101 Things to do in Trinity before you leave.

Just to add a(nother) new thread to the forum, it struck me that a definite* list of 'thing to do in Trinity before you leave' isn't available, at least as far as I'm aware. And since I know some of you love doing up lists (e.g. Stargal), I thought this might be interesting. Would be good for the ole archive too

So anyone willing to get us started?

gymrabbit

Well, I don't like these types of lists but...

1. Debate in one of the Phil/Hist debates.
2. Compete in an intervarsities or go on a sports club weekend away.
3. Attempt a schols paper.
4. Fail an annual exam, go on holiday, come back two weeks early, study your ass off, repeat exam and pass by the skin of your teeth.
5. Have sex in a society room.
6. Have sex in a residence room on campus.
7. Sneak someone in/be sneaked in to campus.
8. Have security stop/interupt/break up a residence/society party.
9. Run for election for Society/sports/csc/ducac/SU committee.
10. Score one of the people who you "beat" in the election.
11. Have unprotected sex and go through 48 hours of hell thinking you've got HIV/pregnant/about to become a father.
12. Get STI tested.
13. Get pregnancy tested.
14. Get pished with your favourite lecturee.
15. Try and chat up all the cute postgrads.
16. Try and chat up all the cute First years.
17. Go to the trinity ball.
18. Go exploring the tunnels.
19. Have arguments in the JCR about the Irish Language/abortion/George Bush etc.
20. Eat a dead pig.
21. Go to the strauss ball.
22. Try and live on 50 euro a week (excluding rent)
23. Go on 48 hour benders on random occasions.
24. Pay the junior dean a fine.
25. Climb the flagpole in the pav (not the bendy one)
26. Bask in the sunshine outside the pav on a hot day with booze you both in cheaper offlicenses.
27. Go a few weeks without shaving your face/legs.

RE*AC*TOR

1. Come out of the closet.

Boston

2. Sex in a society room.

Time Magazine

Heh, I think I've done most of Kev's list. I'm yet to have a pregnancy test done, though.

3. Visit the Wine Cellars
4. Pretend to be staff to eat your lunch in the East Dining Hall
5. Steal a table and study hypothesis testing in the service yard
6. Buy your tutor a drink in Redz
7. Put your lecturer on hotornot.com
8. Stay in College buildings (not residences) the night before Freshers' Week Monday
9. Hide in the Ussher Basement and read magazines for an hour
10. Find the Jane's Rocket and Missiles folder in the library
11. Pretend to be incarcerated in the EPB window that the tourists see as they walk up the steps into the Long Room
12. Steal some carpet and be its adopted-father
13. Get one of those College plates from Catex (damn, I haven't done this yet!)
14. Ask Dr Charles Benson, the world's least accomodating person, for a copy of the Charter in English
15. Watch a pigeon fly into a window. Twice.
16. Write an article for the Trinity News
17. Charm the ladies in the Enquiries Office
18. Get a copy of the Trees of Trinity College
19. Say hello to Prof Kennelly
20. Meet the Provost (haven't done this one yet either)
21. Sit Schols
22. Spend a night on a floor in a tux
23. Get accosted by security guards about trying to break into the Ball... five days before the gates open
24. Befriend Theresa ("Claire") of the Dining Hall
25. Befriend Matt the Jap
26. Befriend DURNS
27. Play music in Regent's House
28. Visit the Garden of Mystery
29. Hide alcohol in Challidor's Corner graveyard
30. Tell a garda you've hidden alcohol inside the College before the Ball
31. Drink as many Bavaria as there are blades of grass in College Park
32. Give your parents/granny a tour
33. Man a stand in Freshers' Week
34. Walk through the Campanile when you graduate (obviously haven't done this)
35. Go to the Book Sale
36. Go to a service in the Chapel
37. Read the College Calender
38. Read the College Statutes
39. Crash a reception
40. Mislead the tourists
41. Help the tourists (karma...)

More to come I expect

Ibid

Ibid wrote:

30. Tell a garda you've hidden alcohol inside the College before the Ball.

I think you'll have to explain this one.

DrIndy

Done a few of these:

Debate in one of the Phil/Hist debates.
Attempt a schols paper.
Have sex in a residence room on campus.
Sneak someone in/be sneaked in to campus.
Have security stop/interupt/break up a residence/society party.
Run for election for Society/sports/csc/ducac/SU committee.
Get pished with your favourite lecturee.
Try and chat up all the cute postgrads.
Try and chat up all the cute First years.
Go to the trinity ball.
Go exploring the tunnels.
Have arguments in the JCR about the Irish Language/abortion/George Bush etc.
Eat a dead pig.
Go to the strauss ball.
Try and live on 50 euro a week (excluding rent)
Go on 48 hour benders on random occasions.
Climb the flagpole in the pav (not the bendy one)
Bask in the sunshine outside the pav on a hot day with booze you both in cheaper offlicenses.
Go a few weeks without shaving your face/legs.

