TCD Campus Accommodation

maximan

Anyone know when Campus Allocations come out. I heard end of may but it is 2nd June now!

Expect the middle of June, and when it's the middle of June, expct July so that you're not disappointed when it comes out at the end of June.

In brief, it is a yearly mystery.

claire h

They're out now. Or slowly making their way through the post by now, at least.

Time Magazine

Oh? I just called Accomodation Office (after asking to be put through to JD & Reg of Chambers) and they said they're going to be allocated next week.

Dave3x

Received an e-mail today letting me know they're up on the Registrar of Chamber's Website.

On that note, I will be living in House 36 next year.

http://www.tcd.ie/registrar_of_chambers/rooms.php

Tricity Bendix

*hysterical screaming*

GMB for me!

King.Penguin

Nice GMB is a nice spot. Hope everyone got somewhere.

wowy

b.ie polar wrote:

*hysterical screaming*

GMB for me!

As above. But without the hysterical screaming. I have some restraint.

europerson

King.Penguin wrote:

Hope everyone got somewhere.

I didn't.

Crash

Dave3x wrote:

Received an e-mail today letting me know they're up on the Registrar of Chamber's Website.

On that note, I will be living in House 36 next year.

Dave, which room?

pkeno

I got a standard treble. House 38 in New Square. Anybody live in one of these last year?
What are they like? Will I have my own room? What are the bathroom/kitchen facilities like?
Want to know what i'm getting myself in for!

Time Magazine

Dave3x wrote:

On that note, I will be living in House 36 next year.

Does that mean I can call you roomie?

Congrats and commiserations to all as appropriate.

Crash

pkeno wrote:

I got a standard treble. House 38 in New Square. Anybody live in one of these last year?
What are they like? Will I have my own room? What are the bathroom/kitchen facilities like?
Want to know what i'm getting myself in for!

Hold on, is there such a thing as a standard treble??

claire h

(incidentally, re: earlier post here - the room no's have been accessible online since then, for the deposit thingy; am amazed it's taken them this long to get stuff out)

Anyone know what the deal is with Goldsmith apartments that have room numbers going up to 09? Does it work out to 6 bedrooms or did they just start labelling, say, cupboard doors, for the hell of it?

pkeno

I sure hope there is, thats what it says I got!

http://www.tcd.ie/registrar_of_chambers/rooms.php

CSTT1 = Standard Treble

Crash

oh i'm not doubting it - its just I lived in new square this year, and spent a bit of time in that part of new square as a friend lived there....its hard to figure out how they fit a three bed in! figure its a one ed and a twin...

claire h

claire h wrote:

(incidentally, re: earlier post here - the room no's have been accessible online since then, for the deposit thingy; am amazed it's taken them this long to get stuff out)

Anyone know what the deal is with Goldsmith apartments that have room numbers going up to 09? Does it work out to 6 bedrooms or did they just start labelling, say, cupboard doors, for the hell of it?

I think that, say, 1 - 4 share one kitchen/sitting room, and 5 - 9 share another kitchen/sitting room.

King.Penguin

Myth wrote:

I think that, say, 1 - 4 share one kitchen/sitting room, and 5 - 9 share another kitchen/sitting room.

i don't think that's the case, that's the case for parts of the GMB but not Goldsmith. Could be wrong though.

Dave3x

Well, without encouraging stalker-like behaviour that for all I know is frighteningly common on boards, it's ground floor.

Anyone lived there? I know it's supposedly standard single (applied for modern single in hopes of GMB) but I've not seen inside except for some weird party I can't really remember and that may have been 37 or 38 or whatever.

King.Penguin

wrt goldsmith I think the communal toilets were numbered. So there are 9 rooms and the kitchen with 2 being toilets. Some people have en-suite some don't.

Crash

I lived in house 36 this year dave - singles are kinda small, and you share a bathroom with one toilet and two showers with the lads on the flower, and kitchen with everyone who's not in an apartment. immensely handy though.

Time Magazine

Dave3x wrote:

Well, without encouraging stalker-like behaviour that for all I know is frighteningly common on boards, it's ground floor.

I'm closer to the roof than the ground. Tunnels access might be difficult. Attics are a challenge .

King.Penguin

someone should actually go about trying to get every resident to take a couple of photos and write a blurb on their room. trinity accommodation is like a box of chocolates.

Vebor

For new students, like me, just finished the leaving, what's the sotry with campus accommodation? Should it be booked soon or what?

xeduCat

You can't apply yet (and note unfortunately it is application, rather than booking - TCD has no accommodation guarantee for Leaving Cert applicants).

When you have got your offer and accepted your place, you can apply for Trinity Hall online (other than in exceptional circumstances, incoming first year undergrad students will not be housed on campus).

Trinity Hall is a Trinity-owned development a few kilometres from the main TCD campus and is on the Green luas line (5/10 minutes walk) and a bus route (the patience-testing 14a, or other routes from Rathmines or Rathgar), but it's also possible to walk (30-45 minutes) or cycle (10-15) to the main campus. Trinity Hall is on Dartry Road in Dublin 6 just past Upper Rathmines Road; other nearby areas are Rathgar and Milltown. Around 1300 students live there, and about 90% of the accommodation is newly built (in the last five years). There are various threads on the board (sorry, too lazy to search) that have some reports from current and former residents on what life is like in Halls.

Information on rates, etc is at http://www.tcd.ie/accommodation/StudentsandStaff/Students/ - but don't fill out the form until you get the offer, it won't work.

ApeXaviour

Got house 48, pearse st. Ensuite which is handy.

What I think is a little funny is that I've given the college no indication I'm coming back. I am... but they don't know that.

Vebor

How likely is it that you'd get a room in Trinity Hall?

Vebor

Vebor wrote:

How likely is it that you'd get a room in Trinity Hall?

There are no percentages available (to the best of my knowledge) on how many people apply and how many people get the rooms. There are no probability equations or formulae that can be used to predict the chances of getting in - you simply have to show that you'd fit in in Halls.

A lot of people get them, there's no doubt about that, but you have to demonstrate how you will contribute to life in Halls on the application form. I assume that not everyone gets them, however, so it'd be worthwhile keeping that in mind.

King.Penguin

ApeXaviour wrote:

Got house 48, pearse st. Ensuite which is handy.

What I think is a little funny is that I've given the college no indication I'm coming back. I am... but they don't know that.

How did this happen? Presumably you did apply and presumably due to the scholarship they accepted your application but without actually being in a course? Did you write on the application PhD/Msc application pending?

ApeXaviour

I don't recall ticking/writing anything of the sort, or being asked. They just asked your current year and course afaik right?

King.Penguin

I know someone that was applying who was in 4th year (and was given permission to repeat due to some issues) but the accommodation office, in all these wisdom, threw her application in the bin because she was a 4th year, even though she wrote "repeating" or something on it.