Student card

lost_soul · 07-09-2006 2:23pm #1

Just wondering when do you get the card?? if its durning registration and i dont register till thurday would i not need it to get into some events before that during freshers week??

John · 07-09-2006 2:28pm

You don't need it for freshers' week events. You'll get it during registration.

Bartronilic · 07-09-2006 9:06pm

what colour is it this year? blue? melon?, cola? lemon and lime?

John · 07-09-2006 9:18pm

It's heat and light sensitive so you don't know what colour it's going to be in any given situation.

Bartronilic · 07-09-2006 9:38pm

really?! that'd get confusing after a while

Troglodyte · 07-09-2006 9:43pm

As long as it's not pink again I don't really mind, I always thought it looked a bid stupid on a student ID card. Dark navy blue with white lettering would look pretty fetching though.

shay_562 · 07-09-2006 9:48pm

...does it really matter all that much? When do you use your student card except in the library and Pav (and for the occasional discount), and who actually sees it that you care about impressing?

Troglodyte · 07-09-2006 9:56pm

shay_562 wrote:

...does it really matter all that much? When do you use your student card except in the library and Pav (and for the occasional discount), and who actually sees it that you care about impressing?

Yes, you're right, I don't use it very much, and no, its not going to impress anyone. Its the principle of the thing, I just like it to look good. Petty, I know....

Bartronilic · 07-09-2006 10:10pm

Just am.

BrenC · 08-09-2006 12:37pm

I hope its a decent colour too, Lime green would look pretty cool me thinks

Awayindahils · 08-09-2006 2:11pm

i'd like to have a purple student card.

Bartron Prime · 08-09-2006 2:21pm

Purple is a much better colour than that rather distressed pink we had last year alright. However, it's on a rotation and I'll be damned if I can remember which part of the College Calendar it mentions it in (I swear, rules For Everything). At least my picture is more reflective of me this year, regardless of colour. I went around for the first two years with a student card that made me look like an extra on 'Full Metal Jacket'! I hope for sky blue, but they did blue in my first year. Boo-Urns. I have a horrible feeling it'll be a plain white card...

George's_Key · 08-09-2006 2:27pm

I'd like to have a purple or black student card, don't think those colours are on the rota though.

Bartron Prime · 08-09-2006 2:38pm

Oooo, black would be nice. With gold lettering. We would of course, have to re-take our photos in the style of the Blues Brother film. First two people to register get to re-enact the car chase scene in the St. Stephen's Green Shooping Centre!

08-09-2006 2:41pm

I'm going to go with a longshot and say Red. Oh, and Barton Prime, where does it say that in the Calendar? Never spotted anything in there about any rotation.

Bartron Prime · 08-09-2006 2:58pm

Red would be nice! I can't remember unfortunately. I do remember reading it though, I'm certain of that. It makes sense in a way. If every year has a colour, they can tell if you've registered or not. That, and it's Trinity bureaucracy. They don't need a reason. I would download an old calendar and go searching, but Adobe bloody Reader doesn't have a proper find function. Tan their oily hides.

George's_Key · 08-09-2006 3:06pm

I much prefer the idea of one individual, somewhere in college, who's sole purpose in college is to decide which colour the student card will be. So that person, sits in their office week in week out until the faithful day deciding which colour it will be. I wish I was that person.

Bartron Prime · 08-09-2006 3:12pm

Considering the things I've seen and heard (Hey Jim! This broken heating system here! Why don't we fill it with air! That'll fix it!) I wouldn't be surprised. The office would have to have a very British title to it though. The Office of Identification and Spectral Allocation perhaps? It would be headed by a little old man with white hair and glasses called Norman who holds the official title of 'Registrar of Colours'. Now that's an office I would place my trust in!

limey_tank · 08-09-2006 3:13pm

Bartron Prime wrote:

I have a horrible feeling it'll be a plain white card...

It'll never be white because that's the colour of the staff card, year in, year out...

George's_Key · 08-09-2006 3:14pm

It's probably the guy that does the lockers that chooses the student card colour. That's why he's never there, he's probably out and about trying to figure out what colour to go with and what particular shade.

Bartron Prime · 08-09-2006 3:18pm

Hmm. While his 'office' isn't grand enough to be the 'Registrar of Colours' (please Dr. Hegarty, please make that a real job), it would fit the trend of people having the weirdest combination of jobs. I can imagine it: "Hmm, while I do like this soft eggshell yellow, it does clash with the noticeboards. Perhaps a winter mint might work?"

