Semesterisation '09

duffman90210

Check out the proposed term structure if semesterisation is accepted. ****ing ridiculous. 12 week terms and only 2 to revise the year. Trinity Term exists only as a two week revision period. A load of bull****. The three fellows that I know, (they teach me), said they won't be accepting it. Hopefully it gets rejected...

Jonathan

Trinity Liathroid is now gonna be in april, cause the exams are in may?

Podge_irl

duffman90210 wrote: »

Check out the proposed term structure if semesterisation is accepted. ****ing ridiculous. 12 week terms and only 2 to revise the year.[/IMG]

There is only one week between lectures and exams at present though?

tolosenc

Yeah, but 4 weeks of the last 10 weeks before the exams as opposed to 2 of the last 14. Big difference.

This semesterisation thing is bullcrap. It's fine the way it is. It's our history, our heritage. Why aren't we fighting against this more?

starn

obl wrote: »

Yeah, but 4 weeks of the last 10 weeks before the exams as opposed to 2 of the last 14. Big difference.

This semesterisation thing is bullcrap. It's fine the way it is. It's our history, our heritage. Why aren't we fighting against this more?

Yeah your right and I wanna be allowed hang a few catholics in the front square again

Peleus

and this means we miss a month of summer holidays this year. :mad:

Crash

How so? teaching week one starts on the 28th of September, meaning you lose two weeks, not a month.

Thirdfox

starn wrote: »

Yeah your right and I wanna be allowed hang a few catholics in the front square again

+1 long live the queen! :rolleyes: I think his point was that bad traditions are bad but good traditions should be kept alive. Sure let's all stop learning Irish since it's just a relic from the old days eh? (I'm not getting into that debate!)

Frankly I don't know enough to comment - is there a particular reason for the semesterisation? I think many students like the system as it currently is, perhaps this wreaks havoc on administrators? Even on a trivial side - it's nice that we can get cheap holidays in September when everyone is going back to school/college... I'm sure the staff appreciate that too!

Cantab.

This is a focking disgrace.

Can we rename the place Trinity IT?

While we're at it, we might as well put all the statues up on ebay to raise money to pay for the bureaucrats' salaries.

Cantab.

starn wrote: »

Yeah your right and I wanna be allowed hang a few catholics in the front square again

Why don't you fock off to UCD then?

Or would DCU suit you better?

Trinity is great because of its fine heritage and rich tradition. Strip this away and there's very little left. We've been living off the legend for at least a generation now and it's time to buck ourselves up in the spirit of re-invigorating our fine traditions -- they're traditions for a reason: they've stood the test of time and offer continuity between administrations. The democracy of the past as it were.

The Provost must be on cocaine as far as I can see.

Is he pushing this one through before his tenure is up? Or is this his knee-jerk reaction to the financial crisis facing the college? How many more years has he got left?

I'd prefer to see a scaling back on the number of undergrads/postgrads and a focus on developing long-term financial stability via trust funds and not a dependence on government funding. The college has been raped over this decade and we're now utterly dependent on the popularist whims of government.

Front square re-cobbling, "eco bins" and "semesterization" are symtoms of flawed ideologies and extreme liberal visions on what Trinity is and should be like.

All College Fellows and administrators should be given a reading week so they can find out about the great figures in the College's history: Swift, Beckett, Schrodinger, etc., etc. As far as I can see, most of the current batch haven't got a focking clue. And I'm probably right too judging by the pathetic attendance at Commons. We might as well shut the Dining Hall down too while we're at it: I'm sure there are plenty of ignorant new-age "visionary" academic Nazis with a massive chip on their shoulder who'd like to see this.

I call for a return to academic excellence, impecable standards, a weeding out of the "undergraduate farm" mentality and a more student-centred approach to the College's administration.

Brian

Hasn't this proposal already been passed, like, ages ago?

Mark200

Cantab. wrote: »

Why don't you fock off to UCD then?

Or would DCU suit you better?

Trinity is great because of its fine heritage and rich tradition.

I, like a lot of others I'm sure, came here for the education and not tradition. It's kinda stupid to say that you should go somewhere else if you aren't obsessing over how great Trinity's traditions are.

Jonathan

Baza210 wrote: »

Hasn't this proposal already been passed, like, ages ago?

Superfluous words make baby jesus cry.

Podge_irl

Mark200 wrote: »

I, like a lot of others I'm sure, came here for the education and not tradition.

In fairness, though the biggest element, there is more to University then just receiving an education. I think acknowledging and preserving the history of the college is important and is an education itself.

Crash

I'd agree with Podge and somewhat with (i can't believe i'm saying this ) Cantab. here.

Out of interest Podge, whats the term system in Cambridge?

Podge_irl

More or less the same as Trinity have at the moment. Two terms of 8 teaching weeks (Michealmas and Lent) and one term of 6 teaching weeks (Easter). Slightly longer gap between the terms due to it only being 8 weeks instead of 9.

Brian

jmccrohan wrote: »

Superfluous words make baby jesus cry.

Yarr, twas the point. I don't welcome our dichotomising overlords, blah blah. I prefer trimesters.

wowy

Where do the schol exams fit into all of this? (Not that it concerns me in the slightest).

Podge_irl

They are moving them to between first and second semester and they will concentrate on the first 3 terms of study (i.e. JF and the first term of SF). There will also be no exemptions.

starn

Cantab. wrote: »

Why don't you fock off to UCD then?

Or would DCU suit you better?

Why do they both hang catholics now ??

Anyone wanna come with me. We can have a mob and everything

Bajingo

Is this the way the JF science subjects are being run this year(the modularation thing)? If it is then I dont see what the problem is but thats probably because ive never experienced the old term system.

Awayindahils

Podge_irl wrote: »

They are moving them to between first and second semester and they will concentrate on the first 3 terms of study (i.e. JF and the first term of SF). There will also be no exemptions.

That's going to be weird for BESS. There is no real content to the political science and sociology courses from first year and people drop at least two subjects after 1st year. Wonder what they're going to do with the papers. I suppose it will still be a term and a half, but for Economics we definetely had questions from the last few weeks of HT.

Scarinae

Cantab. wrote: »

Front square re-cobbling, "eco bins" and "semesterization" are symtoms of flawed ideologies and extreme liberal visions on what Trinity is and should be like.

The cobbles in front square have only been there for 50-60 years, and what is wrong with the eco bins?

starn

The eco bins are bad ass. Ive been looking for someone small enough for me to put in one. Cant wait to see what happens

manicmonoliths

starn wrote: »

The eco bins are bad ass. Ive been looking for someone small enough for me to put in one. Cant wait to see what happens

I'd imagine you'd be committing very environmentally friendly murder...

Cantab.

Does Heggo have a cat?

I remember Mitchell had a lovely pedigree cat.

Rorate Caeli

Hynser, you left the pub only to go home and post on boards.ie? ffs

Rorate Caeli

Actually, 10 this morning, forgive me.

Rorate Caeli

Cantab. wrote: »

This is a focking disgrace.

Another disgrace!

starn

manicmonoliths wrote: »

I'd imagine you'd be committing very environmentally friendly murder...

I wonder would Cantab fit in one ?

Boston

nah, his head is far too massive.

starn

True.