Room Allocations are up!

http://www.tcd.ie/Junior_Dean/rooms/Allocated06-07.htm

Awayindahils

Just out of interest, how come people who are going into 2nd year got rooms in the GMB and Botany Bay? I thought they were for Scholars and final years and such.

Crash

I got a place.

36.1.03.

PHB

how come people who are going into 2nd year got rooms in the GMB and Botany Bay?

The real question is why anybody in 2nd year got rooms on campus at all.
I assume they are either head of a society, a largeish one, or using the Irish language to get rooms.

Botony Bay ground floor baby

Awayindahils

PHB wrote:

The real question is why anybody in 2nd year got rooms on campus at all.
I assume they are either head of a society, a largeish one, or using the Irish language to get rooms.

Botony Bay ground floor baby

No the sceim is in house 9 next year, so thats front square.

Zoodlebop

Hey, what happens to incoming Freshmen?

Also, would someone kindly explain the difference between Botany Bay, Goldsmith etc? Whichis the best college owned accommodation?

Thanks for any replies.

Botany Bay is the best by far, and you have to apply with at least one other person to get it. Goldsmith is a bit small, but is grand. GMB is nice, but I found it a bit too spacious. Incoming Junior Freshman usually are allocated places in Halls, and should apply to Accommodation Office once their results are out.

Ron DMC

Yes. Turns out I know one of the fellas who's in my ex-house next year.

xeduCat

Officially there are no written rules as to which students are put in which houses. However, there is a divide in terms of Trinity Hall v Campus in the (published) rough allocation of places between years. But within campus, there is no such division. Everything beyond that is rumour and guess.

xeduCat

Oh and also for second years, there can be any number of reasons - international students, students with disabilities, special circumstances that are taken into account by the Registrar of Chambers while allocating, etc. And there is still the option to (for example) house a second year student (or anyone) on campus, as the categories are 'guide only'. Or additionally, a student with an 05 number could well be someone who was not in JF in 2005/6 - there are various reasons. I'm very opposed to publishing the numbers online; it wouldn't be too hard to run a script/macro to mail people individually, and given the propogation of student numbers (e.g. for exam results), it's too easy to find out where someone will be living.

Socrates
TH 50
C 0
Tot 50

International
TH 110
C 0
Tot 110

JF
TH 480
C 0
Tot 480

JS
TH 50
C 0
Tot 50

One year
TH 0
C 50
Tot 50

Pgrads EU
Th 30
C 40
Tot 70

Pgrads Non EU
TH 32
C 40
Tot 72

Scholars
TH 0
C 200
Tot 200

SF
TH 200
C 0
Tot 200

SS
TH 40
C 265
Tot 305

Others
TH 0
C 20
Tot 20

Schemes
Th 16
C 85
Tot 101

Totals
TH 1008
C 700
Tot 1708

Feck that, didn't get a room. I've been on Erasmus this year and working abroad all summer so God knows who I'm going to live with and where. Is the College Accomodation service any good at finding private flats or is it better to use Daft.ie?

xeduCat

Do both. Daft's great but a lot of places on it won't rent to students. Let.ie is also getting quite big, and there are others too.

Calm Horizons

AARRGHHHHHHHH!!!!

Didn't get a bloody room! And I was told that Senior Sophisters to-be were basically guaranteed to get accomodation

Looks like the hell of the 2-hour daily commute will have to continue :mad:

Andrew 83

Send them an email later in the summer and you might get a place. Some people always turn places down. It's worth saying something again just before term starts, when I was in fourth year I was offered a room on the Thursday of Freshers Week.

Didn't get a bloody room! And I was told that Senior Sophisters to-be were basically guaranteed to get accomodation

Who told you that? I was told there was virtually no chance, that I had a better chance than most seeing as I'm coming back from Erasmus, but there are 10,000 students in Trinity and very few rooms. I had my fingers crossed but certainly wasn't expecting to get one. It's a pain in the arse now, because I don't know whether to go for another student halls or private, or to wait and see if any rooms on campus become available by which time I probably will have paid the deposit somewhere else anyway. I hate flat hunting

Crash

Hrmm - Where did you apply for though man? I mean i applied with a 4th year (as you know calm_horizons) for standard double and got it - were yee guys going for fancy pants ****? :P

Calm Horizons

I was going for a room in Pearse Street.

