Commuting for 1st yr

$mayor

commuting for 1st yr, are ye basically f**ked for all the good aspects of college life like freshers week and all that?

Time Magazine

You're not ****ed. At a disadvantage, definitely, but not all is lost. Nitelinks are great, if you can get them.

low

What type of commute are you talking about? Is there a late bus? Or a night bus or will you be leaving college at 5 everyday?

Also depends on your course, if you do a course with few hours during the day and well spaced out you can do a lot of socialising during the day. But if you're doing engineering...

sully-gormo

i commuted from home in gormanston, near balbriggan.....and it was absolutely terrible. There was a nitelike thu-sat. Dublin Bus nitelinks leave around 2 during the week which is rubbish really. I never considered moving out and i really regret it. I was lucky in that i had a friend who had a house in town so i could stay over and i ended up doing that loads

$mayor

yeah low, im actually doing engineering! and im gonna be taking a train up and the last one home leaves round 8ish, haven't looked into busses yet but i'd expect the same.

DemonOfTheFall

Make friends with someone who has an appartment near town then. You're definitely fúcked if you have to go home at 8 every evening!

Corruptedmorals

I'm commuting from Leixlip, but 11-13 hour weeks, so that's eh alright. Relying on nitelinks..but the weekday ones suck.

Time Magazine

Leixlip is doable. The 67N provides a decent service. Do try make friends with people in Halls etc. though.

Also, I'm entering my fourth year in College and I've been commuting for my entirety [I think that's an American spelling right there] there (including working in the library at 8am) so I now deserve a big Na-Na Na-Na Na to everyone who isn't living in town this year :P.

ApeXaviour

I did the four years of commuting, from lucan (just beside leixlip), and while I lived up the life, it becomes a right hassle at times.

Ibid wrote:

so I now deserve a big Na-Na Na-Na Na to everyone who isn't living in town this year :P.

As I said, after the commute for 4 years, to be living in town is just sooo goood. Savour it. The "oh **** I have to get my bus" feeling still comes, and it's great, even better than the waking up with a start on a sat morning and then going back to sleep. Even small things like going home to get a jumper if it's cold, or just wanting to be alone for a few minutes without the mother asking you to do something in the garden.

M450

im another commuter... hav ta say i was saved many a time by my friend's apartment... although there was that one night stay in the computer rooms... not very comfortable at all!!

Must say i didnt let the fact i was livin at home hold me back from goin to any events.

Tip: get a locker!! good for dumping your bag/jacket etc. when goin out.

ApeXaviour

M450 wrote:

Must say i didnt let the fact i was livin at home hold me back from goin to any events.

Tip: get a locker!! good for dumping your bag/jacket etc. when goin out.

Seconded and thirded. Or copy the key off your mate's locker.

low

ApeXaviour wrote:

without the mother asking you to do something in the garden.

hahaha. that's so true.

mayor it's going to be slighlty tougher to go out on the piss while commuting and trying to go to all your engineering lectures but on the other hand there's more to socialising than getting **** faced. you'll just have to do your best.

$mayor

Cheers everyone for all the help and tips. its gonna be hard going but I hope it works out and i can make the best of it!. I spose' if it doesn't work out i can always try for accomodation after the first term...

JC 2K3

Hopefully I can make friends with 3 other people who live close enough to Stillorgan, or even better, Foxrock Church. While I could get the 46N home at 2, if with such a group of friends, I can get a taxi to somewhere a 15-30 min walk from my house for about €5.

Does Cornelscourt/Foxrock count as commuting though?

PHB

I think the key question is what time is the first train at?

DemonOfTheFall

JC 2K3 wrote:

Hopefully I can make friends with 3 other people who live close enough to Stillorgan, or even better, Foxrock Church. While I could get the 46N home at 2, if with such a group of friends, I can get a taxi to somewhere a 15-30 min walk from my house for about €5.

Does Cornelscourt/Foxrock count as commuting though?

Not really.... theres tons of buses that go through there, and youve got the nitelink too. And its a cheap enough taxi...

I'm another couple of miles downn the road in shankill and I think its fine, had to crash in mates places in town a few times but you can definitely get by!

mathew

JC 2K3 wrote:

Hopefully I can make friends with 3 other people who live close enough to Stillorgan, or even better, Foxrock Church. While I could get the 46N home at 2, if with such a group of friends, I can get a taxi to somewhere a 15-30 min walk from my house for about €5.

Does Cornelscourt/Foxrock count as commuting though?

In theory I think it does, because its traveling from a suburb to the city regularly. But TBH its about 30-45 mins on the bus. Or 10mins on the bus to Dun Laoghaire and 20 mins in on the DART.
I'll probably be on the bus, for freshers week at least, then I might start cycling in. Down hill most of the way. Up hill on the way home tho but the free wheel down Kill Lane should balance that out!!

Nehpets

30/40/50 mins on a bus, depending on traffic and 2 different nitelinks available