Campus Rooms

Awayindahils

Anyone know when campus accomodation listings/results are out?

james80000

word on the street is june 17th (next tuesday)

mizz.yelof!!!

word on the street also promised that we would know friday last....

itll be sometime over the next 2 weeks anyway hils!

ShoulderChip

will we get an email?

or do we have to check?

james80000

word on the updated street is now thursday

patzer117

ok, so apparently you can find out here:
https://tcdlocalportal.tcd.ie/pls/deposits/olp_pub.oldep.get_stud_no

I know a few people who know already, congratulations Hils!

I want to know, is everyone on that list, or have only some people been allocated? I'll be in a bad position if it's the former...

Cheers...

mizz.yelof!!!

hils you get campus yea?

Awayindahils

Well according to Patzer...

Yeah I did. 47.3.02

Looking forward to ogling the rugby pitch on Tuesday nights.

mizz.yelof!!!

Awayindahils wrote: »

Well according to Patzer...

Yeah I did. 47.3.02

Looking forward to ogling the rugby pitch on Tuesday nights.

yeay!:D

though they have it quite well hidden away, as the link didnt work for everyone i passed it onto

frisbeeface

patzer117 wrote: »

ok, so apparently you can find out here:
https://tcdlocalportal.tcd.ie/pls/deposits/olp_pub.oldep.get_stud_no

I know a few people who know already, congratulations Hils!

I want to know, is everyone on that list, or have only some people been allocated? I'll be in a bad position if it's the former...

Cheers...

Does that link work for everyone or just those who got accommodation? It's not working for me, bad sign I fear!

Awayindahils

mizz.yelof!!! wrote: »

yeay!:D

though they have it quite well hidden away, as the link didnt work for everyone i passed it onto

I assume you got Botany Bay.

I entered my date of birth wrong, having used the wrong link for 20 minutes.

Instead of just pasting the link go to www.tcd.ie/accommodation

Then click staff and students, then students, then online payment, then deposit, then the link that appears.

fishtastico

i got 63.1.06. where is that?

Podge_irl

fishtastico wrote: »

i got 63.1.06. where is that?

Goldsmith Hall.

ShoulderChip

Is there any chance that it is not the full list yet?

I know one year in halls we got sent a list of people who got it for the following year and it was only half full (although that was a mistake)

mizz.yelof!!!

ShoulderChip wrote: »

Is there any chance that it is not the full list yet?

yes! accomodation office will not be publishing the actually accomodation allocations until the end of june - im presuming they mean some time next week by this. majority of people who have found out this week are involved in some sort of special allocation or applied as part of scheme etc

Ron DMC

mizz.yelof!!! wrote: »

yes! accomodation office will not be publishing the actually accomodation allocations until the end of june - im presuming they mean some time next week by this. majority of people who have found out this week are involved in some sort of special allocation or applied as part of scheme etc

Such a diligent welfare officer.

patzer117

well, the list is up now...
http://www.tcd.ie/accommodationandcatering/PDF/alloc0809.pdf

And yours truly isn't on it... Any idea on what my best course of action would be to get on it, or to get on a waiting list?

I'm very disappointed. It's my birthday and I got the worst present ever

Pet

patzer117 wrote: »

well, the list is up now...
http://www.tcd.ie/accommodationandcatering/PDF/alloc0809.pdf

And yours truly isn't on it... Any idea on what my best course of action would be to get on it, or to get on a waiting list?

I'm very disappointed. It's my birthday and I got the worst present ever

I know the feeling. I had slim-to-no chance, really, as a rising JS student, but still. Grr!

james80000

does anyone know the layout of goldsmith hall please? i am in 71.2 but iv found other people on the list in 71.2.09, however there are only 6 people on the list in 71.2. does this mean i'm in a 6person or 9person flat?

defiantshrimp

james80000 wrote: »

does anyone know the layout of goldsmith hall please? i am in 71.2 but iv found other people on the list in 71.2.09, however there are only 6 people on the list in 71.2. does this mean i'm in a 6person or 9person flat?

