Trinity's great and all, but it doesn't have...

cuckoo

.....hammocks. If i controlled the budget (and the college) i'd allocate enough money to put up loads of hammocks, in quiet places around the college so that tired students could have naps.

A petting zoo would also be nice (i know bio resources has lab animals, but we don't get to hang out with them). I'm thinking something with cute rabbits, guinea pigs, dwarf goats and sheep. It'd be relaxing to watch them frolic, and stroke their fur.

So, in a fit of whimsy, what would anyone else like to see on the tcd campus?

ApeXaviour

More espresso and hot chocolate in the hamilton coffee machine...

That is all

Edwardius

And dedicated "hangover booths" with furniture to adapt to the "comfort position" of the moment (when hungover, there is only one position that'll minimise pain, suffering and the ability to think, it's usually a variation of the foetal position). Also, cold air flow over the individual, the temperature and flow speed of which could be changed (midget slaves with palm leaves). Also, lots of cushions, a tea maker, playstation, television, fridge, infinite supply of refrigerated beverages, toilet and soothing music, and possibly some porn. I'd also like to see that "patricia wagon" the security guys have placed forcibly on its roof and set alight. I've also had dreams of procuring a tractor, ploughing the cricket pitch and sowing potatoes on it.

Pet

More plants, in various colours. Some water features, esp in that garden between the museum building and the rugby pitch - perfect location for a zen garden with a small fountain.

John

cuckoo wrote:

A petting zoo would also be nice (i know bio resources has lab animals, but we don't get to hang out with them).

I've been in there a few times, they've got frickin' huge guinea pigs! I didn't know they were that big, they're like littler and cuter horse/rabbits. Fantastic! And nothing bad happened to them or so I choose to believe.

gilroyb

They should mechanise the Elks in the Museum building, would be fun to have them wandering around

John

Only if they program random bezerker sprees into the elks

europerson

A Christmas tree in Front Square (at Christmas, obviously).

europerson

europerson wrote:

A Christmas tree in Front Square (at Christmas, obviously).

That was actually planned to go ahead this year, but Board turned it down.

europerson

Myth wrote:

That was actually planned to go ahead this year, but Board turned it down.

I know: it was going to cost too much, and they'd have had to upgrade the electrical system under the Campanile, which would cost a lot too.

PHB

A student center. A park to hang out in.

I think its high time the Cricket pitch was gotten rid of. A new really great student center was built. A park was made that allowed us to play whatever games we wanted on it, and generally just chill out.
The cricket pitch is a load of hogwash if you ask me.

PHB

PHB wrote:

A park was made that allowed us to play whatever games we wanted on it, and generally just chill out..

On that point, a hedge-maze.

europerson

PHB wrote:

A student center.

Yes, we need one of those, but Luce Hall will be the SU's shortly.

A park to hang out in.

I think its high time the Cricket pitch was gotten rid of.

A park was made that allowed us to play whatever games we wanted on it, and generally just chill out.
The cricket pitch is a load of hogwash if you ask me.

It's good for playing cricket, and it's a nice quiet area within College. I don't see how building a student centre on it or something would help. One can play soccer on College Park too, and, according to the regulations, one can consume food and drink there...!

Myth wrote:

On that point, a hedge-maze.

That would be cool, but potentially scary.

PHB

Yay, an SU student center in Luce. That will be as succesful as the GMB as a student center :rolleyes:

College Park doesn't let people play soccer on it. Doesn't let people play frizbee on it, when cricket season comes around.
Like seriously, there has to be at most 100 cricket players in all of trinity, who gives a **** about them. Let's have a fun place to hang out, which of course needs a nice grassy area, with maybe a path through it and some benches. We could have the ivy garden within trinity, now that would be ****ing slick. on any sunny day, the entire grass would covered with people. Isn't that nicer than a nice little quiet area within college.

snorlax

a swimming pool, a jacuzzi or sauna to unwind in after a day of studying. to hire some of the physio students for cheap rates and get them to offer reduced rate back massages .. also we need more decent coffee places and i'd personally love a hockey pitch.

europerson

PHB wrote:

Yay, an SU student center in Luce. That will be as succesful as the GMB as a student center :rolleyes:

It would be atrocious, if every student had your attitude.

College Park doesn't let people play soccer on it. Doesn't let people play frizbee on it, when cricket season comes around.
Like seriously, there has to be at most 100 cricket players in all of trinity, who gives a **** about them.

I disagree with your majoritarian tendencies. May I remind you that a "university", etymologically, refers to "the whole" and not just the popular. In any case, College Park is steeped in cricketing history: over the years, over three hundred test cricketers have played on College Park. Having cricket on College Park is part of history, like having the President in Áras an Uachtaráin or the Queen in Buckingham Palace. It just wouldn't be right, if you or I could stake a claim on it as our own. DUCAC usually allow most sports to use College Park when necessary, for example, the College Races, which take place during Trinity Week.

