Why I love DIT

WiDGe->

the disorganisation of the place really its great for a disorganised student like myself. any other college i would have failed years ago.

the small campuses u get to know loads of people

approachable lecturers

bolton street btw!

randomcountdown

I'm a first year in Kevin ST and so far I have had great experiences in DIT.
Sure, I don't have tons of projects to work on so don't find the hustle and bustle much of a bother but the college has been really accomodating and the lecturers are really friendly and approachable, hell, I have Bryan Duggan on gmail chat and he's dead on. The atmosphere is really nice and the segregation by building works in my favour by keeping business students and arts students out of my sight 24/7.

I was a bit shocked to hear the college never taught someone regular expressions, but then if you expect a college to teach you EVERYTHING you are a bit silly to be honest, but regular expressions wouldn't take long to teach and are HUGELY beneficial so :S

Creamy Goodness

jolt from a can - ohh so good.

nesty - seeing someone than is uglier than yourself is a big plus.

mr president - i miss his bribes of lollipops and pens

randomcountdown

Cremo wrote: »

jolt from a can - ohh so good.

THEY RAISED THE PRICE TO 1.05!!!!!!

Jeapy

Cremo wrote: »

jolt from a can - ohh so good.

nesty - seeing someone than is uglier than yourself is a big plus.

mr president - i miss his bribes of lollipops and pens

Lol, i misread that! :eek:

iUseVi

randomcountdown wrote: »

THEY RAISED THE PRICE TO 1.05!!!!!!

Yeah really annoying that. Its the first price hike in, what 2 years? so its not so bad. Its just annoying though, it was really convenient to just have a euro coin ready. Don't like this small change malarkey.

AlexBM

WiDGe-> wrote: »

the disorganisation of the place really its great for a disorganised student like myself. any other college i would have failed years ago.

the small campuses u get to know loads of people

approachable lecturers

bolton street btw!

+1 for the disorganisation in Bolton St. -1 for the actual liking of it.

Max_Damage

Cremo wrote: »

nesty - seeing someone than is uglier than yourself is a big plus.

Ah yes, 'Painty-Face'. She has improved on last year though.

Dunners

Cremo wrote: »

mr president - i miss his bribes of lollipops and pens

Pish! They weren't bribes they were the only way of dealing with final year stress. Everyone should try it lollies for all when stress approaches! Plus it's a valid excuse for owning cargo pants.

Anyway everyone should pop into the union office and say hello. They're awfully friendly and they usually have some free pens or other bits and pieces knocking about!

joeybloggs

Max_Damage wrote: »

Ah yes, 'Painty-Face'. She has improved on last year though.

Who's Painty-face?
What campus?

Umm for the watered down canteen curry sauce, not bad says I !

Creamy Goodness

she's also A.K.A

nesty.
birds nest
speed bump
willy wonka's little helper.

Stench Blossoms

Cremo wrote: »

she's also A.K.A

nesty.
birds nest
speed bump
willy wonka's little helper.

Where did willy wonka's little helper come from? She's an Oompa Lumpa, lets not try and disguise that.

randomcountdown

If I'm this much of an asshole when I'm in 3rd/4th year I want someone to shoot me.

Creamy Goodness

orla wrote: »

Where did willy wonka's little helper come from? She's an Oompa Lumpa, lets not try and disguise that.

that's my secret name for her :pac:

randomcountdown wrote: »

If I'm this much of an asshole when I'm in 3rd/4th year I want someone to shoot me.

no i'm just an asshole DIT didn't do this to me although it fuels it sometimes.

Max_Damage

joeybloggs wrote: »

Who's Painty-face?

Nesty. It's a second year thing.

joeybloggs

orla wrote: »

Where did willy wonka's little helper come from? She's an Oompa Lumpa, lets not try and disguise that.

I think I now know who ur going on about.But ppl, between you's and me I probably wud......

I kept following her last yr, just praying she would lead me to the DIT Face Painter*.I love being a pirate you see.....:)

I am still looking for that face Painter.........:(


*The SU have recently informed me that DIT do not actually provide this service.

Irishtrekkie

randomcountdown wrote: »

If I'm this much of an asshole when I'm in 3rd/4th year I want someone to shoot me.

no worries mate , i will shot you long before that, .......need something to blame on computer games .

randomcountdown

Maybe she's a jugallo
ask her if she drinks Faygo

Dinner

Is this "nesty" thing in aungier street? Think I've seen it but not sure if it's the same one.