There are no 9 person flats. I used to live in 70.3 and the numbers went up to 8: 5 bedrooms, 1 kitchen, 1 WC. I'm not sure of the layout of 71.2.

littlehedgehog

..
Damnit. I had all my hopes pinned on this.
Anyone know if you get put on a waiting list automatically or do you've to ring up?

fishtastico

what's the layout of the 63 rooms?

irishpacker

I've just gotten Pearse Street, is that the same as Goldsmith Hall or is there a difference?

Podge_irl

Different. Pearse street residences are actually on campus and are mostly (entirely?) single rooms as opposed to the apartments in goldsmith.

irishpacker

Awesome! But where on campus are the pearse street rooms? I cant find them on the campus map? you'd think I'd know where everything was after 3 years but obviously not!

Awayindahils

irishpacker wrote: »

Awesome! But where on campus are the pearse street rooms? I cant find them on the campus map? you'd think I'd know where everything was after 3 years but obviously not!

They're around the health centre. The ground floor of the buildings are used by various college services and the top 3 floors are rooms, for houses 47, 48, 51 and 52. 49 and 50 are older buildings which face out onto pearse street itself.

Which house are you?

irishpacker

Awayindahils wrote: »

They're around the health centre. The ground floor of the buildings are used by various college services and the top 3 floors are rooms, for houses 47, 48, 51 and 52. 49 and 50 are older buildings which face out onto pearse street itself.

Which house are you?

I never knew what those bulidings were for, kewl. I'm in 49, should be good! Never lived away from home before so lookin forward to it! One of the problems with living in dublin and going to college in Trinity is that it doesn't make financial sense to move out, but his is my last year so I said feck it! It'll be worth it! No more 1hour long commutes on my bike in the rain! AWESOME!

A_M101

Hmm, didn't get it. Thought I might, considered myself quite the contributer to college life! Ah well, I'm renting further up Pearse Street at the moment anyway. Hardly a trek.

bright

Awayindahils wrote: »

Well according to Patzer...

Yeah I did. 47.3.02

Looking forward to ogling the rugby pitch on Tuesday nights.

Looking forward to laughing at you when you are being stalked for putting you room number on an internet message board.

Crickish

As somebody who failed to get rooms, I would just like to know, what are the actual criteria that are applied? Yes, they say participation in college life etc, but how can that actually be substantiated? I get the feeling that they go solely by the one thing they can easily substantiate - your academic record.

Is this true?

Awayindahils

bright wrote: »

Looking forward to laughing at you when you are being stalked for putting you room number on an internet message board.

Considering that most people who post on here kow who I am already, combined with the fact that I had posters with my face on them all around college for two weeks this years, as well as being a facebook social whore, I think it was a relatively minor risk.

I reckon if someone wanted to stalk me there is plenty of publically avaible information already.

Ron DMC

bright wrote: »

Looking forward to laughing at you when you are being stalked for putting you room number on an internet message board.

I had my room number as my Location: (<---) on boards for a year, and not once did any weirdos use it to track me down (well, other than ilovemybrick).

Crash

Definitely not. I got rooms in 3rd year with a frankly poor academic record. Its all quite subjective to be honest.

ilovemybrick

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

I had my room number as my Location: (<---) on boards for a year, and not once did any weirdos use it to track me down (well, other than ilovemybrick).

tracked you down and fed you for a year.

sully-gormo

Emma Stokes, the Junior Dean, decides. To get a room you would want to be going into fourth year. Usually if you have 'done' stuff with your time in Trinity you'll be considered. Clubs Societies Publications etc..People who just go to lectures for three years and do nothing else dont get a look in as far as I know.

Awayindahils

sully-gormo wrote: »

Emma Stokes, the Junior Dean, decides. To get a room you would want to be going into fourth year. Usually if you have 'done' stuff with your time in Trinity you'll be considered. Clubs Societies Publications etc..People who just go to lectures for three years and do nothing else dont get a look in as far as I know.

Looking at the list of students who got campus roosm this year the number of 2nd years who got rooms (as in rising senior freshman, not rising junior sophs) is quite high, Ordinarily one would expect a few as a result of awards through clubs/socs/csc/sceim but there do seem to be a very high number even with that taken into account.

