2007/2008 First Years

ApeXaviour

Hey just for those who just did the LC and are hoping to come to trinity, drop a post here, say hi, introduce yourself and tell us what you're going to be doing.

When the CAO offers come out I'll set up a new "Introduce Yourself" thread..


PS: yes this is a copy of the UCD,D thread.

John

My name's John and I'm hoping to do BESS...

ApeXaviour

Hi John.... okay okay this isn't an AA meeting. Also it's interesting you've chosen such a drastic turn in your career.

Nietzschean

My name's Ian and i'm hoping to do Electronic Engineering...

Stargal

Hi-sies!!! Im Chris nd i wantz 2 do de theoretical physics cos i dat stuff!!!?! it is sooooo funnn!!!! nd my physix tchr is HAWT!!lol!!! but i hear dat trinity boyz are hawt too!! u shud hav photos in dis forum so i cud judge u lot!!!lol!!! i dont rly no wht ur names mean (what's a neitzcehaesan?) but u sound fny!!lol!!!

ApeXaviour

You kids are hilarious... Careful now, daddy Myth will be vewy disappointed in you.

Stargal

ApeXaviour wrote:

You kids are hilarious... Careful now, daddy Myth will be vewy disappointed in you.

Lol!!! R u de boss here?!? dats hawt. i authrtity figres.

John

John wrote:

My name's John and I'm hoping to do BESS...

Who's Bess?

ApeXaviour wrote:

You kids are hilarious... Careful now, daddy Myth will be vewy disappointed in you.

Daddy Myth? Uh oh. I must learn to keep my pants on.

/edit: I tried not to reply in a light-hearted manner. Really.

ApeXaviour

Stargal wrote:

Lol!!! R u de boss here?!? dats hawt. i authrtity figres.

I'm glad we've met in person, somehow it makes that less weird. This authority you speak of clearly doesn't exist. Now g'wan back to your thesis

Right, I guess this thread has turned into a mere amusing failure. Sorry Myth, if you want to start your own one at a later date fire away, you've a better track record.

Stargal

ApeXaviour wrote:

I'm glad we've met in person, somehow it makes that less weird. This authority you speak of clearly doesn't exist. Now g'wan back to your thesis

Right, I guess this thread has turned into a mere amusing failure. Sorry Myth, if you want to start your own one at a later date fire away, you've a better track record.

Aw Apex I'm sorry, my brain really is fried from this thesis. Don't write-off the thread, there's bound to be loads of lurkers who are interested in posting on this thread but just haven't gotten around to it yet (prove me right kids, prove me right).

Awayindahils

It may be a

mere amusing failure

but it has my vote for thread of the year. (as in a proper one or indeed for next year.)

this thread won't be of too much use in the immediate future. it's July- just a little too early for the proper stressers. But I reckon by the end of this month they'll bit quite a bit of interest in it.

Also an interesting observation my oh dear god i'm doing BESS thread turned into similar silliness.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=291934

So maybe it's just the natural reaction of some of the 'mature'* people on these boards.:rolleyes: Also they now have it out of their systems.

And it's very very funny.

*Little people playing dress up or big people playing dress down.

John

Awayindahils wrote:

So maybe it's just the natural reaction of some of the 'mature' people on these boards.:rolleyes:

Who are these mature people you speak of?

*goes back to Pokemon*

Awayindahils

John wrote:

Who are these mature people you speak of?

*goes back to Pokemon*

Lol...but shouldn't it be Dora the Explorer. I hear she's your favourite.:eek:

Dev 17

I'm going back into first year. I failed 05/06 and took a year out. Back in to Computer Science.

snappieT

Dev 17 wrote:

I'm going back into first year. I failed 05/06 and took a year out. Back in to Computer Science.

Ah Dev, good to hear you're coming back, we all missed ya!

dan719

Hi I'm Daniel and I am an alcoholic. Oh sorry wrong thread, want to do theoretical physics.

kisaragi

Hey!

Well, hoping to nab my place in Psychology this time next month Trinity is my top choice but I guess I'll go wherever'll take me hehe... Why-oh-why did I pick a high points course?

Corruptedmorals

Ha, I'm Catherine and my first choice is the TSM..History with AH and Arch, 510 though..second choice is Irish Studies, shiny new course..meant to be about 400 so either way I'm in.

Time Magazine

Welcome, young Leixlip one.

