Wat do you want for Semester 2???

Flinter08/09

So as the second semester is fast approaching it's time for me to ask the question, what do you want from your SU or even DIT for that matter??

There are many things that are achievable and can be sorted out! No matter if its a big or small issue we want to know about it so we can actaully do something about it!!

So take this opportunity to let us know and we will do what we can!!

Your Vice President
Tracey Flinter

The Volt

Hi Tracey, Glenn here. 1st yr Media Arts Class Rep.

At the start of the year we got a big talk on not going to Java because of their prices, yet its cheaper to get a nice toasted sambo there than it is for the ones in the SU shop

As well as this I think the standards in the restaurant have fallen big time

What about you? What do you want from the students apart from the protest on Feb 4?

sdanseo

Hiya Tracey, couple of things come to mind specific to Bolton St.. I'm not a class rep, but that shouldn't matter?

First is E block - I'm in DT028/1 and the smell of certain somethings in that building is shocking. Something long term obviously isn't going to happen with Grangegorman and the buget etc but we really should be either accommodated elsewhere or at the very least, a job should be done on the toilets on the ground floor.

Second thing is internet access - we have just the one break in the day and it's always 1-2pm, so damn near impossible to get internet access in the library because it's always packed out. Is there anything that can be done about getting Internet access in the labs when there's no classes on? I was in Aungier Street last year and they can manage it there, why the issue with Bolton Street?

Cheers!

stevire

Flinter08/09 wrote: »

So as the second semester is fast approaching it's time for me to ask the question, what do you want from your SU or even DIT for that matter??

There are many things that are achievable and can be sorted out! No matter if its a big or small issue we want to know about it so we can actaully do something about it!!

So take this opportunity to let us know and we will do what we can!!

Your Vice President
Tracey Flinter

How about cheaper shop prices? Some of the prices are shocking, the SU shop should help us not leech off us... I'm in DIT for 4th year now and always try boycott the shop, rip off. This is something that is a small issue and can be done with immediate effect!

Take for example the snackery in Kevin St. The little canteen area is such a rip off, go downstairs to the main canteen and get the same item for about 20/30c less. It's simple business that if you lower the price of items there's a good chance that the rates of sales will improve, which will overall lead to a bigger profit margin. The high prices and the lack of sales, (due to outsourcing, even if it is just downstairs!!) is bad business.

JohnG18

Hi Tracey,

My names John I'm in first year in Cathal Brugha, I don't have anything to complain about cause basically Cathal Brugha has great labs, awesome SU area and the Canteen is lovely and not over priced.

Just the library is the only concern, there is generally lots of study spaces and computers are handy enough to come across its just the Science section in the library is some what lackluster.

Creamy Goodness

stevire wrote: »

How about cheaper shop prices? Some of the prices are shocking, the SU shop should help us not leech off us... I'm in DIT for 4th year now and always try boycott the shop, rip off. This is something that is a small issue and can be done with immediate effect!

Take for example the snackery in Kevin St. The little canteen area is such a rip off, go downstairs to the main canteen and get the same item for about 20/30c less. It's simple business that if you lower the price of items there's a good chance that the rates of sales will improve, which will overall lead to a bigger profit margin. The high prices and the lack of sales, (due to outsourcing, even if it is just downstairs!!) is bad business.

exactly. and some items are 5/10c cheaper in the canteen than in the SU shop. there's absolutely no need for it.

also employ the phantom of kevin street, he got some good things done although whether or not he'd take the offer is up to him or is it her? :pac:

jossnjuice

id love you to find me a job for work placement...........but i dont think it comes under your area!!!! and id love for you to get a gig night with the delorentos supported by the mighty stef!!!! i will love you forever!!!! and i agree with the earlier posts about the canteen declining, in aungier st anyway, depending on who you get behind the serveover and the till, you sometimes get twice as much for a fair price and then the other times its half as much for twice the price!!!! some across the board prices that are stuck to would be appreciated greatley, because just by the numbers that are going to fresh these days, the canteen is losing its customers because of bad value.

