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    #272
    Pet
    Registered Users Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭Pet


    original_psycho wrote:
    C'mon - they're great!
    Yeah, I'm on the edge of my seat with one hand down my pants. No really.


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    #273
    Danger Bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 112 ✭✭Danger Bob


    Dr. Newman hasn't left. She's on a Sabbatical year in America. Not sure as of yet who will be taking over her different classes (although I think Enda knows, oddly enough). Patrick McCabe and the Senior Tutor will be taking over her tutor role for the year.


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    #274
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That explains why MJ Harrison is doing the econometrics course then..

    Anyone know what he's like?


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    #275
    Right_Side
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭Right_Side


    Right_Side wrote:
    Would I be right in thinking reading week will be Week 5 i.e. 6th November to 10th November?

    JS BESS still get reading weeks, right?

    Anyone?


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    #276
    europerson
    Registered Users Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭europerson


    original_psycho wrote:
    That explains why MJ Harrison is doing the econometrics course then..

    Anyone know what he's like?
    Apparently, he's very philosophical, and he likes to weigh up everything before reaching a conclusion. Favourite phrases include "on one hand" and "on the other hand".


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    #277
    gilroyb
    Registered Users Posts: 595 ✭✭✭gilroyb


    original_psycho wrote:
    That explains why MJ Harrison is doing the econometrics course then..

    Anyone know what he's like?

    He always takes the econometrics course. Very personable lecturer/person. Newman took the masters course.


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    #278
    Time Magazine
    Registered Users Posts: 8,452 ✭✭✭Time Magazine


    The first module of the Econometrics course shall be taken by Dr. Franco Mariuzzo, with the second half taken by Mr. Michael Harrison FTCD - possibly the nicest man I have ever met.

    And also, apparently, an extremely difficult marker.


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    #279
    gilroyb
    Registered Users Posts: 595 ✭✭✭gilroyb


    Ibid wrote:
    possibly the nicest man I have ever met.

    I agree, even though I preferred other lecturers, he is astoundingly nice.
    Ibid wrote:
    And also, apparently, an extremely difficult marker.

    Not quite true, just an amazingly extremely difficult course. Just do well on the project which is on a subject of your choice. It means that you can avoid the unintelligible course (somewhat).


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    #280
    Time Magazine
    Registered Users Posts: 8,452 ✭✭✭Time Magazine


    Sorry, when I said marker I meant examiner. Course is difficult.


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    #281
    Time Magazine
    Registered Users Posts: 8,452 ✭✭✭Time Magazine


    Business lecturers? Annoying tools? No....

    Wait until you meet Debbie.

    Roll on economics.


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    #282
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Project?

    Whats the deal with that??


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    #283
    Time Magazine
    Registered Users Posts: 8,452 ✭✭✭Time Magazine


    Bess Handbook, p. 67 wrote:
    Assessment
    Michaelmas Term Test (Week 10) – 15%
    Essay (optional), (deadline 5pm Friday Week 9, HT) – 5%
    Project (deadline 5pm Friday, Week 9, HT) – 20%
    .


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    #284
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Thank you Enda..

    I was hoping for a bit more detail..

    What exactly do you do for a econometrics project?


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    #285
    Tricity Bendix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,510 ✭✭✭Tricity Bendix


    Ibid wrote:
    Wait until you meet Debbie.
    Perhaps the only thing that saved my heterosexuality last year. Well, her and cnewman.


    Damn, those stripper boots could do things for me...


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    #286
    shay_562
    Registered Users Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭shay_562


    Business lecturers? Annoying tools? No....

    Maths lecturer, actually. I like business.


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    #287
    europerson
    Registered Users Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭europerson


    b.ie curious wrote:
    Perhaps the only thing that saved my heterosexuality last year. Well, her and cnewman.


    Damn, those stripper boots could do things for me...
    :D


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    #288
    gilroyb
    Registered Users Posts: 595 ✭✭✭gilroyb


    original_psycho wrote:
    Thank you Enda..

    I was hoping for a bit more detail..

    What exactly do you do for a econometrics project?

    Basically whatever you want, you examine one sample of data by looking at whether the changes can be explained by the changes in at least two other samples of data. It can be on any subject, as long as you use econometric methodology.

    I did mine on the effect of gold prices on the stock market; others have included golf scores; likelyhood of winning particular soccer matches depending on being home/away and position in the league the season before; and whether the free fees have actually improved college entry among those it was meant to help.

    If you want to look at some past ones, there is always at least one in the SER,

    It's not as bad as it seems, it can actually be quite interesting, not saying it will be, but can be. It's the easiest marks you're going to get anyway.


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    #289
    Black_Couch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭Black_Couch


    shay_562 wrote:
    Maths lecturer, actually. I like business.

    dean of bess isn't he? Ah I think he meant we had better opportunities than we were better people. Don't think he was that bad was he?


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    #290
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Black_Couch wrote:
    dean of bess isn't he?

    You're living in the past...


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    #291
    mizz.yelof!!!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭mizz.yelof!!!


    enda1 wrote:
    Umpa Lumpas - Bess girls ;)


    harsh! not all bess girls are oompa lumpas, they actually are a small percentage of **** heads, that sit in same area of lecture hall and mix with no one else becasue seemingly were not good enough or arnt quite oopma lumpa enough


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    #292
    Troglodyte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 230 ✭✭Troglodyte


    mizz.yelof!!! wrote:
    harsh! not all bess girls are oompa lumpas, they actually are a small percentage of **** heads, that sit in same area of lecture hall and mix with no one else becasue seemingly were not good enough or arnt quite oopma lumpa enough

    Bang on. I'm an easygoing sort of fellow, takes a lot to bother me, but they really manage to piss me off. I honestly cannot think of a more vacuous and stuck up group of people. Maybe there's worse out there, but by God I've yet to come across it. Meh, they're probably more deverving of pity than contempt anyway.

    *Rant over*


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    #293
    Dave Larkin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭Dave Larkin


    Note to self: Avoid BESS girls. :p


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    #294
    Troglodyte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 230 ✭✭Troglodyte


    Dave Larkin wrote:
    Note to self: Avoid BESS girls. :p

    Only the orange ones :D


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    #295
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    Dave Larkin wrote:
    Note to self: Avoid BESS girls. :p
    ah you say that now, but meh they are certainly easy on the eye's as ye pass the orts block.


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    #296
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Pff, I don't generally study well anyhow. but hey, might as well have something nice to look at :)

    as an aside, if any of yee start to turn this into a bess thread or bess-related thread, you're banned.


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    #297
    shay_562
    Registered Users Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭shay_562


    You're cool with us turning it into a thread about hot girls though, right? ;)


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    #298
    Troglodyte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 230 ✭✭Troglodyte


    shay_562 wrote:
    You're cool with us turning it into a thread about hot girls though, right? ;)

    Which would automatically turn it into a BESS thread anyway.... :D


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    #299
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    yes, yes we are.


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    #300
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    Troglodyte wrote:
    Which would automatically turn it into a BESS thread anyway.... :D
    not really. There are hot women in other courses ye know? varying concentrations depending on the course....

    Dentistry seems to be good from what i've met
    clinical speach and language studies also...


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    #301
    Troglodyte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 230 ✭✭Troglodyte


    Nietzschean wrote:
    not really. There are hot women in other courses ye know? varying concentrations depending on the course....

    Dentistry seems to be good from what i've met
    clinical speach and language studies also...

    Ah that may be so, but BESS seems to be the standard by which all other courses are judged in that area. Concentrations do indeed vary quite a bit....



    This is all a bit sad, isin't it?


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