Lockers

ApeXaviour

For all those who want/need lockers. I'm 90% sure you're looking at an extremely early start in the morning. My friend and I are doing our yearly "catch the 06:20 bus from Lucan on the first day of term" thing..

It's in the arts block, near the security desk where you must go. You'll need to be early as they get taken up fast.. afaik it's €30-€35, half of which is a deposit..

Pet

Ah crap. With my circadian rhythm, I suppose I may as well not bother even going to bed tonight...

ApeXaviour

Pet wrote:

Ah crap. With my circadian rhythm, I suppose I may as well not bother even going to bed tonight...

Hmm circadian rhythm.. nice phrase. I'm doin the same meself. Considerin I only got to sleep at 10 this mornin, woke up at 5 then. Stir-fry for breakfast is a difficult thing to get used to..

Pet

Wooh! Hardcore!!!

And stir fry. Really. That's SO unbecoming of a Trinity student, tut tut.

Also, you must go to chat. It's where it's at.

Andrew 83

You only have to be insanely early if you want a big one, if you don't mind getting a small one you can come in at 10 and still get one.

Crash

I like em big....mmmmmm.....






lockers that is.

Agent Smith

i'll be there....

ApeXaviour

Big ones are only available for arts block end students afaik. At least they aint available for sci as there are none in the hamo. The reason I get there at the crack of dawn is to get them on the ground floor of the hamilton as opposed to way downstairs in the poxy Panoz (pharmacy) building..

Agent Smith

/me hug's new locker!




i wub lockers

Nietzschean

/me hug's those extra 2hrs in bed

ApeXaviour

Got me locker bout 06:55. Took all of 2 minutes. Came back 20 mins later and the queue had turned into a monster the likes of which had not been seen since the pope visited in 1979..

Pet

ApeXaviour wrote:

Got me locker bout 06:55. Took all of 2 minutes. Came back 20 mins later and the queue had turned into a monster the likes of which had not been seen since the pope visited in 1979..

Where are you atm? I'm almost certain I saw you earlier, you were just leaving as I was queueing for my locker. I'm in the Aras an Phiarsaigh, for the next 15 mins...

Edit: It's like a ****ing oven in here. Air conditioning anyone?

Agent Smith

aye, it's ****ing roasting here.....

ApeXaviour

Lads wtf are yis doin in aras an ****zig.. come down to the laser huts.. thats where I be. Computers are better afaik too..

Agent Smith

but's it's cold outside......



also, i''m downloading the mod Day of defeat @600k a second

ApeXaviour

Meh.. suit yisr selves. You'll soon learn of the awsomeness of the hutz.. Open 24hours.


EDIT: Loadsa comps free here too. I'm off now anyway to buy stationary.. (ooh wow I have such an exciting life)

Crash

Heehee, on the nice mandrake PC's in the Hamilton atm....Nyom...

got my locker around 7.30 - saw you up ahead of me declan actually - i think.

Middle of the hamilton - noice

Pet

crash_000 wrote:

Heehee, on the nice mandrake PC's in the Hamilton atm....Nyom...

got my locker around 7.30 - saw you up ahead of me declan actually - i think.

Middle of the hamilton - noice

Mine is on the bottom, darn..Ah well, I doubt I'll use it much..

John

ah, no locker for me this year but a bloody big filing cabinet in house 6

sleepingbeauty

Middle of the hamilton - noice

same for me...mines in the hammo, dead centre- no crouching for me
i guess going in for 7am was worth it afterall..

Kevin_rc_ie

i'm at the bottom.

:-(

Pet

Oh, my 1S2 lecturer is Hugli Remo (I think that's how you spell it, my timetable is in my bag but I can't be arsed rummaging for it..).

OKay...another subject choice question:

What's the difference between physics A and B (A being physics for those doing full maths, B being physics for those doing maths methods).

Is one easier than the other? Bear in mind that I never did physics for the Leaving Cert, so I don't want to be over my head all the time.

If physics B is easier in that respect, I may drop full maths and take up chemistry (Poor Gus, he's not going to have an easy time with me...). SOOO..how much different is CHEMISTRY to the LC version?

Thank you for reading (more) of my stupid questions. And sexual favours for anyone who answers them...:p

ApeXaviour

I'd imagine phys B is less mathematical but since nobody has done both I can't compare.. Recommend asking a member of the dept, they'd be more than happy to answer you if they can trust me..

If you didn't do phys for LC I wouldn't recommend it in college except for the really dedicated as it IS the most difficult of all the subjects in natural sci to catch up on. This is just the nature of it, building on foundations etc. Chem is just the LC plus a bit more.. it's pretty handy in 1st year, esp if you did it for the LC. Plus it's more applicable to your personal final degree choice.
And WHY are you not doin geog/geol? Apart from being dead fooking handy (or so I hear), it's practically most of what env. sci is right?!

