What Is ORIENTATION OF FIRST YEAR UNDERGRADUATE??

LegacyUser

Is it freshers week before the lectures start????

Smellyirishman

Nope, freshers week is during a week of lectures, the early, not so important lectures.

Orientation is about health and safety, money, finding your way about, where to go for help etc...

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LegacyUser

it was a copy and paste , i know ur username is smellyirishman but even ur jokes stink??

carlowboy

Really? I was told orientation week is Fresher's week....

LeixlipRed

I think you read that wrong. It's orienteering. I give you a map and you try get out of DCU without getting slapped by some lad from Ballymun

deisedolly

Orientation week isn't as boring as their making it sound! It's a great laugh, theres loads of fun stuff going on. Can't quite remember exactly what went on for me last year but there was plenty of booze all week! Oh the one thing I remember is the Orientation Ball: there was a comedy/music thing on in the venue (the fellas that are on Ryan Tubridys show cant remember their name!) and then the Blizzards played in the Old Bar.

During the day you get shown around, given advice etc etc but the nighttime is great craic!

monkey tennis

Usually horizontal (occasionally vertical, during kegstands).

MonaghanPenguin

orientation week = week before lectures where the first years get introduced to the place before most of the other students get back and get to know each other and the campus

freshers week = week two of lectures when clubs and socs days happen and people try and recruit freshers into their clubs and socs and class rep nominations happen, stuff like that

carlowboy

So when can we get drunk for five days in a row?

-Syn-

when does all this start? i havnt heard anything from DCU and accepted my course on monday.. looking forward to going!!

MonaghanPenguin

carlowboy wrote:

So when can we get drunk for five days in a row?

orientation week
Week 1
week 2
week 3
week 4
week 5
week 6 (usually reading week so if you're in Humanities, it's a seven day thing)
week 7
week 8
then normally you'll cut back a bit because it's getting to the business end of the semester so you'll maybe want to pretend you're doing some work so it'll be only four nights a week until week 11
then week 12 because you wont be in college again till February.

then the two weeks between week exams finishing and semester two starting.

then repeat again for semester two only it gets a little bit busier for drinking because rag week has to happen and clubs and socs usually don't take off in a huge way till after chrimbo.

MonaghanPenguin

-Syn- wrote:

when does all this start? i havnt heard anything from DCU and accepted my course on monday.. looking forward to going!!

orientation week will start on the 17th September, you'll prolly not hear about it for another week or so. I would advise though, even if it say you don't start to Wednesday of that week move up the Sunday before hand and be on-campus as much as possible, there's always a bit of craic to be had and the first few days are great for meeting people as everyone is a lil on their own and scared

Mr.Plough

orientation is basically so you can get all the getting lost part out of the way and make some mates to go on the p1ss with. cant remember if it was 3 days or 5 or what, only went in for 1 though, it was a pain in the balls if i recall. the ball was good though

gizmo

..easy, getting to know your college bar staff.

simona

HEY i have a stupid question
you know for the orientation week...do we have to come before that week to do something
or it's the first time i have to come to DCU/?because i'm a bit worried with accommodation .

MonaghanPenguin

simona wrote:

HEY i have a stupid question
you know for the orientation week...do we have to come before that week to do something
or it's the first time i have to come to DCU/?because i'm a bit worried with accommodation .

unless you're a mature or access student then orientation week is the first time you'll have to be here.

cocoa

MonaghanPenguin wrote:

unless you're a mature or access student then orientation week is the first time you'll have to be here.

hell, you don't even have to be there for orientation week, it's optional...

Art_Wolf

The answer, my friend, is... no.

Simon - stop screwing around with the jailbait.

gizmo

Art_Wolf wrote:

Simon - stop screwing around with the jailbait.

Your sister is over 18, hence not jailbait.

k-k-k-katie

Orientation week doesnt start till the 18th....so sun/mon nite,,will ther be anything organised goin on, no???
...bar open???
....anything????

cocoa

well orientation week actually starts on the 17th, there is "manic monday" that night (in the nu bar i assume) whatever that's supposed to mean. I'm settling into larkfield on sunday but nothing is organised for that night, care to suggest it? ... i sure hope the bar is open anyway...

k-k-k-katie

all ireland nite that nite...ther'l be a buzz in town if not in the college!
manic monday....what else is on apart form the ball...which is what nite??

