Courses for 2008 are up!

Thursday*

New and revived courses: Sports Science (S2), Chinese (S1), Superhero Science (S2) and Gothic Studies (S2).

Also of note (I think anyway): Psychology only available in Session 1! Philosophy has stolen its two-session crown.

And Biomed, Criminology, Novel Writing, Globalisation, Art History, Astronomy, Spec Fic and Veterinary Science are still there.

So, what's everyone gonna do? I think Psychology first choice and Film Studies and Chinese second.

slasher_65

Gothic Studies got in?

w00t! I promised the instructor I would do it. Now the real question... Do I want that or SUPERHEROES?

Dammit... Superheroes, hot vampires, superheroes, hot vampires...

What is a teenage boy to do?

Raphael

Superhero science and Gothic studies?

Wow, I can see my house from the top of this hill we seem to be going down!

Jim_Are_Great

Gothic Studies and Superhero Science?

In my day, we thought Computer Science was the loser course but jeez... I just don't know what to say.

Having said that, I would so have done superhero science.

Raphael

Having actually read the descriptions, Gothic Studies does look somewhat credible, however Superhero Science is both silly and incorrect.

Thursday*

Yeah, I've been to two separate Superhero Science lectures with different lecturers in CTYI. One was after I did the SATs as one of their Experience Days, or whatever they're called, and one was during CTYI 07. It's grand for an afternoon but I don't know how they could draw it out for a whole three weeks, since *small voice* superheroes are actually fictional and not governed by science...

Acid_Violet

Gothic studies will be an abomination.

Jim_Are_Great

When you think about it, Writing for Life passed itself off as a real subject for years. You never know.

Thursday*

What makes Writing for Life not a real subject? Apart from the title, it's a grand course, is it not?

Jim_Are_Great

Well, the one year I did it we spent most of our classes walking about parks and musuems or playing improv games. The emphasis is definitely on the "Life" rather than the "Writing". In fact, I'd say there was more emphasis on the "For" than on the writing...

Thursday*

Ah. Well I think there must have been quite a bit of a shift towards 'writing' between you doing it and me doing it, but I do know what you mean.

slasher_65

Not having read the discriptions yet, but just from looking at this board, i have decided against both the new options. Another chance at getting into philosophy might be in order.

callaway92

CTYI is for Queers ye are all gay freaks who think ye will be great wen ye are older but ye wont amount to anything ye will just be loners...

Jim_Are_Great

callaway92 wrote: »

CTYI is for Queers ye are all gay freaks who think ye will be great wen ye are older but ye wont amount to anything ye will just be loners...

How witty.

Piste

He has a point >_>

Thursday*

In my experience most of us were loners when we were _younger_, and now think we are great...

And what do we reckon; did he fail the SAT or did his best friend in school go to CTYI and make new friends? If the latter, I have some compassion.

callaway92

First of all...i wudnt have a friend that would be that sad to go to something like that..And second of all Im off 3 in golf...ill have pro shop in a few years...YE will still be studyin for ye're medicine or whatever thinking ye will be brilliant people when ye will be stressin over tests and all lookin like clowns

Jim_Are_Great

Well, then Mr. Calloway, it seems that you have beaten us. All of us. Our collective efforts, formerly held in such high esteem by many, are mere ash.

Now it simply remains for us to decide how best to while away the interim between now and our nebulous descent into inexorable mediocrity.

Yet wherever our grey futures will detain us, we will always be able to look to the stars with faint hope, knowing that, somewhere we can only dream of, our superior has thrived. And we will whisper "Calloway".

Acid_Violet

callaway92 wrote: »

First of all...i wudnt have a friend that would be that sad to go to something like that..And second of all Im off 3 in golf...ill have pro shop in a few years...YE will still be studyin for ye're medicine or whatever thinking ye will be brilliant people when ye will be stressin over tests and all lookin like clowns

This is pure comedy gold, could Arthur Matthews himself have could up with something better? Say something else! Go on!

callaway92

So...so gay....how sad

slasher_65

I had a really long post written, talking about while it has been proved that IQ has no to Correlation success rate (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=3178567&page=1 for proof. Sorry. I know it is ABC news, that is just the first thing which popped up in google. And for some reason the URL tags won't work. I hate Tuesdays.), I, for one, prefer my life of education in things which I am really interested in then a life of selling things behind a sports shop counter even if, by some small chance, the money I am currently making from my various projects dies off, I can not manage to get a job in a bookshop or something, and i end up a poor student. But then I realized that posting it, along with some screenshots of the posts which this guy has contributed to, would be feeding the troll. So I decided not to. (the screenshots are still on my Flickr account if anybody cares to check. I'm way to lazy to take them down for now) But seriously. Do we not, at this point, have a copy-paste reply to people like this? Edit: Dude.... Why won't any formating such as paragraphs work in my post?

slasher_65

But getting back on... You know... TOPIC, Does anybody want to type out the new course details and put them here or on the wiki for those of us who can't get to them at the moment?

