NUI Maynooth - what's it like?

Schoolteacher

Hi,

My daughter has put NUI Maynooth down as her second choice on her CAO form. We live in Dublin. What's this college like? The courses? The tutors? The ambience? Size? Services? Efficiency? The type of people go to it? Is it true that it's haunted?

She wants to do Social Sciences. What's this subject like? She doesn't like very hard work.

And what's the town itself like?

Concerned mother.

Winters

I hear they warp the minds of people down there. Girls become sex slaves and guys turn gay.

Its scary stuff. I think its due to the ghosts. Its very scary at night.

nothing

Behave Winters...

It's great. The college is mostly new and has the latest tech in most places. The courses vary greatly, even the modules within a subject can be very different in regards to difficulty and examination. Tutors are generally phD and masters students, and they are generally quite good. Maynooth is a student town, it's busy when the college is open and dead quiet otherwise, it's not often you'll see or hear about anything major happeneing. The college offers a host of services, from counselling, a free medical centre, a creche, a diasbility office, academice advisory office, careers office for guidance counselling and a hoard of clubs and societies for just about everyones tastes. The type of people - varied, from nerds to goths to sporty types, and everyone in between.

There are indeed rumours of haunting, but you can't believe everything you hear.

You would need to get in contact with specific departments re the subjects she wants to take, and the website has most of the info you need in that regard. But it won't be an easy ride, it does take some work. www.nuim.ie

Zapp Brannigan

It is haunted, I've been in the room! The story is a priest saw the devil and slit his own throat, and to this day the blood still stains the floor, despite the floorboards being replaced...

Tutors are good, but they're only aides. It's college, it's all about independent learning not being spoon-fed.

SW81

It is a lovely place to college, I don't know one person that didn't enjoy their time there. It's very close knit which many people might not want from a college but I loved it.


Where is the room that's supposed to be haunted? Plus I didn't think anyone was able to get in there.

Zapp Brannigan

It's in Rhetoric House, you can see the window boarded up if you walk from the library. Then you go into Rhetoric, third floor (or 2nd, it's been awhile) and there's a little hollow with some filing cabinets and a statue of some saint.

Ostrom

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

It is haunted, I've been in the room! The story is a priest saw the devil and slit his own throat, and to this day the blood still stains the floor, despite the floorboards being replaced...

Tutors are good, but they're only aides. It's college, it's all about independent learning not being spoon-fed.

I didnt notice anything yesterday.....ah that must be why they moved the filing cabinet Its always fun to catch someone gazing in awe at the brown floorboards with visible grain (sorry bloodstains!!!!)

John

Which one is Rhetoric House?

Zapp Brannigan

It's the building that is near Logic House. It's perpendicular to Logic if you approach it from the main gate of the South Campus.

I reckon some Cillit Bang would clear the blood up easy enough.

lordgoat

Bang and the blood is gone. Go Barry.

Ah Rhetoric house, named after the questions in 1805.

John

Erm, which one is Logic House?

Holsten

Logic House is the one that is at the end of the big playing field in the south campus.

Weird never knew about this at all, have to go into Rhetoric house sometimes, I'll check this out next time.

This helps http://www.nuim.ie/location/maps/south.shtml

rainbowtrout

Schoolteacher wrote: »

She wants to do Social Sciences. What's this subject like? She doesn't like very hard work.

She's going to have to do a bit of work wherever she goes unfortunately.

BillyoftheBeast

About that ghost story, somebody raised a good point about it when I told them.

How did they know he saw the devil in the mirror if he had slit his throat?

Zapp Brannigan

BillyoftheBeast wrote: »

About that ghost story, somebody raised a good point about it when I told them.

How did they know he saw the devil in the mirror if he had slit his throat?

sshhh you're not supposed to question it. Just accept it, there be ghosts and ghoulies!

63587614

I went to NUIMaynooth. Great college, tough courses well everything besides ARTS. Sorry ARTs students.

Great facilities, always expanding. New astro turf pitch, lighted fields gym, pool etc.

oh also has Top economics Dept.

Zapp Brannigan

Ah now come on, Arts isn't a walk in the park. There is some hard aspects of it...

BillyoftheBeast

My only reservation as a Maynooth graduate is the college isn't ranked very high in the world. Bull**** I know but it has made it very hard for me to get jobs with banks in the UK.

Rozabeez

Two of my subjects are "social sciences", they're not particularly hard.....lol

Rozabeez

BillyoftheBeast wrote: »

About that ghost story, somebody raised a good point about it when I told them.

How did they know he saw the devil in the mirror if he had slit his throat?

Because the second priest did the same, and the third had no razor, he wasn't shaving...but performing the exorcism of the room, he saw a dark figure in the mirror and suddenly felt himself bringing two fingers across his throat, had they been razor blades...he would have died. "ooooh, aaaaaaah" etc.

So apparently something forced him to jump out the window, he broke his back but lived to tell the tale.

The End.

John

Rozabeez wrote: »

The End.

Or is it?

ixus

It is a great college in so many aspects.

I feel it's main downfall is its grading. Courses are marked far harder than the like of UL,UCD and NUIG from my experience.

You can be self righteous and say that a grade is a grade but when other students come out with better grades in other colleges and go for the same type of jobs it's not an even playing field.

catyb20

It is a super college! I just graduated this year, and loved the place so much that i'm staying on in maynooth. i know a few people who did the social science course, and they loved it! I came down here knowing only 1 person ! Most of my mates went to galway/UCD, I deferred for a year and was so tempted to apply to UCD instead, but i am so glad i didnt!

briantwin

yeah Maynooth's a great college. Loads of fun. I attended for a couple of years. Theres a good atmosphere and the town itself is well equipped for student life. two 24 hour supermarkets. Safe enough for girls too. All the housing estates and thoroughfares are well lit. Its good craic.The courses are varied and its a great place to make friends and have a laugh. JUST DONT MESS WITH US LOCALS THOUGH!! :mad:

Clarie

Ha! the locals aint that scary.

