Checklist for Tomorrow

BMH

Could anyone manage a quick scan of the check-list for the stuff you have to bring that comes with the infopack? Leaving tomorrow and can't find it.
I'll buy you a Mars icecream in return if you're going Session One.

emilyc

I dont have scanner, but heres everything that was on the checklist!


Pens & pencils
General school supplies(paper, notebooks, etc.)
Books for pleasure reading
Reference books (dictionary, atlas, etc.)
Hand calculator (maths/science classes)
Radio (battery-operated - if desired)
Sports equipment (tennis racket, frisbee, etc.)
Towels
Any neccessart prescription medications
Casual clothes, t-shirts, etc.
Laundry bag
Wellington boots (archaeology only)
Spare pair of spectacles
Swimming gear (optional)
Bath robe
Rain gear
Heavy sweater/jacket
Alarm clock
Toiletry Articles
Musical instruments (if desired)
Sports shoes
Sunscreen
Dress clothes for discos/closing ceremonies
Nightwear
Detergent/softener
Flip flops
Hangers
Travel bags/case with wheels (optional)

Thursday*

This thread has bigger potential: what are you REALLY bringing to CTYI?

I'm about to make my list so I'll come back and contribute shortly.

Thursday*

Bath robe = dressing gown!

Jack Lynch

I always saw the checklist as very optimistic, and a bit presuming. Spare pair of spectacles? And no sign of a dressing-gown...

One year, I brought a Tower of Hanoi. There were reasons.

Thursday*

That was weird. My reply to your post was in the same minute, so in my view anyway, it goes above your original point. So it's like I'm pre-empting you, or just randomly screaming 'Bath robe = dressing gown!'

Jack Lynch

Weird! I've been psychicly corrected. I thought only parents could do that.

Ah yes, I see bath robe now. I stand corrected.

Thursday*

*looks over list* It's still a work in progress, at ten past four on Saturday. Packing is still only an idea. There are a lot of exclamation marks in it; 'Boxes! Dressing gown!' But the most important thing is tea. The memory of the true horror of canteen tea has faded somewhat, but not so much that I want to revisit it.

Jack Lynch

The first day I started CTYI, way back in '03, I was told that the coffee was edible. Young naive fool that I was, I thought they were joking...

Nothing will ever beat the orange juice, though. 25% mayonaisse...

Thursday*

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I like the orange juice. When it's there.

slasher_65

I usualy bring my own tea-bags, then use whatever water they through at us. Simply because with my own tea-bag, i can decide if i want to be able to stand the teaspoon up in the liquid.
Cian's handy tip: If it has the constituency of cement, don't drink it.

Raphael

Thursday* wrote:

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I like the orange juice. When it's there.

That's probably only because you've never seen it centrifuged. Only ever drank the orange juice in my first week and on my last day.

Thursday*

Centrifuged?

What does that mean?

I feel I should know the truth.

Raphael

Wikipedia wrote:

A centrifuge is a piece of equipment, generally driven by a motor, that puts an object in rotation around a fixed axis, applying force perpendicular to the axis. The centrifuge works using the sedimentation principle, where the centripetal acceleration is used to separate substances of greater and lesser density. There are many different kinds of centrifuges, including those for very specialised purposes.

Centrifuged = put in a centifuge

slasher_65

I must try that once i get there.

So. Once somebody arrives, let us know about the toasters and kettles. Are they there?

Jack Lynch

Raphael wrote:

That's probably only because you've never seen it centrifuged. Only ever drank the orange juice in my first week and on my last day.

It's certainly one of the CTYI things you want to experience, just so you can say you've survived it. But trying it on two seperate occasions?! I take my hat off to you!

It's a fez.

Raphael

First week - I knew no better =(
Last Day - For old times sake, and to see if it really was THAT bad. It was. =(

Acid_Violet

Yes! Reports are in, session 1 does officially have kettles and toasters. It may be the case that some people do and others don't but my sources tell me that they, at least, are in possession of both necessary appliances.

slasher_65

Hurrah!

Who started all this rubbish about there being no appliances? Tsk tsk tsk.
Lets hope that carries on to session two.

Jack Lynch

Precedent is very important in CTYI. Just look at the 'last-day' orange juice. And precedent says that Sesh 1'ers will ruin something for Sesh 2'ers. I'm betting it's either appliances or the Spar.

the evil lime

I don't remember that from my day. Mind you, I don't remember much, it was a fair while ago now.

As regards the juice, I used to try it at the start of each year, just to see if it had become drinkable. I'm rather amazed (though why I should be I don't know), that it still isn't. Traditional I suppose.

Acid_Violet

Jack Lynch wrote:

Precedent is very important in CTYI. Just look at the 'last-day' orange juice. And precedent says that Sesh 1'ers will ruin something for Sesh 2'ers. I'm betting it's either appliances or the Spar.

They do so an' we'll 'ave a-linchin'!

Acid_Violet

In fairness 'twas sess 2ers who ruined something last year by the toaster/kettle wars (which involved the stealing of many appliances). Things got nasty on the last week when about 50 toasters and kettles were dumped in the middle of the quad by some lads. But sess 2 clearly didn't **** up to the same extent as the sess 1ers last year cos we got appliances this year again!

slasher_65

That was really strange, that was. They didn't get our kettle though... We tied it to a door. HA!

Jack Lynch

Remember the Street?

Acid_Violet

Session 2's good behaviour GOT THE STREET BACK. How and ever, 'tis only for weekends, as session 1 are twats.

Jack Lynch

So we're all agreed then? Excellent.

Let's overlook the fact that the Sesh 1er's are there at the minute and can't defend themselves.

Acid_Violet

Yes, because internets is banned in DCU........

Raphael

Internets may not be banned, but boards is discouraged. They're watching!

/me still remembers the telling off he got from Colm for posting on boardsie during class time - Sorry Colm!

Acid_Violet

During classtime was the reason why. I was on baords all the time, as were other session 2ers last year.

Raphael

Yes, but that does only leave Internet Access as a change to get on, hence limiting access to boardsie during the session.

Piste

I loved the orange juice! Never thought there was anything dodgy about it it all, in fact if the canteen ran out of orange juice most of it was probably my fault cos I drank so much of the stuff.

PurpleFistMixer

Yeah, I liked the orange juice too. Don't know where people got the weird ideas about it.

It wasn't me!

Some of us remember when it was centrifuged...

carlowboy

Session 1 > Session 2

Jack Lynch

Sesh 2, '03. The class was called Medical Somethingorother. They took a sample of the orange juice, and apparently it contained 25% mayonaisse. That's where the 'weird ideas' came from.

I think mayonaisse is an emulsifier. Then again, with that percentage I think the mayonaisse would have to make a bid to take complete ownership of the orange juice.

PurpleFistMixer

But the mayonnaise is what makes standard orange juice so delicious like...

Feral Mutant

It remember at CTYI when someone explained what mayonaise was made of. Actually they never finished the explanation, they always stopped after the first line: "90% of sperm samples are rejected . . . ".

Jack Lynch

...And the orange juice hits a new low.