Are you happy with what you chose at college?

ClareBear

1. Are you happy with the course you chose?
2. Are you happy with the college you chose?



My answer to both is no....but too late now :rolleyes:

And what are you studying and where?
Biology in DIT

embraer170

1. No
2. Yes

UCC, Commerce (European).

silverside

1. Yes
2. In some ways

Pepe LeFrits

No.
No.

But considering my finals are on in 3 weeks, I might aswell stick it out

Seraphina

i like my course(well as much as you can like learning)
but im pretty miserable in ucd. nothing much i can do about it now, tbh i dont think i'd be able to find anything much better really.

L5

No- not happy with course - Computer applications
Yes- happy enough with college - DCU

damnyanks

Yes
No


Gonna get the hell out of hte place ASAP

ClareBear

Where is "the place"?

Doodee

Yes
Yes

and Comp Science in DIT

rmacm

Yes to both.

Doing Computer Systems in UL

Johnny Versace

OH, if only I could go back in time...

I did Computer Science in DIT. The most retarded course in the world. Could be compressed into a 1 month course.

If I could go back in time I would do either Politics or Science (in the pharma/genetic direction...)

phreak

1. Yes, Computer Applications.
2. Yes alot of the time, DCU.

Hydromonkey

Yes
Yes

Doing Product Design in DIT

joePC

Will be in DIT 2 yr Comp Science in September (I had to get in the long way *Dont ask*) , Sounds like a great course.

Doodee what year are u in and how do you find the course?

Thanks joePC

Explosive_Cornflake

I'm doing comp science in DIT also. Going grand, to put it like that. Just getting bored lately though.

Doodee

Im in first year FT228.

did a year in ballyfermot last year.

Was gonna goto UL but decided to stay in Dublin.

Mixie

1. No
2. No

Computer Science & Software Engineering - NUI Maynooth

KlodaX

Originally posted by kaids
No.
No.

But considering my finals are on in 3 weeks, I might aswell stick it out

me too .. cept my finals are in 6 weeks....
I didn't really choose my college though... I live 5 mins away from it .. so I sorta would have been lookin a gift horse in the mouth to go venturing to another college ... the second choice was then what is available to me in this college? ....

word of advise ... never pick your career out of convience.

beardedchicken

on the final stretch of an arts degree in UCD - about a month and a half left to go!
as things turned out, yes, i'm happy with what i chose, but the exact subjects i chose were by accident - when i started, i'd never have imagined that i'd end up doing the subjects i chose, but now i really enjoy what i'm doing, and i wouldn't have it any other way, so it's one of those things that just works out fine in the end!!
that said, i can't wait to see the back of UCD - i've had enough of it for a few years at least!

briano

1. Well, I didn't apply for my course. I'm still not entirely sure how I got into it. But its Grand, so: Yes

2. No. Kevin St. is a hole.

Computer Sc. in DIT. (the 4 year version, not 1 month...)

ClareBear

I'm in DIT Kevin Street too. And the less we say about it the better...:ninja:

Doodee

Kevin St aint too bad. That said i dont really spend too much time there ww)

ClareBear

I'm only there for 3 months and I think it'll be enough.

DMT

Originally posted by ClareBear
Where is "the place"?

The basement - it's where they say Mass on a Wednesday and have hippy love-in's the rest of the week....

DMT

Originally posted by ClareBear
I'm only there for 3 months and I think it'll be enough.

Why only 3 months?

ClareBear

Got a transfer from Cork....long and very uninteresting story believe me....ah DIT is okay....just it is a bit of a dump really isn't it....then again the lecturers on my course are very helpful so I'll stop complaining about it.

Johnny Versace

DIT Kevin Street is like a gay bar... without the alcohol.

DMT

Originally posted by Johnny Versace
DIT Kevin Street is like a gay bar... without the alcohol.

You wouldn't think that if you smelt the breath of some of the electronics lecturers...

DIT Kevin St is definately a dump but at least it produces it's fair share of good looking women:

Doodee

What is the major problem with Kevin St?

Compared to Ballyfermot its way better.

