Schols Schols Schols, information and venting thread.

Liquorice

Presumably people hang on to their ball tuxes for the few days? I presume girls are more cocktail dresses than full-on gowns.

tolosenc

mathew wrote: »

Edit: i also propose ignoring trolling...

Ignore list ftw!

mathew

obl wrote: »

Ignore list ftw!

I had forgotten about that feature.. thank you

devinejay

obl wrote: »

Ignore list ftw!

Only just discovered this feature, and what a glorious feature!

Jonathan

obl wrote: »

Ignore list ftw!

But it makes the thread so incoherent.

devinejay

The "inordinate amount of bollix" already had it incoherent enough for a

evercloserunion

Look at me... not studying... LOLOLOL

Well done to everyone who went through with it, that shows more about your character than your results do I think. That said, good luck to you all. Myself I'm hoping for exemptions, the schols ship has sailed for me I think!

Awayindahils

I think all of you are finished at this stage. Thankfully non of you are as pathetic as me to have a wohoo based around the fact that you are back on boards/can post without fear of wasting time.

Good luck to all of you, but for now, grab some cans and head to the pav/house party or to a place where if you have to pay money should you have it. Then sleep like a baby for all of next week, or watch some boxsets are something, and hopefully you will all get to enjoy exemptions for the rest of Trinity term.

If not you will be more than ready for your summer exams.

And perhaps some of you will be estatic on Trinity Monday. I know that BESS ring people on the Friday before soa couple of the girls who got it in my year came in in very nice day dresses/skirts and tops, but no one comes in in black tie. If you do get schols there will always be someone who can lend you a hand by finding you a dress. My favourite memory of Trinity Monday the year I did schols was seeing ym friend jump 4 feet inot the air when he got schols. His department hadn't even announced exemptions. He was in manky old jeans and a hoody. Last year a group of us had to phone a girl who had stayed in bed because she thought there was no hope she would get it. Its a weird day, amazing for some devastating for others, a bit meh for a lot of people. but crucially its ages away. So go have some fun.

JC 2K3

Awayindahils wrote: »

sleep like a baby for all of next week, or watch some boxsets are something, and hopefully you will all get to enjoy exemptions for the rest of Trinity term.

Heh, must be nice being in a cushy course with no pressing assignments.

LenovoUser

devinejay wrote: »

The "inordinate amount of bollix" already had it incoherent enough for a

I think that the admins, mods, have proven that they know how to carry out their duties, and don't have to be told .

BTW trolling comes from a fishing background, it consists of setting a fish ( in this case, a person ) up for the catch and the kill, and it usually requires two or more 'anglers' to set it up !

Several good persons here, who are genuinely worried about the outcome of my summer exams, will be pleased to hear that I have decided to go for the schols next January . To wit, I am booking in for the Summer into IACT for courses in C++ and other subjects of the schols. It will cost thousands but I consider it worth every cent to become a schol. To wit, I already have black tie, several dress suits etc etc at the ready . Again, thank you for your genuine concern, it brings a lump to my throat .

Kwekubo

HoboJesus wrote: »

Not the announcement, but if you get schols, there'll be robe rental for various events. Also if you get it, you can go to the free dinner in the dining hall, which is black tie PLUS robes. Height of fanciness.

Gowns dude, not robes

LenovoUser

Kwekubo wrote: »

Gowns dude, not robes

I wonder could I design my own ( robes or gowns) or whatever ?

Podge_irl

LenovoUser wrote: »

I wonder could I design my own ( robes or gowns) or whatever ?

You could design them, but you wouldn't be allowed wear them.

LenovoUser

Podge_irl wrote: »

You could design them, but you wouldn't be allowed wear them.

Pity, I had some fab North African designs in mind ! But I suppose I could wear the Fez I have like Tommy Cooper used to wear, I don't see anything specified for headgear - or maybe a Patrick Pearse-type 1916 Volunteers hat, I have one of those too, and after all Pearse went to Trinity .
C++ etc will decide whether I wear any gown at all !
The course I'm offered by IACT for the summer is two grand, they assure me it is sufficient to do really well in any College exam - can't argue with that !

jason&arthur

obl wrote: »

Ignore list ftw!

why would anyone want to ignore him, his posts are awesome

JC 2K3

LenovoUser wrote: »

C++ etc will decide whether I wear any gown at all !

Doubtful, considering C++ isn't on schols...

LenovoUser

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Doubtful, considering C++ isn't on schols...