Piste

callaway92 wrote: »

First of all...i wudnt have a friend that would be that sad to go to something like that..And second of all Im off 3 in golf...ill have pro shop in a few years...YE will still be studyin for ye're medicine or whatever thinking ye will be brilliant people when ye will be stressin over tests and all lookin like clowns

Nah we dont need to stres over exams, we're too smart.

halenger

callaway92 perm banned. Please return to the topic at hand...i.e. the insane sounding courses.

What on earth happened to at least feigning normality course wise?

PurpleFistMixer

slasher_65 wrote: »

But getting back on... You know... TOPIC, Does anybody want to type out the new course details and put them here or on the wiki for those of us who can't get to them at the moment?

http://www.dcu.ie/ctyi/summer/academic/c_desc08.htm

Gothic Studies, lulz.

slasher_65

Thank you Sir. I will put them wikiside tomorrow. Busy at the moment.

<scream> Spec Fic is session 1 only? And highlighted in YELLOW? What has the world COME to?

I actually have no idea what I want to do. I want to do SOMETHING, just nothing there which i have not already done makes me perk up.

Jim_Are_Great

You know, I really miss callaway92. It's strange...

PurpleFistMixer

Feeling in such constant awe of a person can become tiring, I found.

Jim_Are_Great

Tiring I can handle. I just really want to find him in real life. I'll just keep an eye out for the golf enthusiast who walks around constantly passing pejorative remarks about the sexuality of ... passing dogs and parking meters and stuff. I expect there aren't many people matching such a description.

PurpleFistMixer

You'll probably have to beat your way through his crowds of admirers first. I hear they can get pretty vicious when in his breath-taking presence.

Jim_Are_Great

I know I would. Get vicious, I mean. I mean, in the presence of such majesty there's just such an overload of admiration, jealousy and adoration that extreme violence is the only immediate emotional outlet I can see myself using.

Undergod

Come back callaway92! Something was happening on this board, and I missed it.

Jim_Are_Great

Oh Bill, not to worry.
I propose we keep this thread alive in honour of our saviour - Callaway92.

Undergod

Wasn't it callaway92 who eventually toppled the Khmer Rouge regime?

Thursday*

I don't know, but his dress sense is amazing and God, he can putt... be still, my beating heart.

Jim_Are_Great

You know that vaguely uncomfortable feeling you get when you realise that almost every second post in a thread is yours?

Well I have none of that. I am too proud to honour C92.

Undergod

Pride is a sin, us mere mortals cannot dare to feel pride when in the presence of those such as callaway92.

Acid_Violet

Aw, now he's gone, we've got no-one to play with anymore

Jack Lynch

callaway92 wrote: »

So...so gay....how sad

No, what's sad is randomly turning up on a board you have absolutely nothing to do with and proceeding to randomly insult everyone for no fathomable reason. I realise you can only play golf during the day, but do you really have to spend your nighttime hours honing in your skills as a bastard? Forgive me for doubting that you'll have a better future than us, but when the economy falls I can't help but feel that there's more job security for us doctors than for your Wonder Golf Emporium.

Sorry for ignoring the posts that came after this one, but I felt I had to reply to this obnoxious little gob****e in some way. And if I get reprimanded for this post, I couldn't write a better one to end on.

I'll finish by noting that, while you can't spell wanker with callaway, callaway is a wanker. The punchline's in the post.

PurpleFistMixer

You really should have read the whole thread.

Jack Lynch

Mmm, that would be a valid option alright. Dhera, it happens.

So is anyone actually considering Superhero Science? It seems a little like a Sky One TV programme to me

Undergod

Callaway92 is eight times the man you'll ever be! At least.

slasher_65

Jack Lynch wrote: »

Mmm, that would be a valid option alright. Dhera, it happens.

So is anyone actually considering Superhero Science? It seems a little like a Sky One TV programme to me

I know two people going for it.

My no.1 is Journalisim, followed by Drama, Globulisation and something else, which may very well be international relations. I have forgotten.

Jim_Are_Great

Wait, wait, wait. You all seem to be forgetting what we're here to discuss: the everlasting greatness of Callaway92.

Jeez, at least TRY to stay on topic, guys.

Jack Lynch

Sorry Jim.

Callaway92 is a shortened version of his full name; Callaway92inches

Undergod

Globulisation? Is that some obscure branch of fluid dynamics? The courses get more and more specific...

Of course, it was callaway92 who came up with the first principles of fluid dynamics. Newton just stole them off him.

Jim_Are_Great

Indeed, but C92 did not resist the theft, for he knew that attachment is the root of all suffering. Unfortunately a short, fat, bald monk of some repute soon stole that one from him too.

Jack Lynch

No wonder he's so bitter. A lesser man would have killed himself by now

Undergod

But he turns his bitterness to creative things, like designing the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, or designing prothetic limbs for puppies.

TalkISCheap

In all seriousness, it has taken that troll (peace be on his handicap) to breathe some life into this place... An achievement in itself, really...

Jim_Are_Great

I like this place with life in it. Much better than the death which characterised the past couple of years. That is why we must hail to C92, the greatest poet, inventor, statesman and dueller of our age.