The most Funnest of Courses

Moorsy

So just sitting at home on a Saturday night..........................Wondering what’s the "most funniest of courses" in Trinity????

Is it better to have a large class like BESS or Science? Or small, tight and clique??
And before everybody says, "it is what you make of it", just don’t (for arguments sake), I wanna see some discussion.
Thanks

Royale

small cliques, all the way go my course.

Crash

medium size personally - means i can go out with my class seperate or all together - 30 of us total, but it provides the right mix IMO.

Running Bing

Well you should forget TSM English anyway!

Edwardius

I'd go for the small classes. We had eight like minded people in A.M. in our third and fourth year and there was never a dull moment. There were some scary ones though, namely finals. If, like the 3rd year a.m.s, you get the class divide (nerds vs alcos) or the old childish conflict between certain factions it could be a bit dodgy. Any experiences I have from sitting in with the larger classes (in 1st and 2nd year) did leave me a little cold. Apart from skulling naggins in the back of a maths lecture of course. You'll also end up speaking to some interesting characters you'd otherwise have no dealings with as, out of eight, at least two are gonna be a little tweaked. I would say that the ideal size of a clas s is less than 20 so you get a good night out and the usual lord of the flies **** doesn't tend to happen. It does come down to whatever floats your boat, a social whore will love a big class although the shy, retiring type such as myself will prefer a smaller one.

Moorsy

Yeh it would be nice having a small class and going out. Ohh alll the gossip I can only imagine, not that it doesn't happen in the bigger classes.......
Sorry for my ignorance (once again) but whats A.M??? I have a friend called Anne-Marie, hopefully thats not what your studyin!!!!

Bartronilic

No gossip in BESS?! Are you kidding?!

I like the size of BESS. My old year in school had 223 people in and out of it throughout it's years and 190 most at any single time. But in a course like BESS or Science there is no class divisions (my school had big class rivalries, you wouldn't know someone existed for years and there was no escaping people you didn't like). So im loving it!

BESS gets smaller in 2nd year then 3rd/4th year becomes like secondary school ("oh ye shes in my social research class she's a cow") according to a BESS graduate i know. But iwth shorter hours than school and already knowing ppl you can escape them. College is so much better than that school s****.

Awayindahils

The thing I found with a big course was that I was less inclined to make a huge effort to get to know people, or rather that a bigger effort was required than may be required in a smaller course or a more intensive course.. As BESS has less contact hours than most courses in college,w ell not most but with 14-19 its not exactly exhausting in first year, it's quite difficult to get to know people. Most of my friendships come from societies or SU stuff.

I also foudn that there are groups of people who all went to school together and such like in BESS..hmm I suppose it can be fun, I dunno I like the idea of a small class in some ways. But it is definetly less cliqy than school, the gimpstitute is the cliquest place I have ever been and that was 1,000 people in one year but my old school with 28 in my year was similar. College in nearly everyones opinion is far better than school.

mizz.yelof!!!

Moorsy wrote:

Yeh it would be nice having a small class and going out. Ohh alll the gossip I can only imagine, not that it doesn't happen in the bigger classes.......
moore what are ya on about BESS is wild for gossip!!!! I mean come on, who doesnt love going into lectures the days after class nights out, seeing people for the first time sober!!! ****ing hilarious!!! You cant beat it!
big classes rule

baby*cham*bell

i did jf spanish and sociology this year...my spanish class was small and pretty awful hardly anyone mixed it was really clique-y. if theres not the right mix of people it just doesnt work. everyone seems to hate the subject anyway

John

Having been in a big science class and in a tiny tiny neuroscience class, I'll say that smaller is better. Of course if I got landed with a load of ****s in my class I might have said differently but my class was lovely.

Bartronilic

Luckily no one from my school did BESS so i had no choice but to talk to people. Nobody even heard of my school (not many a few did) even if it was huge.

Pet

JF science is not good for getting to know people really. When you've got a Goldsmith-Hall-full of people you really can't get to know everyone, not beyond first names or "that guy with the stupid hair who couldn't say 'phosphorylation' in the lab class that one time".

I find that it's much easier to get to know people in smaller groups, hence why I know more people in my course from my tutorials/labs than I do from lectures.

Although, with a bigger sample size, you get a much better variation of people, I suppose..

shay_562

I went through secondary school with a class ranging from 20-30 people, and while tiny classes like that have some upsides, in that you know everyone and you become almost like a family - even the people you don't particularly like, you still have some sort of "Ah, sure, we spent 6 years locked in a tiny classroom together, she's not that awful"-type bond. It also means you're forced to spend time with people, so even the ones you might not click with initially you can end up growing to really like. But equally, if they're just *****, you're stuck with them day in day out, which sucks. I'm not hugely gone on the 300-400 people we have per subject in JF BESS either - like Pet said, you don't really get to know most people beyond a first name and a casual "hey". Like Hils, I've met far more friends through societies than I have through my course - even the friends I have in BESs, most of them were met through outside things. So I'm gonna go with "middle-sized" - somewhere round 100 (small enough that you'll know everyone, big enough that you can avoid anyone) sounds like it'd be ideal. Which, from what others have said, is what I can expect in the next year or so of my course, so that should be cool.

Ron DMC

Small = better. Because it means you'll end up not only getting to know your own class really well, but also have to go and associate with people from other classes or you'll crack up with the same three epople all the time.