Scarinae

I'm in Botany Bay, woohoo! I'm really delighted! I doubt it's to do with academic record - I passed first year by compensation and I had to do the repeats for second year - however I was on the committee of a club and a society this year, and am head of a society next year, so I'd say that's what got me in

james80000

let me just say that the allocation process for rooms this year has been an absolute joke. it seems as if they did the allocation process and then accidentally gave everyone on the "rejected" list an offer by mistake.
people i know- heads of large societies, those with excellent academic record, anyone from outside dublin, anyone who was in halls, anyone who was away for the year- seem destined to be rejected. Many of the people who got it this year mainly seem to be people uninvolved from dublin. I know its a broad generalisation but the list of rejected people is really baffling.
its a complete shambles and SHAME on the junior dean and SHAME on the usual brainless decisions of trinity staff :mad: this university really needs a good kick up the arse

Crickish

But the thing is I am a rising senior soph, and I gave lots of time - perhaps too bloody much - to two du publications and sport as well as student mentoring the the past year (without getting too specific). Above all I made a conscious effort to participate outside my faculty (science).

A question I have is this - and I would appreciate any advice/answers.

On the original application form, I gave my home address as being in the Dublin metropolitan area. My parents have since had to move to Dubai quite suddenly, and I am following them out tomorrow. Having put my name on the waiting list for the second round of accomidation offers, would my application carry greater weight if I informed the office of my change in address?

Thanks

james80000

james80000 wrote: »

let me just say that the allocation process for rooms this year has been an absolute joke. it seems as if they did the allocation process and then accidentally gave everyone on the "rejected" list an offer by mistake.
people i know- heads of large societies, those with excellent academic record, anyone from outside dublin, anyone who was in halls, anyone who was away for the year- seem destined to be rejected. Many of the people who got it this year mainly seem to be people uninvolved from dublin. I know its a broad generalisation but the list of rejected people is really baffling.
its a complete shambles and SHAME on the junior dean and SHAME on the usual brainless decisions of trinity staff :mad: this university really needs a good kick up the arse

There was a rumour going around last year that:

Those heavily involved with societies and sports club would not be getting rooms as it was suspected that the these people were most likely to have parties and society meetings in their rooms.

I got rooms as third year since I was a captain, but I know in 4th year (perhaps the first year of this policy) that some captains and society heads did not get rooms.

Awayindahils

Crickish wrote: »

But the thing is I am a rising senior soph, and I gave lots of time - perhaps too bloody much - to two du publications and sport as well as student mentoring the the past year (without getting too specific). Above all I made a conscious effort to participate outside my faculty (science).

A question I have is this - and I would appreciate any advice/answers.

On the original application form, I gave my home address as being in the Dublin metropolitan area. My parents have since had to move to Dubai quite suddenly, and I am following them out tomorrow. Having put my name on the waiting list for the second round of accomidation offers, would my application carry greater weight if I informed the office of my change in address?

Thanks

Go into the accomodation office and explain the situation asap. Or since you're already gone ring them. (I know it will cost alot but having tried talking to them by email, phone and person, I have found the more human the contact the better the result)

When I was in 1st year I heard of people who got rooms after their family moved suddenly. Stress how you're not going to around during the summer.

As for the gernal rumors, I know people who had involvement coming out their ears who got it and then I know schols who got rooms. Thats about it from what I've heard.

shay_562

james8000 wrote:

let me just say that the allocation process for rooms this year has been an absolute joke. it seems as if they did the allocation process and then accidentally gave everyone on the "rejected" list an offer by mistake.
people i know- heads of large societies, those with excellent academic record, anyone from outside dublin, anyone who was in halls, anyone who was away for the year- seem destined to be rejected. Many of the people who got it this year mainly seem to be people uninvolved from dublin. I know its a broad generalisation but the list of rejected people is really baffling.
its a complete shambles and SHAME on the junior dean and SHAME on the usual brainless decisions of trinity staff this university really needs a good kick up the arse

I'd agree with you that there are some baffling exclusions from the accommodation list this year, people who I would have thought were basically guaranteed places on-campus due to the positions they'll be holding next year, but I don't think it's necessarily fair to generalise from that that all the people who did get it didn't deserve it, or were "people uninvolved from Dublin". While I'm surprised at some people who didn't get it, of everyone I know who has gotten it so far they've all been incredibly involved in some aspect of college life or another.

