Who is/will be studying what?

Nietzschean

yeah i've heard no end of complaints about it, though i still plan on doing it....

sleepingbeauty

What course is it u do?

Im doing science- hope to do the astrophysics option. and yeah phy dept isnt REALLY organised but you should see the chem dept on its bad days

David19

blankcanvas wrote:

Im doing science- hope to do the astrophysics option. and yeah phy dept isnt REALLY organised but you should see the chem dept on its bad days

What year are you goin into?

sleepingbeauty

2nd year.....what is everyone else doin out of interest?

David19

Do you know anyone called niamh, sarah or ronan? I believe they were all in first year science last year. I transferred course, Im about to start maths. If you want to know what everyone else is doing just read the first few pages of this thread.

ApeXaviour

blankcanvas wrote:

2nd year.....what is everyone else doin out of interest?

You NS aswell? You know Yannick Buret or Dee Byrne? They were in my year and repeated. Yannick especially, he'd be in your physic lectures and he's the spit of a young Cat Stevens..

Astrophys eh? Yeah that's my second choice. If I pass this poxy chem supplementals I'll be hopin for just plain ol' EP. At the end of the day tho there's very little difference in the degrees.

sleepingbeauty

Do you know anyone called niamh, sarah or ronan

yeah i do, well not really well but i know a girl who knows a niamh and a guy who knows sarah and and sorta know ronan (if theyre the same people!)

You NS aswell? You know Yannick Buret or Dee Byrne? They were in my year and repeated. Yannick especially, he'd be in your physic lectures and he's the spit of a young Cat Stevens..

dont know dee, have heard of yannick...one of my friends knows him i think

Astrophys eh? Yeah that's my second choice. If I pass this poxy chem supplementals I'll be hopin for just plain ol' EP. At the end of the day tho there's very little difference in the degrees.

i really thought i was gonna fail chem this yr but did alright in the end- thank god for the labs etc that count for marks! yeah they're pretty much the same but it would still be nice to get astrophysics though

ApeXaviour

If you pass you'll get it.. There is no set places for it specifically. There's 24 places for physics and astrophysics together. If all 24 of them wanna do astro thats what the college'll do. So they're sorta considered the same course, and then it's an option you pick within it..

It's never happened that people who want to do physics and pass 2nd year don't get physics! Not like physiology or genetics where the demand always outweighs places.. Physics is more like botany in this case, (thankfully) less "popular"..

So dinna fash yoursel' too much lassie

sleepingbeauty

If you pass you'll get it.. There is no set places for it specifically. There's 24 places for physics and astrophysics together. If all 24 of them wanna do astro thats what the college'll do.

oh ok excellent- sure im sure i can scrape a pass

So dinna fash yoursel' too much lassie

thanks for that apeX i feel much better now

Pet

Do you know anyone called niamh, sarah or ronan?

I know OF a Niamh, friend-of-a-friend type of thing..

As for me, I'm doing Science, good ol' TR071. Anyone else here gonna be doing the same as me?

Funky

Kinda OT but didn't want to bother startin a thread so i thought i'd ask here... Is it worth having a laptop at all for Comp Sci / General use in trinity?

David19

Ok I was just wondering because Niamh and Sarah live on my road and Ronan was in my school.

sk_irl

i was going to start theoretical physics there this year, but after reading all that you lot have had to say about the course, i might just stay here and hide under the table.

PrecariousNuts

See you friday at registration or monday at our little meetup

David19

Funky wrote:

Kinda OT but didn't want to bother startin a thread so i thought i'd ask here... Is it worth having a laptop at all for Comp Sci / General use in trinity?

Well there's computers all over the campus so you probabaly don't need it. Im presuming you have a computer at home anyway.

geo

Pet wrote:

As for me, I'm doing Science, good ol' TR071. Anyone else here gonna be doing the same as me?

yep ... any idea how many hours we have a week?

David19

I transferred course so I'll be in first year again. Does anyone know if I register in freshers week? I presume I do?

sleepingbeauty

Ok I was just wondering because Niamh and Sarah live on my road and Ronan was in my school.

hmmm the Niamh I was thinking of is from Kildare so I presume not the same person?

yep ... any idea how many hours we have a week?

depends on what subjects you are doing i suppose but i did phy/chem/math in 1st yr and had about 25 hours i think - including labs and tutorials

David19

blankcanvas wrote:

hmmm the Niamh I was thinking of is from Kildare so I presume not the same person?

Ok no thats a different person. The niamh I know lives in Dublin. She has blonde hair.