Moorsy

mizz.yelof!!! wrote:

Moorsy wrote:

Yeh it would be nice having a small class and going out. Ohh alll the gossip I can only imagine, not that it doesn't happen in the bigger classes.......
moore what are ya on about BESS is wild for gossip!!!! I mean come on, who doesnt love going into lectures the days after class nights out, seeing people for the first time sober!!! ****ing hilarious!!! You cant beat it!
big classes rule

Hey! I know your doing BESS (SO am I) and your a wanna be blond but come on people I said " Ohh all the gossip I can only imagine, not that it doesn't happen in the bigger classes......."

There are always lots of happenings in big classes.
What about the more careerist side of it smaller=better because u get better contacts or bigger cause your more spread out. See strength of weak ties (sociology). Not.

Pet

Moorsy wrote:

Hey! I know your doing BESS (SO am I) and your a wanna be blond but come on people I said " Ohh all the gossip I can only imagine, not that it doesn't happen in the bigger classes......."

There are always lots of happenings in big classes.
What about the more careerist side of it smaller=better because u get better contacts or bigger cause your more spread out. See strength of weak ties (sociology). Not.

In English, please?

Moorsy

No man sorry I only do BESS

mizz.yelof!!!

Moorsy wrote:

mizz.yelof!!! wrote:

Hey! I know your doing BESS (SO am I) and your a wanna be blond but come on people I said " Ohh all the gossip I can only imagine, not that it doesn't happen in the bigger classes.......".

oh wow moore i actually cant believe you said that, and eh i am SO not a wanna be blonge, I AM a blonde. ha ha would also like to point out, eh ive never heard u complaining about my blondnesss s there!!!

as u said yourself "No man sorry I only do BESS" ha ha literally!!! waaaaaaaaaaaaayyy loving it!!!

cheeky_rip

i've experienced both a small course and a large couse and can tell you that for me, the large course is the best....but thats only for me. i found the small class really cliquey and bitchy. never ever enjoyed college. finally transferred and love my large course. made friends much easier. people were more open to new people etc. but i think its definitely got to do with your personality and the type of people you want to be friends with

europerson

Somebody please think of the English language!

Bartronilic

WHy? What she/he wrote is fine. Yeah I much prefer a large group by miles but i'd say it depends on the person. Arts in UCD is too big for anyone from the sounds of it. at least in bess, science and engineering you are in rhe same hall everyday for the five or so same subjects for the whole year and are given tutorials. UCD arts you pick your tutorials, everyone does different subjects in different halls, would never see the same people twice.

europerson

Bartronilic wrote:

WHy? What she/he wrote is fine.

It wasn't cheeky rip, for whom I was worried.

Awayindahils

Moorsy wrote:

No man sorry I only do BESS

For shame.

Moorsy

europerson wrote:

It wasn't cheeky rip, for whom I was worried.

Awwww you care!!! I'm loved and accepted at last!

Me thinks that maybe bigger does be better (work it out gooo aawwwnn) because it does facilitate a lot of groups/styles and images. Also people will be from all over the country (and outside) and there'll always be somebody you can associate with.

Still think it’s not really a question that can be denunciated upon, mostly a matter of opinion and personality and how much somebody is willing to try and make friends.

Awayindahils

Moorsey wrote:

Me thinks that maybe bigger does be better (work it out gooo aawwwnn) because it does facilitate a lot of groups/styles and images. Also people will be from all over the country (and outside) and there'll always be somebody you can associate with.

Still think it’s not really a question that can be denunciated upon, mostly a matter of opinion and personality and how much somebody is willing to try and make friends.

Awh he tried to bring the thread back on topic.

John

From the arts block I'm guessing

Crash

The top five feeder schools, one would assume.

Bartronilic

Assume all you want! apart from a couple billion belvedere people (but they're in every course) the most i've met from one school bar the institute is 5. its the most stereotyped course ever, even by some of it's own students! there is a few d4 cliqued out people at the back row but you never make much contact with them so it's fine!

shay_562

Awh he tried to bring the thread back on topic.

Bless his cotton socks. He'll learn. If the mods don't roast him over an open fire first for gratuitious use of text-speak.

The top five feeder schools, one would assume.

My ass. I've met exactly three people since I came to college who actually knew my school (beyond "Oh, the Jew School! I've heard of that!"), and two of them were because they actually went there.

where did all these freshmen bess heads come from?

Less of the generalisations. Some of us have been here since October.

Pet

If the mods don't roast him over an open fire first for gratuitious use of text-speak.

Down with text speak! Up with properly spelled and correctly punctuated posts!

Crash

Sorry folks, but the stereotype answer was just so easy

Moorsy

Yep feeder schools are cool.Not. I went to one and it fed me nothing except how to be the leader of future society!!! A lot of help that is your your all screwed!

Pet

It clearly failed to teach you how to write coherent English. I'd ask for my money back.

Pugwash

back on topic:

If you're talking 'in class antics' Engineering is the best ive seen. I'm in BESS and was shocked at how stuffy the lectures were from the start. someone did burst into a lecture in gi-joe gear this year, that was pretty funny, but stuff like that is rare.

In Engineering, there seems to be at least one good story a week about something that happened in a lecture. People just chat dispite the lecturer, messing, throwing planes,etc. They have to have a sense of humour with all those hours and a lecturer called anal kokram.

Pet

Sabre_wolf wrote:

You go girl. Crucify him for making a simple error.

You think that's crucifixion? That's light-hearted jesting.

Crash

Engineering's just stupid for that though - they have no regard at all for the lecturers - I would never lecture an engineering class for that one reason.