Max_Damage

Arabel wrote: »

Is this "nesty" thing in aungier street? Think I've seen it but not sure if it's the same one.

No, Kevin Street. And 'it' happens to be a woman by the way!

Dinner

Max_Damage wrote: »

No, Kevin Street. And 'it' happens to be a woman by the way!

Hmm there's a yoke in Aungier street that ticks all those boxes too.

joeybloggs

Arabel wrote: »

Hmm there's a yoke in Aungier street that ticks all those boxes too.

Well maybe 'it' does the rounds, you know.Taking the show on the roads kind of thing.
'Nesty' coming to a Bolton Street near you!

I want to be different so I also like the Fashion show, Televisions in the library and over heated rooms!

Creamy Goodness

a yoke?

in aungier street's case don't you mean hundreds?

Max_Damage

Yeah, but Painty-Face really pushes the boat in comparison to the rest of the Umpa Lumpa's around the place.

ModeSkeletor

Cremo wrote: »

a yoke?

in aungier street's case don't you mean hundreds?

If not thousands?

bug

It's historically proven that business student's "do themselves up more" than any other.

Why I love DIT - because it turns out some of the most competant, practical, and innovative students just IMO.
Possibly because they weren't handed everything on a plate and had to ask questions of lecturers who don't mind answering the questions, and making themselves available.

Sir Molle

The few things I like about DIT are that most of the lecturers are sound enough, and there's a half decent looking bird working in the Student Union Shop in Kevin St.

sunnyjim

Cremo wrote: »

she's also A.K.A

nesty.
birds nest
speed bump
willy wonka's little helper.

Is this the one who sorta looks like Amy Winehouse, what with the hair and makeup? Or am I wrong?

Why I like DIT? Because nearly all my lecturers have proved themselves out in the real world. They've been the experts, consultants, the high earners. Basically the opposite of a lot of my lecturers in my previous college... I hated having smug-ass 24 year old PhD students explaining how things are done in the real world...:mad:

iUseVi

sunnyjim wrote: »

Is this the one who sorta looks like Amy Winehouse, what with the hair and makeup? Or am I wrong?

Yup that sounds about right.

Stench Blossoms

I love DIT because it sells red BPM. I'm lost at the moment without it.

Sir Molle

orla wrote: »

I love DIT because it sells red BPM. I'm lost at the moment without it.

If only spar did degrees.

This thread makes me hate DIT more and more, because reading the replies, the only thing people are enjoying about DIT are the soft drinks they sell in the student union shop.

Stench Blossoms

Sir Molle wrote: »

If only spar did degrees.

This thread makes me hate DIT more and more, because reading the replies, the only thing people are enjoying about DIT are the soft drinks they sell in the student union shop.

Ok so would you prefer if i said,

The reason I love DIT is because the course I picked has almost everything I want in it.

• It gave me a good grounding for programming in any language,
• Taught me how to manage my time so that I can submit assignments/projects when their due,
• Showed me how to "look outside the box",
• The student union are always informative and helpful,
• Gave me knowledge and confidence to get a job in a fantastic company
• I've met some of the best people ever.

Is that enough or do you want me to go on?

Sir Molle wrote: »

and there's a half decent looking bird working in the Student Union Shop in Kevin St.

Wow. Just wow.

I actually hate people who moan about DIT, nobody forced you to come here and you can leave when you want. Stop bringing the DIT vibe down and f off.

Sir Molle

orla wrote: »

Is that enough or do you want me to go on?

Well, isn't that the point of the thread?

orla wrote: »

Wow. Just wow.

I actually hate people who moan about DIT, nobody forced you to come here and you can leave when you want. Stop bringing the DIT vibe down and f off.

Nobody forced me, but I came here because the college looked attractive at first. However, the view you have of the college at first sight is vastly different from the view of the college you form from experiencing 4 years there. If nobody complains, standards go sloppy. In the case of DIT, they've really let themselves go. So, in complaining about how **** DIT is, I'm actually doing more for the college than someone who shuts up because they're "bringing the vibe down". Also, you can think of me as your personal hero for trying to save our shitty college. Thanks in advance.

Dinner

Sir Molle wrote: »

If nobody complains, standards go sloppy. In the case of DIT, they've really let themselves go. So, in complaining about how **** DIT is, I'm actually doing more for the college than someone who shuts up because they're "bringing the vibe down".

