Grad housing

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Does anyone know anything about grad housing on campus? The website isn't too clear - is there a specific hall that is solely for graduate students or can you go anywhere? (Hoping it's the former lol).

Thanks much.

Time Magazine

AFAIK you're in with everyone.

pow wow

In that case...is there one you would recommend over the other?

europerson

If you're living in Trinity Hall (College's student accommodation in Rathmines), there is a specific house for postgrads. On campus, everyone's together, I think.

xeduCat

In recent years they've been trying to do a little bit of grouping - so for example in 2005/6 I was in House 51 (which is one of the buildings in the 'Pearse Street residences' listed on the website) and that was set up as all PG - but that was a decision made in allocation rather than a pre-set 'house for grad students'. In Goldsmith Hall (where students share apartments) there are normally a number of postgrad-only places although again that's just the way they allocate them, so the location etc changes from year to hear.

To put your mind at ease, though, the vast majority of the on-campus facilities in TCD are a little more self-contained than would be the case in a lot of other institutions - and they are more akin to the style of housing providing for upper-year and graduate students in UK institutions (i.e. relatively self-contained), as opposed to the 'dorm'-type typically offered to UK first years (large communal kitchens, long corridors, common rooms, etc). Also, very few first and second year students are housed on campus, so there's a skewing upwards of the average age of on-campus residents as a result.

As europerson said the postgrads who get rooms in Trinity Hall are normally in the same building - within the building you have a number of apartments (each self-contained) and while the site is large and does resemble traditional dormitory student accommodation in certain regards (a more visible live-in assistant warden presence, a lot of social activities organised for residents, etc), postgrads are generally speaking left alone and treated in a slightly different way - and there is (according to some) a good sense of grad-student-community within the house, desppite the separate apartments.

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Thanks to all who replied