General Chit Chat Thread

CaoimH_in

Mod Edit:
Just to be clear - this thread is a rag bag of random discussions carried over from the days before Mary I had its own forum. There's some useful gems of information within it which will no doubt be referred back to again as questions about accommodation or subject choices crop up.

It's use now will hopefully be for general discussion/ramblings about Mary I.
So feel free to chit chat in a thread that is quite an important part of the history of the Mary I forum


No mary I sub forums? Whys that? I mean, you have Griffith college here and thats just empty.. is there really litterally no one attending Mary I on here?

Polar Ice

If the Griffith college forum is empty and they have ~8500 students I'd assume that a Mary I one would be even worse if created

ergonomics

Also, the Griffith College forum was created less than a month ago.

If you think there is a need for a Mary I forum there is nothing stopping you from requesting one be made.

You can request one here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=461

CaoimH_in

more just wondering is there any Mary I folk around here? thats all.

rmacm

Oh there are......we usually keep them locked away though for reasons that I won't go into now....

Peteee

rmacm wrote: »

Oh there are......we usually keep them locked away though for reasons that I won't go into now....

There are more about alright.

There probably wouldn't be enough posts to make a dedicated forum worthwhile.

I think this has come up before too.

CaoimH_in

cool, thanks, just wondering is all, whats the crack like in Limerick? much like societies in Mary I? Is it really worth the 400 points you'd want to get? hmmm

fatgav

am i the only current mary i'er on here? and i'll admit i'm quiet....

Cookie89

Hi i'm actually doing a griffith course in Mary I at the weekends, but unfortunately have to go for a full week hortly, just wondering if anyone could suggest somewhere to park within waking distance of the college. thanks

Insect Overlord

CaoimH_in wrote: »

cool, thanks, just wondering is all, whats the crack like in Limerick? much like societies in Mary I? Is it really worth the 400 points you'd want to get? hmmm

There's a good few societies, including (but not limited to) Creative Writing, Drama, Rugby, Soccer, GAA (hurling, camogie and football), Home & Away, Marshmallows & Cake, LGBT, Live Music... It's a long old list! There's also the freedom to set up new societies, once you can gather enough interested people to join them.
Great craic most nights of the week, if you're up to it. The Lodge on Sunday nights, trad sessions in Charlie Malone's on Mondays, Trinity Rooms is Mary I night on Tuesdays, while Molly's/Icon/Angel Lane/Scott's/etc are always there.
It does take a while to get used to the college itself though, but most of the lecturers are brilliant.

fatgav wrote: »

am i the only current mary i'er on here? and i'll admit i'm quiet....

Nope, I'm here too! I just hardly ever wander into the UL forum. D4RK ON1ON on the Guitar Hero forum is in 2nd Year in Mary I too.

Cookie89 wrote: »

Hi i'm actually doing a griffith course in Mary I at the weekends, but unfortunately have to go for a full week hortly, just wondering if anyone could suggest somewhere to park within waking distance of the college. thanks

It's pretty much impossible to get free parking within walking distance of the college, but you can try parking in Courtbrack (that's the student accomodation place down the hill from Scott's, there's usually a few empty spaces there).

Any other questions?
Oh, and support the campaign for a Mary Immaculate College subforum here:
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055165326&page=3

D4RK ONION

An File wrote: »

Nope, I'm here too! I just hardly ever wander into the UL forum. D4RK ON1ON on the Guitar Hero forum is in 2nd Year in Mary I too.

Don't be giving away my secret identity!! Yeah Mary I... it's like a secondary school, but with third level subjects.

only18

true true freaky statues too

D4RK ONION

As I said to An File yesterday over pizza, they serve to connect the fragmented buildings of the college. You're walking for a while, and you're thinking, "maybe this isn't the right way to M7", but then you see Jesus, nailed to a cross and you think, "ah, it wont be much longer."

Insect Overlord

D4RK ONION wrote: »

As I said to An File yesterday over pizza, they serve to connect the fragmented buildings of the college. You're walking for a while, and you're thinking, "maybe this isn't the right way to M7", but then you see Jesus, nailed to a cross and you think, "ah, it wont be much longer."

M7 was probably the most awkward location we ever had to find

(it's located on a seperate complex)

lighthouse

Mary I doesn't need a forum on boards.ie We have our own one just started last weekend. There is a link to it from the home page of www.whatsthelan.com the student run website.

Insect Overlord

lighthouse wrote: »

Mary I doesn't need a forum on boards.ie We have our own one just started last weekend. There is a link to it from the home page of www.whatsthelan.com the student run website.

