The New Bitch/Moan/Rant Thread.

cHaTbOx · 16-10-2008 6:19pm #1

Ok this thread to let off steam about the sh1te things that happen at UCD.

cHaTbOx · 16-10-2008 6:24pm

Arghghghghg I hate lectures who use dont use slides.

Chalk is so hard to read:mad:

ALso I am sick:(

Frisbee · 16-10-2008 6:29pm

The Trap only has one decent pool table

SRFC90 · 16-10-2008 6:46pm

Hate college essays. They're so complicated and undoable. <---

_raven_ · 16-10-2008 6:54pm

I hate every one of those f*cking 29000 Euros a year I was supposed to pay. Now I'm stuck with Italy instead of Ireland.

bnt · 16-10-2008 6:59pm

Autumn's coming, and so the 1st years are going to find out how a wind tunnel works, whether they're doing a science-related subject or not. The wind gets funnelled straight down between the buildings, past the library and beyond. Those covered walkways don't help when the sleet's coming down there horizontally... :cool:

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 16-10-2008 7:41pm

Frisbee wrote: »

The Trap only has one decent pool table

And the assholes god rid of the free table and the 10c table!

rainbow kirby · 16-10-2008 8:00pm

/bitches and whines AGAIN about 4th CS lab situation

Mr.Nice Guy · 16-10-2008 8:03pm

Stayed up all night last night doing a Creative Writing assignment and then forgot to bring the bloody thing. Grrrr. At least I wasn't asked to read it this week. :cool:

shanegj · 16-10-2008 8:21pm

random chatbox wrote: »

Arghghghghg I hate lectures who use dont use slides.

Chalk is so hard to read:mad:

ALso I am sick:(

sit in the front instead lol

Tea-a-Maria · 16-10-2008 9:42pm

Why do I have to be 17???I wasn't even allowed into my own class party for fecks sake!

Brimmy · 16-10-2008 9:58pm

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH ASSIGNMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is all.

gubbie · 16-10-2008 10:08pm

Man I hate these threads. And blogs. Thats it

kev_s88 · 16-10-2008 10:23pm

arghhh i hate fucking mid-term assignments and exams :mad:

Waltons · 16-10-2008 11:15pm

rainbow kirby wrote: »

/bitches and whines AGAIN about 4th CS lab situation

I second this motion

Korvanica · 17-10-2008 12:01am

God DAMN the serious lack of perishable food substances available in the Students Union Bookshop!!! ans Assignments also grind my gears!

Stabshauptmann · 17-10-2008 8:49am

God I love UCD, the article in the tribune about the Quinn school girls, god bless 'em

Stabshauptmann · 17-10-2008 10:28am

Just read the tribune, page three (rather apt that)

Mr.Nice Guy · 17-10-2008 3:07pm

You've been up all night doing an essay. You've had a little over two hours sleep. Your eyes are itchy and sore. What is the last thing you want...

Why, a surprise quiz in your politics lecture. Huzzah!

I was waffling away but I think I got some of the points. With a bit of luck I might get a C grade in it. Here's hoping.

What a day anyway. I'll be in the land of nod very quickly when I do decide to drop off. :pac:

Frank Grimes · 17-10-2008 3:58pm

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Why, a surprise quiz in your politics lecture. Huzzah!

I was waffling away but I think I got some of the points. With a bit of luck I might get a C grade in it. Here's hoping.

Genocide and International Community I presume? Same as myself, only got the time to read the chapter this morning thanks to an essay and another assignment - ah well, at least there's one get out jail for free card with those quizzes!

Mr.Nice Guy · 17-10-2008 4:15pm

Frank Grimes wrote: »

Genocide and International Community I presume? Same as myself, only got the time to read the chapter this morning thanks to an essay and another assignment - ah well, at least there's one get out jail for free card with those quizzes!

Yep that's the one. My heart sank when I heard him say the q word. I only had a quick glance at the first two pages as I've so much essay stuff on but the first question I did seemed to be pretty much on what I looked at. If I got a C in that I'd be delighted.

As you say though we do have that one lifeline in those quizzes.

Dave! · 17-10-2008 4:19pm

What's the get out of jail free thing?

