When?

simonrooneyzaga

When will trinity college students step out of the box and start living in the real world? They are too shielded in life. Comments welcome.

TheThing!

I wasn't going to comment, but then I saw that you wrote comments welcome, and I decided that I would.

simonrooneyzaga

how kind

Randomness

there is a box?

there is a real world....outside the iron railings??? oh my god

somebody should have told me, i would have invited them all in for tea.

simonrooneyzaga

and cucumber sandwhiches...

Randomness

simonrooneyzaga wrote: »

and cucumber sandwhiches...

meh cucumber is over-rated.

whats your basic grievance anyway? i didnt really get it.

simonrooneyzaga

my basic theory is that trinity students are too shielded from the modern day Irish way. They aren't as spiritually and mentally aware of the dangers and joys that are found outside the iron gates.

They lack the cop on of their NUI and DCU cousins. I wonder is the student council doing anything to alleviate this?

wowy

I like my box, thank you very much. None of those NUI and DCU riff-raff.

dreambrook

Box eh?...Fancy that...meh

Fallen Seraph

A box you say? Is this like some kind of weighted companion cube?

I think you need to elaborate further on your theory of the TCD hyper-cube...

Randomness

simonrooneyzaga wrote: »

my basic theory is that trinity students are too shielded from the modern day Irish way. They aren't as spiritually and mentally aware of the dangers and joys that are found outside the iron gates.

They lack the cop on of their NUI and DCU cousins. I wonder is the student council doing anything to alleviate this?

now that's just a load of rubbish. there goes those ugly stereotypes popping up again. i can't stand them.

you may have come across people with no "cop on" but without doubt those same groups of people who annoy you so much can be found in any university in ireland.

i live in a very real world thanks, as do my friends and "cousins" in the other fine academic institutions which they chose to go to.

europerson

We have a very special box in Trinity: it's called a Miesian box.

claire h

Oh, sweeping generalisations lacking any evidence to support their claims whatsoever... bless. Reminds me of how I write my essays...

Lack of cop on - like, say, posting about how allegedly shielded Trinity students, as though speaking to an outside audience, in a forum for Trinity students? I mean, that'd just be silly!

I presume that this thread is the sort of trolly stuff that should be locked, but, y'know, it's reply to this or read about postmodernism...)

EGaffney

europerson wrote: »

We have a very special box in Trinity: it's called a Miesian box.

I never reply to troll threads, but I feel the urge to say: Edgeworth box.

Podge_irl

simonrooneyzaga wrote: »

When will trinity college students step out of the box and start living in the real world?

Personally, I intend to put off living in the real world for as long as humanly possible. I'm thinking several undergrad degrees followed by a long and drawn out PhD.

ApeXaviour

simonrooneyzaga wrote: »

my basic theory is that trinity students are too shielded from the modern day Irish way. They aren't as spiritually and mentally aware of the dangers and joys that are found outside the iron gates.

They lack the cop on of their NUI and DCU cousins. I wonder is the student council doing anything to alleviate this?

They come from all parts of the country, from all walks of life, just like those other colleges. I've seen enough of the world like (I'm typing in a cork accent btw) and it's fine boy, but dublin's fucking the best like. And Trinity (now norn-iron accent) is just all about Dublin, where do you think we go out at night like?

Thought, in saying that, I do love enclaving myself from real life though with the aul phd.

ApeXaviour

claire h wrote: »

I presume that this thread is the sort of trolly stuff that should be locked, but, y'know, it's reply to this or read about postmodernism...

Heh... clearly the lesser of two evils. So glad I'm not required to deal with such concepts.

Suppose I should close this, it's pointlessness is blinding. That is... unless people haven't fulfilled their fun with it yet? Post in the moan thread if this is the case.