Freshers Week

Sgt Slaughter · 05-09-2006 7:46pm #1

What dates is freshers week on this year?

Chakar · 05-09-2006 7:56pm

11th to 15th September is Freshers Week while Orientation Week is tomorrow Wednesday 6th to Friday the 8th.

Morgan Shelley · 05-09-2006 8:22pm

Freshers' Week is the 2nd week of term, and so this year is September 18th to 22nd

(The week of September 11th is the first week of term, and is known as "Lecture Week".)

mloc · 05-09-2006 9:22pm

yep, 2nd week back is freshers week. 18th-22nd. it's going to be a good one.

Font22 · 05-09-2006 10:52pm

you're a 4th year mloc! actually scrap that, i'll b joining in the festivities too!

mloc · 05-09-2006 10:58pm

that just means im "good" at fresher's weeks at this stage! plus, due to technicalities, two of my (4th year) friends are living with 1st years in merville this year, should be hilarious.

bring on free pizza, free random ****e, useless membership cards and lost hopeless 1st year women

XchampagneX · 05-09-2006 11:01pm

mloc wrote:

bring on free pizza, free random ****e, useless membership cards and lost hopeless 1st year women

:rolleyes:

Font22 · 05-09-2006 11:23pm

run first years, run!

BKtje · 05-09-2006 11:42pm

its no good! they too big! they too fast!

Ill have a wander around during freshers week. Didnt really make the most of it last year so see if i can make up for it somewhat this year.

boneless · 06-09-2006 1:27am

I will be a fresher postgrad.... a stale fresher I suppose.

rainbow kirby · 06-09-2006 1:54am

Go 5th fresher's week

(on the downside, means that some first years are counted out under the "1/2 your age + 7" rule...)

irlrobins · 06-09-2006 8:49am

pfft! 5th??? This will be my 11th (and final) one. Of course it's not a source of fun for me. It just means the place is crammed with lots of people wandering around like sheep not knowing where to go, huge lunch queues and BOPs hugging each other and screaming "OMG!!!" and "haven't seen you in AGES" etc.

And as for the half +7 rule, that rules out everyone but final years for me.

Stepherunie · 06-09-2006 8:58am

3rd one and i think it's finally going to be the first one I take the time to enjoy and it will be the last i can enjoy - next year I'll be in hospitals when freshers week is on - how cruel is that????

boneless · 06-09-2006 12:20pm

irlrobins wrote:

pfft! 5th??? This will be my 11th (and final) one. Of course it's not a source of fun for me. It just means the place is crammed with lots of people wandering around like sheep not knowing where to go, huge lunch queues and BOPs hugging each other and screaming "OMG!!!" and "haven't seen you in AGES" etc.

And as for the half +7 rule, that rules out everyone but final years for me.

How do you think I feel??? :eek:

I will be on the Archaeological Soc stall for a few hours each day... if I can remember how to get there!!!:D

Feral Mutant · 06-09-2006 12:26pm

Right, I'm new. What's freshers week exactly?

mloc wrote:

bring on free pizza, free random ****e, useless membership cards and lost hopeless 1st year women

Whatever it is, I'm intrigued.

boneless · 06-09-2006 12:55pm

I would offer to sponser you and take you under my wing for the duration... but the campus Police know me too well....:D

It is the week when the college authorities hope you will get all your excesses out of your system in order for you to knuckle down and do some work.

Various societies (see thread above) try to get you to join them with offers of pizza, ice cream, soft drinks etc.

Do not be fooled by them(only joking hulla!!):D , they are all great... in their own boring ways.... still only joking Mods....:D

There are various events of a dubious nature organised too... the Iron Stomach is one such...

And it's over to....

mloc · 06-09-2006 1:02pm

basically its a bit like rush week in the US, societies bribe you to part with your money (usually about €2, bring a few €2 coins!) with free stuff, and campus is alive with what is basically a fairground of recruiting ****ehawkery.

also, many drinking events, and nights out... particularly if you live in res, you and your genitals will have a good ol' time

Stabshauptmann · 06-09-2006 1:36pm

boneless wrote:

Various societies (see thread above) try to get you to join them with offers of pizza, ice cream, soft drinks etc.

Not Dutchsoc...

mloc wrote:

many drinking events, and nights out... particularly if you live in res, you and your genitals will have a good ol' time

Sounds more like it. Bring on the 6 for 7 DutchGold

panda100 · 07-09-2006 9:49am

irlrobins wrote:

pfft! 5th??? This will be my 11th (and final) one. Of course it's not a source of fun for me.

Ah no freshers week the best,tis like a fine wine that gets better with age.

