ty i hate it

BlueSpiral

You gotta find the cure for cancer to get that STAR!

I think the course I'm going for is something like 440-480 ( no star, thank you very much, piste is gonna get that ;D) in pretty much all the colleges in Ireland, though I'd love to study abroad.

Fourth year is mad craic, how you can hate something so much fun. I've been working my arse off all year and still having loads of laughs.

Piste

Haha how funny would it be if that's what the star actually meant! "yes you got 900 points but no you can't do medecine because you havent cured cancer yet"

BlueSpiral

I hope to jeebus it doesn't mean that, or you should be well into your research for it now.

Are you?

philologos

Piste wrote:

Mmhm, 540* last time I checked

Well that must be one hell of a course, what is it may I ask.
I want to do Comp Sci & Software Engineering in Maynooth its 315 (subject to change next year obviously, and year after that)

Twinkle-star15

Piste wrote:

Mmhm, 540* last time I checked

I feel your pain- 520* for me, and there's something like 10 places on the course :eek:.

SligoBrewer

Twinkle-star15 wrote:

I feel your pain- 520* for me, and there's something like 10 places on the course :eek:.

550* ... lets just say im quietly confident

PurpleFistMixer

400. : ) Or 490*. Looking at CAO.ie, Drama and Theatre studies in TCD has THREE stars. That's an awful lot of cancer to be curing.

philologos

so I take it everyones hoping to go to TCD..
(rediculously high points imply it)

PurpleFistMixer

There are other colleges?

BlueSpiral

Ot-her coll-e-ges?

Nah, I'm not trying to go to TCD, I'd be killed there, for sure. The course I'm trying to get into is 460 points (no cancer curing here), but I'll probably be in 2 ordinary classes in 5th, irish and french, so it's gonna be tough. I'm not the best at langauges, and I'll have to work hard at maths to keep my grade up, I really just need a good teacher.
That's probably the only bad thing about TY for me, bad french and maths teachers. Great irish teacher though, learning loads from her this year.

Piste

#Elites wrote:

you didnt do that in 1st, 2nd and 3rd year?!

Well y'see 1st year was full of making friends, 2nd year wasn't exactly FULL of it but there was some getting wasted, 3rd year was the year for parties, 4th is like a mixture of the best of all three!

Yeah I'm thinking TCD will be my first choice, European Studies. The only other college in Dublin that I know does it is IT Tallaght and that's really out of the way. My second choice will be Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies in DCU which os about 350, so it's either get 540, or have a 1 hour commute a day for 3 years >.<

philologos

Well Maynooth is practically Dublin these days...
and they offer European Studies at a nice 350.
http://admissions.nuim.ie/subjects/arts_european-studies.shtml

Piste

That's even further than Tallaght!

PurpleFistMixer

And from what I've seen, it's in the middle of nowhere!

Piste

The south campus does look like hogwarts though.

PurpleFistMixer

Really? I've only even seen the business school. It looked like.. a big glass building in an expanse of roads and countryside.

Piste

Oh I think that's in the north campus. The south campus is definitely Hogwarts.

SligoBrewer

Jakkass wrote:

so I take it everyones hoping to go to TCD..
(rediculously high points imply it)

actually yes!

euther that or the royal college of surgeons!

Acid_Violet

Wow this has gone off topic..........where are the mods now huh? Oh wait, they were the ones who brought it off topic.....

philologos

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

And from what I've seen, it's in the middle of nowhere!

haha... nowhere..
It's in suburbia, do you consider places 16 miles outside Dublin city centre nowhere. It's surrounded by several towns over 20,000 people (namely Leixlip, Lucan, Celbridge). Intel and Hewlett Packard factories nearby. Hardly nowhere if international companies consider to settle nearby.

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Really? I've only even seen the business school. It looked like.. a big glass building in an expanse of roads and countryside.

it's practically in the middle of Maynooth.

The Callan Building (Comp Sci and Biology), Electronic Engineering and John Hume Building (Arts) seem to be pretty deadly too from being there last year. Again North Campus.

Oh and to bring this back on topic... as many have requested, If you hate TY you are likely to hate 5th year even more, and you can't mitch off that if you want to do well in the LC. My answer to the OP would be simply to get over it. Sounds incredibly simplistic but people do things they don't like every day.

rediguana

feylya wrote:

Stay in TY. You need to learn to spell.

It's funny because it's REALLY true.

Piste

Jakkass wrote:

haha... nowhere..
It's in suburbia, do you consider places 16 miles outside Dublin city centre nowhere.

More than 10 miles outside Dublin = middle of no-where didn't you know. It'd still be awkward to get to from where I live, Trinity really is the most attractive college as it's within walking distance of my house.

PurpleFistMixer

Ah! I live like, 10.2 miles from the city centre! Doomed to a life of a bogger now.

Jakkass- still the middle of nowhere to me! If it takes me an hour to get to town from where I live, it must take an hour and a half from maynooth. That's an awful long way from the city.

philologos

I suppose NUIM is more attractive for me due to 30 mins commuting distance and against the traffic. Whereas Trinity is about an hr to get to. Also TCD didn't have a good vibe for me on the open day.

Piste wrote:

More than 10 miles outside Dublin = middle of no-where didn't you know

Sweet 8.6 miles (i'm within the range)

BlueSpiral

Piste wrote:

More than 10 miles outside Dublin = middle of no-where didn't you know. It'd still be awkward to get to from where I live, Trinity really is the most attractive college as it's within walking distance of my house.

Walking distance? Where do you live, hmv??
*can't think that people other then hippies and college students can live in town*
I live 'bout 6 miles from the centre, Jakkass, you're considered a culchie by my standards.:D

Piste

I live in Ranelagh, 'tis about a 20 minute walk away.

qwertplaywert

rural dundalk myself, bout a 90 km walk..............

ninty9er

TY was probably the best thing I ever did....as for being snowed under with projects:rolleyes: you'd never last in college

The points game isn't about aiming for a course in somewhere you want....It's picking a range of courses that are similar in different locations and doing your best.....I had 120 spare for Business in UL and that was my first choice. I would have just gotten my second choice but the cost of accomodation in Cork is mad Galway and Dublin are even worse.

Whereas UL students dominate the housing estates within a 2 mile radius (well on the Limerick Side) and there's plenty of space on campus too for 1st years who don't know anyone, you get readymade friends because you'll have housemates that you won't have met before. You could spend your entire time here without leaving campus except heading out in town and going home at weekends

qwertplaywert

do you ty folk get into trouble for never having projects done?

Jello

qwertplaywert wrote:

do you ty folk get into trouble for never having projects done?

Yep.. I've yet to start a science project I was given about two months ago.