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  • 17-10-2007 8:31pm
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    Peyton Manning
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    So do any other boardsies go to Queen's? If so what year are you in and what do you study?

    Im in first year in Business Economics, and must admit that Ive never been happier than I am up here in Belfast (originally from Kilkenny!). ;)


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    Endurance Man
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    Might be in Jordans Town next year, i was warned against Queens actually ^^.


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    Peyton Manning
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    Really? Interesting.... What were you told exactly?


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    Endurance Man
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    Well a mate said the course work was extremely theory orientated, and a lecturerer said their was a high turn over of staff?


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    regob
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    Endurance Man wrote: »
    Might be in Jordans Town next year, i was warned against Queens actually ^^.
    ]#

    well im in jordanstown myself and i have a great time out here but if i had an opportunity to go to queens i would take it.


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    ymecit
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    Hi; Which university is better on medical sciences. amount of tuitions and fees for EU students.


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    regob
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    ymecit wrote: »
    Hi; Which university is better on medical sciences. amount of tuitions and fees for EU students.

    in relation to fees their exactly the same, i would reccomend queens


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    thegloriousend
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    I'm a 2nd yr student doing architecture in Queens. And i'm glad this forum now exists:)


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    regob
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    thegloriousend wrote: »
    I'm a 2nd yr student doing architecture in Queens. And i'm glad this forum now exists:)

    thats cool


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    zippy 99
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    thegloriousend wrote: »
    I'm a 2nd yr student doing architecture in Queens. And i'm glad this forum now exists:)


    Whats the course like?? I heard a few bad reports. I got offered a place for the BArch, after interview with 3 right likely lads. One fella called conal came across as a right tosser, trying trick questions and the like, but I was fit to handle him. Im in final year over in edinburgh at the minute.


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    thegloriousend
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    Whats the course like?? I heard a few bad reports. I got offered a place for the BArch, after interview with 3 right likely lads. One fella called conal came across as a right tosser, trying trick questions and the like, but I was fit to handle him. Im in final year over in edinburgh at the minute.


    The course is tough and alot of work. I definately feel like i'm becoming an architect and in general the course is good. I do have many problems though - I am hardly taught anything here. This is with regard to general design and comminication and cad labs - the lecturerers just hand out their briefs which have existed for the last 5 yrs or so and feic off till presentation day. You pretty much learn everthing yourself. The only positive that comes from this is that you develop a certain originality in presenting as you go along. I owe all my presentation skills to copying other styles I see mainly off the internet.
    Another thing is that there has been a high turnover or lectureres recently - some of the new ones are amateurs and fools of the highest degree in my opinion. They need more foreign lecturers at the top of their game. What I mean by that is that when they lecture us about eco-buildings, for example, they just cover the subject and don't actually show us how to pull off the latest eco-designing in our buildings.
    As the course is moving along I am also getting the impression that realistic buildings are favoured over more conceptual and far-out ideas (which would have been the oposite in first yr. I don't know if this is good or bad. Our main goal is to produce "good architecture" whether it be standard or highly abstract. The former seems to be the approach that gets the higher grades.
    The course is also very expensive and noting is subsidised. I imagine that is the case with any other school though.
    Overall whatever way they're doin this course is working out for me very well, but for others it's a shame some struggle when all they need is some personal one to one development and teaching.
    Whats edinburgh like? I was goin to go to aberdeen actually but decided against for convenience sake.


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    abdullahiqbal
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    hay.. im doing my leaving cert this year and i'v also applied for architecture at Queens.. but the thing is... i dont think i'd get over 410/420 points in my leaving cert.....
    so i'm not sure if that much points are good enough... what do u guys think??.. would i get in?? + is there anykind of interview or a suitablity test b4 u get in to the queens?


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    thegloriousend
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    I think I got 450pts and I didn't get in. They accepted me on provisional offer that I passed my 1st yr at TCD without any repeats.


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    abdullahiqbal
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    omg


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    abdullahiqbal
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    what is provisional offer?????


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    thegloriousend
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    It means you are offered a place provided you meet certain criteria set out by UCAS. I believe that the fact that I went to Trinity also had great significance, I would not have been accepted if for example I had done the same course in a lesser known university. The course I chose in Trinity was Russian and German at 420pts by the way, completely unrelated to architecture.


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    zippy 99
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    thegloriousend wrote: »
    The course is tough and alot of work. I definately feel like i'm becoming an architect and in general the course is good. I do have many problems though - I am hardly taught anything here. This is with regard to general design and comminication and cad labs - the lecturerers just hand out their briefs which have existed for the last 5 yrs or so and feic off till presentation day. You pretty much learn everthing yourself. The only positive that comes from this is that you develop a certain originality in presenting as you go along. I owe all my presentation skills to copying other styles I see mainly off the internet.
    Another thing is that there has been a high turnover or lectureres recently - some of the new ones are amateurs and fools of the highest degree in my opinion. They need more foreign lecturers at the top of their game. What I mean by that is that when they lecture us about eco-buildings, for example, they just cover the subject and don't actually show us how to pull off the latest eco-designing in our buildings.
    As the course is moving along I am also getting the impression that realistic buildings are favoured over more conceptual and far-out ideas (which would have been the oposite in first yr. I don't know if this is good or bad. Our main goal is to produce "good architecture" whether it be standard or highly abstract. The former seems to be the approach that gets the higher grades.
    The course is also very expensive and noting is subsidised. I imagine that is the case with any other school though.
    Overall whatever way they're doin this course is working out for me very well, but for others it's a shame some struggle when all they need is some personal one to one development and teaching.
    Whats edinburgh like? I was goin to go to aberdeen actually but decided against for convenience sake.