Word of warning to the girls do not go within 15feet of the ag soc table. Didnt a girl file for harrasment a couple of years back from the treatment she got from the ag soc guys in the freshers tent?
Also dont be fooled by the cute guy they put at the front of the dramasoc table.It gives you the false illusion that dramasoc is teeming with young Brad pitts,but tis not so.

Morgan Shelley · 10-09-2006 1:42pm

Some of the highlights for Freshers' Week are listed at:

http://ucdevents.com/maincal.cfm

Picturehouse, Classic Beatles, Giant Twister, Dave O'Doherty, Iron Stomach, Republic of Loose, L&H Porn Debate, Nancy Cartwright

fish-head · 10-09-2006 4:24pm

One thing I'm not clear about is are there lectures in Freshers Week?

tywy · 10-09-2006 4:31pm

well there are lectures but whether or not you want to go to them is up to you :P

Funky · 10-09-2006 5:31pm

best week of college, other than the odd days out in senior cup season !

panda100 · 10-09-2006 7:29pm

Morgan Shelley wrote:

Some of the highlights for Freshers' Week are listed at:

http://ucdevents.com/maincal.cfm

Picturehouse, Classic Beatles, Giant Twister, Dave O'Doherty, Iron Stomach, Republic of Loose, L&H Porn Debate, Nancy Cartwright

Yay David O'Doherty!I love him
Why oh why do we have to sell a good nite out through sex to frehers...'the palyball ball,the cherry ball'.Having a good night out doesnt have to be foccuessed on scoring and sex ya know so why advertise it as one!!

Also can anyone speak at the debate or is the line up already decided?

Mr.Nice Guy · 10-09-2006 7:34pm

I was gutted to learn I had missed Lewis Black in UCD last week. I hope that appearance can be topped this year. Bill Bailey maybe...

panda100 · 10-09-2006 7:38pm

I love him!!Didnt know he was in UCD last year! Actually he's so good im going to add him as my sig

fish-head · 10-09-2006 7:39pm

Bill Bailey would be un.be.lievable.

Seifer · 10-09-2006 11:12pm

Panda100 wrote:

Having a good night out doesnt have to be foccuessed on scoring and sex ya know so why advertise it as one!!

This, I think, is one of the fundamental differences between men and women.
There's only one reason a guy will spend the night dancing his heart out and that's to achieve the above. The poster designers are clever and know this; possibly all the budding marketing moguls...

BKtje · 11-09-2006 12:24am

There's only one reason a guy will spend the night dancing his heart out and that's to achieve the above.

Really? and here i was thinking i was just out for a good night. Dont generalise so much plz.

mloc · 11-09-2006 1:25am

Seifer wrote:

This, I think, is one of the fundamental differences between men and women.
There's only one reason a guy will spend the night dancing his heart out and that's to achieve the above. The poster designers are clever and know this; possibly all the budding marketing moguls...

Believe it or not, while this is generally true, it is not always so.

I dance purely to have the craic and take the piss. Because I'm not a self-conscious dancer, and in fact, I'd consider myself a "good" dancer (debatable), girls flock towards me when I dance. But that's not why I dance. Even tonight, me and one of my mates hit the dancefloor and within five minutes were surrounded by good looking women (it was 92, after all), but that's not why we were there. We just kept going, taking the piss and having a good time. Sure, you can dance for the sake of picking up women, but tbh, it's not as much fun. Scoring is easy, any fool with a bit of confidence can do it. But having the craic with a few mates and not caring if people think you're nuts is a whole different story. Generally, i've found the opposite sex give you more attention if you're not even trying.

But that's just me.

Seifer · 11-09-2006 11:02am

Dont generalise so much plz.

I did preface my post with "I think" so I can generalize as much as I want with my thoughts.
However in situations like this you can only really talk in majorites. To that effect if you were to take a survey outside any dublin night club as to why the patrons were there; yes there would be a few celebrating a birthday, new job etc., maybe a few drowning their sorrows but most of the guys would be there with the hope of getting lucky.
But I'm digressing, I was more directly replying to Panda100's query to selling every night out as a chance to score, which I think I answered. And would also like to point out that if you get into the smaller societies and sports clubs there's a lot more nights out organised just to have a laugh.

Sangre · 11-09-2006 11:08am

Can't wait to study in UCD with this going on!

panda100 · 11-09-2006 11:28am

Seifer wrote:

This, I think, is one of the fundamental differences between men and women.
There's only one reason a guy will spend the night dancing his heart out and that's to achieve the above. The poster designers are clever and know this; possibly all the budding marketing moguls...

yeah I think your right but its annoying how freshers nites out are so focussed and advertised towards males specially considering how theres probably more female freshers then males,since we are more brainier and everything:)

The poster designers in C+e etc are not clever.You dont have to be a budding buisness mogul to know that sex sells. The only clever people in this situation are those who dont pay 15euro for a night out in the false hope that you will get as score cos you wont,most probably