FiForget about C++ and all that ! Hey, what about the Mexican blanket Cint Eastwood wore in the Few Dollars More series, my 1916 slouch hat, the cobbles would be perfect for the hoss, I could mount the steps on horseback like the Adjutant does at Sandhurst, crud on the ground, sidle alongside the Provost, take another bite of the cigar, look to reach under the blanket for the Colt 45, look him straight in the eye, and mumble through the cigar fumes;

" My moniker better be on that list, Hego l ! "

btw, looking at past papers I think you could use C++ on schols, doing it anyway with IACT for the summer in advance for SF, booked in and all - gonna take this programming thang by the horns, got everything else ( courtesy of WIT, Electronics, Automation & Control Technology ( Ladder Programming through DOS ), Access, , Excel, VB, Autocad, Maths ( 100 % ! ) , Computer Engineering , Manufacturing Technology, Mechatronics, German ( I speak and write it like a native ! ), English for reports, AND publications - as an ex-journalist I'm probably the best in the entire department as a writer( so say Arthur and Brendan ) . AND I do all my own hardware fixes, plus all I've learned in JF here, Anything else ? hehehe

Fad

LenovoUser wrote: »

Anything else ?

You could try and at least seem to be a relatively balanced individual, maybe try a bit of the social scene in college, or maybe (Just maybe) pull your head out of your ass............

LenovoUser

Fad wrote: »

You could try and at least seem to be a relatively balanced individual, maybe try a bit of the social scene in college, or maybe (Just maybe) pull your head out of your ass............

Last bit, ugh, very common,
but thanks for your suggestion concerning my social life !
Please let me know what type of animal a "relatively balanced individual" is ? "
You might even show me a specimen you select ?

Fad

LenovoUser wrote: »

Last bit, ugh, very common,
but thanks for your suggestion concerning my social life !
Please let me know what type of animal a "relatively balanced individual" is ? "
You might even show me a specimen you select ?

The others were right, ignore list FTW............

bhoy4life

how hard are the schols?

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^^ that hard.

mathew

if you enjoy your course, do well in first year and know and understand the material and really put in the extra effort in SF (You'll prob notice from the rest of this thread that we havnt had much of a social life outside the books and the library for the past few months) then the exams are doable and you have a fair chance.

Its a bit of a sacrifice to commit to so much study and work, but the possible rewards are well worth it. If you feel you possibly could do it, and are considering it now, i'd say put in the work for the summer exams and really go for it in SF.

Remember, its changing a bit next year with the new term thingy

Podge_irl

bhoy4life wrote: »

how hard are the schols?

It entirely depends on both the subject and the lecturer. They are given a pretty free remit to interpret schols as they please. I know in my TP exams they were only marginally harder then the summer exams - it could be argued that they were easier because they tested us on less material. I don't think considering them to be hard is ever an excuse for not at least attempting them.

Also, I think LenovoUser is a lot more fun than Cantab, but maybe that's just me. We should have a troll-off.

LenovoUser

bhoy4life wrote: »

how hard are the schols?

Depends on what course you're doing, what your aptitudes are, and a lot depends on practice in CS, getting to know the capabilities of programming in CS, how programmes are contructed, you have to be naturally easy at programming, but also good at maths , electrics and telecoms - but no matter how well you swot you have to be sharp to start with, fast for the exams, not a worrier, and have a lot of energy. I still think you have to study across the summer particularly now with the schols in January, and it would help enormously to book in on relevant courses for the summer. And forget the Pav ! Past papers, past papers, past papers - but schols are in fact easier from the point of view that there is no continuous assessment and everything is marked out of a 100. So if you're the big exam type, like me, rather than the student who depends on CA, you're in with a real chance, and from that viewpoint schols is actually the easiest exam of all.

t0mm

LenovoUser wrote:

Depends on what course you're doing, what your aptitudes are, and a lot depends on practice in CS, getting to know the capabilities of programming in CS, how programmes are contructed, you have to be naturally easy at programming, but also good at maths , electrics and telecoms - but no matter how well you swot you have to be sharp to start with, fast for the exams, not a worrier, and have a lot of energy. I still think you have to study across the summer particularly now with the schols in January, and it would help enormously to book in on relevant courses for the summer. And forget the Pav ! Past papers, past papers, past papers - but schols are in fact easier from the point of view that there is no continuous assessment and everything is marked out of a 100. So if you're the big exam type, like me, rather than the student who depends on CA, you're in with a real chance, and from that viewpoint schols is actually the easiest exam of all.

You sure do know a lot about something you have no experience of...

LenovoUser

t0mm wrote: »

You sure do know a lot about something you have no experience of...