    Thats the nature of these places, you cannot expect them to tell you everything, its about discovering what works personally.

    Read Zumthor's: Thinking Architecture, if your looking to see what this game is all about.


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    KevinMc
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    I'm a student at the UUJ and have to say its great to see that queens have a Belfast Giants supporters club. I wish Jordanstown had one. Anyone on here a member of that?


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    Citizen_Erased
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    Im a first year at Queen's university doing a masters in Mechanical Engineering. Only just found this here forum today ....
    I've only been on my course for a few months now and already I can definitly agree with the point that the courses (well certainly the engineering ones) are very theory orientated . While thats a bad thing for us making it through the course with a humungus workload of endless equations at the end of your time there it means you are going to come out with a far stronger degree , Queens isnt renowned for its engineering courses for nothing. And if money is your game then who do you think is going to earn more for less in the engineering process , they guy doing the theoretical design or the guy doing the hands on work ?


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    ibh
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    Citizen_Erased wrote: »
    Im a first year at Queen's university doing a masters in Mechanical Engineering. Only just found this here forum today ....
    I've only been on my course for a few months now and already I can definitly agree with the point that the courses (well certainly the engineering ones) are very theory orientated . While thats a bad thing for us making it through the course with a humungus workload of endless equations at the end of your time there it means you are going to come out with a far stronger degree , Queens isnt renowned for its engineering courses for nothing. And if money is your game then who do you think is going to earn more for less in the engineering process , they guy doing the theoretical design or the guy doing the hands on work ?

    When it come to the time that your actually doing your third year project you will be sick of the sight of the hands-on work!!! I spent every free hour in the lab just to get the results / outcome that I wanted.

    Tbh, the theory work in Queens isn't all that bad and you will find that since there is a low turnover in the lecturers in Mech Eng, every year's coursework is pretty much the same.
    The tutorials in Queens are usually pretty good (run by the post grad students) and if you go to them, passing the exams will be a formality.


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    stockdam
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    Go to whichever uni you feel most comfortable with. Queens still has the better reputation but as long as you get a good degree then employers will not discriminate. I went to QUB and enjoyed it lots.


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    regob
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    stockdam wrote: »
    Go to whichever uni you feel most comfortable with. Queens still has the better reputation but as long as you get a good degree then employers will not discriminate. I went to QUB and enjoyed it lots.

    by who?


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    pow wow
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    regob wrote: »
    by who?

    Let's not have the usual 'who says Queen's is better than UU' debate eh? It is often seen as more prestigious but if you do well in your degree it doesn't matter a whole lot which uni it came from.


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    smashey
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    ellscurr wrote: »
    Let's not have the usual 'who says Queen's is better than UU' debate eh? It is often seen as more prestigious but if you do well in your degree it doesn't matter a whole lot which uni it came from.
    Well said.


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    thegloriousend
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    Queens students, by virtue of higher brain capacity, are better than University of Ulster students. fact


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    regob
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    thegloriousend wrote: »
    Queens students, by virtue of higher brain capacity, are better than University of Ulster students. fact

    this is exactly the very reason why i hate most of queens students. they all seem to have this attitude of that just because they go to a university that is called queens they seem to think there better than every other student in ireland. they cant seem to get it into there head there are actually reasons why students decide not to go to queens. such as uu is closer to their homes and they decide to commute, they dont want to go to a uni in near enough the center of belfast, it might surprise use all like but queens doesnt do every course in the world, god forbid there are actually some courses queens dont do. students in queens also seem to have this think of only socialising with other queens students, i.e. spending all there nights out in queens union and not going anywhere else.

    queens uu argument, done


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    AlmightyCushion
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    I think thegloriusend was joking there, regob.


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    thegloriousend
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    this is exactly the very reason why i hate most of queens students. they all seem to have this attitude of that just because they go to a university that is called queens they seem to think there better than every other student in ireland. they cant seem to get it into there head(s) there are actually reasons why students decide not to go to queens. such as uu is closer to their homes and they decide to commute, they dont want to go to a uni in near enough the center of belfast, it might surprise use all like but queens doesnt do every course in the world, god forbid there are actually some courses queens dont do. students in queens also seem to have this think of only socialising with other queens students, i.e. spending all there nights out in queens union and not going anywhere else.

    lolz


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    regob
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    thegloriousend wrote: »
    lolz

    lolz, good way to prove your point there


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    pow wow
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    Lighten up guys, there are snots at both. If you're happy where you're going, why do you need an opinion on the other uni? I'm a UU-er, I have nothing against QUB....and I have friends at QUB who are the same. This is only an issue if you let it be....and you really shouldn't.


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    leavo08
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    I have been accepted for law at queens providing I get 490...is it english law I will be studying or Irish?! and if I want to work in the Republic will I have to do an extra course afterwards?
    I still dont know if I should just do a law related course closer to home,but I wont get the points for law in Dublin and I know queens has a really good rep...ideas??! I would really appreciate any replies!


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