Had a great college experience!

The trick with the flagpole is not getting caught up at the top.

Time Magazine

Myth wrote:

I think you'll have to explain this one.

Under suspicion that I was drunk he frisked me. I told him not to bother and that all my drink was already hidden on campus, ref: point 29.

Perhaps not the brightest thing I've ever done, but good nonetheless.

punka

42. Call up Playboy from Stacks
43. Have a chat with RB
44. Have a drink in the Senior Common Room
45. Attend/crash the Provost's Garden Party (if they ever have it in the garden again...)
46. Go to Christmas Commons
47. Climb into the attic in Botany Bay

edit: €50 a week? try €10 to last the final week of the month....for several months in a row (admittedly, I had Commons)

John

48. Your ma

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

Fail an exam in first year, and have your parents ring up to beg for you to be allowed continue

Stargal

Hang on, did that happen to you or were you on the receiving end of the phonecall?

Edit: My brain is waaaay too frazzled to think up a list right now, but I'll do one later. It'll be definitive. Hell yeah.

Dave3x

48. Drink whiskey in Cumman Gaelach room.
49. Go to commons (I'd say lots of people never get around to this...)
50. Explore the HL section in the Berkely and get lost in places you're not supposed to be.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

stargal wrote:

Hang on, did that happen to you or were you on the receiving end of the phonecall?

sadly happened to me in first year of undergrad. might have to try the trick again after i hand in this PhD next week!

... "if you'd seen his report cards from school, you'd know he'd make a great Doctor ..."

europerson

Some of these have been mentioned already, but there's a few new ones. I couldn't get to 101.

1. Debate
2. Do Schols
3. Run in an election
4. Drink with a lecturer
5. Attend the Trinity Ball
6. Explore the tunnels
7. Go to the Strauss ball
8. Wear a College clothing product
9. Sit outside the Pav in Trinity Term, drinking instead of studying
10. Visit the cellars
11. Pretend to be staff and eat your lunch in the East Dining Hall
12. Steal a table and study in the service yard
13. Put your lecturer on hotornot.com
14. Look up your friends' neighbours in Thom's Directory or your friends' parents in Who's Who or Debrett's
15. Hide in the Ussher Basement and read magazines for an hour
16. Visit the Reference and HL sections of the Berkeley and read some of the strangest things you'll ever find
17. Be an accessary to the theft of some carpet and be its adoptive uncle/aunt
18. Pretend to be incarcerated in the Early Printed Books window that the tourists see as they walk up the steps into the Long Room
19. Get one of those College plates
20. Write an article for the Trinity News
21. Get a copy of the Trees of Trinity College
22. Say hello to Professor Kennelly
23. Meet the Provost
24. Befriend Teresa in the Dining Hall
25. Befriend Matt the Jap
26. Visit the Garden of Mystery
27. Pay your respects at Challoner's Corner graveyard
28. Give your parents/granny/partner a tour
29. Man a stand in Freshers' Week
30. Go to the Book Sale
31. Go to a service in the Chapel
32. Read the College Calender
33. Read the College Statutes
34. Crash a reception
35. Mislead the tourists
36. Help the tourists
37. Call up something rude from Stacks or Santry
38. Have a chat with RB McDowell
39. Have a drink in the Senior Common Room
40. Attend the Provost's garden party
41. Go to Christmas Commons
42. Go to Commons in general
43. Try to set up an obscure society
44. Visit the buildings housing departments other than your own
45. Aim to visit every toilet (of the appropriate sex) in College
46. Visit the Douglas Hyde Gallery
47. Go to a Players play
48. Live in, or at least visit, Trinity Hall
49. Visit the Ed Burke's boiler room
50. Participate in the Trinity Ball ticket treasure hunt
51. Sign yourself in as a reader in the Department of Early Printed Books (Course: History, English Studies, History, History, Theology, ESS…)
52. Use all of the libraries available to you, including the Map Library
53. Visit College as soon as it opens in the morning, and wonder at how quiet and beautiful the place is
54. Be ID-checked by security
55. Vote in SU elections
56. See famous people in the GMB
57. See the Book of Kells
58. Visit the Arts Building's cell of isolation/bondage
59. Go into every building in College, even if you have no business there
60. Eat a ham, cheese and coleslaw sandwich prepared in the Dining Hall
61. Befriend the cloakroom ladies
62. Engage in healthy UCD-slagging
63. Sit an exam in the Exam Hall
64. Feed the pigeons
65. Join a society, in which you think you'll have no interest
66. Go to a Chaplains' lunch
67. Dodge your way into the Dental Hospital
68. Visit College's botanic gardens
69. Sit in the front row of a lecture
70. Hire a painting from the College Gallery
71. Make an appointment with a careers advisor
72. Use Boards.ie's TCD section
73. Look in at the Library's Conservation Department, whilst playing with the College ticket office
74. Come onto an administrative officer in some office in College
75. Have lunch in every possible establishment in College
76. Eat some Trinity College brand chocolate
77. Watch a University Senate in session
78. Wander around College late at night
79. Visit your Tutor
80. Go to a lecture that isn't part of your course

