I'm new here.

Hackman

Hi all. I just signed up for boards and hope to get to know you all.
I'm doing Arts and hope to get into mode 1 history next year.

hullaballoo

Hey, welcome to boards! I'm sure you'll get to know us all in time.

We have beers occasionally, and sometimes we're known to get coffee as well.

I'm in fourth B&L, but there are plenty of arts students knocking about.

Hackman

Thank you for the welcome. I don't drink much but I like the pub buzz. I'm sure I will have a good time.

Blush_01

Hello!

If you've got any questions and feel a bit silly asking them, PM one of us and we'll give you a dig out.

Hackman

I don't think there is such a thing as a silly question!

I haven't got an embarresment prob at all; but hey, thank you for the offer!

jimi_t

Hackman wrote:

Hi all. I just signed up for boards and hope to get to know you all.
I'm doing Arts and hope to get into mode 1 history next year.

Good call on arts
Better call on boards

Welcome and general jizz-jazz! I'm one of many people you'll see with long hair floating around the Traps and the Newman building

abelard

Hello, welcome, and all that was said above!

Hackman

jimi_t wrote:

Good call on arts
Better call on boards

Welcome and general jizz-jazz! I'm one of many people you'll see with long hair floating around the Traps and the Newman building

Had to be Arts... had to be history... UCD has the one and only Hugh Gough!!

boneless

Welcome aboard... a Gough fan hey? He's good alright!!

Le Rack

watch out for him ^ he has a pervin mirror in his bag!

boneless

Le Rack wrote:

watch out for him ^ he has a pervin mirror in his bag!

It was taken off me...


*Psst!! is it female??? Mmmmm....*

Le Rack

no on, hack is a chap...

Who took the mirror! As scared as I was of it it was damn cool!

fish-head

Welcome Hackman. I'm a first year in Rats aswell, slugs unite!

beanyb

Hackman wrote:

Had to be Arts... had to be history... UCD has the one and only Hugh Gough!!

Hugh Gough = the greatest. Good reason for your choice!

singingstranger

Isn't he the guy who used to be against Kevin Hough on the Lyrics Board back when Aonghus Macanally presented it?





Welcome aboard, Sir Hack of Manliness.

elmyra

beanyb wrote:

Hugh Gough = the greatest. Good reason for your choice!

Seconded.


Welcome Hacko dude!

Tan Princess

hi i'm new here too. I'm doing a postgrad in economics and currently banging my head off a keyboard in lg3 because I can't understand the computer programme we're learning. Anyone know where to go looking for decent grinds in UCD? Should I put a notice up?

beanyb

I *think* the SU have a grinds file with a list of people offering them. Best bet would be to contact the education officer. Putting up signs looking for them would probably help too though.

Oh and SS please dont associate Hugh Gough with the lyrics board... he's far too fabulous and intellectual for that!

Chakar

beanyb wrote:

I *think* the SU have a grinds file with a list of people offering them. Best bet would be to contact the education officer. Putting up signs looking for them would probably help too though.

You're right beany and its in the Students Union corridor.

orangerooster

Hello Hackman, second arts here and agreeing on the whole Hugh Gough being great thing.

Riamfada

Hackman



.........word . Lovin The Gough. Will be a question in the Terror in the french revolution. Ill be my little cute bum on it. There is a tip for you free of charge.

Vainglory

"Hugh Gough. Great lecturer, hard marker."

Discuss.

elmyra

Vainglory wrote:

"Hugh Gough. Great lecturer, hard marker."

Discuss.

In arguing that Prof. Hugh Gough is a great lecturer, one is immediately drawn to cite his charismatic lecturing style as his greatest asset. Gough possesses the rare ability to draw humour from the most mundane of topics and effortlessly caters to his audience, being both interesting as well as informative. His status is lent further gravitas by the reputation which preceeds him, students have heard about him before they've ever had the pleasure of attending a lecture.

Another of Gough's great attributes is his 'pulling power'. Not only is he masterful in that he can capture your attention while in the lecture theatre, but knowledge of how great he is a bound to be can compel you to attend a lecture that you otherwise would've sat out over in Hilpers or at The Wall.

Gough speaks in clearcut and measured notes, meaning that you not only hear every word but have time to take it down. His lectures display a clean thought process of important points surrounded by explanatory information which is easy for the listener to grasp and finally, his 'Terror in the French Revolution' is a small text quick wont break any studen't back or bank.

However, those who approach the Gough question for essays and exams must beware. A trade off to being a great lecturer means that Prof. Gough will expect you to have gleened your basics from lecture material and thus be well armed to do futher reading and make detailed, insightful arguments. While this is ostensibly fair, students the Arts block over and known to prefer subsisting on a diet of lecture notes gleaned and photocopied from some spotty nerd who bothered to attend. Thus remember, Gough is for life, not just for Christmas exams.



****, so below word count....gonna fail this one.

Riamfada

Elmyra


..... spends all her day In the Library. " working " talking to everyone on MSN and writing Vainglory's essay on The Gough. Hackman dont be like Elmo. Just because you are IN the library dosnt actually mean your going to do something.

Vainglory

Grimes wrote:

Elmyra


..... spends all her day In the Library. " working " talking to everyone on MSN and writing Vainglory's essay on The Gough. Hackman dont be like Elmo. Just because you are IN the library dosnt actually mean your going to do something.

But it does help in purging your lazy procrastinating-induced guilt. Somewhat.

Elmyra..

This is clearly a well-researched essay, with a mature and considered approach.
However, you have shown little or no evidence of further reading on the subject. I might suggest the classic text, "I Was On A 2:1 And Gough's Exam Scuppered Me", by A. Student (Oxford, 2002) for your studies before the exam.
Also, please consult the department guidelines on footnotes.
I did particularly like your reference to the spotty nerd. We all need one of those.
60%.

elmyra

Grimes wrote:

Elmyra


..... spends all her day In the Library. " working " talking to everyone on MSN and writing Vainglory's essay on The Gough. Hackman dont be like Elmo. Just because you are IN the library dosnt actually mean your going to do something.

Oy you! I take a bit of offence to that. I've done 600 words of an essay that's not due for another week in between my msn ramblings. Multitasking dear, it's a girl thing.

elmyra

Vainglory wrote:

But it does help in purging your lazy procrastinating-induced guilt. Somewhat.

Elmyra..

This is clearly a well-researched essay, with a mature and considered approach.
However, you have shown little or no evidence of further reading on the subject. I might suggest the classic text, "I Was On A 2:1 And Gough's Exam Scuppered Me", by A. Student (Oxford, 2002) for your studies before the exam.
Also, please consult the department guidelines on footnotes.
I did particularly like your reference to the spotty nerd. We all need one of those.
60%.

Heh, cool. A 2:1 for 15 minutes work, sch-wing! *thinks Vainglory is best tutor ever *

Riamfada

elmyra wrote:

Oy you! I take a bit of offence to that. I've done 600 words of an essay that's not due for another week in between my msn ramblings. Multitasking dear, it's a girl thing.

I cant talk Im stil in bed. Anyway Hackman probably best if you avoid Elmyra at all costs lest you get dragged down into Libro-cyberspace. Also avoid me lest you get pulled into my bed bacause I havnt seemed to be able to get out of it in days

Brimmy

Hackman wrote:

Had to be Arts... had to be history... UCD has the one and only Hugh Gough!!

Everyone loves Hugh!

beanyb wrote:

Oh and SS please dont associate Hugh Gough with the lyrics board... he's far too fabulous and intellectual for that!

He'd do it if they played Mozart, you know he would!

Vainglory

elmyra wrote:

I've done 600 words of an essay that's not due for another week in between my msn ramblings. Multitasking dear, it's a girl thing.

