The UCC 'Off-Topic' Thread

ReacherCreature · 24-03-2012 12:58am

Might as well rename this thread "Umail's fcuked again".

rebel girl 15 · 24-03-2012 1:00am

Its a complete joke tbh - I've to submit stuff by email this evening, and can't do it. Shocking stuff

Orizio · 24-03-2012 1:13am

So it is down again, I'm expecting a (fairly urgent) e-mail.

As an aside, are we ever going to a boardsie meet-up? This is probably my last year in UCC, at least for the foreseeable future.

ReacherCreature · 24-03-2012 1:38am

Boards meetings were before Christmas and the attendance was disastrous so there was none run and the interest declined massively. Shame as they're so beneficial.

rebel girl 15 · 24-03-2012 1:40am

Orizio wrote: »

So it is down again, I'm expecting a (fairly urgent) e-mail.

Its a joke at this stage - shocking that it is so bad!

ReacherCreature wrote: »

Boards meetings were before Christmas and the attendance was disastrous so there was none run and the interest declined massively. Shame as they're so beneficial.

Thats cos I wasn't at them! :P We could try to organise one for next week, probably the last chance before we break up properly for Easter

ReacherCreature · 24-03-2012 1:44am

rebel girl 15 wrote: »

Thats cos I wasn't at them! :P

That's cos hardly no one was at them.

Orizio · 04-04-2012 12:13pm

Currently volunteering with the Simon Community through UCC so I thought I'd pimp a table quiz coming up soon...

https://www.facebook.com/events/201289889980880/

If we could get a boardsie team going that would be cool! :pac:

Eliot Rosewater · 01-05-2012 4:47pm

Politicians, student or otherwise, never fail to impress with their manipulation of reality. In regards to the "pre-referendum" on third level fees the SU say "All 19 of UCCSU's votes will be the same, in order to have maximum impact." In other words, we know that more than 5% of students will vote against the current fees policy, and this way we can disregard those votes.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the national politicians of the future.

Knifey Spoony · 04-05-2012 3:07pm

So, first week down. How are everybody's tests going?

closeline · 17-05-2012 11:12pm

Is it possible to get into blackboard on a phone?

calnand · 17-05-2012 11:21pm

closeline wrote: »

Is it possible to get into blackboard on a phone?

Want blackboard on yiur iPhone, there's an app for that. Other than that it might work depending on the phone. Just try it out. Works on mine fine.

closeline · 18-05-2012 6:12pm

whats the app called. is it on android.

calnand · 19-05-2012 11:56am

closeline wrote: »

whats the app called. is it on android.

Just blackboard, but ucc isn't supported yet, hopefully they will when they allow android phones to use the WiFi

Nervosa · 19-05-2012 12:25pm

My summer exams are finished! Time to delude myself with all the things I'll do over the Summer. Like baking my on bread, having a factory like production like beer brewing ready, and earn 10 grand in monies. Any plans guys?

Oh yea, I havn't given up on the beer brewing soc yet. I'll get the signatures next week and get the ball rolling on that. I'll let ye know how it goes!

Papa_Lazarou · 19-05-2012 12:27pm

Just waking up now after my alcohol induced coma having finished 4 years of college yesterday.It really is a very strange feeling knowing you've finished.

Orizio · 19-05-2012 2:29pm

Nervosa wrote: »

My summer exams are finished! Time to delude myself with all the things I'll do over the Summer. Like baking my on bread, having a factory like production like beer brewing ready, and earn 10 grand in monies. Any plans guys?

Yeah, some part-time work and a CELTA course in UCC. Should be suitably boring and uninteresting.

Salty · 19-05-2012 4:53pm

Nervosa wrote: »

My summer exams are finished! Time to delude myself with all the things I'll do over the Summer. Like baking my on bread, having a factory like production like beer brewing ready, and earn 10 grand in monies. Any plans guys?

Yup! Just work as much as possible and earn as much money as possible! Also going on holidays at the start of June for a week..just around the corner now..can't wait!:P

Audacious · 28-05-2012 12:33am

C'mere, is Umail down atm for people?
It's down for me, saying something about a CAS exception.
It's some joke of an email service.

rebel girl 15 · 28-05-2012 12:35am

Its down alright - I tried it earlier, got the same message, I agree it is a joke of a system, being down so often!

Nervosa · 29-05-2012 9:09am

Got a summer job working for the national space centre near Midleton! I start next Tuesday after the bank holiday. I'm finally stepping out of retail, thank god.

Papa_Lazarou · 30-05-2012 9:16pm

Nervosa wrote: »

Got a summer job working for the national space centre near Midleton! I start next Tuesday after the bank holiday. I'm finally stepping out of retail, thank god.

That sounds like a class job. Never even knew we had a national space centre here.

rebel girl 15 · 30-05-2012 9:44pm

Finished college last Thursday 17th, had two job offers by last Thursday!

Nervosa · 31-05-2012 11:44am

Papa_Lazarou wrote: »

That sounds like a class job. Never even knew we had a national space centre here.

Misleading company name, but still very real! Privately owned and working towards profit, not so different to retail after all! Still they have me doing 4 or so projects that all sound challenging. Plus I get to us some of that physics I learned.

Nervosa · 31-05-2012 11:47am

rebel girl 15 wrote: »

Finished college last Thursday 17th, had two job offers by last Thursday!

Congrats!

closeline · 31-05-2012 2:35pm

Anyone know of any jobs going around Cork city or county?

Salty · 31-05-2012 7:39pm

closeline wrote: »

Anyone know of any jobs going around Cork city or county?

No, but the only way to find out is to print a motherload of CVs and put in the foot work around town. The worst you'll be told is no after all!