arbeitsscheuer

• Act with DU Players in the Samuel Beckett Centre

Heh, don't even have to be a Trinners student for that one...

cianclarke

Who is this mat the jap guy anyway, I'm sure I've seen him about but what's the story?

Whiskey with Cumman Gaelach? Maybe joining up will be worthwhile after all.

Pet

cianclarke wrote:

Who is this mat the jap guy anyway, I'm sure I've seen him about but what's the story?

See here.

cianclarke

Thanks, that clears up the mystery a bit! I've seen him in the GMB picking up the paper a fair bit

Awayindahils

You know for all the Phil/Hist bashing that goes on, debating is the top of every list.

• Come to college in costume (it is Hallowe'en after all)
• Go to a tutorial very drunk
• Walk accross front square in 4 inch heels (everyone should do this)

I'm sure I have loads more, but this year I'm trying out the new fangled idea of going to lecturs.:rolleyes:

Catari Jaguar

Tried to have sex in Trinity today, could not find anywhere! Had a bit of privacy down Arts block near secret toilets and fecker from DH Gallery appears beside glass doors n starts organising filing cabinet!! wtf?? Is nothing sacred! Seriously like, there were people everywhere, no free rooms! Don't you students have homes to go to? What's with the attending lectures like?

Any tips on where to go for some private time??:D That ISN'T a toilet...

Tricity Bendix

Want privacy? Get a room. Preferably off-campus.

ApeXaviour

Lil Kitten wrote:

That ISN'T a toilet...

The IAMS toi.. washroom

Pet

The Players Theatre. Go upstairs and there are a load of rooms with couches. Either that or one of the myriad rooms in Goldsmith Hall (ground floor, up behind the lecture theatre). I've seen folding mattresses in one of the rooms.

Time Magazine

The torture/bondage chamber in the Arts B[strike]lock[/strike]uilding would do well, methinks.

Comes with eerie chair and all.

I might not tell you where it is though, wouldn't want to find you there when me and europerson go [strike]experimenting[/strike] exploring.

gymrabbit

Lil Kitten wrote:

Tried to have sex in Trinity today, could not find anywhere! Had a bit of privacy down Arts block near secret toilets and fecker from DH Gallery appears beside glass doors n starts organising filing cabinet!! wtf?? Is nothing sacred! Seriously like, there were people everywhere, no free rooms! Don't you students have homes to go to? What's with the attending lectures like?

Any tips on where to go for some private time??:D That ISN'T a toilet...

Around what time was this at? The IAMs as Apexaviour suggested is quite reasonable as far as toilets go but it tends to be locked after 5/6. If you don't mind a rough **** against the wall there are a number of little alley ways around college nobody seems to traverse down. One would be between botany bay apartments and pearse street but be careful you're not in sight of people outside. I presume you have no specific swipe access/keys to any rooms. For example into the museum building or a society room. I'm trying to think of somewhere comfortable but I can't tbh.

Tunnel under the New Square??

ApeXaviour

original_psycho wrote:

Tunnel under the New Square??

Sweaty? Dusty? Rats? Also to get in there surely would require the ability to enter new square flats. This would likely mean you have access to a bed on campus.

Crash

Nah its ok, all the rats i've seen down there have been dead.

Catari Jaguar

It was like half 5 or so. Was way too cold for outdoor lovin Where be these IAMS "washrooms"? and couches? really? And I have a room thanks, B.ie curious, suppose it's ok if you don't mind boring but sometimes you just need to get some wherever you may be, ya kno?!

