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Student residences???

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  • #62
    english4490
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭english4490


    loveissucide wrote: »
    Corrib is basically a minimum security prison.On my 18th we had to smuggle my best mate in under the fence,and I met a girl who lost a finger going over the wall.
    well ive my deposit paid for corrib, but we are going to probably pull out and look elsewhere, only problem everwhere else is booked out! suggestions anyone???:eek:


  • #63
    loveissucide
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭loveissucide


    Not sure,I was in the same boat and had to endure that dump for a year.****ing houseparties are the bane of my life.


  • #64
    english4490
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭english4490


    loveissucide wrote: »
    Not sure,I was in the same boat and had to endure that dump for a year.****ing houseparties are the bane of my life.
    oh god... there is a few of us heading up so a house may not be totally out of the question!


  • #65
    Hannahlu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭Hannahlu


    look for a house i'd say...dont know corrib, but heard bad things........so am i to take it all the other residences are booked out?


  • #66
    english4490
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭english4490


    Hannahlu wrote: »
    look for a house i'd say...dont know corrib, but heard bad things........so am i to take it all the other residences are booked out?

    gort na coiribe
    dun na coribe
    atlantis

    they are for sure..... then menlo only had a bed in a twin room when i last rang which was weeks ago.... and i dont know bout dunaras or lisdonagh cos they are too far out for me!!


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  • #67
    loveissucide
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭loveissucide


    House'd be the right idea.Problem is they try to avoid getting First Years for obvious reasons.


  • #68
    Hannahlu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭Hannahlu


    Thanks Eng,
    they are for sure..... then menlo only had a bed in a twin room when i last rang which was weeks ago.... and i dont know bout dunaras or lisdonagh cos they are too far out for me!!
    ...........yeah theyre way too far out for me too :p...coming up from cork so want to be near enough to the college and especially dont want to be walking a length home or bussing it on a manky winters evening. Looking forroom in a house myself, some are actually not too bad with first years, well im a good girl so maybe its just me :D


  • #69
    english4490
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭english4490


    Hannahlu wrote: »
    Thanks Eng,

    ...........yeah theyre way too far out for me too :p...coming up from cork so want to be near enough to the college and especially dont want to be walking a length home or bussing it on a manky winters evening. Looking forroom in a house myself, some are actually not too bad with first years, well im a good girl so maybe its just me :D
    ya there is a few of us coming uo from tipp/limerick so we may end up getting a house! i would have liked the whole student residence thing in 1st yr but when we went up and went into 2 apartments in corrib there is no hope of it! what annoys me is ive stayed in 4 or 5 of them and they are all so much nicer than corrib, yet corrib is the most expensive!


  • #70
    loveissucide
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭loveissucide


    You're supposedly paying for the atmosphere.I found it one of fear and dread.


  • #71
    XorlamacX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭XorlamacX


    Hannahlu wrote: »
    Whereabouts in cork you from orla?.....im thinking of doing Science in nuig this sept, from cork myself :-)

    just outside fermoy...! wat about u? i was talkin to u in the maths and education thread too...cant remember the password for that thread:p are u goin up on ur own? corrib is meant to be a hole but theres no where else like unless u get a house...but im a party goer so ill just stick to corrib for the first yr id say esp coz im goin up alone! only thing is that i no my friends will want to visit so ill have to smuggle them in somehow:p


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  • #72
    XorlamacX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭XorlamacX


    loveissucide wrote: »
    Corrib is basically a minimum security prison.On my 18th we had to smuggle my best mate in under the fence,and I met a girl who lost a finger going over the wall.


    are u serious? thats frickin wierd! i need somewhere party central but i no that my friends will want to visit so i need somewhere that i can easily keep them!:p i heard gort is the best and my friends stay there durin the summer but the waiting list is meant to be huge!!:eek:


  • #73
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »
    corrib village anyone?


    im corrib villageing it this year my friends are all staying in cuirt is corrib really that awful like ?


  • #74
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    english4490 wrote: »
    well ive my deposit paid for corrib, but we are going to probably pull out and look elsewhere, only problem everwhere else is booked out! suggestions anyone???:eek:


    man you'll be fine few of my mates have gone there and loads others were staying down there for rag week

    I have my deposit payed and all it'll be grand for your first year like meet new peeps etc don't pull out , you'll regret not spending your first year there like ;)


  • #75
    jefreywithonef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef


    What's the weekly and total cost of staying in Corrib Village? Their website has a big virus lurking around.


  • #76
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    not too sure man ..are u staying there too yea ? what u mean a big virus ?