If it's the historiography one, I hate you. I've spent the last hour looking through those bloody online books to find the shortest one out of the lot of them.

Hackman, welcome to boards. History is great and we really do love it, even though we bitch about it a lot. If I was in first year again I'd apply for pure history too.

elmyra

Vainglory wrote:

If it's the historiography one, I hate you. I've spent the last hour looking through those bloody online books to find the shortest one out of the lot of them.

Hackman, welcome to boards. History is great and we really do love it, even though we bitch about it a lot. If I was in first year again I'd apply for pure history too.

It is that one...worth pointing out that any of the books will do you because there's still only about a chapter on the given topic in them anyway...atleast that's what I'm finding with WW1. The tricky bit is finding historians who conflict with each other. *sigh*

beanyb

Never found Gough to be too hard a marker. I did his France since 1945 course last year and managed to do pretty well in the essays. And that includes the one I rewrote in a day after my evil floppy disk ate the first one! He does expect wider reading but he always gives good tips for the exam so that isnt too hard to do since you can easily concentrate on just 3 topics.

Oh and the hard part isnt finding 3 historians that conflict with each other (though that was tricky). It's the damn 1000 word limit... Do we have to include the footnotes in that 1000 words? Since on the cover sheet it asks you too include them... It better not! Oh and apparently even though we're told to compare and contrast 3 historians we need to use more than 3 books. Which confuses me slightly.

Vainglory

beanyb wrote:

Never found Gough to be too hard a marker. I did his France since 1945 course last year and managed to do pretty well in the essays. And that includes the one I rewrote in a day after my evil floppy disk ate the first one! He does expect wider reading but he always gives good tips for the exam so that isnt too hard to do since you can easily concentrate on just 3 topics.

Oh and the hard part isnt finding 3 historians that conflict with each other (though that was tricky). It's the damn 1000 word limit... Do we have to include the footnotes in that 1000 words? Since on the cover sheet it asks you too include them... It better not! Oh and apparently even though we're told to compare and contrast 3 historians we need to use more than 3 books. Which confuses me slightly.

Is it absolutely necessary to find loads of conflicting ideas? I mean..the question says COMPARE and contrast..

beanyb

They dont have to be totally conflicting, but I dont think they'd appreciate three of the exact same outlooks!

Riamfada

compare and contrast the on topicness of this thread?

Vainglory

True.

So, Hackman, what are your first impressions of UCD?

gubbie

Tan Princess wrote:

hi i'm new here too. I'm doing a postgrad in economics and currently banging my head off a keyboard in lg3 because I can't understand the computer programme we're learning. Anyone know where to go looking for decent grinds in UCD? Should I put a notice up?

Make friends with a computer scientist-its getting me through C. They'll be glad of female attention

The_Minister

gubbie wrote:

Make friends with a computer scientist-its getting me through C. They'll be glad of female attention

You'll lower your standards to pass, but not to change your name?

gubbie

The_Minister wrote:

You'll lower your standards to pass, but not to change your name?

maybe

singingstranger

Grimes wrote:

Elmyra


..... spends all her day In the Library. " working " talking to everyone on MSN and writing Vainglory's essay on The Gough. Hackman dont be like Elmo. Just because you are IN the library dosnt actually mean your going to do something.

/me refers to http://www.boards.ie/wiki/Elmyra

The_Minister

singingstranger wrote:

/me refers to http://www.boards.ie/wiki/Elmyra

Bad link SS.


I do't have a WIKI:(

panda100

Hackman wrote:

Hi all. I just signed up for boards and hope to get to know you all.
I'm doing Arts and hope to get into mode 1 history next year.

How are you finding it so far hackman? Have you found your way around yet

elmyra

The_Minister wrote:

Bad link SS.


I do't have a WIKI:(

Meh, he's only referring to it cos he wrote it. There's a link to it in my sig.