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"Grinds"?

  • 05-11-2008 11:03pm
    #1
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭


    Can someone explain to me just what people mean, when they offer or request "grinds"? I didn't go through the Irish school system, so I never saw any of this before I came to UCD, but there seems to be a lot of it about. I might even be able to offer a "grind" or two, if I have a better idea of what is expected. :o

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #2
    peanuthead
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    giving help to a student in a year below you on a particular subject. For example someone in first year spanish who is no good at grammar, might ask a second year student who is fluent to give them grinds. ie: help.


  • #3
    bnt
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    peanuthead wrote: »
    giving help to a student in a year below you on a particular subject.
    Oh - OK, thanks. I just thought that "grind" meant a specific teaching method that needs its own jargon, that's all. "Tutorial" might be a better word, since it describes what you actually do: tutoring.

    It seems to be a UCD thing to throw jargon around without explanation, assuming everyone already knows exactly what is meant. At the end of last semester, we had SU people running around wanting us to vote for them as "sabbatical officers" - again without explaining what that meant, or what they actually did. :pac:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #4
    peanuthead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭peanuthead


    bnt wrote: »
    Oh - OK, thanks. I just thought that "grind" meant a specific teaching method that needs its own jargon, that's all. "Tutorial" might be a better word, since it describes what you actually do: tutoring.

    It seems to be a UCD thing to throw jargon around without explanation, assuming everyone already knows exactly what is meant. At the end of last semester, we had SU people running around wanting us to vote for them as "sabbatical officers" - again without explaining what that meant, or what they actually did. :pac:

    the word grind is used because what happens is you usually end up covering alot of material in a short space of time, so its like a crash revision course before exams. I agree that UCD can be a bit like that, but you will find the word grind is used alot, in particular with secondary school students who are looking for Junior Cert or Leaving Cert Grinds (the 2 state exams we do here in second level)

    If you are in a position to offer any, do advertise, you may either get soe cash, or some help in return if you need it.


  • #5
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Thanks for the replies, all. Looking at the grinds file, however, it seems to be all post-graduates offering them, so I can hardly compete from 2Y.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #6
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    bnt wrote: »
    At the end of last semester, we had SU people running around wanting us to vote for them as "sabbatical officers" - again without explaining what that meant, or what they actually did. :pac:

    Don't worry -- nobody knows what sabbatical officers do. We're pretty sure it's nothing though.


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