Pet

ApeXaviour wrote:

I'd imagine phys B is less mathematical but since nobody has done both I can't compare.. Recommend asking a member of the dept, they'd be more than happy to answer you if they can trust me..

If you didn't do phys for LC I wouldn't recommend it in college except for the really dedicated as it IS the most difficult of all the subjects in natural sci to catch up on. This is just the nature of it, building on foundations etc. Chem is just the LC plus a bit more.. it's pretty handy in 1st year, esp if you did it for the LC. Plus it's more applicable to your personal final degree choice.
And WHY are you not doin geog/geol? Apart from being dead fooking handy (or so I hear), it's practically most of what env. sci is right?!

Geog/geology...know the reason why??


Yep. It's the 9am lectures.

I liked the look of it tbh, but 9am lectures means getting up at about 0630 or earlier, and to avoid that 3 days out of 5 is something I can't turn down. I don't function (can't concentrate, can't pay attention..mild ADD probably ) without sleep.

ApeXaviour

Man, you're actually letting the timetable influence your subject choice.. :eek: So you would rather study something that will be of very little use to you for an entire year.. Then leaving you more work in the future??

Why didn't you just do orts!? They've got great timetables..

Pet

ApeXaviour wrote:

Man, you're actually letting the timetable influence your subject choice.. :eek: So you would rather study something that will be of very little use to you for an entire year.. Then leaving you more work in the future??

Why didn't you just do orts!? They've got great timetables..

I know, I'm a lazy ****e. But apparently you can take geog in 2nd year without doing it in 1st. And I've always wanted to do physics, so even if I waste a year on it at least I can put that to rest.

But yes, I am lazy, and I know it.

ApeXaviour

Well just make sure you got it researched right. It might just be a typo but just to clarify: you cannot take geography in SF without having done geog/geol in JF, you can take up geology however.

Your logic is weird IMHO but if it makes ya happy then by all means..

sleepingbeauty

Originally posted by Pet:
Oh, my 1S2 lecturer is Hugli Remo (I think that's how you spell it, my timetable is in my bag but I can't be arsed rummaging for it..).

No!! You poor, poor guy...

What's the difference between physics A and B (A being physics for those doing full maths, B being physics for those doing maths methods).

As far as im aware PhyB would prob be the easier option, like ApeX said it is a little less mathematical and they dont go into as much detail on some topics...but i really wouldnt go choosing things just to get a nice timetable! it takes a while to get used to the early mornings but it really aint that bad. just think about what you wanna do in 2nd yr and make sure you do subjects this yr thatll allow you to do it!

Nietzschean

Anyone know if there are 061 lecturers this year?(were there last year?, got dropped after 3 weeks in my year due to 0 attendence...)

Pet

blankcanvas wrote:

No!! You poor, poor guy...


As far as im aware PhyB would prob be the easier option, like ApeX said it is a little less mathematical and they dont go into as much detail on some topics...but i really wouldnt go choosing things just to get a nice timetable! it takes a while to get used to the early mornings but it really aint that bad. just think about what you wanna do in 2nd yr and make sure you do subjects this yr thatll allow you to do it!

Um yes, he spent an entire lecture yesterday talking about using vectors to describe colours..nobody could hear what he was saying. But hey, he'll probably be better than Claas, eh?

Yeah, I'm gonna call into Gus again today and ask him what he thinks, poor guy, he'll never see the end of me..I'll ask my physics lecturer (Eric Finch - he's very English but very cool) to see what he thinks.

Edit: Oh, and I have SIX HOURS until my next lecture. I might go home..then again I might arse around, I dunno.

Nietzschean

Yeah i went home to a barrage of questions/****e about that vectors lecture....
something that he was calling a coordinate a vector or something me lil bro recon'd?

Pet

SkyLynx wrote:

Yeah i went home to a barrage of questions/****e about that vectors lecture....
something that he was calling a coordinate a vector or something me lil bro recon'd?

Yes! That was so damn confusing, here was me with my nice distinction between vectors and coordinates, then he comes along and messes that up. He was giving points like (B, 12) but calling them vectors. I guess they could be considered vectors from the origin, but still. He could have made it a bit more clear..

ApeXaviour

Pet wrote:

I'll ask my physics lecturer (Eric Finch - he's very English but very cool) to see what he thinks.

Finchy's a legend! It's mad funny when he starts thinking/talking to himself in lectures "two elecTRONS, two elecTRONS, two elecTRONS, two ELECtrons.."
I'd say his blood is 50% caffeine and he's never slept in his life.
He's got that "right jolly old chap, what?" english accent but yeah he's a bang on fella, makes a real effort to remember your name too.

Pet

ApeXaviour wrote:

Finchy's a legend! It's mad funny when he starts thinking/talking to himself in lectures "two elecTRONS, two elecTRONS, two elecTRONS, two ELECtrons.."
I'd say his blood is 50% caffeine and he's never slept in his life.
He's got that "right jolly old chap, what?" english accent but yeah he's a bang on fella, makes a real effort to remember your name too.