PrecariousNuts

niamh discussion thread am i rite??

sleepingbeauty

niamh discussion thread am i rite??

sorry i think we are sorted though now...not the same niamh david

Does anyone know if I register in freshers week? I presume I do?

yeah id say so, it makes sense since you are starting all over again with a new course.....you might get some letter saying when to register?

David19

Lol yeah we're sorted now. Yeah I suppose I'll get something about it.

ApeXaviour

blankcanvas wrote:

depends on what subjects you are doing i suppose but i did phy/chem/math in 1st yr and had about 25 hours i think - including labs and tutorials

It gets better hours wise when you specialise (I hope). Looked at the JS physics timetable.. seems to be only about 12 or so hours lectures a week plus another 5 hours lab.. You'll notice in 2nd yr the labs are a lot harder but more interesting if ur into that kinda thing, how are your errors btw? In JS I'm told you're not even given any instruction..

David19 wrote:

Ok no thats a different person. The niamh I know lives in Dublin. She has blonde hair.

300 people in the course mate in each year.. 60% of whom are the fairer sex. Bound to be a couple niamhs..

Nietzschean

David19 wrote:

Well there's computers all over the campus so you probabaly don't need it. Im presuming you have a computer at home anyway.

true but most machines on campus r crap , laptop is always handy....


hrm blankcanvas who did u have for 061 last yr? and u doing maths this year?


god i hate french keyboards............

David19

Yeah a laptop would be handy but so would a private plane or a lamborghini lol he has to buy it. It'd just be a luxury. A lot of the computers on the campus do work and he has a computer at home so he should be fine.

Where in france are you skylynx?

Pet

yep ... any idea how many hours we have a week?

Absolutely not a clue. I hope it isn't too many though.

Actually, ApeXaviour, I'm hoping to do Environmental Science in 3rd&4th year, but it says in ym booklet thingy that I'm "advised" to do chemistry.

Problem is, I despise chemistry. Can't stand it. :-S

Do you think I could skip it and still make env.sci?

ApeXaviour

Pet, I strongly urge you to do chemistry at least in first year. You can drop it in second year and do either the two biologies or geog and geol.
That's a little ambiguous, let me explain better.
In first year you pick 3 subjects, IMO your best bet would be to pick:
-geog/geol
-biology
-chem
(maths methods is then mandatory)

Then in 2nd yr you could drop chem if you wish, then I would advise:
bio 1 (afaik biochem, microbiology)
bio 2 (afaik botany, zoology, ecology etc.)
geology

OR

bio 2
geology
geography.

The reason I think you should do chem in 1st yr is cos in 3rd yr env sci have 2 chemistry courses! Also 1st year chem is not that difficult, it's very broad and would give you a good post LC grounding in chemistry which would save a LOT of hassle in the later years. SF chem on the otherhand (I'm studying it right this minute) is needlessly more advanced and would have little application in enviromental science IMO..
Also in 1st year, your only other choices would be to do either Physics B or Maths. Which would be of very little use to you in your chosen moderatorship. At least that is when compared to chemistry..

EDIT: To answer your question (:o sorry, tangents): as long as you do biology in JF and biology 2 in SF you should be able to get environmental science. Chem would possibly be the lesser of three evils (maths n phys) in your case. But if you like or did well in either maths or phys in ur LC then I suppose it wouldn't be too harmful choosing either of them in JF.

sleepingbeauty

It gets better hours wise when you specialise (I hope). Looked at the JS physics timetable.. seems to be only about 12 or so hours lectures a week plus another 5 hours lab.. You'll notice in 2nd yr the labs are a lot harder but more interesting if ur into that kinda thing, how are your errors btw? In JS I'm told you're not even given any instruction..

12 hrs? sounds pretty good to me- let me know how it goes! hhmmm errors, not my fave thing in the world...they are ok but i tend to make them up as i go along! no instruction?? dude thats just mean i may be bugging my lab partner a lot so

The reason I think you should do chem in 1st yr is cos in 3rd yr some of you have 2 chemistry courses! Also 1st year chem is not that difficult, it's very broad and would give you a good post LC grounding in chemistry

chem really isnt too hard in 1st yr- its pretty much just a step up from the lc and a lot of stuff from the lc is covered (i remember looking at my lc textbook when we were doing acid/bases, electrochem, etc.)

is sf chem really that bad apeX??!

ApeXaviour

blankcanvas wrote:

is sf chem really that bad apeX??!

Actually it's not too bad if you're doing physics too, there's a lot of cross-over.. But as far as being applicable to environmental sci, it just isn't.

PrecariousNuts

12 hours??! That's barely 2 and a half hours a day, pff that's not even worth going in for.