ilovemybrick

james80000 wrote: »

let me just say that the allocation process for rooms this year has been an absolute joke. it seems as if they did the allocation process and then accidentally gave everyone on the "rejected" list an offer by mistake.
people i know- heads of large societies, those with excellent academic record, anyone from outside dublin, anyone who was in halls, anyone who was away for the year- seem destined to be rejected. Many of the people who got it this year mainly seem to be people uninvolved from dublin. I know its a broad generalisation but the list of rejected people is really baffling.
its a complete shambles and SHAME on the junior dean and SHAME on the usual brainless decisions of trinity staff :mad: this university really needs a good kick up the arse

Have you considered perhaps what you consider "involved" is not what others consider involved? Or maybe their applications were poorly written. I think it's the height of arrogance to assume that your assertion that the university being in need of a good kicking is correct while the staff many of whom have organised the application process for several years are wrong in the allocations they made.

ilovemybrick

ilovemybrick wrote: »

Have you considered perhaps what you consider "involved" is not what others consider involved? Or maybe their applications were poorly written. I think it's the height of arrogance to assume that your assertion that the university being in need of a good kicking is correct while the staff many of whom have organised the application process for several years are wrong in the allocations they made.

Just a point - the person who ran the selection process left two years ago. The last two selections have been done by new staff and by the JD.

Ron DMC

Deleted User wrote: »

Just a point - the person who ran the selection process left two years ago. The last two selections have been done by new staff and by the JD.

Is that who I think it is? Who now works in the GSU? If so, great guy!

Ronny Mitchell

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

Is that who I think it is? Who now works in the GSU? If so, great guy!

nope - this was a woman. but, from what I have heard, most of the old staff in accomodation have left, the new staff and supposed new selection criteria came in at the same time.

ElleH

Here I have to say...

Not sure if this answers peoples Qs but here you go!!

My experience is, I have some friends that have been rejected as well as friends that have received an offer like myself.

It is not fair for me to say which ones deserve it the most but what definitely can say is that the ones that got the offer hold Higher positions withing the committees they belong to (Societies and Clubs). Chairs and Captains and people involved in activities like mentoring programmes and so on...

Whether you or your friends believe you worked hard does not matter if you don't show it in your application. It is very different if you just say "I belong to such and such and took part in activities like" than saying "I belong to, I'm responsible of, organized such and such".

You have to be smart when filling your application and do not assume one sentence explains it all. Just be smart and sell yourself.


Took me 2 days and loads of thinking filling out my application. And also smart or not I did state my both addresses, Irish and Abroad.

james80000

ilovemybrick wrote: »

Have you considered perhaps what you consider "involved" is not what others consider involved? Or maybe their applications were poorly written. I think it's the height of arrogance to assume that your assertion that the university being in need of a good kicking is correct while the staff many of whom have organised the application process for several years are wrong in the allocations they made.

well i think it's important that the university somehow state what 'involved' is then. a poorly written application should not exclude you from getting college rooms- and I sincerely doubt that the people I have spoken to wrote a poor application. You say that I am at the height of arrogance to assume I'm correct- what does that even mean? A forum is for posting your views/opinions- of course people assume they are correct- otherwise nobody would have an opinion. And finally- just because people have been doing a job for years doesn't make them more qualified to make a good decision. Bottom line- I think the process is unfair and extremely cloudy. On the contrary to your assertion- I believe the Trinity staff (junior dean) is the one 'at the height of arrogance' by assuming she has the divine right to process applications on her own whim without any quantifiable criteria.

ilovemybrick

james80000 wrote: »

a poorly written application should not exclude you from getting college rooms

The fact that the application is poorly written is not what excluded them. It was the fact that there were better written ones and there are a limited number of allocations on campus. It is a crucial difference.

as for the rest of your post, yes you can have an opinion but it wont change the fact that you or you friends did not get rooms. so rant away.

Ron DMC

ilovemybrick wrote: »

as for the rest of your post, yes you can have an opinion but it wont change the fact that you or you friends did not get rooms. so rant away.

Wrong side of the bed this morning?

james80000

ilovemybrick wrote: »

The fact that the application is poorly written is not what excluded them. It was the fact that there were better written ones and there are a limited number of allocations on campus. It is a crucial difference.

as for the rest of your post, yes you can have an opinion but it wont change the fact that you or you friends did not get rooms. so rant away.

in fact i did get rooms. grow up