Supplemental Exam Study Space

Bartron Prime

Ahoy everyone,

Firstly, yes. The SU e-mail sent out this week DID call me 'Barley Rock'. How charming. I hope everyone is/will enjoy the Bank Holiday Weekend. Mmm....public holidays. Just thought I'd let you know about the Study Space that the SU has organised over the coming weeks. We'll also hopefully be hosting Study Space in St. James' Hospital but more on that next week. They're all open from 5pm - 9pm. I'd also ask everyone who's using to respect the venue and other students as any incidents and Security will close it. So, as Jerry says "Look after yourselves. And each other". You must bring your Student ID to get in. The wonderfully wondrous list of study-space-based wonder is below. Have fun!

1) Study Space Venue The First:

Venue: Regent House, Front Arch, TCD Campus
Starts: Tuesday 7th August
Daily Time: 5pm - 9pm

2) Study Space Venue of The Second Kind:

Venue: Seminar Room 2, Trinity Centre, Adelaide & Meath Hospital, Tallaght
Starts: Tuesday 15th August
Daily Time: 5pm - 9pm

There you go. If I was a witty person, some sort of pithy or seemingly off-the-cuff yet wonderfully intellectual remark would go here. Alas, I'm not. So, um, yeah. Study Space. Like Ronseal for your exams.

Peace, Love & Toasters,
Bartley 'Barley' Rock

Moorsy

Fair play Barley for putting this up here. I know many students probably visit this page but shouldn't this type of thing be e-mail to students who are repeating and also put on the SU website ( I know its Claire Tighes job but it should be up there).

Apologies if there is a student e-mail list for ppl who failed, luckily I am not eligable for that group!!

Time Magazine

Bartron Prime wrote:

I hope everyone is/will enjoy the Bank Holiday Weekend.

Yes, indeed I am the Bank Holiday Weekend.

In all seriousness though, well done Bartley. Good to see encouraging signs from you early.

Bartron Prime

Firstly, Ibid is right. My grammatising is sometimes less than perfect. That, and I didn't know how to make that sentence grammatically correct without it sounding 'naff', as the kids these days say. As for encouraging, I unfortunately still have the same dress sense I always did. Oh well. Baby steps..

Cheers guys, thanks very much. Tis nice to be able to sort some things out for people who want a quiet place to study. As I said, hopefully more on the way.

As for the website and such, Boards.ie is a great place to post information too. I intend to put information on the SU website and here too (not in a spammy way, just to let people know about services/campaigns/my favourite colour). The key thing is that people are aware of services available, so I'll use a whole combination of ways (I've bought the Bat-Signal and am currently altering it to say 'Supplemental Study Space') to reach as many people as possible. The SU website is getting a wee bit of a spring-clean so it's going to be updated in giant blob style. Then Tighe is going to go town and cram it full of updates. The way one crams with cake. Sweetly.

Well, right now, I don't have a list of students sitting Supplementals. Even if I did, I'd be wary of e-mailing them. To them it would look like the fact that they have a repeat exam to do is public information, which is one of the main reasons anonymous marking was brought in. It sounds like a great idea but is a little bit of the invasion of privacy. Once I know how many students are doing Supplementals, and in what venues, we can arrange plenty of supports (i.e. free stuff and study space).

Anyhoo, thanks again guys, it does a body good to know people read things Plus, the weather rocks today. Huzzah!

Huzzah indeed Barley! Well done.

Bartron Prime

Why thank you O (Newly) Beardless One.

Also, I heart mygrant.ie. Heart it muchly. I just took me a deep-end crash-course in the Grants Scheme and that site was the clearest guide going. You done good kid.

Seriously though, thanks very much Dónal. So far, nothing has gone on fire!

Pet

Now, you must change your boards.ie username to EduBart. No questions.

Time Magazine

I support the motion from the gentleman from Meath/Kerry.

EduBart. Now.

ApeXaviour

Agreed...

Bartron Prime

I did consider it, but thought it might seem a bit band wagon-hoppy (what am I? David Cameron?). But if the mob of Rome want it....

A few more opinions in favour and I may actually do it. Mainly because it would be funny. We'll see........

Boston

Hrm, perhaps it's time not to do this anymore?

Boston wrote:

You can become a subscriber and change your tag line to reflect your office. At the very least bang something into your signature if you're going to be posting here in your capacity as education officer. We all know who you are, new members or less regular one's might not.

Yes, what Boston said/will say in the next post.

Boston

You can become a subscriber and change your tag line to reflect your office. At the very least bang something into your signature if you're going to be posting here in your capacity as education officer. We all know who you are, new members or less regular one's might not.

Bartron Prime

This is probably a very obvious question, but how does one change the tag line? I've managed to subscribe to the forum alright but whereto from there? Faculties I can negotiate with, but code and I just don't get along

What Boston meant by subscribing was to donate to boards.ie in order to change your tag line. Signature changing is a lot easier.

There's a thread over in the Noobies Forum. That's 'Newbies', not 'New Boobies' now.

Bartron Prime

Aw blast. I was so close to some 'New Boobies'. Why must you kill my dreams?!

Bartron Prime

Ah new signatures. Shiny AND informative.

Anyhoo, back to topic. Regent House opens at 5pm on Tuesday. Also, the Automated Stack Request system (ASR) has been extended to undergraduate. So you can order in that important book and, using the 10euro photocopying cards the SU shop sells (which does close at 5pm yes), you can photocopy that vital chapter and bring it to Regent House for concentrated study.

As for getting the cards after 5pm, if enough people are willing, I'll buy the cards for them and they can re-imburse me. Simple as.