Crash

As for places for a shag in trinity - the botany bay/pearse st. spot there isnt visible from the road - however other options would include SNIAM or the lloyd building, both toilets are remarkably clean and fancy. back of the library below nassau st., though you could probably be seen, no one ever ends up around there. some spots around the back of the parsons etc. that people rarely go....

o1s1n

b.ie curious wrote:

Want privacy? Get a room. Preferably off-campus.

for someone called b.ie curious, that comment was painfully conservative and boring. i bet your sex life is great

Catari Jaguar

Thanks Crash, I need a campus map now. Been there 3 years n never heard of half those places! Or ask security or SU.. "Excuse me. Can you recommend me please, somewhere I can have my sexy time?" I'm book marking this page btw

o1s1n

high five!

NADA

I recommend the Lloyd Institute. Go down to the basement and get it on in LB8. There does be nobody there when there are no lectures on. And it's really quiet too!

Catari Jaguar

o1s1n wrote:

high five!

*Slap*:D

Crash

Actually the best place would be to go into one of the basement lecture theatres, up to the fire exits at the top (which are usually closed and locked) unlock it (no key from inside needed) and get it on in the place back there - you'd never be caught

Awayindahils

And people presume that internet nerds never get laid in real life....

As for sex on campus, GMB is good though later in the day is probably better, and the resource room is never used... if you really need adventure try for a grand slam.

Tricity Bendix

If you're going to have sex anywhere in the GMB you might as well do it Harney-style.

John

In the middle of front square. Go on, I dare you.

Awayindahils

b.ie curious wrote:

If you're going to have sex anywhere in the GMB you might as well do it Harney-style.

Yeah but that's expencsive, for the Phil and the Hist at least.

In the middle of front square. Go on, I dare you.

Hmm I've stumbled accross that once before, it was a long time before I could walk past the Exam Hall and not hmm can't quite find the right way to express the rest of this, oh and also its too cold this tiem of year.

Tricity Bendix

Yeah but that's expencsive, for the Phil and the Hist at least.

And?

Pet

it was a long time before I could walk

Was he that thick?

BuckleUp

#whatever: Do't bother posting where you've had sex. Seriously. Nobody cares.
Posting where you hope to have sex is ok.

#whatever + 1: Befriend CS people so they can tell you good shortcuts etc
#whatever + 2: Go interrailing
#whatever + 3: Go on a J1
#whatever + 4: Stumble from the Pav to Doyle's on a Friday night
#whatever + 5: See a chronic case of OompaLoompaItis in the Orts Block
#whatever + 6: Live on campus
#whatever + 7: Venture into the buildings you never usually go into. Aside from the Arts Block/Hamilton (seriously, it's not that far away), visit the Museum Building, the Physiology Building, etc
#whatever + 8: Score a student from a "noted" degree and discover they're not all that
#whatever + 9: Go to the Student Counselling Service Academic Workshops
#whatever + 10: Go to a play in the Beckett
#whatever + 11: Go into the CSC
#whatever + 12: Get an evening meal from the Buttery
#whatever + 13: Get a meal from the Pav
#whatever + 14: Read all the student publications
#whatever + 15: Say hi to Matt the Jap

That's all.

gymrabbit

John wrote:

In the middle of front square. Go on, I dare you.

i had sex in the middle of yorema

John

Pet wrote:

Was he that thick?

lolz

one potential place - requires a student card though..

The (nassaus street side) stairs in the Ussher from the basement, don't connect with the stairs from the 1st floor...

Its warm and quiet.. and has a window overlooking Nassau street if you are in to that kind of thing.....

Crash

I had a thing to do in trinity before I leave completed on tuesday - had lunch in the 1592 dininghall.

started off with guinea fowl tuerin with plum chutney, followed by glazed duck with orange and ginger sauce, hazelnut and pecan gateau to finish, couple of glasses of nice wine, cup of coffee, and generally good company. a++

John

That sounds like the worst dinner ever apart from the wine. Duck requires little to no sauce, it's not chicken! Chutneys shouldn't exist! Pecans were sent by Satan to haunt me! I'm not fond of coffee.

Agent Smith

Awayindahils wrote:

And people presume that internet nerds never get laid in real life....

As for sex on campus, GMB is good though later in the day is probably better, and the resource room is never used... if you really need adventure try for a grand slam.

i have to ask, what is a Grand slam?

shay_562

agent_smith wrote:

i have to ask, what is a Grand slam?

Sex on every floor of the GMB. The basement isn't counted (for reasons that no one can quite explain, beyond "It's just not!"), so that leaves Phil Conversation Room/Chamber; Phil Council Room; Hist Conversation Room/Committee Room; Snooker Rooms/Bram/Middle Library; and Resource Room/Computer Room (delete as applicable depending on which rooms you have keys to and how likely you are to get caught in them). The real challenge is sex in every room (to the best of my knowledge, no one has ever managed that one).