galway college is it too far??

marissa

hey guys!! i just your advice on this..im currently waiting 4 my lc results :eek: and have n.u.i. galway down 3rd on my list..
anyways im from drogheda,co. louth which is as u know is the other side of the country..but have serious expectations to get galway.
i know its a fair distance to be away from home and friends..like i wouldnt really mind it too much as iv cousins in galway college and family in the west but ill miss everything about here..i must be mad but well u know??
I know the transport part isnt that good to the west and the majority of people that do go are from around that area is this true???
i would appreciate if any comments on this..u know anyone in similiar predicament!!
thanking you

JIZZLORD

considering you're in the east, transport wouldnt be a problem as all roads lead east, College is all about new experiences and new things. Go for it!

Panserborn

To be honest (in science anyway) most people I knew in college here were not from Galway. They came from all over. Bus services to the east are pretty good!

whassupp2

new motorway between kinnegad and dublin soon to be extended to Galway (although it might be a few years) You stayin on campus??

GretchenWieners

em i'm in Cork and 4 of my CAO courses down are for NUIG!

simu

There are people from all over the country in NUIG. Far more varied than UCC, I found.

marissa

cool that sounds good..have maynooth down but id prefer to stay away from dublin.
yeah campus or with one of my cousins in his apartment on campus..i never get to see them because of the distance thing so itd be good..:)
heard galway was aa lovely city..been ages since ive been in it!!!

po0k

Escape The Pale, Visit Donegal.

toomevara

Did my BA in UCG as it was then, back in the day, bloody ten years ago (God Im decrepit, old, jaded}....from Tipp myself, but Galway was so outrageously feckin' great I never went home anyway.....damn the transport you'll never need it you lucky sod...go, go, fly away and never look back....ahhhh best three years of me life...snifff,sob......

marissa

thanks toomevara,,nice way 2 put it!

Dancing_Priest

Go home? Ha! Ive been here 3 years now and have no desire to leave any time soon, september, the LLB, year after that an how about an MA?, perhaps Philosophy to be safe.... then Im not sure, either try progress with the Law or the Philosophy, LLM perhaps... then maybe a year on the dole studying for blackhalls. Or it could all go horribly wrong and Ill end up as a legal clerk in Knock, probably more likely.
Anyway you'll never want to leave, Its a great city and after spending a short time here it'll probably be just as important to you as your hometown. I dread to think what would have happened If I had ended up doing a real law degree in Dublin, God, The people, and The noise!
But be warned, the head office in Bank of Ireland apperently refer to Galway as the graveyard of ambition. God knows, for the leaving cert I stayed in school from 9am till 8pm every day to study, Now? well, best say nothing about that....
That and the dreadfully high numbers of Crusties/EMO's/Goths/Indie kids, Induhviduals like that can be annoying, You've never seen a shower of tossers until you go for a fag outside the rosin dubh.

Sleepy

Dancing_Priest wrote:

But be warned, the head office in Bank of Ireland apperently refer to Galway as the graveyard of ambition.

I can verify that, they said it to my Dad when we moved to Galway in '94.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

You've never seen a shower of tossers until you go for a fag outside the rosin dubh.

rofl

kc66

I lived in Navan and did my time in Galway. Had a gf at home and travelled over and back every weekend for 4 years. Its not too bad. Theres a direct non stop bus on a Sunday evening from Navan. I think it stops in Drogheda before Navan but I know it goes from Dundalk.

paddyreilly

Don't pick a college based on transport, unless you're obsessed with going home, in which case you should stop being obsessed with home and start becoming obsessed with the new world!

Bus Éireann runs a Dundalk-Drogheda-Navan-Mullingar-Athlone-Galway service. Details here (PDF).

Dancing_Priest

For once, I agree with the man.^