LegacyUser

so im doing CA , Will i still come up on the sun nite of the all-ireland for ''Manic Monday''

cocoa

well you'll be recieving your "pack" pretty soon anyway (if not tomorrow, then thursday) but if you really can't wait then all the info that's in it is here...

you'll notice there's an "event" every night, starting with manic monday and following the trend of weird uninformative names...

MonaghanPenguin

robdcu wrote:

so im doing CA , Will i still come up on the sun nite of the all-ireland for ''Manic Monday''

also Sunday night there's an SU organised party in larkfield with BBQ

LegacyUser

sounds good !! sounds like going to a family Event

carlowboy

MonaghanPenguin wrote:

also Sunday night there's an SU organised party in larkfield with BBQ

Sweet!

Limerick Dude

All this sounds good, i hope there will be many oppurtunitys to meet people and makes friends, as i am moving up on my own

cocoa

Limerick Dude wrote:

All this sounds good, i hope there will be many oppurtunitys to meet people and makes friends, as i am moving up on my own

I'm probably gonna be bored what with socs and clubs not starting yet, lets meet up somewhere on sunday... actually lets have a boards DCU first year staying on campus meet up/beers (if you like) on sunday. yay

jhn_noln

hey limerick dude im da same as u! movin up from galway on my own! so hopefully derl be chances 2 meet people up der! i like cocoa's idea of a boards meet up! anyone living in hampstead???

carlowboy

cocoa wrote:

I'm probably gonna be bored what with socs and clubs not starting yet, lets meet up somewhere on sunday... actually lets have a boards DCU first year staying on campus meet up/beers (if you like) on sunday. yay

Yay.

Matthewthebig

Can i come and letch at the girls? ¬_¬

cocoa

Matthewthebig wrote:

Can i come and letch at the girls? ¬_¬

well i don't know if we'll be getting any but...no, they're all mine.

jdivision

Campus tends to be dead on Sundays (and most Saturdays for that matter). Unlikely bar will be open.

k-k-k-katie

That sucks....

bbq it is then!

cocoa

jdivision wrote:

Campus tends to be dead on Sundays (and most Saturdays for that matter). Unlikely bar will be open.

off-license ftw.

jhn_noln

gotta make da best of a bad situation eh!!! anyone know of a close aldi or lidl to dcu 4 da cheap stuff???ha

dcugirl18

oo can i invite myself along to the DCU first year staying on campus meet up/beers thing or is it a boys only affair lol

cocoa

dcugirl18 wrote:

oo can i invite myself along to the DCU first year staying on campus meet up/beers thing or is it a boys only affair lol

why would we make it a sausage-fest on purpose? please come along, wherever we do meet up...


(*pumps fist* 1 to coca, 0 to matthewthebig)

dcugirl18

kewl kewl

dcugirl18

lol ill try to recruite some more girls when i move in to the girls floor to push ur numbers up cocoa

cocoa

dcugirl18 wrote:

lol ill try to recruite some more girls when i move in to the girls floor to push ur numbers up cocoa

excellent, that's one free beer for you.

EDIT: or vodka or gin or whatever crazy stuff you wimminz drink...

opinionated

Great, so whats the plan...(back on boards after lack of internet for a few days...)...

dcugirl18

lol beer will do fine

cocoa

yay, opinionated is also female if memory serves me right...

and that's one erdinger for you dcugirl...

plan is to meet up somewhere on campus (i'm thinking either a nice bit of grass or some common room type thing in the accomodation) and meet up/drink/get merry. may or may not happen before, during or after the barbecue in larkfield which was apparently organised by the SU.

damn I can't wait to move out...

oh and just so everyone knows, I'm the guy with dreads who may or not by juggling and/or unicycling and/or playing with a diabolo or two. if you can't recognise me with such an accurate and detailed description then I honestly can't help you...

jhn_noln

hey dcugirl ar u a fellow tribesperson headed for da big smoke?????

dcugirl18

ur not the only one, cant wait for the 16th

yup i am indeed

jhn_noln

aah nice one!!! i thought from readin all these forums i was goin to be our only representative!!! man was up der 2day and wud have luvd 2 be movin in !!! u can just sense dat the nu bar will be a place for many nights of pure drunkeness!!!

jhn_noln

aah nice one!!! i thought from readin all these forums i was goin to be our only representative!!! man was up der 2day and wud have luvd 2 be movin in !!! u can just sense dat the nu bar will be a place for many nights of pure drunkeness!!!

dcugirl18

lol ya i thought i would be too!i havnt been up there yet so havnt a clue what the place is like cant wait though!!u in larkfield or hampsted?

opinionated

FEMALE?!?!? How very dare you!