Slightly hijacking the thread a bit... I remember someone on here asking where is a good spot to study, so since I'm finished I suppose I can divulge. Might be handy for some people doing repeats. And no, I'm not trying to steal your thunder Bartley

Places I've studied on campus (not the obvious ones)...

1) Maths Seminar Room

Open 24 hours (if you know where it is) though often dominated by Maths & TP students, obviously, since they are the ones who it is supposed to be used by. There's space around the repeats though.

2) Maths Library

Again, open 24 hours. There used to be desks there but they were moved earlier on in the year, around January or so. Again, access is meant to be for Maths Postgrads & Lecturers only, but it is quiet at the weekends. Requires a code to access it. No, I'm not telling you it, that'd be stupid.

3) Hamilton Building, bottom floor

There are desks lying around the place, I know some other boardsies have used them for this year's exams. 24 hours again, and can be noisy (as well as hard to concentrate when people are talking in front of you).

4) Hamilton Building, top floor

My own personal favourite location to study. Can be noisy because it's above 3 floors/corridors, as well as hot as there's only glass seperating you from the outside, but since little or no-one ever ventured up there I found it quite relaxing. The floor is an L-shaped floor, and you would often find a desk situation at the toe bit of the L - not visible from the main corridor. I may or may not have moved it up there repeatedly. 24 hours again, but if you wish to study afterwards it's necessary to move your desk a floor down, which is out of sight of the security cameras (that I know). Security have moved me from the top floor in previous years but didn't do it this year, happily enough. The Hamilton Building has 24 hour computers, toilets, food machines, water machines and access to your locker 24 hours if you have one there. Best functioning building on campus.

5) Panoz Institute, Floors 2, 4 & 6

This is one location that security will move you for the obvious reason that there isn't a fire escape that's open unless you have a key (i'm sure Tom Merriman doesn't know). Floor 2 is ok though (it has the stairs leading up to the couches in case you need it to escape anything). Good for weekend studying when the library closes at 4 or 5pm. Again, desks can be found up there sometimes placed there by persons unnamed. The 6th floor of the Panoz was used for group study sessions by around 3 or 4 people during the annual exams each weekend when the libraries closed (I was on the top of the Hamilton Building opposite the 2nd floor of the Library at the time). A major positive is that the lights stay on at night, which means you can keep studying if you really require that.

6) Panoz Institute, -1 Floor

Yes, if you go down the stairs on the left and go through the wooden door, you will find a chilled (nice for summer) area which has natural light, artificial lights, and some lockers which no-one ever goes near. Will require finding a table to place there though.

7) LG 12

Again, in the Hamilton Building. The first floor on your left as you enter the white 'bomb' doors. Will need to be a CS or an engineering student (with access) to be able to swipe in. Can be noisy, but there are desks in some of the rooms located off the main computer area.

8) 24 Hour Reading Room

Pile of crap, tbh. Wouldn't recommend studying there. Lights are abysmal, and it's bascially you studying in a computer room.

9) Laser Huts

See 8). Lights are better though.

10) Museum Building

You will need to find an engineering/geology (and maybe geography, I dunno) student to gain access, but the building is 24 hours. The Geology Library's lights are always on on the outside, but I've never been in. Some doors have codes on the doors, but others were left open for the purposes of studying. I've studied in the Drawing Office, M17, M21 and M20 at times. The Dean of Engineering & System Sciences (or whatever it's called now) - JJ - when he was elected agreed to provide studying locations there as what happened under Dean Foley's time, so it should happen again. Quiet enough, and has a coffee/hot chocolate machine.

11) House 6

I heard that 24 hour access was stopped earlier this year, but if I'm wrong I studied before in 6.16 as the Education Officer at the time allowed me to at the weekend. Man that was a long time ago.

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There are other locations on the main Island campus site which are available for you to study, but these are enough to get you started if you're looking for somewhere to study at the weekends when the libraries close/have bad opening hours. They served me well in the past, so if anyone is looking for somewhere to study during supplementals (at the weekend - since I assume that Regent House isn't open then (it wasn't before!)) they might come in handy.

scengi

Just wanna say well done bartley. keep up the god work dude.

Ron DMC

Bartron Prime wrote:

1) Study Space Venue The First:

Venue: Regent House, Front Arch, TCD Campus
Starts: Tuesday 7th August
Daily Time: 5pm - 9pm

This pleases me eduBart. I approve of your work (but not your looks).

Bartron Prime wrote:

You must bring your Student ID to get in

I had to get a new one today actually (6 freaking euro), my last one is with the rest of my wallet somewhere in the Swiss Alps.

Bartron Prime wrote:

Once I know how many students are doing Supplementals, and in what venues, we can arrange plenty of supports (i.e. free stuff and study space).

If I tell you what venues etc that I'm in, can I get some free stuff. Go on...

Myth wrote:

Places I've studied on campus (not the obvious ones)...

Nice list. I'll have to try some of these spots. From what I can tell they all have wifi though, which is sometimes distracting.

Bartly - your sig should actually spell out that you're what was once EduCat!

at the moments it looks like you're pimping for the education officer - stop pimping yourself up!

Bartron Prime

I hope this new one makes things clearer. I didn't mean to pimp myself up, so apologies if it cam across as "Me Big man. Me Great". That, and pimping me would be the single worst business model ever.

Anyhoo, to let you know, the Supplemental Study Space in Regent House will be running until just before Supplementals start with it's last day on Thursday 6th September. As before, we have Seminar Room 2 in Tallaght Hospital with details on St. James' to hopefully be announced this week.

Also, we have lots of cool stuff lined up to distribute every day during Supplementals. More on that later.....