  • #77
    main-stage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭main-stage


    Theres 50 people ahead of me in the waiting list for Cuirt, does anyone know if I stand a chance of getting in then? I keep thinking that well 50 people might of just put an application in and decided to get private accomodation instead, someone please tell me I'm not mad :L


  • #78
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    Ah...sorry to shoot you down man but i know in my case and the case of many of my friends that hefty deposit required is not something to simply be thrown away... althought ..you could always hope that 50 people done get their results ...which is likely of happening ... maybe... u could always settle for corrib...thats what i had to do :L


  • #79
    Twilighter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭Twilighter


    I must be on of the few to be for Menlo am I?
    I'm sharing with a friend so I pretty much let her decide where to get.
    Is it far from the college does anyone know?
    :)


  • #80
    dmcg90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭dmcg90


    Twilighter wrote: »
    I must be on of the few to be for Menlo am I?
    I'm sharing with a friend so I pretty much let her decide where to get.
    Is it far from the college does anyone know?
    :)

    Its about a ten - fifteen walk to NUI, ten minute walk to town.


  • #81
    Twilighter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭Twilighter


    Not too bad then, except for rainy days. =/


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  • #82
    loveissucide
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭loveissucide


    No shortage of rainy days in Galway mind you.


  • #83
    aleyra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭aleyra


    hello! im starting in NUIG in sep and have kinda left the whole accomidation thing till last minute:rolleyes:.
    I'm from meath and ll be coming up on my own and i have absolutley no clue about Galway. First time there was at the open day last year!
    Anywho i have a friend of a friend who says she can get me a place in digs for the first few months till i get ot know the place.Just wondering if you could recommend any student accomedation that is still available. Apart from Corrib village , waaay to overpriced for state of it!


  • #84
    Trackie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭Trackie


    Hey alerya I was in the exact same position. I'm from Meath & went to Galway knowing basically no one. I stayed in digs for the first year. I found it pretty good to get settled in, I spent most of my time in Corrib Village with new found friends!! Believe me you will love Galway....I never want to leave the place!! If you check out the NUIG website they have loads of information on accomodation www.nuigalway.ie/student_life/student_services/accommodation_office/
    Hope that helps :rolleyes:


  • #85
    poisonated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭poisonated


    Hey so i'm going to Galway next year is it hard to get to know people in corrib village...I might be going to GMIT though does anyone know if its hard to get to know people there?? sorry I know its the nui forum but my main question is the first one
    thanks


  • #86
    Trackie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭Trackie


    hey poisonated, well seeing as your going to gmit it might be a bit more difficult to get to know people from corrib village. However you never know you might end up there on nights out! There is a student village called glasan just beside gmit but I dont have a clue what its like. You should get to know people by chatting to people on your course. Dont be shy put yourself out there! Most people are in the same boat so im sure you will get on fine;) good luck!


  • #87
    jefreywithonef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef


    Timmyctc wrote: »
    not too sure man ..are u staying there too yea ? what u mean a big virus ?

    No haven't got anything sorted yet. Gonna get it completely sorted by tomorrow. I've the dilemma whether to take up a single room in Lisdonagh (apparently a fair bit away from the college / town - for nights out it'd cost a fair bit of taxi money too) or share a double elsewhere nearer the college...

    A big virus as in the viruses you get on computers - a program I have detected one emanating from the corrib site :D


  • #88
    poisonated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭poisonated


    oh sorry Im hoping to go to NUI I have corrib village booked but if I dont get in to NUI...
    thanks your probably right


  • #89
    Mallox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 185 ✭✭Mallox


    aleyra wrote: »
    Apart from Corrib village , waaay to overpriced for state of it!

    it really is isn it especially in this economic downturn chuh ... im booked in there but realy wanna find a house instead ahh .. any first years move into a house in 1st year ... how was it cost wise .. surely cheaper then corrib rite???


  • #90
    Barbieliveshere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭Barbieliveshere


    hey hey im hoping to start in nuig in september however im going to be based off campus in carraroe.... Anyone know anything about accomodation out there? im from meath and have no idea:D thanks


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  • #91
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    Monzo wrote: »
    No haven't got anything sorted yet. Gonna get it completely sorted by tomorrow. I've the dilemma whether to take up a single room in Lisdonagh (apparently a fair bit away from the college / town - for nights out it'd cost a fair bit of taxi money too) or share a double elsewhere nearer the college...

    A big virus as in the viruses you get on computers - a program I have detected one emanating from the corrib site :D


    :L yea i get what a big virus is i just thought an official site wouldn't have a "Big Virus" floating about it...anyways i say everyone comes to corrib with me and we all have a big friendly party ...cuz im dreading the beginning anonymity:( :)


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