Creamy Goodness

also with the canteen especially in aungier st. why is it one price for one person and another price for another.

plenty of times i've been there and had the exact same meal as my friend yet the prices in the meals could differ between 50c-€1.

miss no stars

According to an email I just got, the Q6A forms are available on the ditsu website but the hyperlinked image above the text about said form does not link to these forms.
Can someone please post a link to the electronic copy please?

bohsfan

There seems to have been a problem with all the links in the email. If you go here...

http://www.ditsu.ie/rate

you can download the form

scheister

looking around ast deffo the canteen the prices are a joke i do agree with the point that it depends who you are r who serves ya what price ya pay. Also i cant say much about the standard of the food is ast is not the best. was in iadt yesterday and the difference in the foood was vast and it still was campell

tywy

Broken seats in the lecture theatres in Aungier St. Sometimes, last semester our classroom was so packed that people had to sit on the steps because there were 4 seats broken. So a supposedly 60 person class isn't one and they were broken from day one. Shoddy imho.

Ass

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

also with the canteen especially in aungier st. why is it one price for one person and another price for another.

plenty of times i've been there and had the exact same meal as my friend yet the prices in the meals could differ between 50c-€1.

I love this! I always get my breakfast for a Euro cheaper than it should be and all my mates get charged full price! Yer one behind the till his great! I love the canteen in Kevin St.

The Aungier St. canteen however is terribly over priced.

Nemothefish

Kevin St bay far does the best breakfast and whats more its cheeper then aungier... and the big difference... Kevin St use "Kevin St Cattering ltd" where as aungier use that awful one Campbell's...

shamama

3rd year student Kevin St...and my gripe is defo with the canteen; the fresh fruit (if they ever any) is TOTALLY overpriced and usually rotten. They should be giving that stuff away.

experiMental

Hi, I'm a Product Design student. What I would really like to get is work placement, and some collaboration with course leaders and local design or enterprise companies on that matter. Just like everyone else in my class, I feel that this matter should be taken more seriously, as we spend a lot of our time and energy on the course. Some of us have to work extra hours in part time jobs to buy essential books or materials.

After all, the people who are working in the design industry are either going to retire one day and to keep going, new graduates will have to enter to keep the whole industry competitive. We really need some experience, but we can't find any.

I just don't want to see all the hours and effort we have put in wasted.

Flinter08/09

Glad to hear you are getting it all out, keep it coming!

I can tell you we are working on all of the issues that have been raised!!

Thanks,
Your Vice President,
Tracey Flinter

miss no stars

Other than talking to the lecturer in question, which will be done when lectures resume, is there anything that can be done when a lecturer just doesn't give enough time for an exam? Nobody had enough time by any stretch of the imagination with a LOT of people not getting anywhere near finished.

miss no stars

oh and also,

two exams on our timetable were listed incorrectly. Both were listed as being three hours long and in reality they were two hours but we were only told this just as they began. Frankly that's disgraceful and I'd like to see an appology to the class from the exams office.

Creamy Goodness

also in Kevin street, the final year project lab (a117) is being used by years outside their scheduled timetabled times despite repeated telling offs or pointing at the signs or writing 'final year lab' on the white board.

and not all computers work in there, some do not log on to the network. pretty shoddy tbh.

also i think it's a bit hypocritical that there are non final year courses scheduled for labs in a 'final year lab' as well. as far as i'm aware there is only one non final year lab there but it was scheduled at the same time that final year's have no other classes so effectively we are kicked out of our lab.

and one lecturers (computer science lecturer) response to this was: "Can you not buy laptops and use the snackery?".

what a shoddy response tbh, there have been quite a few times final year students have gotten 'smart alec' responses from lab supervisors/lecturers when it comes to labs and tbh i thought after 4 years in the college we would be treated with a bit more respect than that we're given.

Flinter08/09

experiMental wrote: »

Hi, I'm a Product Design student. What I would really like to get is work placement, and some collaboration with course leaders and local design or enterprise companies on that matter. Just like everyone else in my class, I feel that this matter should be taken more seriously, as we spend a lot of our time and energy on the course. Some of us have to work extra hours in part time jobs to buy essential books or materials.

After all, the people who are working in the design industry are either going to retire one day and to keep going, new graduates will have to enter to keep the whole industry competitive. We really need some experience, but we can't find any.

I just don't want to see all the hours and effort we have put in wasted.

Hello Product Design Student,

Can you please pm me on my work email address, it's vpacademic@ditsu.ie so I can advise you on this situation. It is a very valid point and I would appreciate if you could get in contact with me!!