Dubliniensis

My number wasn't on that webpage and yet this morning I get an offer of a room in Pearse St in the post! Go figure... I'm not taking it anwyays. It was just a Plan B

Ron DMC

xeduCat wrote:

Schemes
Th 16
C 85
Tot 101

Out of interest, what do TH and C stand for?

Trinity Hall ; Campus I assumed?

Ron DMC

Myth wrote:

Trinity Hall ; Campus I assumed?

I slap myself on the head.

Squoosh

Got a room in Goldsmith after applying for Botany Bay. Ah well, at least I'm in with the friend I applied with. Anyone know anything about the layout or anything in Goldsmith, what the rooms are like? Cos I sure as hell don't.

Pet

There are four bedrooms in each apartment, and two bathrooms (both bathrooms are identical and across from each other). There's a small kitchenette/living room. The fridges in the kitchens are those small under-counter ones - waaaaaay small for four people, so you'll probably need your own mini-fridge. The apartments themselves are ever-so-slightly dingy in a 1980s kind of way, but have that real authentic "college dorm" feel. Plus, the convenience can't be beaten (especially if you're a science student, although you appear to be doing English studies so hmm). And you're right beside the Dart station too (good for trips out to Dun Laoghaire). The trains are a bit noisy but apparently you get used to to them quickly.

The bedrooms are alright too; they're pretty much as seen here, and they also have a washbasin inside the door.

Get used to keeping your window closed if you face out onto Westland/Pearse, as the pollution will cause a film on every surface (ick). The college laundrette is a bit of a walk, but apparently there's a (non-college) laundrette somewhere on Pearse St. That's about all I can think of. Oh, and you'll get plenty of exercise climbing up and down those stairs!

punka

Actually the apartments in Goldsmith vary in layout - I was in one which had 4 en-suite bedrooms, while some people I knew were in apartments with 7 rooms. In some apartments 2 rooms will be en-suite and the other 2 or 3 will share a bathroom. Generally, if you're on one of the lower floors (1 or 2) you're more likely to have a 4 or 5-room apartment, I think.

What are the Accommodation office like for finding private accommodation? Daft.ie barely has anything for students anymore. I can´t pay more than 450 max and the internet is essential which makes it a bit of a problem as I have seen very few non college houses with wireless. I would love an ensuite as well but that may be asking for too much I just remember the luxury of the Trinity Hall showers-...........so good.

Pet

You wouldn't be sharing with randomers though, you'd be sharing with one of your flatmates. The bathrooms are between the bedrooms so it's right outside your door anyway. And as punka said, some rooms are ensuite.

Crash

I assume thats a really well done up rubrics room, aye? because I aint never seen a standard double room like that before :P

xeduCat

That's a New Square room. Probably house 38. Two single rooms in a 'set' (sharing a living room and kitchen; toilet/shower down the hall usually shared with another 'set'). Almost always given only to students who apply together - i.e. they don't put two strangers together in a set.

Squoosh

Thanks for the Goldsmith answers, much appreciated! I checked the online listings to see how many other people were in my apartment - it's three, so I assume it's a 4-bed. Sabre, you could do the same, just search the page for the number of your apartment to find out how many other people are in with you.

Pet; pollution film!? Nice. Real nice!

punka, do you know anything about 69.3? And on the accommodation website it mentions something about some rooms in Goldsmith having double beds and some having singles. Anyone know what all that's about? Sorry for all the questions, I just literally know nothing about Goldsmith. I'm never, ever down that end.

Thanks again!

Crash

Xeducat: I assume the apartments in 38 and the one the other side of the law (is it?) building are different layout to 34-37 then?

punka

I seem to remember 71.3 being a 7-roomer. Squoosh, you should note that a number of rooms in Goldsmith are reserved for visiting students. I applied with a friend, and we were the only two allocated to our apartment on the list. But when we moved in we'd been placed with 2 American visiting students. I was in house 70. 69 is on the Pearse St side, the second-last house from the end away from College. (70 is on the corner). Your living room/kitchen will face onto the courtyard which can have its disadvantages as parties can be noticed v quickly (unlike if you live in house 70 or 62 where the kitchen windows look out onto Pearse St and you could, hypothetically, get away with parties into the small hours. Not that any such thing ever happened in our flat. We were good boys.)