Mystic Fibrosis

snappieT wrote:

Ah Dev, good to hear you're coming back, we all missed ya!

I didn't

Yazamalainia

wooooooooooo trinity hells yeh, i wanna do a tsm in ancient history and archaeology with french, have heard looooads of bad stuff bout the french dept, so here goes nothin!:D

sd123

I put down med 1st, followed by TP...........

the flananator

I'm Peter and I hope to do Philosophy and Political Science.

On a related note; could someone please tell me when the term starts? Thanks

Crash

8th of October teaching will start, with freshers week the week before.

on a side note, I freshers week.

scengi

friggin field trip i gotta go on (coz i goit my third yr choice) means ill be away for freshers wk.....grrr.....
but, yeah, freshers wk generally kicks ass!!!

cathy01

Oh my God, I so really want to go back and do psychology, but my son turns 15,?
I left school at 16 , but.
Even by my own admition,
I cant spell, but I can tell you every thing about ADHD/ADD,
parenting, manageing challangeing behaviour and I really really want to do ASD.
I have 3 kids , someone please tell me,

A, your not to "old"

B,"of course you wont be in school with your son"

C,The kids wont miss you at all and you can cram your study between three kids, school runs, afterschool activiitys, and somewhere in between have a life.
Sure your husband wont miss you at all.

cathy
Age 34 going on 60.

Sawa

My mother actually is 60 and went back to college part time last year. Never too old. And she works full time also. You can do it if it's what you really want. Your spelling will improve over time!
If you went part time, you have 3 evenings of lectures a week away from your kids, only a few hours.

Kwekubo

Hi there, I'm Gabriel and all things going well I'll be going into first year medicine this year. Didn't want to jinx things by posting before the results came out... :rolleyes:

Karlusss

I'm Karl, and I HOPE I'll be doing English and History.

Lovely convenient September too for working.

rjt

I'm Josh, and I (hopefully!) will be doing maths. Looking forward to it, but tbh am a little scared - I imagine everything will be so different! Still, it should be good fun, and I'm glad to be going to Trinity, I always thought it had a nicer atmosphere that UCD or DCU.

See you all in October

ApeXaviour

rjt wrote:

I'm Josh, and I (hopefully!) will be doing maths. Looking forward to it, but tbh am a little scared - I imagine everything will be so different!

From school? Oh... it is.

Don't worry, you'll be fine. If I had to give some advice (which I don't, but I am anyway) I'd say try to meet as many people as you can in the first few months. Most freshers are in the same boat and would tend to be easy to strike up a conversation with. Even if you're not that outgoing a person, I'd say do as many things organised in freshers week as you can. One of the best weeks of my life was freshers week, it's a great way to kickstart your college experience.

Academically, being honest, don't worry too much about it until after christmas. You have another 3.5 years to do that.

rjt

ApeXaviour wrote:

From school? Oh... it is.

Don't worry, you'll be fine. If I had to give some advice (which I don't, but I am anyway) I'd say try to meet as many people as you can in the first few months. Most freshers are in the same boat and would tend to be easy to strike up a conversation with. Even if you're not that outgoing a person, I'd say do as many things organised in freshers week as you can. One of the best weeks of my life was freshers week, it's a great way to kickstart your college experience.

Academically, being honest, don't worry too much about it until after christmas. You have another 3.5 years to do that.

Thanks for the reassurance

What sort of stuff is organised for freshers week? I'm not really outgoing, but I'm certainly not anti-social, and I'd say I'll enjoy it once I get into it.

SamHamilton

Hey rjt, I'll meet you at freshers week!

David here. Got 565. Will be studying either english and psychology or english and maths depending on what happens monday.

Griffin1983

hey y'all
starting 1st year occupational therapy as a mature student. Can't wait. Freshers week sounds like a laugh. Feeling pretty scared but all excited too.

c you all soon


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JC 2K3

My name's Jimmy, and unless the points for Computer Science shoot up by over 215 points, I reckon I'll be doing that course next year

I heard something about a free €200 book voucher if you get over 545 or something??

Bartron Prime

Well done! That's pretty impressive so congratulations and all that.

There is indeed a book voucher. It's called the 'Entrance Exhibition' and is a voucher of €254 that is paid in two installments. You get the first one in Junior Freshman (1st year) and the second one in Senior Freshman (2nd year). So yup. You get a €127 voucher per year.