Thanks,
Your Vice President
Tracey

Flinter08/09

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

also in Kevin street, the final year project lab (a117) is being used by years outside their scheduled timetabled times despite repeated telling offs or pointing at the signs or writing 'final year lab' on the white board.

and not all computers work in there, some do not log on to the network. pretty shoddy tbh.

also i think it's a bit hypocritical that there are non final year courses scheduled for labs in a 'final year lab' as well. as far as i'm aware there is only one non final year lab there but it was scheduled at the same time that final year's have no other classes so effectively we are kicked out of our lab.

and one lecturers (computer science lecturer) response to this was: "Can you not buy laptops and use the snackery?".

what a shoddy response tbh, there have been quite a few times final year students have gotten 'smart alec' responses from lab supervisors/lecturers when it comes to labs and tbh i thought after 4 years in the college we would be treated with a bit more respect than that we're given.

Hello Creamy Goodness,

Ok firstly there is a resource issue here the first person you need to get into contact with is the Head of School. I can put you in touch with her if you pm me on vpacademic@ditsu.ie

We as the Students Union sit on the Science Faculty Board so we can also raise awareness on the issue there if you would like that???

Thanks,
Your Vice President
Tracey

Flinter08/09

miss no stars wrote: »

oh and also,

two exams on our timetable were listed incorrectly. Both were listed as being three hours long and in reality they were two hours but we were only told this just as they began. Frankly that's disgraceful and I'd like to see an appology to the class from the exams office.

Hello Miss No Stars,

First of all you need to email the exams office in question and let them know of the issues that were caused. If you notify your class rep they can bring it forward to programme committee. Your programme chair is responsible for this if you wish to find out who exactly that is please contact me on the details belows. Fair time should have been allocated and if your marks are affected by this then we can bring this up at faculty board. Let me know!!

Did your lecturer mention towards the end of semester one what the time allocation was for the exam? Normally lecturers cover previous exam papers in the last class or so?

You can pm me on vpacademic@ditsu.ie

Thanks,
Your Vice President
Tracey

yevveh

tywy wrote: »

Broken seats in the lecture theatres in Aungier St. Sometimes, last semester our classroom was so packed that people had to sit on the steps because there were 4 seats broken. So a supposedly 60 person class isn't one and they were broken from day one. Shoddy imho.

That kills me for 9am lectures

jessie11

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why cant we do something like that

Creamy Goodness

Flinter08/09 wrote: »

Hello Creamy Goodness,

Ok firstly there is a resource issue here the first person you need to get into contact with is the Head of School. I can put you in touch with her if you pm me on vpacademic@ditsu.ie

We as the Students Union sit on the Science Faculty Board so we can also raise awareness on the issue there if you would like that???

Thanks,
Your Vice President
Tracey

Hi Tracey, thanks for replying.

I'll forward on my college email address to you so we can sort out the resource issues (pc's not working etc.)


I had asked certain high up lecturers in the school who was the new head of the school of computing and i got blank looks and "i don't know but all i know the person is female". why is there such mystery behind who it is, surely i don't know about you but if i became head of a school i'd make myself known to both students and staff.

I feel like the timetabling of other non-final year classes in a project lab won't be fixed for semester 2 and i can understand this but it'd be nice for the following years to have the lab free for themselves all the time.

It would be great if you could bring these issues at the science faculty board, also if I could get a contact as to who to go to when there are issues inside the school of computing as due to the transition of school heads, no one - not even our class rep - knows where or who to go either.

InTranceWeTrust

We want ecstasy testing kits to be sold in Student Union shops. Too many students are eating pills which contain little or no ecstasy and god knows what else.




Testing kits are inexpensive, 100% legal and can save lives...

maninblack

1) broken seats in lecture rooms
2) a lack of recent exam papers available online

Ass

InTranceWeTrust wrote: »

We want ecstasy testing kits to be sold in Student Union shops. Too many students are eating pills which contain little or no ecstasy and god knows what else.




Testing kits are inexpensive, 100% legal and can save lives...

this

We also want a stock of fresh needles to be sold. Students need to be able to shoot up in the jacks with out the risk of contracting the HIV virus. It is vital to our education.

tony 2 tone

InTranceWeTrust wrote: »

We want ecstasy testing kits to be sold in Student Union shops. Too many students are eating pills which contain little or no ecstasy and god knows what else.