Let's have a fun place to hang out, which of course needs a nice grassy area, with maybe a path through it and some benches. We could have the ivy garden within trinity, now that would be ****ing slick. on any sunny day, the entire grass would covered with people. Isn't that nicer than a nice little quiet area within college.

If you were so concerned, you ought to have chosen NUIG or somewhere similar, which have lots of forests, gardens, trees, etc. In Trinity, we haven't the luxury of that sort of space. It's a classic trade-off between a city centre location or a vast, sprawling campus.

Thirdfox

How about some more books in the library (and not just lodged in stacks either!)

Also power sockets at library desks for people to plug their laptops into...

Guess where I spend most of my time?

Nietzschean

well we have power sockets in the ham at every desk........

cuckoo

John2 wrote:

I've been in there a few times, they've got frickin' huge guinea pigs! I didn't know they were that big, they're like littler and cuter horse/rabbits. Fantastic! And nothing bad happened to them or so I choose to believe.

A big turning wheel thing for the huge guinea pigs to exercise in, positioned in the atrium of the Ussher library. The death star (round sculpture outside berkeley lib door) could be taken off it's foundations, and the guinea pigs could roll it around and play with it.

Maybe i'm picturing these guinea pigs as being slightly larger than actual size.

Thirdfox

Nietzschean wrote:

well we have power sockets in the ham at every desk........

therein lies the problem - as a law student I couldn't really trudge all the way down to the hamilton (and back again for my law books!)

Currently in the law room there's 3 sockets for circa 300 places :eek:

Edwardius

cuckoo wrote:

A big turning wheel thing for the huge guinea pigs to exercise in, positioned in the atrium of the Ussher library. The death star (round sculpture outside berkeley lib door) could be taken off it's foundations, and midgets could roll it around and play with it.

Agreed.

Time Magazine

...enough public computers.

...and a nice Arts Block.

europerson

Angry Banana wrote:

a nice Arts Block.

Well, apparently, it's being refurbished over the next five years. It has to be brought up to fire safety standards, so College is looking at refurbishing the building as a whole, especially Levels 3 to 5.

John

Nietzschean wrote:

well we have power sockets in the ham at every desk........

They don't all work though. I'm not even sure if any of them work upstairs. Any of the ones I've used upstairs have been dead (yes I made sure the switch was on!).

Nietzschean

i know the network points are all dead upstairs, but emm i've used power sockets in all parts of the ham lib without one ever being dead.....

And well ye are supposed to be working from books in the law library i guess, ye'd only dos off with the internet if ye had power for your laptops...

...god know's ye see enough people on bebo on their laptop's in the ham...

Thirdfox

www.lexis-nexis.com
www.irlii.ie
www.bailii.com

- these websites (amongst others) list cases online for you to read - much more convenient than looking through reams of pages (also it frees the books up for other people who don't have a laptop).

But I do take your point that while on the internet bebo is an annoying distraction

Nietzschean

I don't dispute the internet would be handy in any field, though there is a clearer need for power points in the hamilton, be kinda hard to do programming with a pen and paper

John

Nietzschean wrote:

I don't dispute the internet would be handy in any field, though there is a clearer need for power points in the hamilton, be kinda hard to do programming with a pen and paper

Back in my day we'd be lucky to have the pen...

Thirdfox

Don't forget the Apollo 13 Astronauts were calculating return trajectories using abacuses!

And I wasn't saying that the Hamilton shouldn't have power points, just that it would be nice to have them in the Art block libraries too.

John

And in fairness to arts people, having a laptop in the library makes doing essays a lot easier. I know that from doing psychology and broad curriculum stuff.

Edwardius

Also useful for recharging mp3 player with increasingly poor battery life so I don't have to listen to a load of stupid first years talking loudly (undoubtedly for the purpose of letting us hear how fun, clever and witty they are.). I thought they'd all have dropped out by now. I can see some of them getting violenced in the near future...

Also, I've never experienced a dead power socket in the ham library, but I only ever sit upstairs so I dunno what the rest of it is like.

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Awayindahils

Dead Ed wrote:

Also useful for recharging mp3 player with increasingly poor battery life

mmh the chance to charge my mp3 player has gotten me to the library quite a few times this year;)

aside from that we dont have waterslides, or candyfloss makers or machines which make bubbles come out the walls, but before any of these thigns what i'd really like would be some pillows, not cushions, pillows.

xeduCat

Pillows in general or for a particular place?

Barry Aldwell

Awayindahils wrote:

mmh the chance to charge my mp3 player has gotten me to the library quite a few times this year;)

aside from that we dont have waterslides, or candyfloss makers or machines which make bubbles come out the walls, but before any of these thigns what i'd really like would be some pillows, not cushions, pillows.

