all which she said was fine (except ethics which she didn't bother reading). So now I've to essentially do an entirely new FYP by Thursday because that's when the last ethics is due and most of that has to be done by tomorrow for a pilot study.

So that's twelve weeks of work down the drain, and another twelve weeks of work has to be crammed into two days. All my lit review is useless, everything. Wouldn't mind if the other lecturers didn't just say in the end that it just needs more direction. Oh no, she had to go change everything, and then blame me for not understanding her in the first place...

Think this could be your problem

iLaura · 02-12-2014 4:04pm

Apparently the bus into town is now €2?! FFS -.-

Ave Sodalis · 02-12-2014 4:04pm

daniels.ducks wrote: »

Think this could be your problem

Yeah, but that was because everything kept getting changed every time I went in. I went in one week with stuff, and that would be fine. I'd go in the next week and she'd ask why would I have that, and then I'd take it out for the week after and she'd ask why wasn't it there... Plus, the supervisor had my proposal (where I wrote out what I thought was happening), my ten page (where I wrote out what I thought was happening in an awful lot of detail), both of which she corrected and signed off on, and my ethics which she didn't read but had for two weeks, which also detailed what I thought was going on. Not once did she say anything about it. The only indication that there was anything wrong was an email she sent that said "you need to rethink your title". That was it, nothing else in the email. Not even a hi. She didn't even reply to the email asking her to explain.

Precious flower · 02-12-2014 4:58pm

Chris Martin wrote: »

Damn it! If the Christmas tree was there it would lift your spirits!
In previous years the tree and the ****e weather have spurred me on, working hand in hand to keep me in the library until stupid O Clock.
Get onto reception and get them to send out a 'Missing Xmas Tree' email..

I'm at home though (I travel in from Clare) so I'm too lazy into Limerick to go to the library.:p I'll probably go into there on the day of my exam though, so the Christmas tree better be there on that day! Still, I can send them passive aggressive emails about the lack of a Christmas tree. Or emails that have veiled references to Christmas trees :pac: I don't mind so much when it's raining. I used to love going in on the mornings when it was really quiet and raining outside. I'd get a seat near the window and just listen to some music while doing work. LOVED THAT!:)

jamo2oo9 · 02-12-2014 5:19pm

iLaura wrote: »

Apparently the bus into town is now €2?! FFS -.-

Looks like it as well. Got the bus to city centre and it was €2 for a single trip..

onethreefive · 02-12-2014 5:36pm

iLaura wrote: »

Apparently the bus into town is now €2?! FFS -.-

:eek: Going to be waiting for the green bendy bus in future so! It's €1.60.

iLaura · 02-12-2014 5:52pm

onethreefive wrote: »

:eek: Going to be waiting for the green bendy bus in future so! It's €1.60.

It'll be cheaper to get a taxi into town on nights out these days now.

Too bad the green bus doesn't go out as far as Dooradoyle Not that I'm out there very often, but still!

onethreefive · 02-12-2014 8:38pm

iLaura wrote: »

It'll be cheaper to get a taxi into town on nights out these days now.

Too bad the green bus doesn't go out as far as Dooradoyle Not that I'm out there very often, but still!

The green bus is the best. The drivers on Eurobus are really customer friendly aswell, never had a bad experience with them.

iLaura · 03-12-2014 3:33pm

6.5 hours spent studying a single set of lecture notes. SIX AND A HALF ****ING HOURS! Go die, metabolism. Go burn in hell.

Beargrylls01 · 03-12-2014 3:51pm

iLaura wrote: »

6.5 hours spent studying a single set of lecture notes. SIX AND A HALF ****ING HOURS! Go die, metabolism. Go burn in hell.

that's a lot of peoples morning sessions.

21 Schump Street · 04-12-2014 11:35am

Do you have to complete all assignments in a module to pass the module?

wnolan1992 · 04-12-2014 11:45am

21 Schump Street wrote: »

Do you have to complete all assignments in a module to pass the module?

Depends on the module.

Usually not, but some lecturers do require you to. If it was a requirement, it should be in the module outline.