Better than having a bad experience !!! Basically, I am not speaking from experience of schols, millions of words have been written and are being written here and elsewhere by people who have no experience of schols. We plan ! And we share that planning with others, similarly planning as I am doing here, and as people have done with me. It took team work to plan how to get to the moon , for instance, the planners had no experience of getting to the moon while they set out to do so, but they would never have got there unless they planned and shared their steps and progress and findings , just as we do today in planning a major software project that we haven't yet developed . I have experience of exams, I have massive experience of life, and I am depending on those experiences in approaching schols and all other exams, and finding out from those who have gone before me, like several here, who have something to contribute whether they succeeded or failed. We can't all be in the Kilkenny Hurling team - but we can all hurl or at least try to, and maybe even plan and maybe even get on the Kilkenny Hurling team, or on whatever team we'd like in whatever game we may like to play, if you can see what I mean. Hopefully there will be more constructive and helpful comments for those of us now setting out on the schols road than yours, thank you very much.

Life is dog rough here, hehehe

perhaps entry to schols should be limited to students who gain at least a 2.2 in their JF exams, that way we wouldn't end up with so many frustrated and bitter people here. I suspect that there are people here who have actually miserably failed schols, with the floor collapsing and the ceiling falling in, why bother, why do schols at all in the first place when you know in your heart and soul that you ain't up to it, kid ! And if schols teaches anything , it teaches people their limitations, which is a good thing to learn, to know, to realise earlier on in life.And programming isn't everything, there's a lot more to life, my friends, there's a lot more happinness too. Programming ? - sitting in a cubby hole on an office floor 9 to 5 on payroll, for instance, who wants that ? You're stone mad if you do, if you can only see that that is all there is to life ! Do something like getting a commission in an Army, get to the front line, see some action, become a real leader and let that adrenalin roll, or maybe in the RAF in a mach 3 fighter interceptor ? As I say there's a lot more to life than the Lloyd Institute, believe me, I've seen it, I've been there ...failing schols could be the making of you yet:-)

meanwhile, somewhere over the Irish Sea, north of Anglesea......

" Schol One to Red Leader, bandits at 11 o'clock, climbing to engage, Schol Two, fall in alongside to intercept, Tally Ho, over and out... "

" Red Leader to Schol One, abandon attack, repeat, abandon attack, bandits are friendly Irish Air Corps types strayed into UK airspace, repeat abandon attack, over and out...

" Schol One to Red Leader, roger, breaking off attack, wilco, over and out...

"Red Leader to Schol. Three, fall in alongside Paddies, escort them out of UK air space...

" Wilco, Red Leader, Paddies falling in behind me.as ordered...

" Red Leader to Schol Three, on second thoughts guide Paddies back to base for usual booze-up,
over and out..

" Paddy Leader to Red Leader, cheers, George, where d'ya think we were headin' anyay, How'ya goin these days George...

Better than programming any day :-)

devinejay

Cantab. ftw!

Lenevo seems so much more random and undirected. Cantab's style of troll we can all relate to, because we all unfortunately know someone who is as right wing and bigoted as him in Trinity!

mathew

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just thought i'd point out that over and out makes no sense..
Over means you're finished what you're saying and expect a reply
Out means you're finished what you're saying and dont expect a reply

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LenovoUser

devinejay wrote: »

Cantab. ftw!

Lenevo seems so much more random and undirected. Cantab's style of troll we can all relate to, because we all unfortunately know someone who is as right wing and bigoted as him in Trinity!

i don't think the terms "right" and "left" apply today, they're far too simplistic, in fact the use of such terms is a sign of adolescent pubescence. No, I know of nobody bigotted in Trinity, or indeed outside of the College either, and do not wish to know anybody like that. Skinhead " Celtic Nationalist " types are as idiotic as their anarchist counterparts, probably more so, they're mirror images of one another. That sort of lingo belongs to the few pseudo-anarchists we have and that we adore in Ireland, keeping the same characters a million light years away from having anything to do with running anything, of course. I see great hope for the future, though, in people like those idealist young folk who have camped out on the Hill of Tara for several years , maybe the "left" here will do something useful for a change and join them ? They could badly do with support. Capitalism is the only sensible system, battered as it is at the moment, and though a lifelong Fianna Failer I am beginning to have great faith in Richard Bruton to haul us back on top. So long as it's Fianna Fail ( preferably) or Fine Gael, I'm happy. Beyond such minor considerations, I am basically apolitical, in fact politics bores me stiff. That said I am delighted to have Shane Ross represent Trinity so well, so responsibly too. Ivana Bacik too, but she's in the wrong party - wouldn't it be fabulous for ireland and the future of our youth if Fianna Fail and Fine Gael got together. David Norris, bless him, is far too anti - Israel for my liking at the moment, Israel being the pillar of Western democracy in the Middle East, and that must always be appreciated. Again, beyond that I have very few political thoughts except trying to think of ways out of the present depression and put them forward to the various websites. Fees - should be re-introduced for the duration of this depression to finance third-level, but abolished again whenever we recover. I haven't read anything of Cantab's, impressive moniker though ! ( If you hairsplitters don't agree with him, he must be right ! ) .