Rozabeez

Oh yeah? What about the crazy man with the glasses and the limp?

Enemy Of Fate

Rozabeez wrote: »

Oh yeah? What about the crazy man with the glasses and the limp?

Eh?I only wear my glasses when i'm reading!

FunkyChicken

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

Ah now come on, Arts isn't a walk in the park. There is some hard aspects of it...

what

Rosita

BillyoftheBeast wrote: »

About that ghost story, somebody raised a good point about it when I told them.

How did they know he saw the devil in the mirror if he had slit his throat?

This may seem a good point but falls down on logic.

There is an assumption in this question that the priest slit his throat immediately on seeing the devil in the mirror. That seems unlikely as chances are he probably would not randomly find a knife lying around in a seminary/university room unless the scriptwriters of James Bond wrote the story. To give the question its due, the fact that others knew or claimed to know about it also suggests that the 'devil in the mirror' and the suicide did not take place at the same time.

There is nothing to suggest that he did not have the mirror incident, inform others later, and take his own life at some other stage with it being attributed to that incident by those others.

Norrdeth

Maynooth's great i'm a 1st year Bmus student and its made a great impression on me, i know he's a 1st year lame, but im really enjoying myself here.

banquo

2nd year bMus here. It's alright, kinda easy. In fact, it's way too easy. Wish i'd gone to trinners tbh. Just gonna get my degree and get the hell outta here.

morning-glory

i live in dublin and i do social science, the workload is grand once theres an interest there, lovely college, great athmosphere, cant fault it

Clare Bear

John wrote: »

Or is it?

Ahhhhhhhh ya prick!!!!!!!



Scared

Xavi6

It's one of the best places to go for a solid p*ss up. I spent as much time out there in my first year as I did in my own college!

If you want a good social life, want to do feck all work, go to no lectures, and still get a degree out of it then Maynooth's the place for you. Plenty of mymates are testimony to that!

petals

at wahat Winters said

That pic with the white face is scary now I'm gonna have to turn on every light in the house thanks!

Schoolteacher wrote: »

Hi,

My daughter has put NUI Maynooth down as her second choice on her CAO form. We live in Dublin. What's this college like? The courses? The tutors? The ambience? Size? Services? Efficiency? The type of people go to it? Is it true that it's haunted?

She wants to do Social Sciences. What's this subject like? She doesn't like very hard work.

And what's the town itself like?

Concerned mother.

Seriously now. Maynooth is great!
The college is big enough to know nobody and small enough to know everybody! Some tutors are good some are bad.
The people that go to it are great mostly! There are loads of clubs and societies which are all brill (esp the self defence club )

Dunno bout Social Sciences but Music is great. Like a little family over in logic house

And I heard there was three rooms on south campus haunted!

Rosita

63587614 wrote: »

tough courses well everything besides ARTS. Sorry ARTs students.

That depends really. Some Arts courses (and I never attended Maynooth so I speak generally) are quite academic, and if you ar edoing one of these and are aiming for First class honours they are tough going.

Arts involves a lot of reading if studied properly which is often why there are not buckets of assignments. That most students choose not to do this broader reading and limp out with a pass, a 2.2. or a low 2.1 after a bout of cramming doesn't really make the subjects easy.

The real test is not can you get out with a degree (the huge majority do in all disciplines), but do you have a serious grasp of the subject at the end of it? (a significant number don't) For certain, if anyone takes a language and doesn't work it will always be apparent in their poor grasp of it at the end of their degree.

It may be possible in a subject like Maths where you either know something or you don't to buck the idea that you need fairly consistent and thorough preparation for exams if you happen to have guessed the correct areas to cover. But in other exams such as, say, literature the depth of your knowledge will inevitably be exposed one way or the other. History is a good example. A very easy subject to pass or do reasonably in but you need quite deep knowedge to excel in it.

Arts (like most subject areas I would imagine) is straightforward enough to pass. Doing really well and being on top of the subject - rather than hyper-ventilating your way through the exams because you know you are donal ducked if the couple of questions you have semi-prepared don't come up with all the buzz-words you recognise - is another matter.

LeixlipRed

Rozabeez wrote: »

Oh yeah? What about the crazy man with the glasses and the limp?

Is that the guy who's fond of wandering round in summer with only a tiny pair of shorts on? He's nuts

Rozabeez

He sang Xmas Carols to me while I was working... terrifies me.

Susannahmia

Schoolteacher wrote: »

Hi,

My daughter has put NUI Maynooth down as her second choice on her CAO form. We live in Dublin. What's this college like? The courses? The tutors? The ambience? Size? Services? Efficiency? The type of people go to it? Is it true that it's haunted?

She wants to do Social Sciences. What's this subject like? She doesn't like very hard work.

And what's the town itself like?

Concerned mother.

Maynooth is great, It's a very friendly and relaxed college with a good and relatively safe night life. I would recommend it.

I do social sciences, one thing I remember being surprised at was that the course is very acedemic, not practical. I find it very interesting myself however and am glad I did it. It's not too bad in first year (I partied hard for the majority of that year and got a 2:1), I think we had about four 1500 word essays to do that year, which isn't bad. The pace gets tougher in second year but again plenty of time for fun and relaxation. Third year is very tough as we have lots of essays and a 10000 word dissertation to do but that's only expected.:)

The department for social science isn't the most organised but they get by and seem to be improving. No one has any real complaints bar tardyness in marking papers etc.