The Trinity Hall thread

europerson

cianclarke wrote:

Anybody see the photos of the fire? Scary stuff...

What fire might this be?

mizz.yelof!!!

house 81 apartment kitchen went on fire on sunday. oil left in pan, forgotten about or cooker not turned off not sure of that actual detail and kitchen all gone.no damage done to bedrooms or other apartments, just smell of smoke in all of house 81 basically! no casualties

girls had to stay in b and b that night , and i havnt heard from brendan since so im not sure what there living arrangments are at the mo. feel really sorry for them tho, there is a huge skip outside reception which basically contains the remnants of what was left of their kitchen.

exciting at the time tho, there were like 4 fire brigade's there, it was an apartment on the fourth floos so their ladders couldnt reach, and they broke the glass on the window, far more exciting than sitting in canteen studying anyway.

accomodation surpassed themselves, (for once i actually cant believe it!)
they are supplying ssome sort of laundrette vouchers worth €50 (dont quote me on that could be more or less) for occupants of house 81 to wash their clothes to get rid of smell. on top of this some are getting vouchers to replace bed linen (again cause the smell is terrible)

brendan tooks photo's of the kitchen and emailed them out, very wise! i shall never leave my cooker again if i have something cooking!

mizz.yelof!!!

oh here the link to photos

http://www.wardentrinityhall.tcdlife.ie/news/fire/index.html

Woah that looks really bad. I wonder what exactly they did to start it.

Passport

Grace Curved Farm wrote:

Woah that looks really bad. I wonder what exactly they did to start it.

She said.

mizz.yelof!!!

as i said oil left in pan on cooker, not details as to whether they had already been cooking and forgot to turn of cooker or if they were just heating it up

europerson

Well done to the Warden for publicising it like that.

Pet

Grrr. My internet is really, really slow, even when downloading from inside the college network. I have no idea why. Strangely enough, only Firefox is giving me trouble--IE seems to work at normal speed.

Can someone post/PM a list of the proxies? I've tried proxyA, tcdproxy (8080), proxy.cgi, and all three are very slow or work intermittently.

Crash

proxyB.tcd.ie 8080 or proxy4.tcd.ie 8002 should work.

Pet

WARNING: extreme, shameless nostalgia approaching.

I can't believe I've been living here two years, and I never fully realised that there's a giant, ****off plasma screen TV with satellite, surround sound and DVDs in Oldham house. This place rocks. I'm realllllllly gonna miss it when I leave.

(Caveat: I'm just back from there now, I don't like sitting in a giant TV room all alone, reminds me of being in hospital.)

Things I'll also miss:

-STILL being awake when the grounds maintenance guys come around early on Monday mornings
-sitting out by the pond drinking
-spending entire days in Oldham playing pool/fussball/piano
-living with 5 other people
-drink-picnics out in the woods beside Cunningham
-meeting new people every day, and always having people in your flat
-Temple Road as the seasons change (on the days when you're not completely, totally sick of the seemingly endless walk to the Luas)
-walking to the RDS for exams with your friends, and being in an inappropriately good mood considering the impending doom
-having my own bathroom
-all the shared music on iTunes
-going outside for a smoke at 5am on a Tuesday, and there being still other people awake to make you feel like less of an insomniac freak
-insanely fast internet
-the music room

mizz.yelof!!!

Pet wrote:

WARNING: extreme, shameless nostalgia approaching.

I can't believe I've been living here two years, and I never fully realised that there's a giant, ****off plasma screen TV with satellite, surround sound and DVDs in Oldham house. This place rocks. I'm realllllllly gonna miss it when I leave.

(Caveat: I'm just back from there now, I don't like sitting in a giant TV room all alone, reminds me of being in hospital.)

Things I'll also miss:

-STILL being awake when the grounds maintenance guys come around early on Monday mornings
-sitting out by the pond drinking
-spending entire days in Oldham playing pool/fussball/piano
-living with 5 other people
-drink-picnics out in the woods beside Cunningham
-meeting new people every day, and always having people in your flat
-Temple Road as the seasons change (on the days when you're not completely, totally sick of the seemingly endless walk to the Luas)
-walking to the RDS for exams with your friends, and being in an inappropriately good mood considering the impending doom
-having my own bathroom
-all the shared music on iTunes
-going outside for a smoke at 5am on a Tuesday, and there being still other people awake to make you feel like less of an insomniac freak
-insanely fast internet
-the music room

dont feel too bad about not noticing the plasma tv, we only bought that this year, but the satelite and all that has alwasy been there. the plasma part of the renovations that will commence during summer for the front room in oldham house to make it more student friendly. just a pity that all our hard work for it will go unseen by our own year, and wont be ready until next year.


and yea im right there with you on the nostalgia! going to miss it all so so much! tear tear! what il miss most the the security guards kinfly guiding you to your apartment and giving you a key, or a cup of tea to sober you if the case may be! i wont have someone onn stand-by at the front gate of where ever the hell i end up next year awaiting my return from night out making sure i got my phone and bag out of taxi!

I still dream about my ensuite bathroom in halls. The shower was AMAZING.

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Grace Curved Farm wrote:

I still dream about my ensuite bathroom in halls. The shower was AMAZING.

I'm going to have a lovely hot power shower tonight. Because I can.:D

sully-gormo

Hey, I just got a letter from Halls today about next year- I just have one question-
What do people do about cutlery, crockery, pots and pans etc..
What happens with buying food etc.. do people chip in or does everyone do their own thing?
Im in Cunningham house

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sully-gormo wrote:

Hey, I just got a letter from Halls today about next year- I just have one question-
What do people do about cutlery, crockery, pots and pans etc..
What happens with buying food etc.. do people chip in or does everyone do their own thing?
Im in Cunningham house

Usually:

a) Everyone brings their own. If you forget something, you can nicely ask someone else if you can use theirs.

b) See above.

Hope that helped.

cianclarke

Yeah, I'm yet to see a flat which did the whole communal cooking thing in halls.

balzarywex

4/6 of an apartment I know did the whole communal shopping thing... but it didnt go down too well when the other 2/6 helped themselves though...:eek:
general concensus, buy your own stuff. but pots and pans and all that jazz were just thrown into one press and used communally.

aside: got 83.8. blah, noisey place for people coming back at nite...

Rich_1089

How easy/realistic is it to live elsewhere other than Trinity Hall in your first year? Can you really not live in other college accommodation?

sully-gormo

I think its just nicer to live in a flat with other students rather that go look for private accom. Some ppl dont even know anyone they could share a place with so Halls would come in handy for them. Me, im finished first year now(got 69.25 in exams to boot) and i would be moving out of home next year anyways, and I picked halls over sharing a house with my friends from school just to spend a year living in student accom. Its kinda halfway between Home and completely Private Rented accom.

EDIT: Didnt properly read ur post there. I think around end Jul/Aug stuff should come on the mkt. Look on DAFT as thats supposed to be the best for a place. You could be paying 100-130/wk from what ive seen tho it can vary