21 Schump Street · 04-12-2014 12:08pm

Thanks

iLaura · 04-12-2014 3:46pm

Anyone have a link for the newest Cite it Right? All I can find is the 2005 version

I had the new (purple) one bookmarked but now apparently 'the requested url was not found on this server' -.-

wnolan1992 · 04-12-2014 3:57pm

iLaura wrote: »

Anyone have a link for the newest Cite it Right? All I can find is the 2005 version I had the new (purple) one bookmarked but now apparently 'the requested url was not found on this server' -.-

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59067410/CiteItRight/Doc-CiteItRight.pdf

Think that link should work. It's a pdf version we were sent out earlier in the semester. (Oh, be sure and save it to your computer as I'll prbably inadvertently delete it off dropbox at some point)

iLaura · 04-12-2014 4:03pm

wnolan1992 wrote: »

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59067410/CiteItRight/Doc-CiteItRight.pdf

Think that link should work. It's a pdf version we were sent out earlier in the semester. (Oh, be sure and save it to your computer as I'll prbably inadvertently delete it off dropbox at some point)

Thank yoooooou

Precious flower · 04-12-2014 4:18pm

It's beyond scary to realise that after four years in college, I still have no idea what I want to do once I leave.

Fireball07 · 04-12-2014 9:45pm

Precious flower wrote: »

It's beyond scary to realise that after four years in college, I still have no idea what I want to do once I leave.

Do you know what you don't want to do?

Precious flower · 05-12-2014 12:44am

Fireball07 wrote: »

Do you know what you don't want to do?

Be a teacher. Probably because every time I tell people my course they respond with "Oh so you're going to teach then?". No. Ya can't teach them if ya can't beat them!:P HOWEVER, recently I have been thinking about Montessori teaching

I wouldn't mind that so much. But I also want to go abroad for a while to somewhere like Italy, or Russia (I just love the Russian language). But I'm also crap at languages so...:o and I'm pretty sure if I wanted to be a Montessori teacher abroad I'd have to have some of the language of the country.

Chris Martin · 05-12-2014 12:52am

Precious flower wrote: »

Be a teacher. Probably because every time I tell people my course they respond with "Oh so you're going to teach then?". No. Ya can't teach them if ya can't beat them!:P HOWEVER, recently I have been thinking about Montessori teaching I wouldn't mind that so much. But I also want to go abroad for a while to somewhere like Italy, or Russia (I just love the Russian language). But I'm also crap at languages so...:o and I'm pretty sure if I wanted to be a Montessori teacher abroad I'd have to have some of the language of the country.

Speaking to somebody mid-way through Coop in Spain teaching English, without a lick of Spanish. Although there's no doubt in my mind that it helps, it isn't essential. In fact the place I'm leaving takes on new workers every year so would be good for some temp work and practicing getting into teaching.
That said, the experience may well have put me off teaching forever, but that's because I hate children and don't understand them.. :P

LimerickLad92 · 05-12-2014 11:32pm

Its time for me to log in to my boards account after 4 months and just say

I really hate exams.

That is all.

Fireball07 · 06-12-2014 2:27am

Precious flower wrote: »

Be a teacher. Probably because every time I tell people my course they respond with "Oh so you're going to teach then?". No. Ya can't teach them if ya can't beat them!:P HOWEVER, recently I have been thinking about Montessori teaching I wouldn't mind that so much. But I also want to go abroad for a while to somewhere like Italy, or Russia (I just love the Russian language). But I'm also crap at languages so...:o and I'm pretty sure if I wanted to be a Montessori teacher abroad I'd have to have some of the language of the country.

I imagine a lot of people who finish college don't know exactly what they want to do, you just knock off the things you don't want to do and hopefully try different things. I don't reckon there's a need to get tied down to a long-term career when we're only 22/23 or whatever.

As for Montessori teaching... tbh I would imagine that you'd need some of the language to teach children that young. But the best way to learn the language is to go the place and pick it up naturally.

Better you than me though... first of all Russia doesn't sound fun to me

and I train Community Games teams and have done children's summer camps and stuff, and while most of them are grand, you get a few wreckhead children :pac:

iLaura · 06-12-2014 11:53am

LimerickLad92 wrote: »

Its time for me to log in to my boards account after 4 months and just say

I really hate exams.

That is all.

Since you hate exams so much already, wanna do mine today? Its on at 12:30 in Schuman. THANKS!

jamo2oo9 · 06-12-2014 12:05pm

Library is full as per norm and 85% of the classrooms or either locked or full. Now currently studying in the Red Raisons

4 hours left to save my semester grades

Official bitch about daily life in UL

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