08-09-2006 3:33pm

Oh no. It's far more complicated.

Each School has their own Director of Identification and Spectral Allocation, who then report to their School Executive & School Committee on their brief. In order to facilitate the decision of a new colour, the Registrar of Colours holds at least three meetings with all of these Directors per term.

Given the lack of decisions that can be made in Trinity, these nine meetings produce nothing of merit, and thus Plan B is always introduced. Plan B, of course, consists of a trip down to the Physics Building to ask one of the Astrophysicists whether any two of the planets are due for joint alignment with the sun, and if the answer is yes, the colour of the final planet will be the card colour. If no, they ask Senator Norris to pick a colour.

Bartron Prime · 08-09-2006 3:53pm

Of course, that was the way it was done most years. Earlier this year, the Board introduced the new Colourful Resource Allocation Project (or C.R.A.P. for short) in order to ensure that the most popular colours received the most attention and use within college. This was done both to innovate the way Trinity uses colours, prioritising those which are more internationally popular, and to streamline the Colour Allocation process. It was felt that this new system, in the words of Dr. Hegarty, "Would mark TCD out as a bold and striking centre of further education. And get rid of brown. I don't like brown. It's icky".

While this new system was being implemented, the old one was suspended, pending a review by a new sub-committee, the Colour Allocation Tribunal (C.A.T.). Of course, while C.R.A.P. had not yet been approved by C.A.T. it too was suspended. This has led to a number of Schools opting out of the process, with Law declaring it would go alone using "Mood colours..or something". Thus far, C.R.A.P. has not been approved, and the Registrar of Colours has been asked to head a new review designed to examine the decision by C.A.T. to suspend C.R.A.P. While this review is ongoing, C.A.T. has been suspended. Until it's resolved, Trinity has signed a remarkable bit of PFI with Reads who have won the contract to suply the college with 15,000 cards, pens and sparkly stickers.

And Senator Norris always picks pink. Or whatever the boys are wearing.

George's_Key · 08-09-2006 3:55pm

:d

08-09-2006 4:00pm

This is reminding me of the Ministry of Silly Walks, by the way

Bartron Prime · 08-09-2006 4:03pm

That Ministry is a valuable use of Government resources I'm sure you'll agree. Now if only they could regulate that Cheese Shop that never has any cheese. Such a tragic waste of human life...

europerson · 08-09-2006 4:05pm

Roffle...

Tacitha · 08-09-2006 8:10pm

No, I think the Identification and Spectral Allocation is perfectly possible.
Nearly sure there is nothing in the calendar on ID card colours. If it's a cycle, it's a pretty long one, since as far as I recall the colours haven't repeated since this type of card was introduced (1998).
Lime green has happened. Purple has happened.
And I claim my oldest resident status...

dreambrook · 08-09-2006 9:45pm

I'm rooting for sunshine yellow, unless that's been done....

Crash · 08-09-2006 9:52pm

sunshine/lollipops would be good

possibly rainbows

Bartronilic · 09-09-2006 12:22am

we don't re-take photos?! my picture is terrible cos the woman said something to me when she took it and i didn't hear her and said "what?" and pulled a "sorry can't hear you" face. i look like im in a strop and depressed

xebec · 09-09-2006 12:32am

You have the option for a new photo every two years. So for most people it's 3rd year before they get a chance to get a new one.

Warning to freshers - don't look away from that camera for a second cos they'll take it the second you let your guard down!!!

And don't be ashamed of any bad photos - post them on here so we can all enjoy

Nietzschean · 09-09-2006 12:39am

Tacitha wrote:

And I claim my oldest resident status...

iirc regi our belevent admin started in 98? or was that devore, one of the 2 of them anyway

cuckoo · 09-09-2006 9:12am

on topic card allocation/

Don't bother joining the monster queue in House 6 for a student travel card until after you have your Trinity ID card.

Nietzschean · 09-09-2006 10:27am

monster queue? i was in there the other week, place was dead......

Black_Couch · 09-09-2006 11:23am

They really don't retake your picture? Thats a strange and cheap mindset I think that the college have.

