Exams exams EXAMS!

Ok, starting to get a little bit worried now given that I start tomorrow week - where the hell has the year gone?

I've also been struggling a bit of late to get that much done, compared to the last few weeks. Right now I'm doing a bit on Architecture for one of my courses, but I'm enjoying it a bit too much which means I'm putting too much time into it

I finish on the 11th. How's everyone feeling?

/me slaps those who are without exams o'er the next few weeks.

Stargal

Good luck to everyone, hope they go well.

Awayindahils

Yeah best of luck to all of you.

*ducks from myth*

Edwardius

Good luck to all and may your crops flouruish on land most fertile. Now that the niceities are out of the way, may I be the first to laugh at all your misfortunes! First time since 1998 that I haven't had exams of some sort or other to do in the summer and I'm laughing my hairy little man rocks off! Seriously though, good luck all

shay_562

Best of luck to everyone!

*ignores the slap, goes back to his stupid real job where he can't procrastinate indefinitely like he does with study*

John

Dead Ed wrote:

Good luck to all and may your crops flouruish on land most fertile. Now that the niceities are out of the way, may I be the first to laugh at all your misfortunes! First time since 1998 that I haven't had exams of some sort or other to do in the summer and I'm laughing my hairy little man rocks off! Seriously though, good luck all

My sentiments echo the above. Good luck and ha-ha!

Nietzschean

Dead Ed wrote:

Good luck to all and may your crops flouruish on land most fertile. Now that the niceities are out of the way, may I be the first to laugh at all your misfortunes! First time since 1998 that I haven't had exams of some sort or other to do in the summer and I'm laughing my hairy little man rocks off! Seriously though, good luck all

As the man said

Pet

blah, blah, blah. Screw you, postgrads, at least I get a summer holiday and don't have to spend beautiful sunny days in some bloody lab.

John

*cough* paid trip to Trieste *cough*

Oh ****..

Exams in a week...

cianclarke

Yesterday, to procrastinate, I randomly decided driving out of the airport "f*ckit, lets go to Belfast". And I did.
That's bad...

There better have been someone else in the car...

cianclarke

Haha there was... Belfast is pretty boring on a Sunday morning.

Edwardius

Pet wrote:

blah, blah, blah. Screw you, postgrads, at least I get a summer holiday and don't have to spend beautiful sunny days in some bloody lab.

Hmm, all expenses paid conferences, salary, lack of timetable etc etc... We ain't stuck here for all of the summer either. People take long holidays. I'm pretty happy with sacrificing a couple of months for that:D !

John

I think we should start a smug postgrad thread. Or maybe not, then the undergrads will just ignore it. By posting in random places we can act smugger.

Tricity Bendix

I hate post grads. I hate scholars. I hate the exempt.

europerson

b.ie polar wrote:

I hate post grads. I hate scholars. I hate the exempt.

They all love you though.

Stargal

We really do.

John

I don't.

Stargal

Yes you do. You just don't realise it yet.

Edwardius

b.ie polar wrote:

I hate post grads. I hate scholars. I hate the exempt.

Ah quit yer moanin' and gerronwivit!

Dead Ed

Dead Ed wrote:

gerronwivit!

John

Laika wrote:

Yes you do. You just don't realise it yet.

Do I? Is there a blood test I can get to be sure?

Tricity Bendix

John wrote:

Do I? Is there a blood test I can get to be sure?

No, but meeting me in person is a sure enough cure for anyone with 'we love b.ie syndrom'.


Only kidding! I'm great, me. Former male model 'n all.


Buy, yes, exams suck donkey's, but I didn't have to them last year so I guess I shouldn't be complaining.

Dermo

anybody know what the difference between the Luce Hall and Sports Hall is on the exam timetables? is it the new hall?

No, according the sheet that was underneath my timetable they are both in Luce Hall, but one is the first floor hall and the other is the ground floor place. Can't remember which one is which.

If there wasn't an additional sheet beside your exam timetable, wander into the Museum building and check them out there.