Can ye just say "I'll give this one a miss" and you don't have to do it??? :eek: I presume it's only the one if so

Pride Fighter · 17-10-2008 4:25pm

Isn't this just a copy of a Trinity thread, which copied us originally and now we are making a new one.
What have I to moan about. Nothing really, I stayed up all night doing an essay. That was fun:rolleyes:

Frank Grimes · 17-10-2008 4:36pm

Dave! wrote: »

What's the get out of jail free thing? Can ye just say "I'll give this one a miss" and you don't have to do it??? :eek: I presume it's only the one if so

We're doing 3 or 4 in total plus the final exam, the lowest grade quiz won't count towards the final grade for the module.

lemon_sherbert · 17-10-2008 5:00pm

Essays that are worth 45%, lecturers who assume you know the major principles of subjects you won't do till next year

Handsome Bob · 17-10-2008 7:27pm

Assigments that aren't worth the amount you put in. One module sets a 2,000 word essay worth 40%, then a different module(but within the same department) offers only 15% for a 2,000 essay. I guess it makes sense.

Sarchasm · 17-10-2008 10:00pm

Tea-a-Maria wrote: »

Why do I have to be 17???I wasn't even allowed into my own class party for fecks sake!

did you skip transition year?

my rant:
I dislike my name being associated with UCD when a competition to see who can be the biggest slut is popular. Also people in work think I'm D4 and my daddy is rich just because I go to UCD.

people standing in the middle of doorways, especially lecture theatres- idiots!

my masters results not being out yet, they put up the results about 2 weeks ago but then took them down again so I'm not sure if they were provisional or my actual marks.

Bubs101 · 17-10-2008 10:19pm

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

You've been up all night doing an essay. You've had a little over two hours sleep. Your eyes are itchy and sore. What is the last thing you want...

Why, a surprise quiz in your politics lecture. Huzzah!

I was waffling away but I think I got some of the points. With a bit of luck I might get a C grade in it. Here's hoping.

How dare Dr. Thomas take away our lovely blackboard and bring in pop quizes which you can only do well in if you focus on the whole of a 40 page reading. Someone should tell him that's not how we do things around here. Having said that, I read the first 5 pages and there's a decent chance my waffling blagged me a B and worst case scenario is a D which ain't shocking

Mr.Nice Guy · 17-10-2008 11:25pm

Bubs101 wrote: »

How dare Dr. Thomas take away our lovely blackboard and bring in pop quizes which you can only do well in if you focus on the whole of a 40 page reading. Someone should tell him that's not how we do things around here. Having said that, I read the first 5 pages and there's a decent chance my waffling blagged me a B and worst case scenario is a D which ain't shocking

Hey Bubs I didn't know you were in that course. :cool:

The worst thing is when you bother to read one of those giant readings and when it comes to the lecture nothing of major note gets said on it. I felt I had a pretty good grasp of the stuff on Cambodia and a few of those other countries and wouldn't have minded a quiz on one of them. Guess it's the luck of the draw in a way.

cHaTbOx · 18-10-2008 5:26am

Pride Fighter wrote: »

Isn't this just a copy of a Trinity thread, which copied us originally and now we are making a new one.

SO how are we copying them

Grrrrr Blackboard I needed you then and you let me down :mad:

passive · 18-10-2008 3:56pm

Paid €40 on Tuesday for a new tire fitting and repairs to a buckle in my back wheel in the bike shop. He mentioned having replaced some spokes, which increased the cost. Cycling home, back tire goes completely flat... Haven't had a chance to look at it yet, but I'm pretty sure they must have pushed one of the spokes through and it pierced the tube.

So an hour and a half walk home in the rain was added to my day, and now today or tomorrow will have to include bike repairs, and monday will feature complaining and asking for money back.

19-10-2008 11:49am

the whole sham that is Computer-****ing science, farce

Tea-a-Maria · 19-10-2008 12:41pm

Sarchasm wrote: »

did you skip transition year?

Yup.And I still don't regret that..

Much.

33% God · 19-10-2008 1:28pm

Tea-a-Maria wrote: »

Why do I have to be 17???I wasn't even allowed into my own class party for fecks sake!