Testing kits are inexpensive, 100% legal and can save lives...

Even more inexpensive, legal and would also save lives if you didn't take them. :rolleyes:
Or use the forensics course people to test for it.

InTranceWeTrust

Ass Face wrote: »

this

We also want a stock of fresh needles to be sold. Students need to be able to shoot up in the jacks with out the risk of contracting the HIV virus. It is vital to our education.

Lol! This too please tracy! Also can we provide maintanance doses of heroin to the "dyin' sick" students.:D

But seriously though as an ex-pill popper I can verify that there is a lot more nasty alternatives in pills today, many dangerous and all unpleasant.

Ass

InTranceWeTrust wrote: »

Lol! This too please tracy! Also can we provide maintanance doses of heroin to the "dyin' sick" students.:D

But seriously though as an ex-pill popper I can verify that there is a lot more nasty alternatives in pills today, many dangerous and all unpleasant.

Why is it a necessity to have ecstasy testing kits in a student campus shop? People aren't going to be popping pills on campus, therefore we don't need them on campus.

I've no problem with the campus discouraging people doing ecstasy and promoting safety kits to those who actually do it, but why is it a necessity to have them sold in the shop when they can just go down to your local head shop or what ever and pick one up?

Naikon

Oh yeah, some of this in the SU shop would be nice if budgets allow:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_drink

Monster Energy would be a nice alternative if the above is deemed too "offensive".

sickle

for semester 2 i want exam results released on time.
i was just over looking at the modularisation page and every school apart from bolton street engineering has a schedule for the release of results. Bolton Street is always last!!!
They are so unorganised i doubt they actually know themselves what is going on.

Creamy Goodness

also administration need to stop telling lies.

got a call from a class mate to see how well i did in the exams, and that they were up on http://modularisation.dit.ie

tried to log in with my student number and pin, no luck.

ring them up saying it's not letting me in.

first i get "have you paid you're fees?" i said "yes in fact your charged my credit card twice, and left me out of pocket of 900 euros for 3 months".

then she said "do you have the right student number and pin" i replied "well they haven't changed in the last 4 years so i'm sure they're correct".

she goes off to check something.

comes back with "ehh the module boards are still sitting"

i refute with "erm my friend has just sent me a screen shot of his results entered for semester 1 so they must be finished".

she comes back with "results for CS haven't been entered yet i don't know how he got them".

me hangs up in complete disgust and their incompetence :mad:

stevire

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

also administration need to stop telling lies.

got a call from a class mate to see how well i did in the exams, and that they were up on http://modularisation.dit.ie

tried to log in with my student number and pin, no luck.

ring them up saying it's not letting me in.

first i get "have you paid you're fees?" i said "yes in fact your charged my credit card twice, and left me out of pocket of 900 euros for 3 months".

then she said "do you have the right student number and pin" i replied "well they haven't changed in the last 4 years so i'm sure they're correct".

she goes off to check something.

comes back with "ehh the module boards are still sitting"

i refute with "erm my friend has just sent me a screen shot of his results entered for semester 1 so they must be finished".

she comes back with "results for CS haven't been entered yet i don't know how he got them".

me hangs up in complete disgust and their incompetence :mad:

In fairness, not all exams may yet be published. They're not supposed to be released until tomorrow:

http://modularisation.dit.ie/ExamScheduleS1-Science.pdf

A lot of other courses listed in that has not got their results yet, so im sure there entering all the records as we speak!

Ass

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

also administration need to stop telling lies.

got a call from a class mate to see how well i did in the exams, and that they were up on http://modularisation.dit.ie

tried to log in with my student number and pin, no luck.

ring them up saying it's not letting me in.

first i get "have you paid you're fees?" i said "yes in fact your charged my credit card twice, and left me out of pocket of 900 euros for 3 months".

then she said "do you have the right student number and pin" i replied "well they haven't changed in the last 4 years so i'm sure they're correct".

she goes off to check something.

comes back with "ehh the module boards are still sitting"

i refute with "erm my friend has just sent me a screen shot of his results entered for semester 1 so they must be finished".

she comes back with "results for CS haven't been entered yet i don't know how he got them".

me hangs up in complete disgust and their incompetence :mad:

The administration in DIT are a shower of cunts. This story is just one of many bad experiences that have been posted on these forums. I too would request that they sort their shit out once and for all next semester.