King.Penguin

in luce the ground floor was the weights area and the machines and the 1st floor was the basketball court so I'd guess

sports hall - 1st floor
luce - ground

Yeah. Still idiotic on the part of the Exam Hall.

John

King.Penguin wrote:

in luce the ground floor was the weights area and the machines and the 1st floor was the basketball court so I'd guess

sports hall - 1st floor
luce - ground

I believe you are correct. I hated having exams in the sports hall, the smell of stale sweat is not something you need during your finals.

hunnymonster

the lights were always very dodgy as well. Still better than the cattle shed that is the RDS?

King.Penguin

John wrote:

I believe you are correct. I hated having exams in the sports hall, the smell of stale sweat is not something you need during your finals.

I actually found it very comforting

hunnymonster

hunnymonster wrote:

the lights were always very dodgy as well. Still better than the cattle shed that is the RDS?

With no coffee available unless you pegged it to the spar shop a fair bit up the road.. I fell asleep during my first ever exam in there!

John

King.Penguin wrote:

I actually found it very comforting

You know my aversion to exercise.

hunnymonster

hunnymonster wrote:

the lights were always very dodgy as well.

True, but they're just about ok - I went around last year with a device checking the light intensity, as well as a thermometer checking the temperature of exam locations

Still better than the cattle shed that is the RDS?

Indeed. Woohoo for no exams there this year.

I'm seriously tempted to bring a cloak into an exam with me this year, purely for the fact that I always get cold in exams from the middle - end of them, and that while coats aren't allowed they can't tell you to take a cloak off.

I'm checking the online map, cant find GMB anywhere, anyone know what/where it is...?

I think we should start a smug postgrad thread.

I'm a non-smug postgrad ;(

wait is this it...?
http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/gmb.html o.O

cianclarke

bluewolf wrote:

I'm checking the online map, cant find GMB anywhere, anyone know what/where it is...?


I'm a non-smug postgrad ;(

wait is this it...?
http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/gmb.html o.O

Er... Presume you're joking..? Just it's a pretty famous building in terms of TCD. Yeah, that's it - in front square.

cianclarke

cianclarke wrote:

Er... Presume you're joking..? Just it's a pretty famous building in terms of TCD. Yeah, that's it - in front square.

Meh, I never knew what it was called 'til around halfway through first year.

Nietzschean

bluewolf wrote:

I'm a non-smug postgrad ;(

there's always next year

cianclarke

cianclarke wrote:

Er... Presume you're joking..? Just it's a pretty famous building in terms of TCD. Yeah, that's it - in front square.

this is my one and only year in tcd. i know how to get to the hamilton building and out again, and that's it

it just seems an odd place for exams

cianclarke

bluewolf wrote:

this is my one and only year in tcd. i know how to get to the hamilton building and out again, and that's it

it just seems an odd place for exams

Ah fair enough, that makes sense then...

King.Penguin

hey ibid give bluewolf a quick crash course on all things trinity

Am currently on a little bit of a freak out at the moment.

King.Penguin

My freak out hasn't come yet, but when it does, it will be massive.

The Black Oil

Panicked a bit towards the end of April but am OK now. At least by next Friday I'll have 4 out of 7 exams done.:)

dame

Good luck everybody!

balzarywex

bah! left everything too late... spent the last hour looking for patterns in past papers. only one that seems to be constant is 1S3... thank u richard timoney!

Crash

Does he ask questions on the computer section of that course?

balzarywex

question 1 is alway: explain how modern 32 bit computer would store integers x,y,z; conversions between binary, octal and hexadecimal; writing a fraction in binary, giving the mantissa and exponent. maybe limitations on range of numbers computers can store.

then question 2 is just mathematica commands and theres other bits of mathematica commands mixed in with the calculus parts as well.

Nietzschean

what is with undergrads these days, the hamilton is empty, back in my day now we did proper cramming weekend before exams...

Why am I on here when finals start tomorrow? Why oh why. About 12 hours of cramming left.......off I go!

Nietzschean

Nietzschean wrote:

what is with undergrads these days, the hamilton is empty, back in my day now we did proper cramming weekend before exams...

I'm outside the library now, and there are many a soul waiting for it to be opened up.