As Pet says, if your room faces onto Pearse St there's a gross pollution film, and it can be quite noisy (my room was RIGHT over the bus shelter outside Goldsmith on Pearse St). But for some reason the rooms with queen-size beds (not doubles, I've never seen them) always look onto Pearse St (in my admittedly limited experience). I think maybe 1 room in each apartment will have a queen-size bed, it's really the luck of the draw. And the single beds aren't *tiny*

Some more advice: a cheap microwave isn't a bad idea. And you should seriously consider investing in a water filter. The water on campus is generally pretty gross (although Goldsmith is better than most places). The best thing about living in Goldsmith is the showers - hot water all the time.

punka

I don't want to put you off Goldsmith. It certainly has its drawbacks. But if you get a good group of people it can be a lot of fun. I had an amazing year there even though I only knew 2 other people living there when I moved in. And to be honest you get the whole film of pollution thing in Botany Bay as well, and I presume in some Pearse Street rooms too. Sharing a kitchen and bathroom with a bunch of randomers might not seem like fun - but realistically that's what you'd be doing in New Square, Rubrics, or (at least sharing a kitchen) in the GMB and Pearse St. And if you were going for Front Square, well, they have 5-room flats which are effectively a mix between Goldsmith and Botany Bay style.

Nietzschean

punka wrote:

The best thing about living in Goldsmith is the showers - hot water all the time.

Haha i must say thats one of my best memories of goldsmith also, those 2hr showers were deadly

Squoosh

punka wrote:

Squoosh, you should note that a number of rooms in Goldsmith are reserved for visiting students. I applied with a friend, and we were the only two allocated to our apartment on the list. But when we moved in we'd been placed with 2 American visiting students. I was in house 70. 69 is on the Pearse St side, the second-last house from the end away from College. (70 is on the corner). Your living room/kitchen will face onto the courtyard which can have its disadvantages as parties can be noticed v quickly (unlike if you live in house 70 or 62 where the kitchen windows look out onto Pearse St and you could, hypothetically, get away with parties into the small hours. Not that any such thing ever happened in our flat. We were good boys.)

The visiting student thing never occurred to me, danke. I knew someday logic would come back and bite me in the ass. But it actually turns out the girl I applied with knows someone who lived last year in the room I've been alloted this year, and while I will have the gross pollution film (even the phrase is thoroughly repulsive), I get the queen-size bed (I suspected they were exaggerating for the summer visitors alright). So yay. Or at least semi-yay.

Thanks a million for all your help!

Pet

Solution to gross pollution film: air purifiers. They're not cheap, but work quite well. And provide sleep-aiding white noise.

And, it wasn't to the same scale, but even out in Halls there was a bit of a pollution film too (well this is coming from someone who grew up in the countryside, where there is little/no air pollution at all).

Damn cars.

John

Just buy yourself a bubble you jessies!

Squoosh

Are you selling?? I've always wanted a bubble!

Air purifiers = interesting idea. I might check that one out. You're just chock-full of useful information, aren't you?!

Pet

You're just chock-full of useful information, aren't you?!

Actually, about 90% of my 3000-odd posts are spammy bull****, so I have to be useful at SOME stage.

Just buy yourself a bubble you jessies!

Bloody black-lunged jackeens.

Squoosh

I really shouldn't be freaking out about this since I smoke. Upon consideration, buying an air purifier might, just might make me a bit of a hypocrite.

John

Pet wrote:

Bloody black-lunged jackeens.

Pansy

Pet

Sapface.

John

Clown ejaculate

Pet

Stuffed-toy sodomiser.

Crash

and...shazaam, back on topic. hrmmm i've decided I will be demanding the room furthest from the door (which would appear to generally be the bigger one, coincidentally enough ) to ensure that Shane doesnt drunkenly fall against my door at night...

John

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Shane doesnt drunkenly fall against my door at night...

I'd be more worried about him falling into my bed. From behind in a drunken state, who knows what you might think :eek:

BrenC

I'll just have to get schols if I want to move out (i don't really want to pay for accommodation)

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI

Ooh? Tallaght not good enough for Bren now he's a lah-dee-dah Trinners student?

Agent Smith

i didnt get accomidation ( i kinda didnt expect it)

Just have a question,

is there a "waiting list" for accomadation? like, if say, there are 1000 places, and 30 people decine, is there a list you can get yourself put on?

xeduCat

Email the accommodation office and ask to be considered for places that come available - they sort of do it anyway if you were a near-miss, but it's no harm to ask. This year there were a lot of late-available Halls places, but just a few campus.