Nietzschean · 09-09-2006 11:38am

for your id card? you are given the option in 3rd year for a new picture, its not to do with cheapness, as it doesn't cost them anything more or less(they have to print a new card anyway, its all digital...). Its just speed/efficency, they can get more people through the room if they don't need to take everyone's photo, and there's people like me who really don't care and never got their pic updated in 3rd year.....

if you beg they will probally re-do your pic this year.... i know a girl who got a new one in 2nd yr...

09-09-2006 12:32pm

Nietzschean wrote:

iirc regi our belevent admin started in 98? or was that devore, one of the 2 of them anyway

DeVore was around in the age of Ivana as SU President, so that'd be '89/'90 I think. Though tacinta might have been referring to length of time spent on campus.

I get my 9th ID card in a few weeks (and because it's my fifth year in Trinity, another picture).

Nietzschean · 09-09-2006 12:43pm

/me ponders, who was 98 then hrmm....

Awayindahils · 09-09-2006 2:01pm

Myth wrote:

I get my 9th ID card in a few weeks (and because it's my fifth year in Trinity, another picture).

I get my fifth, and it's only my second year. Gotta stop losing stuff.

Crash · 09-09-2006 9:09pm

That'd be Dan i'd say.

dreambrook · 10-09-2006 12:43pm

Don't bother joining the monster queue in House 6 for a student travel card until after you have your Trinity ID card.

There's a student travel card? Is that just for travel discounts or....?

littlehedgehog · 10-09-2006 1:05pm

www.studenttravelcard.ie

cuckoo · 10-09-2006 4:27pm

dreambrook wrote:

There's a student travel card? Is that just for travel discounts or....?

Bus Eireann (buses to places outside Dublin) accept the Trinity ID for student discounts, but the Travel Card is needed to get the cheap fares on Iaranoid Eireann (trains to outside Dublin for the non-natives reading this) and Dublin Bus/DART (the commuter service inside Dublin).

Dublin Bus/Dart/Luas have monthly (and i think weekly) cheaper student tickets - you show your Travel Card when you buy them in a newsagent and the travel card number is written on the ticket so if an inspector comes onto the bus/train/tram you show them your travel card along with the ticket. For the longer distance trains you show the travel card and the number is printed on the ticket - again, for the inspectors.

You don't need to bring a passport photo with you if getting the card in House 6 in Trinity as your photo is taken on the spot and the card given to you there and then. But, you must have your Trinity ID. There will be big lines of people in Fresher's week getting their cards, so if you want one that week go in early the morning after you've registered.

Some places give student discounts (eg Boots Rathmines, hairdressers) for the Trinity ID cards, others just for the Travel Card. If you're ever planning on taking a train somewhere outside Dublin in the next 18 months (a card bought in October 06 is valid until Dec 07) the card pays for itself.

sully-gormo · 10-09-2006 8:54pm

Its a bit of a money spinner for them really, they charge €12 for the things when a college ID(and all the colleges have them) will do the job.

dreambrook · 10-09-2006 9:07pm

So if I want cheaper weekly or monthly bus tickets will the TCD ID suffice or will I have to get a travelcard?

Awayindahils · 10-09-2006 9:12pm

sully-gormo wrote:

Its a bit of a money spinner for them really, they charge €12 for the things when a college ID(and all the colleges have them) will do the job.

If you're a first year and sign up for a 3rd level account with BOI during the next month and a half, ie before the 31st of October you get a voucher to the value of 12euro, as in a free travel card. You need an 06 CAO number to be elligble.

Right I promise to stop pluging my work.

You also get other stuff like crisps and the banned coke and kit-kats and shower gel...no condoms though.

snappieT · 10-09-2006 9:40pm

dreambrook wrote:

So if I want cheaper weekly or monthly bus tickets will the TCD ID suffice or will I have to get a travelcard?

Think for a second... when is the last time you've seen an inspector on a bus?

You just need to go to the right shop to buy the cheaper ticket (64 per month i believe). They don't ask for your travelcard. The Number 1 shop in the "urine alley" between ha'penny bridge and temple bar is that shop. Luas stops are also good places. No human interaction.

I used it all last year, and not once were they checked. Nor will they be espically pissed off if you don't have your card "with you".

Bonus points: run a magnet along the strip on the card for the bus, you'll get a good few free journeys before a driver will be arsed to respond to the validator beeping and writing that day's date on the card.

dreambrook · 10-09-2006 10:40pm

You are a wise one SnappieT, now how may one steal a magnet surreptiously from the Physics building is the next question.

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