Yeah, he does have that "ticking caffeine timebomb" air alright. He was talking about some card game called vash yesterday (my god he talks fast)..

He's my physics B lecturer though, so I dunno if I'll be with him much longer. Where are you at the moment? I'm free til 5pm.. :rolleyes:

ApeXaviour

Was in lectures, seminars n then registered up til now.. Goin for a spot of in the library then off to the boards meet.

Pet

Pet wrote:

Yeah, he does have that "ticking caffeine timebomb" air alright. He was talking about some card game called vash yesterday (my god he talks fast)..

He's my physics B lecturer though, so I dunno if I'll be with him much longer. Where are you at the moment? I'm free til 5pm.. :rolleyes:

Just an addendum to that moan. My 5pm lecture was cancelled. So I wasted the past..day...arsing around campus filling time. Pox.

sleepingbeauty

finch is deadly, he's in charge of 2nd physics so think ill be seeing quite a bit of him this year...

Um yes, he spent an entire lecture yesterday talking about using vectors to describe colours..nobody could hear what he was saying. But hey, he'll probably be better than Claas, eh?

let me know if he starts getting obsessed with coloured chalk again this yr, it was soo hilarious last yr!! uh i think claas would be better tbh, he is THAT bad...but i have to say his exam at the end of the yr was pretty alright so cant complain too much!

aodh_rua

He's a character alright. I had him in first year (long time ago) and he was demonstrating some wave behavior by blowing into an instrument, and then blowing harder to move up an octave. After two or three rises, he couldn't make a sound - he then uttered the line "It appEARS I can't get IT up". Suffice to say 150 engineers didn't hold back.

He does look a little like an East German assassin though - the leather golves and briefcase combo.

Pet

Speaking of which, my other physics lecturer looks exactly like Jack White (of the White Stripes). I meant to say it to him today...he's wearing a cast at the moment, kinda has an American accent?


What's the story with Timoney? He's kinda funny (unintentionally) but I can never understand what the hell he's on about (and neither can anyone else). He seems really scattered..he is nice though, very innocent or something, like an uncle.

David19

Yeah I have Timoney too and I totally agree with that. He stalls so much, it makes things a little hard to follow. Still as pet says he does seem very nice.

Pet

Were you at the meetup yesterday? And which one were you (remember: me + names = disaster)?

David19

Nah I couldn't make it, I had to meet up with someone outside college. I'll probably be at the next one. Did many people turn up to the first two?

Pet

Well I missed the first, but there were about 7 or 8 of us at this one.

John

Timoney is a legend but he's a terrible lecturer. I did not get what he went on about for the entire time I had him.

sleepingbeauty

Timoney aint so bad. Yeah he does tend to talk to hinmself in lectures sometimes, but he puts all his notes up on the web for 1s3 and if you look at the past exam papers theyre all exactly the same, which is always a good thing for the end of year exams!

Kevin_rc_ie

In my opinion, Timoney's big fault (althought it was very endearing) was he was just so absoluetly exact about everything.

I'd imagine if you asked him what colour the sky is, unlike most people who would say blue he would say:
"well the sky, as perceived by human beings, ranges in colours from blah blah blah blah".

Also ask Timoney a "simple question" and be ready for a lot of pretend listening and nodding of your head in agreement. So maybe he had difficulty empathizing with freshmen or something.

Teachers can be divided into 2 sorts, those that are good at teaching a subject well to people who are crap at the subject and badly to those who are good or vice versa.

I think Timoney would be a good teacher if you were actually interested in the finer subtlies of maths. don't forget i agree entirely with an earlier poster that he is a legend and even more so with blanky because he put all his notes on the web and made his q's predictable which was cool.

John

So predictable I only did have the paper! I could do the binary stuff Samik did (Samik, now there was a dodgy lecturer) and the probability which was leaving cert but the rest was pure confusion with and without the notes. It wasn't just Timoney's fault that I didn't get it but he didn't help at all. Still, entertaining guy nonetheless.

"Well, actually, if you wanted to find out how much fig is in a fig roll you need to..."

Pet

Woohoo! All three of my maths lecturers are rubbish, all in different ways.


I'm just glad there are so many of us, because at least that way there will be people who will do worse than me.

Pet

"Well, actually, if you wanted to find out how much fig is in a fig roll you need to..."

Hahahahaha, I can totally imagine him saying that.

Another thing that happens to him, poor man, all his powerpoint presentations and such always get messed up and he has to resort to using the blackboard.

John

Other interesting topics in a similar vein include working out what the volume of a bead is after you've drilled through it, in case you wanted to know the volume of beads on a necklace. Rivetting stuff.

(I'm sure these have their uses but I really can't be bothered with it!)

Just to inform, I got me a locker only last friday...if you happen to get a hold of the superintendent in the arts block, he may still be giving out lockers.