out of the frying pan, into the fire?

a) 'only 540'? that's an amazing result!

b) BESS will probably feel a thousand times more diverse after the Institute - there's all sorts of different types there. Each course has it's cliche, the lab rats and computer geeks down in the Hamilton, the ambassador's spouses doing European Studies and the rest of it - and the BESS BOP heads, but the beauty of college is that you can choose who you want to meet and spend time with outside of your course.

Check out the long list of societies and clubs - each of them will have BESS students in them.

I think there's actually a topic somewhere on the board discussing whether the stereotype holds true or not, if you do a search you'll probably find loads of people's views.

Personally I just finished my BESS degree in June and I found that over the four years although yes there are numerous people who fit the stereotype, the majority do not. Even a lot of the people who you may initially think are big D4 heads, when you get to know them they're broadly speaking lovely. In first year you'll be in big 300 or 400 people lectures so that can be a bit disorientating but make sure you go to your tutorials so you can get to know a few people more similar to you if you're finding it overbearing. In later years you have nuch smaller classes and it's much better. Last year I had one class for instance with only 14 of us in it and everyone got on really well.

Is 540 not enough for Law in UCD these days or did you prefer BESS to that?

i had bess down, did ICT instead... but awayinthehills there is so much life in trinity outside of class if it all goes pearshaped, like the legendary SFSOC!!!! but i know a lot of BESS students and they are actually quite nice although there are a lot of the stereotypical B€$$ HEADS... but they are fun to look at!

Joooooeeeee Duffffffyyyyyyyy!

Andrew_83 - this is why you are a B€$$-Head:

- You wear Abercrombie and Fudge.....
- You are a southsider...
- You say Loike and Shtuff....

Pot and kettle!

cuckoo wrote:

i think indy's been sampling drugs again. remember, it's 'prescribe', not 'imbibe'.

You're a B€$$-head too! Somehow you managed to hide this fact and pretend to study science for a number of years.....

Oddly enough, there are decent human beings in BESS, though some of them do feel the need to hide behind the "DORT" facade. Don't worry about it.

im from the southside too:)!

the southside rocks, it's got Dalkey (and Agent smith!)

well you'v a southside accent Seb so you can join us!

it didnt sound like a london accent last night! are you english?

also whats the difference between a scottish and donegal accent ? i find it impossible to tell the difference between the two

i think mine look the worst - i hate pictures of me

some *classic* ones of me trying to dance though :P

.....thats quite an odd face.