Apart from being an old building theres not much more. Theres brand new Pc's gone into the labs and new equipment all over.

Its no Aungier but hey, i still enjoy it there.

(Cheap baked goods in teh school of Bakery too)

blondie83

1. yes
2. yes

doing electronic engineering in UCD. It's pretty hard, but if I had to make the choice again my CAO form would be the same. You don't really have to work during the year, just at the end of it (that said I failed 3 subjects last year and will probably do even worse this year!). The people in my class are pretty cool too, nice relaxed bunch.

GuanYin

No and no, although unfortunately I'm 11 years too late to do anything about it.

Amz

1) Kinda
2) No

I'm not finding it easy to settle in with my class this year and there's too much theory that we will never need i.e. chemical science crap for IT and the maths module is pointless also.

I don't like DCU at all...

Sleepy

1) Nope, never really was, despite changing courses after 1st year (B.Comm International to B. Comm). My post grad was a Higher Diploma in Systems Analysis and tbh, was taken more to prolong my college experience than anything else!
2. Hell yeah, UCG rocked. My only problem with it was that it was too close to my parents house so I had to live at home

If I could do it again, I'd either do Arts (Philosophy and English with Psych and Soc & Pol in first year) or IT. Unfortunately, unless I win the lotto I'll never have the opportunity to do that. It'll take me long enough to pay for the other two pieces of paper framed on my mother's wall first.

Dave

1. Yes
2. No

I'm doing mechanical engineering in UL. I was doing computer engineering last year but it was a horrible horrible course. I love my course at the moment. Unfortunately I hate UL.

Nala

1.No
2.Kinda

1st Science in NUI Maynooth.Nobody told me uni would be THIS hard...

GuanYin

Originally posted by neev
1.No
2.Kinda

1st Science in NUI Maynooth.Nobody told me uni would be THIS hard...

are you from Dundalk by any chance?

Johnny Versace

Originally posted by DMT
DIT Kevin St is definately a dump but at least it produces it's fair share of good looking women:

I used to have lectures with her.

In real life she's not the best. However, I obviously wouldn't say no.

Unpossible

1.) over the last two years I've really disliked my course, I don't think im a programmer. On top of that my college failed to mention that the course is a five year course (software development). However after repeating third year (and having actually done some work this year), computers are beginning to grow on me & programming doesnt seem so bad.

2.) I.T.Tralee, it seemed like a good idea at the time to go to my home town's college but over the last two years i've regretted it, now I'm planning to transfer.


all in all computers doesnt seem to be so bad although I would prefer to do mechanical engineering, but at 21 with my birthday in august I don't see waiting for two years to be a mature student as being a good option

Morgoth

No, wrong course.
Yes, right college.

Electronic Engineering at UCC. UCC rocks! But all through secondary school I thought I'd be interested in the hardware depths of how computers and technology work, whereas it's really the software development and programming side of it that I'm now fascinated with. My course does very little general programming, just specialist stuff to control various bits and bobs of hardware, and it's all to do with getting something else working, rather than pure programming.

Don't think I'm up for paying 2 years of fees to start computer science either so it's another 2 years of sh*t ahead of me, plus this years exams too. Sigh.

kaimera

Originally posted by rmacm
Yes to both.

Doing Computer Systems in UL

same here.

yes to both.
Comp sys in UL.

a/s/l rmacm? lmfao

Doodee

19/m/dublin

kaimera

dammit Doodee...not again.

begbie

1. Hell no!!!:mad:
2. Its alright:D

Stevie G

1. course is ok but i'm changing cause it's not i want to do at this time in my life maybe later i might do it again.
2. love the college but i have to leave to do the course i want!:(

i'm in mech. eng in ul, i'm changing to nautical science in cit :cool:

stoopidkid

If anybody's doin science in tcd, could you please gimme a little insight as to what the whole experience is gonna be like? Im startin this year and i wanna find out as much as possible about the course while i still have my change of mind option open to me. Thanks

Nala

Originally posted by syke
are you from Dundalk by any chance?

Why do u ask?

bp_me

Yes
Yes

WIT - BSc. Manufacturing Systems Engineering.