Official bitch about daily life in UL

Owen_S

iLaura wrote: »

I assume you tried use the ones in the library?

Seems to only be two, which are both in use. Plus they can only handle 1 page at a time, cheap machines

Aceandstuff

There was a stuffed baby in the CSIS building. I don't know why. It was weird. Not everyday you see a stuffed baby...

wnolan1992

As in, a taxidermy-ed human child corpse? That's a bit... grim.

Aceandstuff

wnolan1992 wrote: »

As in, a taxidermy-ed human child corpse? That's a bit... grim.

(So predictable...)

A doll. I hate those things. Not going in today if I can help it!
I haven't been a CSIS student for too long, but every single conversation I've had in that place has been about murder. Is that normal?:rolleyes:

wnolan1992

Aceandstuff wrote: »

(So predictable...)

A doll. I hate those things. Not going in today if I can help it!
I haven't been a CSIS student for too long, but every single conversation I've had in that place has been about murder. Is that normal?:rolleyes:

Pretty normal yeah.

Most of your conversations will revolve around:
- Murdering group project partners who refuse to work
- Murdering TAs who are unintelligible
- Murdering lecturers from other departments who teach modules to CSIS students who really just don't give a toss
- Murdering CSIS lecturers who "teach" utter crap
- Murdering yourself due to ever increasing levels of stress and lack of sleep


It's a happy building! :P

Aceandstuff

We had one TA who had to look up binary numbers on Google during a tutorial. Literally, "how to count in binary." She told us she was only teaching us for her PHD!

I'll start collecting the tokens from the porridge packets and see if I can get one. I can do science, me!

Most of the convos were about hypothetical situations where students or lecturers would be involved in ridiculous deathmatches. Except the one where I kill An Post...

jamo2oo9

Dropping out of my course so I have to go down to SAA to get my forms signed and stamped for CAO and I did that last week but it was closed because of the Party on the Plaza. Anyone know if it'll be open on Monday? Check the website and it seems to be open during normal hours. Can I expect this on Monday or is there an event that the SAA will finish up early and attend said event?

YFlyer

Aceandstuff wrote: »

We had one TA who had to look up binary numbers on Google during a tutorial. Literally, "how to count in binary." She told us she was only teaching us for her PHD!

I'll start collecting the tokens from the porridge packets and see if I can get one. I can do science, me!

Most of the convos were about hypothetical situations where students or lecturers would be involved in ridiculous deathmatches. Except the one where I kill An Post...

There are 10 types of people in this world.............

onethreefive

Does anyone know if it is possible to find out the % you get in exams?

Chris Martin

Know range within 5% :P
Why are you thinking of appealing?

onethreefive

Chris Martin wrote: »

Know range within 5% :P
Why are you thinking of appealing?

Nope it was just out of interest :pac:

wnolan1992

onethreefive wrote: »

Does anyone know if it is possible to find out the % you get in exams?

Ask to view your script.

jamo2oo9

How do I cancel my application for on-campus accommodation? Can I do it online or do I have to ring them up?

onethreefive

Anyone know of anywhere that hire students during the semester?

Ave Sodalis

It's incredible how you can finish and your supervisor can still screw you over. Emailed her last week after viewing scripts since she made a complete mess of it and she's only after emailing back to say she'll meet me all the way in Limerick about them. Just two weeks after I can do anything about it... I'm actually not sure I can get through graduation without hitting her. I'm even less sure I can get through graduation without losing my temper at her. It's really incredible. Right up until last year, in 20 years, I lost my temper a grand total of 2 times. That's twice in my entire life. And yet that woman has caused me to lose my temper on a fortnightly basis for the last year....

Daniel S

sup_dude wrote: »

It's incredible how you can finish and your supervisor can still screw you over. Emailed her last week after viewing scripts since she made a complete mess of it and she's only after emailing back to say she'll meet me all the way in Limerick about them. Just two weeks after I can do anything about it... I'm actually not sure I can get through graduation without hitting her. I'm even less sure I can get through graduation without losing my temper at her. It's really incredible. Right up until last year, in 20 years, I lost my temper a grand total of 2 times. That's twice in my entire life. And yet that woman has caused me to lose my temper on a fortnightly basis for the last year....

Really looking forward to 4th year now... :eek:

oseia

I still have to get an FYP idea and a supervisor. Meanwhile everyone in my course has both since a couple of months ago.

Ave Sodalis

Daniel S wrote:

Really looking forward to 4th year now...

It's not that bad. I just had a very pleasant (ie absolute cow) of a supervisor who spent the whole year screwing me over

jamo2oo9

Would on-campus accommodation give out a reference for me? Need a landlord reference for a house to rent in Dublin.

Daniel S

Yup, should do. Did for me.

Owen_S

Anybody know the SU opening hours for the summer?

wnolan1992

Owen_S wrote: »

Anybody know the SU opening hours for the summer?

9:00 to around 4:30.

sibby

This might be a stupid question but if you get a D in an exam and decide to repeat it and then get an F in the repeat do they take your highest grade or most recent?

iLaura

sibby wrote: »

This might be a stupid question but if you get a D in an exam and decide to repeat it and then get an F in the repeat do they take your highest grade or most recent?

Not 100% sure but I think they take your highest.

LilRedDorcha

I was told two years ago that they took your highest, and I looked it up in the student handbook. So, I'd say check the handbook just to be sure they didn't change it.

North of 32

I've said this before, but are they actually serious charging €42 for compulsory graduation robes? And that's advance booking. It's €45 to hire them on the day.

€42 for compulsory robes.

jamo2oo9

North of 32 wrote: »

I've said this before, but are they actually serious charging €42 for compulsory graduation robes? And that's advance booking. It's €45 to hire them on the day.

€42 for compulsory robes.

It's 95 for a set in DIT so UL is cheaper really...

North of 32

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

It's 95 for a set in DIT so UL is cheaper really...

I saw that coming

I still think they're miserable fucks.

Precious flower

Damn, I've forgotten to reset my password and I'm now locked out of my emails!:pac: Even though I've finished my four years I still want to be able to access my student emails. Have to get on to SAA!

Precious flower

North of 32 wrote: »

I've said this before, but are they actually serious charging €42 for compulsory graduation robes? And that's advance booking. It's €45 to hire them on the day.

€42 for compulsory robes.

We shouldn't have to pay for them at all. If they get them handed back and constantly reuse them, I refuse to pay! If I pay 42 euro, I want to do like Mark Twain and keep my robe and wear it everywhere :pac: