Open day opinions?

ooPabsoo

Well i went to the open day on sturday and i found it excellant, friendly staff, students to help you out..... just seemed like a really nice place!
narrowed my choice down to computer science and computing!! hmmmmm

what did every1 else think of it??
F1 car was awesome

Max_Damage

Wait 'till you get to Kevin Street, not exactly a 'nice place'...

ooPabsoo

lol why is it a dump??

Ass

Max_Damage wrote: »

Wait 'till you get to Kevin Street, not exactly a 'nice place'...

You're obviously not a Computer Science games student then.

We have the best lab in DIT in Kevin Street. Thankfully you need to be doing a robotics, graphics or Games to get in there.

tinz18

Max_Damage wrote: »

Wait 'till you get to Kevin Street, not exactly a 'nice place'...

I get where he's coming from.:o I spent the first week of college in aungier st. and then moved to Kevin St. It was a bit of a come down:( but now I wouldn't trade it! Well not I got a high price anyways!:rolleyes: The labs in Kevin St are way better than the Labs I saw in other ITs... there's less signs on the machines saying out of service as I saw in LIT!:D
As for everyone being friendly, it's the truth. That's what impressed me the most on the open days and eventually led me to picking Dublin. It makes no difference what course you're doing you'll make friends with people from a lot of different courses!:P

Soby

Ass Face wrote: »

You're obviously not a Computer Science games student then.

We have the best lab in DIT in Kevin Street. Thankfully you need to be doing a robotics, graphics or Games to get in there.

Ye sure if you only open your eyes when your inside 305 lab, Kevin Street is a lovely place

Casok

haha, go on pabs.... u give ur opinion, YEAH!! i tout it was good bu wuda liked if they had stands with pics of all the different DIT's in them, that wuda been a good idea!!

ooPabsoo

ye prob would have actually.....wouldnt have minded goin over to see kevin street

BaRcOe

The best thing about Kev street is the CHEAP breakfasts! Its only like 2 something for your sausis, rashers, eggs hasys...etc..deffo the cheapest around!

udrwise the stairs are a bitch especially when on the 4th floor(which u will b 4 sum lectures in comp science), they really need better lift facilities!

OP im sure youve seen these threads before but just to help you on your choice here they are again.
Computer Science or Computing in DIT

Computing & Computer Science

good luck in the decision making and i mite c u next year, i defered comp science, giving it another go next year!

ooPabsoo

ive emailed the women in charge of dt228 asking if i could attend a first year lecture just to get a feel of the course but she hasnt wrote back.....must be a week at this stage

BaRcOe

ooPabsoo wrote: »

ive emailed the women in charge of dt228 asking if i could attend a first year lecture just to get a feel of the course but she hasnt wrote back.....must be a week at this stage

Well tbh, that isnt really the way to go about it, I understand where your coming from and all but if you like the course content /career opurtunities that u see in Qualifax then go for that course.
No need to go and sit a boring lecture, the only way to get a feel for the course is by actually accepting it and attending. What if you choose a terrible lecture and it turns you off the rest of the course, possibly stuff that you have a genuine interest in?!
I highly doubt theyl allow you to do that, its more than likely against policy!

Ass

ooPabsoo wrote: »

ive emailed the women in charge of dt228 asking if i could attend a first year lecture just to get a feel of the course but she hasnt wrote back.....must be a week at this stage

You probably wont get a reply for another month either before she turns you down. Aside from the fact that they are now off for Christmas, Lecturers are extremely busy at this time of year. They have exams to be taking care of, and just before Christmas they were probably looking after the 4th year final project intern reports.

grimm2005

tinz18 wrote: »

The labs in Kevin St are way better than the Labs I saw in other ITs... there's less signs on the machines saying out of service as I saw in LIT!:D

That maybe true, but you have to try to log in before you realise its out of service (which happens at least once a week :rolleyes:)

ooPabsoo

thanks for the replies......if you were an employer for a large IT firm,what would you go for, a person with a degree in computing-or computer science?i think id go for the computer science,which is why im moving towards doing that!