Get yourself a fake ID. Or better yet, a passport from a mate. The bouncers barely look at them up here. Hell, my friend showed them his passport that says he's 17 till December and he got into Tripod.

c7 · 19-10-2008 8:51pm

The anti-Mac stance of Quinn. :mad:

Mr.Nice Guy · 19-10-2008 9:17pm

And so begins my week in which I must hand in TWO essay assignments.

cHaTbOx · 22-10-2008 12:05am

Buses:mad:

Handsome Bob · 22-10-2008 7:30am

random chatbox wrote: »

Buses:mad:

Ha ha, welcome to UCD dude!:p The day I reach a Bus in time is the day hell has frozen over! (they usually annoyingly depart UCD straight after my lectures, why not wait until the hour hits?)

cHaTbOx · 22-10-2008 11:27am

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Ha ha, welcome to UCD dude!:p The day I reach a Bus in time is the day hell has frozen over! (they usually annoyingly depart UCD straight after my lectures, why not wait until the hour hits?)

I am talking about them not going to UCD after 9 anymore
I am pretty lucky in the sense they wait for me:D(or I bang on the door):pac:

Notorious · 22-10-2008 2:57pm

That economics in general sucks a big one.

rainbow kirby · 22-10-2008 4:11pm

55 minutes to get from UCD to St Stephen's Green this afternoon.

Grr.

Crazy_marble · 22-10-2008 6:50pm

The printers...what idiot decided it'd be a good idea to default the printers to double-sided printing but not allow you to choose one-sided? Now I can't print out my thesis and it's going to cost me a fortune in copiprint.

bnt · 22-10-2008 7:06pm

Crazy_marble wrote: »

The printers...what idiot decided it'd be a good idea to default the printers to double-sided printing but not allow you to choose one-sided? Now I can't print out my thesis and it's going to cost me a fortune in copiprint.

You can choose one-sided, if you go in to Properties from the "Print" dialog.

ccosgrave · 22-10-2008 9:13pm

I've nothing against foreigners or foreign people in Ireland, but it seriously annoys me when I come into a lecture and can't understand anything because of the lecturer's thick accent. I just find it so irritating that I'm spending an hour in class straining to hear this guy when I could have spent half that time reading through the stuff in a textbook.

It also pisses me off when I hear about people lying about their parents' income so as they'll get grants, but I guess that's not UCD's fault. I've heard of about three cases this year about people who get grants when they clearly do not deserve them, and end up just spending the money on clothes or going out.

Chakar · 22-10-2008 10:35pm

bnt wrote: »

You can choose one-sided, if you go in to Properties from the "Print" dialog.

Thanks for that. I hope that works.

Malmedicine · 22-10-2008 10:42pm

The 7 o'clock starts with six o'clock finishes are killing me. How to study, tired all the time!

Mr.Nice Guy · 22-10-2008 11:57pm

Two essays to do. Not done much beyond the planning of them.

HELP!!! :eek:

scop · 22-10-2008 11:59pm

ccosgrave wrote: »

I've nothing against foreigners or foreign people in Ireland, but it seriously annoys me when I come into a lecture and can't understand anything because of the lecturer's thick accent. I just find it so irritating that I'm spending an hour in class straining to hear this guy when I could have spent half that time reading through the stuff in a textbook.

Any chance this was a philosophy lecture? I know the guy personally, and he is aware of it now. Funny thing is he knows the stuff better than anybody else really bar the lecturers; at least in UCD. Most postgrads come from abroad. It's helpful being Irish as a tutor anyway thats for sure.

ccosgrave · 23-10-2008 9:45am

scop wrote: »

Any chance this was a philosophy lecture? I know the guy personally, and he is aware of it now. Funny thing is he knows the stuff better than anybody else really bar the lecturers; at least in UCD. Most postgrads come from abroad. It's helpful being Irish as a tutor anyway thats for sure.

No, it was a biochemistry lecture. I don't doubt that they know their stuff and are quite well-versed, but transferring your understanding of the subject to your students is half the battle in lecturing, which is where this becomes a problem.

Crazy_marble · 23-10-2008 10:51am

bnt wrote: »

You can choose one-sided, if you go in to Properties from the "Print" dialog.

Tried it, didn't work unfortunately. The IT girl in the Daedelus said she had gotten loads of people to try that but with no success and she had no idea what was wrong. I gave up and bought a few print cartridges. Thanks for the advice though.

RandolphEsq · 23-10-2008 10:55am

I hate the way if you get certain result in the Lc and if it is enough above the course requirements you can get a grant.
I know a handful of people who got a grant and they do not need it living at home no more than a 15 minute cycle from college (all of them) and obviously having enough money to not even expect the children to use that money towards college education expenses. The money just funded social lives.

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