What was the response you got from the SU or Prof. Norton or whoever you complained to?

projectmayhem

orla wrote: »

[*]I've met some of the best people ever.

well i know that's not sarcasm. you've met me. lucky devil.

Sir Molle

Arabel wrote: »

What was the response you got from the SU or Prof. Norton or whoever you complained to?

I asked one of lecturers who had a habbit of not showing up randomly for classes to send me an email if he knew that a class wasn't going ahead because it would save me a bus trip in to town and now he does that which is grand. I had also complained to the lecturer who had given no information about the assignment and he saw absolutly no reason to e-mail the class about information like that for some reason. Even having explained the situation that I was in, having missed the class for a valid reason where he had given the information out, he still thought he had given out a perfectly acceptable amount of information about the assignement which is totally bull****. The only other words issued about this assignment were after the due date.

sunnyjim

Anyone who thinks that people who complain about a college are 'bringing it down' need themselves to be brought down... to earth.

Seriously like, if there are legitimate complaints, then prospective students should be aware of them.

AlexBM

orla wrote: »

Ok so would you prefer if i said,

The reason I love DIT is because the course I picked has almost everything I want in it.

• It gave me a good grounding for programming in any language,
• Taught me how to manage my time so that I can submit assignments/projects when their due,
• Showed me how to "look outside the box",
• The student union are always informative and helpful,
• Gave me knowledge and confidence to get a job in a fantastic company
• I've met some of the best people ever.

Is that enough or do you want me to go on?

Wow. Just wow.

I actually hate people who moan about DIT, nobody forced you to come here and you can leave when you want. Stop bringing the DIT vibe down and f off.

So you think it would be better that those of us with problems regarding DIT would 'stop bringing the DIT vibe down and f off'? Actually I'm sure it would be a LOT worse if we all just kept our mouths shut. So you had a good experience there - that's great. No need to resort to immature insults to those of us that didn't.

Stench Blossoms

Sir Molle wrote: »

Also, you can think of me as your personal hero for trying to save our shitty college. Thanks in advance.

I don't think so. I'm perfectly happy with DIT the way it is as i've had no problems.

sunnyjim wrote: »

Anyone who thinks that people who complain about a college are 'bringing it down' need themselves to be brought down... to earth.

Seriously like, if there are legitimate complaints, then prospective students should be aware of them.

I'm all for complaining if its justified. But I'm talking about the type of person that always complains no matter what situation they are in.

Dinner

Sir Molle wrote: »

I asked one of lecturers who had a habbit of not showing up randomly for classes to send me an email if he knew that a class wasn't going ahead because it would save me a bus trip in to town and now he does that which is grand. I had also complained to the lecturer who had given no information about the assignment and he saw absolutly no reason to e-mail the class about information like that for some reason. Even having explained the situation that I was in, having missed the class for a valid reason where he had given the information out, he still thought he had given out a perfectly acceptable amount of information about the assignement which is totally bull****. The only other words issued about this assignment were after the due date.

Well then if you want the problem solved (or at least improved) you'd need to go further than the lecturer.

Is your class rep any good? I know the class rep for my year goes to a meeting of all the class reps for the course and all the lecturers along with the tutors and course coordinator and any problems can and are brought up there. It only happens once or twice a year but it's a good place to solve problems.

Then there's the course coordinator or the SU (I think the new president occasionally posts here) who the class could approach directly and let them know that this isn't acceptable.

It's all well and good to complain about DIT here but it'd be better if you and your class tried to follow it up, and keep following it up until things improve.

randomcountdown

As usual, a boards.ie thread has not managed to reach page 3 without derailing into a ****ing fight.
Worst website ever.

bug

1. Address issue directly with lecturer.

No response, or can't resolve the situation?

2. Go to course co-ordinator preferably with class rep, and present issue in confidence.

No resolution, or can't resolve the situation after a few attempts...?

3. Approach head of school perhaps with class reps? And make them aware that you've broached the subject a few times with course- co ord and haven't got a response. If you can't meet with the school head, write a letter after addressing the rest of your student group and signing it with class rep present. No harm in making the SU aware of your actions, aswell as asking them for advice?

In my experience, DIT will respond once the situation is presented to them clearly, concisely and without agression.

it's really like everything else. If you have a valid complaint.. there are ways of going about it.