Creamy Goodness

true, i suppose, bit of an unnecessary rant

i still have a little bit of a sore spot for them hitting me for 1800 euro for registration this year and their general attitude when i tried to get it back which i successfully got back the 900 and the middle of december a full three months after it was taken from me.

they feed you bull**** lies "did you hit the submit button twice on the form?"
"erm no, because the button disabled when you submit once"
"ohh there's no other explanation for it, you must have hit the button twice"

at this point i :rolleyes:

for the three months it was "it was refunded back on to your card" or "come back wednesday" or "there was a cheque sent out to your home address".

disssco

Ass Face wrote: »

Why is it a necessity to have ecstasy testing kits in a student campus shop? People aren't going to be popping pills on campus, therefore we don't need them on campus.

I've no problem with the campus discouraging people doing ecstasy and promoting safety kits to those who actually do it, but why is it a necessity to have them sold in the shop when they can just go down to your local head shop or what ever and pick one up?

I actually think it is a good idea to sell them on campus, even though I don't eat pills. According to my mates they have to be bought online and cannot be found in headshops. And people are more likely to buy them if they see them in the SU shop everyday.

I don't know what I want for semester 2. I think I'm happy enough with the way things are. The college is a bit unorganized sometimes but other than that I can't complain, thanks anyway Tracy.

tony 2 tone

If they were to sell the kits in the SU shops it would be seen to be advocating the use of drugs. So it will never happen. From the start of Semester 2 won't even be able to smoke on college grounds any more (Kevin Street) as thats seen as incouraging smoking. Might help me to cut down though.

Creamy Goodness

doubt that considering you's didn't adhere to the no smoking signs near the doorways.

tony 2 tone

That annoyed me too, people standing in front of the doors of the annex. Especially on a wet day.
Has there been no smoking signs there in previous years?

Creamy Goodness

no this was the first year they put them up well the first year in the 4 years i've been at DIT

kellsred

It would be nice if the exam papers we pay for are actually up-to-date, instead of spending hours trying to work out answers only to discover the question was wrong and an amendment was given during the exam, or full marks given if discovered after the exam.
Surely the correct questions should be in the ones available for purchase?
And also, the strict times which you can buy them are an absolute joke, I know a couple of my classmates tried to get them the Monday before exams started (very late I know!) and were told to come back Wednesday....

Caroline19

Hey, why are the labs in Aungier st not open till 9am in the mornings and why isn't the library open in Aungier st closed on sundays,and on weekdays not open till 9.30am, it's a disaster....just wondering if you could shed any light on this issue...as it would be handy if the library was open on sundays especially comming up to exam times...
Thanks!!

disssco

Caroline19 wrote: »

Hey, why are the labs in Aungier st not open till 9am in the mornings and why isn't the library open in Aungier st closed on sundays,and on weekdays not open till 9.30am, it's a disaster....just wondering if you could shed any light on this issue...as it would be handy if the library was open on sundays especially comming up to exam times...
Thanks!!

+1.

It would be great if the library opened at 8, and did a half day on sunday.

Caroline19

Thats what i thought as well, for instance if u have a 9am lecture on a monday morning where can u print off notes, do assignments ect...
I would be nice to have somewhere to go and study in peace on a sunday as well....like other colleges have there library's open on sundays..so why can't we??:eek:

wixfjord

Caroline19 wrote: »

Thats what i thought as well, for instance if u have a 9am lecture on a monday morning where can u print off notes, do assignments ect...
I would be nice to have somewhere to go and study in peace on a sunday as well....like other colleges have there library's open on sundays..so why can't we??:eek:

+1 Every DIT student I know feels this way. Would be interesting to hear from Tracey on this

smileyhappy

Hi Tracey

As everyone knows today was absolutely FREEZING yet in many rooms in Bolton Street there was no heating on. Sitting in freezing cold, draughty rooms is no way to learn. This isn't a once off, there have been many times that I and my classmates have been sitting frozen in a class room because DIT do not see fit to turn on the heating.

This I would like to see something done about fast. I don't have a class rep so can't go down that route.

disssco

I was freezing my balls off yesterday.

I demand testicle warmers for every student.

tony 2 tone

disssco wrote: »

I was freezing my balls off yesterday.

I demand testicle warmers for every student.

Even those with out testicles? Some one better get knitting then!