Papa_Lazarou · 31-05-2012 9:15pm

Felt shíte going into college today. Got called for an oral that i thought went horrible. Really thought i was going to be bordering a 3h/2.2 mark for my degree. Pulled a 2.1 out of the bag somehow.....the feeling of relief is bloody amazing. (And yes we got our final results two weeks early :P)

Screaminmidget · 31-05-2012 9:17pm

Papa_Lazarou wrote: »

Felt shíte going into college today. Got called for an oral that i thought went horrible. Really thought i was going to be bordering a 3h/2.2 mark for my degree. Pulled a 2.1 out of the bag somehow.....the feeling of relief is bloody amazing. (And yes we got our final results two weeks early :P)

Congrats!!

rebel girl 15 · 31-05-2012 9:19pm

Papa_Lazarou wrote: »

Felt shíte going into college today. Got called for an oral that i thought went horrible. Really thought i was going to be bordering a 3h/2.2 mark for my degree. Pulled a 2.1 out of the bag somehow.....the feeling of relief is bloody amazing. (And yes we got our final results two weeks early :P)

Jealous!!! I'd love to have mine!

Congrats

Just checked the web to see when our are out - PDE students are out on the 7th June, ours aren't out till July!

Palytoxin · 10-06-2012 11:05pm

2 days to our results, could make or break this summer!

rebel girl 15 · 10-06-2012 11:18pm

Mine aren't out till the 7th July!

Palytoxin · 11-06-2012 6:27pm

rebel girl 15 wrote: »

Mine aren't out till the 7th July!

Well I thought mine were anyway, could be July 12th either now I think of it, I better check again!

Palytoxin · 12-06-2012 11:25am

Palytoxin wrote: »

2 days to our results, could make or break this summer!

Passed them all!:eek::cool: , I wasn't worried :rolleyes: (:p)

IHeartChemistry · 12-06-2012 3:02pm

Palytoxin wrote: »

Passed them all!:eek::cool: , I wasn't worried :rolleyes: (:p)

Congrats

Mine arent out till the 4th of July :rolleyes:

Zonda999 · 12-06-2012 7:44pm

Mine aren't out til June 28th, which is fine except for the fact I finished my exams on the 26th of April! :rolleyes:

Crosswalk · 13-06-2012 8:54pm

Do they call final year Arts students in to give them their results like they do with some of the Science students? Or are the science-y feckers just privileged?

Salty · 14-06-2012 9:07pm

IHeartChemistry wrote: »

Congrats

Mine arent out till the 4th of July :rolleyes:

The waiting is head wrecking

IHeartChemistry · 14-06-2012 9:54pm

_meehan_ wrote: »

The waiting is head wrecking

Oh jesus, I'm seeing everyone else get results and it's painful

Why are all Arts results out so late? :rolleyes:

rebel girl 15 · 14-06-2012 10:48pm

_meehan_ wrote: »

The waiting is head wrecking

I've gotten some of mine back unofficially - been looking through the assessment on blackboard and found some.

TBH I'm not that pushed about my results, even though they are my finals - cos I have my job for next year

ciaradx · 15-06-2012 4:05pm

Hey, just got my results and I got an overall mark of 69.83. Do you think it's worth appealing to see if they'd bump me up to 70 for an overall 1H?

Screaminmidget · 20-06-2012 1:45pm

Whats the story with the bike shed in WGB? Do you have to pay to use it or is it open to all students??

EyeSight · 24-06-2012 5:44pm

Screaminmidget wrote: »

Whats the story with the bike shed in WGB? Do you have to pay to use it or is it open to all students??

i'm pretty sure its for staff. the first year the WGB opened there was a lot of bikes being stolen

closeline · 03-07-2012 7:23pm

What does exempt under your result mean?

Byron85 · 03-07-2012 7:32pm

It generally means that they've exempted exceptional students from normal exams. It's only done in the most rare of circumstances. Obviously you've had a huge impact on your lecturers for them to go ahead and take this step.

Salty · 03-07-2012 9:19pm

Byron85 wrote: »

It generally means that they've exempted exceptional students from normal exams. It's only done in the most rare of circumstances. Obviously you've had a huge impact on your lecturers for them to go ahead and take this step.

What exactly does this mean for the student?

closeline · 03-07-2012 9:50pm

Byron85 wrote: »

It generally means that they've exempted exceptional students from normal exams. It's only done in the most rare of circumstances. Obviously you've had a huge impact on your lecturers for them to go ahead and take this step.

What does that mean for me though?

calnand · 03-07-2012 10:18pm

closeline wrote: »

Byron85 wrote: »

It generally means that they've exempted exceptional students from normal exams. It's only done in the most rare of circumstances. Obviously you've had a huge impact on your lecturers for them to go ahead and take this step.

What does that mean for me though?

when it says exempt it means you have failed one or more modules.
for example if you did 8 modules and failed one it would say exempt 7, meaning our exempt from repeating 7 of the modules in august.

SuperInfinity · 04-07-2012 12:33am

Sounds like bs to me. Why should some students get special treatment, and in such a subjective way that is open to all kinds of biases.

confusticated · 04-07-2012 12:47am

SuperInfinity wrote: »

Sounds like bs to me. Why should some students get special treatment, and in such a subjective way that is open to all kinds of biases.

No, exempt under results means you're exempt from repeating the ones you've passed. Exempt 5 means you have 5 modules you don't need to repeat.

Pretty sure the "exceptional student thing" is being made up here, never heard of it but not a nice thing to make up if someone has failed an exam!

ReacherCreature · 06-07-2012 11:43am

You're all so guilible.

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