Sure you wouldn't prefer a padded cell instead of pillows?

Banphrionsa

Trinity is great and all, but it doesn't have...
A course on the care and development of Irish foxes.:rolleyes:

Awayindahils

xeduCat wrote:

Pillows in general or for a particular place?

well orginal it started out for a particular place, but now i think just in general, possibly pillows which would float around behind one, i just like the idea of pillows in general.

Sure you wouldn't prefer a padded cell instead of pillows?

well if it were very comfortable i could be persuaded, but the pillows would do just fine for now, anyway im sure there would be a huge number of people who would benefit more from the padded cell than me if one were built in trinity, FCA gun enthusiasts for instance, possibly the guy who used to spit aswell.

europerson

Banphrionsa wrote:

Trinity is great and all, but it doesn't have...
A course on the care and development of Irish foxes.:rolleyes:

There is a Senior Sophister Zoology course called "Working with Animals", which might include foxes.

cuckoo

Awayindahils wrote:

well orginal it started out for a particular place, but now i think just in general, possibly pillows which would float around behind one, i just like the idea of pillows in general.

Oh, i like. And, when one is having a 'this is all just too taxing for me' moment the cushion would be ready to soften the backwards flounce onto the ground. Students approaching finals would have slightly bigger cushions, due to the potential extra stress. And, when couples walk around college holding hands, their cushions be snuggled up against each other as they follow the pair around.

Awayindahils

cuckoo wrote:

Oh, i like. And, when one is having a 'this is all just too taxing for me' moment the cushion would be ready to soften the backwards flounce onto the ground. Students approaching finals would have slightly bigger cushions, due to the potential extra stress. And, when couples walk around college holding hands, their cushions be snuggled up against each other as they follow the pair around.

yeah something like that, but its very specifically pillows, as opposed to cushions. cushion are never quite as rewarding as pillows, but i suppose if it was to soften the blow of falling over, a cushion is alot sturdier than a pillow.

europerson

cuckoo wrote:

And, when couples walk around college holding hands, their cushions be snuggled up against each other as they follow the pair around.

Awww...!

wheresthebeef

Awayindahils wrote:

well orginal it started out for a particular place, but now i think just in general, possibly pillows which would float around behind one, i just like the idea of pillows in general.



well if it were very comfortable i could be persuaded, but the pillows would do just fine for now, anyway im sure there would be a huge number of people who would benefit more from the padded cell than me if one were built in trinity, FCA gun enthusiasts for instance, possibly the guy who used to spit aswell.

Call over to D'Olier Street. There are loads of Psych Nurses who would be only too happy to supervise you in protective isolation. Bring your trigger happy friends too!

cuckoo

wheresthebeef wrote:

Call over to D'Olier Street. There are loads of Psych Nurses who would be only too happy to supervise you in protective isolation. Bring your trigger happy friends too!

Anyone up for a tcd Boards outing?

Barry Aldwell

cuckoo wrote:

Anyone up for a tcd Boards outing?

Where we all get locked in a padded cell and start bouncing off the walls?

If so, I am so there.....

Awayindahils

cuckoo wrote:

Anyone up for a tcd Boards outing?

it could prove a remarkably quiet place to study:rolleyes:

rsynnott

Better wireless coverage, especially in House 6. (There used to be wifi there from House 7, but no more.)

cuckoo wrote:

A petting zoo would also be nice (i know bio resources has lab animals, but we don't get to hang out with them). I'm thinking something with cute rabbits, guinea pigs, dwarf goats and sheep. It'd be relaxing to watch them frolic, and stroke their fur.

To save money, you could combine the two!

cuckoo

I'm getting a bit more ambitious now, along with the petting zoo and the giant guinea pigs (freed from bio resources in a daring raid) i'd like to see a llama herd on the rugby pitch.

Llama's are seriously cool - if they get annoyed at someone they spit in their face.

And, they clear rough ground:

http://www.elevage-de-garenne.com/en/index.html

Plus, their wool is very handy, knits up beautifully.

And, there's a llama song:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php

rsynnott

rsynnott wrote:

Better wireless coverage, especially in House 6.

I've been asking for this all year, and was given a general date of April for getting wireless in House 6.

europerson

What about alpacas? They're cute and there are already established breeders in Ireland.

europerson

europerson wrote:

What about alpacas? They're cute and there are already established breeders in Ireland.

Really? What do they breed?

europerson

According to Wikipedia, we could have ten alpacas per acre. They're tidy (with a communal dung pile) and less likely to escape than llamas. They're also less easily frightened than llamas, which are rather irritable.

europerson

Myth wrote:

Really? What do they breed?

Alpacas. They sell their wool.

I know you're more of a pig farmer at the moment, Dónal, but you should think about diversifying into alpacas. There's an alpaca section in the classified ads in the Farmers' Journal. Look there.