There's a little ceremony with Provost John Hegarty (Trinity's charismatic leader) with some food and such. It's all very nice. You can pick the voucher(s) up from the Exams Office every year.

Boston

JC 2K3 wrote:

My name's Jimmy, and unless the points for Computer Science shoot up by over 215 points, I reckon I'll be doing that course next year

I heard something about a free €200 book voucher if you get over 545 or something??

Well I'm shocked to say the least. Anyway, if none of the CS guys on here are willing to show you around and the like, I'll do it as I'm already doing it for two others during that week. Additionally theres usually a Trinity Boards Beers in freshers week which is usually worth dropping in at.

Kevski

ApeXaviour wrote:

Most freshers are in the same boat and would tend to be easy to strike up a conversation with.

Thats true. I've never found it as easy to start a conversation with someone I didn't know as it was when starting college!

JC 2K3

Boston wrote:

Well I'm shocked to say the least. Anyway, if none of the CS guys on here are willing to show you around and the like, I'll do it as I'm already doing it for two others during that week. Additionally theres usually a Trinity Boards Beers in freshers week which is usually worth dropping in at.

Shocked why?

Might take you up on that offer....

Trinity Boards Beers? Sounds cool...

godtabh

I'm hoping to do an Msc in civil as long as my cheque doesn't bounce

Boston

Kevski wrote:

Thats true. I've never found it as easy to start a conversation with someone I didn't know as it was when starting college!

Thats because you're special kev.

JC 2K3: You mentioned a few time you where aiming alot lower then 570.

blahdyblah

Hi I just somehow managed to get the 600 needed for medicine but I was wondering if someone could tell me whether the trinners med heads are all total nerds...........
no offence to anyone on the course - I'll soon be one of you - but it has got the reputation..........:p

Boston

blahdyblah wrote:

Hi I just somehow managed to get the 600 needed for medicine but I was wondering if someone could tell me whether the trinners med heads are all total nerds...........
no offence to anyone on the course - I'll soon be one of you - but it has got the reputation..........:p

From what I've heard there is a very high standard to pass from year to year, no failures, no repeat exams, minimum of a 2:2 to pass a subject and organised group studies session after lectures (so like 6pm to 8pm). Some people find this very intense even somewhat bullying atmosphere.

Note: I Don't do med so all this is subjective.

John

Medicine is not so much nerds but people willing to work a lot harder than your average student. Every med student I know is a lovely person and the classes do seem to bond together quite well.

JC 2K3

Boston wrote:

JC 2K3: You mentioned a few time you where aiming alot lower then 570.

Ah right, well it wasn't that I was aiming lower than that really(my goal was to break 550/to get all A1s/A2s in 5 subjects and a relatively high grade in the 6th), but I didn't work as hard as someone who actually needed 570 would have worked and made some comments about not being all that stressed. I honestly was only expecting c. 530 before last Wednesday though.

But hey, I'm not complaining, free book voucher ftw!(Thanks for the info, Bartron Prime)

JC 2K3

JC 2K3 wrote:

But hey, I'm not complaining, free book voucher ftw!(Thanks for the info, Bartron Prime)

Apparently it can be used in HMV as well, if you're so inclined. The flip-side to this is that you really don't need to buy college books, in first year at least.

JC 2K3

Interesting....

When I actually do buy CDs though, I tend to buy em online(not iTunes, just order em off CDBaby, eBay or Amazon), since a lot of the music I like enough to actually buy tends to be hard to find in shops.

Even if I don't need college books, there are other books I'll want to buy.

godtabh

Myth wrote:

Apparently it can be used in HMV as well, if you're so inclined. The flip-side to this is that you really don't need to buy college books, in first year at least.

I still have my book prize from 2nd year. Your meant to be able to you it in HMV but depends on who's behind the counter. Some take it some dont. And I think you may have to go to H&F first to double check

dan719

kearnsr wrote:

I still have my book prize from 2nd year. Your meant to be able to you it in HMV but depends on who's behind the counter. Some take it some dont. And I think you may have to go to H&F first to double check

Yes my ever expanding music collection could do with an injection of a few hundred euros!

SamHamilton

I'm going to Trinity!

I just accepted English and Psychology. Now all I have to do is apply for Trinity Halls but the damn thing would accept the fact that I am now a student at their university...

Nehpets

Just accepted TR033 Computer Science!

EDIT: oh and try guess my name