Your Highlights of TY

MaltEagle

Just curious to see everyones highlight of TY - mine has to be Work Experience. Just getting the feel of the working life was great and such a buzz and I loved it. I loved getting up every morning, getting the bus into the city and coming home. In my school (not metioning where) we had 3 weeks all together, which was alright I suppose, however I would have really prefered for them to be spread out over the year. I loved it so much, I didn't want to go back to school after it, also where I went, they were really nice also.

Also the TY graduation was brilliant - all our work from over the year gathered in a big hall and LOADS of photos from all over the year for our parents to look at. It was actually sad leaving all my mates (as I got so close to them all over the year) but I have all their numbers so I text them all the time.


Would LOVE to hear your highlights.

philologos

mine was definetely Work Exp - got to feel like a college student for 2 weeks maynooth as a college actually rocks.

the rest sucked incredibly.....

clickclick

yup, work exp was pretty good but it was so hard to find anywhere that would take you for a week. i ended up going to the shop that i work in just to fill up the four weeks.
i loved the competions like the young scientist and the young social innovators. you get to meet new people and laze about for a while.
oh yeah we also made a short movie with a local film company. when i say short i mean it! its only 20seconds long! it was great though.

Diarmsquid

MaltEagle wrote:

...In my school (not metioning where)...

Aw! C'mon! Please?
:rolleyes:

Ehh.. I'd have to say that my work experience wasn't the highlight, or anyway near it.
It was probably the TV Production Day out in Maynooth.
WE got to put together our own TV news skit, all by ourselves with sets, cameras, lighting, scripts, ect. I was the director:cool:
Best fun ever! And I'm really considering a career in that area.

If you're doing TY this year, ask your teacher to enquire about the Tv production day.
A company called Kairos run it. It's where the blizzard of odd is filmed.

tracert

The YSI was good. The rest was (more or less) a complete waste of time.

clickclick wrote:

oh yeah we also made a short movie with a local film company. when i say short i mean it! its only 20seconds long! it was great though.

Goddamn right.

clickclick

ok ill admit it, YSI was good too!

Dearv

I really didnt want to do TY but 9 months later Im literally crying @ the thought of finishing it! On the first day of TY we were told what you put in you get out, bearing this in mind I signed up for , quite literally, everything: the school musical “Fiddler on the Roof”, the Gaisce award, the young scientist competition, the mini company experience, community service, debating, model united nations, you name it I’ve done it. It’s been one fast paced rollercoaster ride. Whoever said that T.Y. was a doss year clearly had no idea what they were talking about because I’ve been busier than ever.


And yet it wasnt the competitions, doing well or being out the normal school experience that made TY for me, it was the times spent with friends new and old, i know it sounds like just another Ty propaganda piece but this year has changed us all: new groups have bonded, new friendships have formed, old ones have been renewed, people whom you never spoke to before are now your most trusted friends. I’m certainly not claiming that everyone gets along all of the time but we’re definitely getting there!

And as for the benefits of T.Y., not only has it bonded our year beyond all previous expectations but it’s taught us a thing or two about ourselves and our strengths along the way.For me T.Y. was, and still is, a success. It may not suit everyone but it definitely made me realise that school can be, excuse the cliché, worthwhile and fun at the same time. T.Y. makes you realise your strengths that may lie outside the normal curriculum and makes people realise that they possess talents that they never even knew existed. I think T.Y. has benefits for anyone who gets involved and while you may feel like an idiot attempting to sing in a dodgy Russian accent, despite being tone deaf, it’s all worth it in the end. When this year is over I will hold memories that will stay with me throughout college and on into my life. I am so sad that its over but i will remember it forever and cherish these memories, from camping trips in Glemalure, to activities in Garten, from climbing Croagh Patrick to falling most of the way down right up to double modules spent on the astro sunbathing and laughing teachers included! It was one brilliant experience and Im so grateful I did it!

Munya

It sucked no highlight well ok going to Carlingford was pretty cool. Thats it.

cdol

My ty was class, best year ever! the highlight for me was probably the school play.....we got to put it on with the ty girls from the other school so dat made it even more fun!
Other highlight is the tour! we went to italy.....best laugh ever and we got to see loads of cities like venice,florence,verona,piza nd milain!

Alqua

The highlight of my TY was definately the school musical. We did Les Miserables and it was a roller-coaster ride from beginning to end, with some great laughs! Day to day in school we barely did anything at all. We were meant to have some normal classes plus modules but it was only on rare ocassions we'd actually have the correct module/do something in class.

Made a lot of new friends during the year and gained in confidence. I think you do mature in TY, the extra year makes a different. It seems you're thrown in at the deep end so you kind of have to! Even as regards meeting new people - from the very first day people were turning to people beside them who they barely knew and talking to them. I think it really is down to what your school organises for Transition Years to do. The year is a good idea in itself, but if badly organised can be a disaster.

Milktrolley

Did TY last year and I hate the thought of fifth year! After an easy 14 months, the party's over...

Highlight - definitely work experience. We get two weeks, but I haggled and got myself a third. Not sure if I can mention where, but I spent two weeks with a local media outlet and spent another week at a national media ltd. Opened doors for me and I got a job out of it. Even without the job, the experience will definitely serve me in years to come.

We went on trips to Munich and Barcelona, they were pretty good as well. As was Ger Carey, who did the Filmaking Course. In a regular year they'd be the highlights hands down, but the WE was just so damn good! If you follow the lines of whatever career you're hoping to do and go somewhere like that the WE can be really great.

It's interesting what TY does to folk... it does change people, for better or worse. In our year anyway groups were formed, with a few overlaps. Definitely worth doing though if it's organised half-decently.