Yeah, fair play to Hot Rodd for that, it's looking great already

lighthouse

Yea, bit short of members yet, eventhough the counter is climbing steadily all the time. Are you in Mary I yourself?

D4RK ONION

Nings are relativly ready made as it is to be honest!

lighthouse

Yes, indeed Onion but aren't they brilliant!

Stressed!

Im just finished first year B.Ed....heading to the gaeltacht now tomorro!!:o:D

D4RK ONION

lighthouse wrote: »

Yes, indeed Onion but aren't they brilliant!

They are very well made!

lighthouse

Stressed! wrote: »

Im just finished first year B.Ed....heading to the gaeltacht now tomorro!!:o:D

They did exactly the same with us last year, got us to go there Saturday of the bank holiday weekend. Have a good time. Was in Feothanach myself last year. Check out WTL to see pics from the Gaeltacht last year. If you take pics put them on WTL's new social network site or I can put them on the main site for you

EddyC15

Hmmm... Dark Onion, eh?

I think I know your true identity. Thanks to An File.

I think I know his too...

munsterdevil

Finished my last year there last May, and now heading to UL in September. Mary I should definitely have its own forum , as it has 2,800 students.

lighthouse

munsterdevil wrote: »

Finished my last year there last May, and now heading to UL in September. Mary I should definitely have its own forum , as it has 2,800 students.

Mary I does have its own forum on http://whatsthelan.ning.com/

munsterdevil

lighthouse wrote: »

Mary I does have its own forum on http://whatsthelan.ning.com/

I obviously mean on boards.ie

lighthouse

munsterdevil wrote: »

I obviously mean on boards.ie

Yes indeed. I tried to set up a phpbb forum on whatsthelan earlier in the year but couldn't get it to work. Might have a go at it again before I go back to College. do you know any phpbb experts?:D

D4RK ONION

lighthouse wrote: »

Yes indeed. I tried to set up a phpbb forum on whatsthelan earlier in the year but couldn't get it to work. Might have a go at it again before I go back to College. do you know any phpbb experts?:D

Careful there Lighthouse, that could be seen as spamming, and you get yourself banned...

EddyC15 wrote: »

Hmmm... Dark Onion, eh?

I think I know your true identity. Thanks to An File.

I think I know his too...

I'm not exactly one of the "big names" in college, I hang low, mainly because I despise the place. But also because I hate the place...

lighthouse

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Careful there Lighthouse, that could be seen as spamming, and you get yourself banned...



I'm not exactly one of the "big names" in college, I hang low, mainly because I despise the place. But also because I hate the place...

Funny, I love the place but also tá an grá agam don áit.

munsterdevil

lighthouse wrote: »

Funny, I love the place but also tá an grá agam don áit.

Don't know how you can, the place is like a big secondary school, wit a crap canteen, prefabs, Student Services who haven't a clue, the smelliest toilets in the EU, and packed computer rooms. But to be fair the lecturers are mainly good and helpful, but that is it.

lighthouse

munsterdevil wrote: »

Don't know how you can, the place is like a big secondary school, wit a crap canteen, prefabs, Student Services who haven't a clue, the smelliest toilets in the EU, and packed computer rooms. But to be fair the lecturers are mainly good and helpful, but that is it.

Well I guess "horses for courses". Yes it is like a big secondary school but I like the atmosphere of friendliness about the place. I agree the canteen isn't the best but I tend to avail of the student specials in Scott's, what's wrong with prefabs (which incidentally will be demolished when the new extension opens), I presume you have done a survey of toilets in the EU in order to be able to substantiate your claim re. Mary I's toilets, computer facilities could be improved (but most students have laptops). Personally I haven't had any problems with Student Services. At the end of the day it's what you make of it. If I may quote John F. Kennedy "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country"

munsterdevil

lighthouse wrote: »

Well I guess "horses for courses". Yes it is like a big secondary school but I like the atmosphere of friendliness about the place. I agree the canteen isn't the best but I tend to avail of the student specials in Scott's, what's wrong with prefabs (which incidentally will be demolished when the new extension opens), I presume you have done a survey of toilets in the EU in order to be able to substantiate your claim re. Mary I's toilets, computer facilities could be improved (but most students have laptops). Personally I haven't had any problems with Student Services. At the end of the day it's what you make of it. If I may quote John F. Kennedy "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country"

I'm afraid friendliness is at a premium around Mary I.

Not everyone can afford to go to Scotts, their "student specials" arent the cheapest either, and even if they were cheap a student should not have to go there.

Prefabs are roasting in the summer, and freezing in the winter, I though that would be obvious.

The EU toilet claim, was an exaggerated claim to highlight how bad the toilets are, which I also thought would have been obvious.

Does the queue out the door of every computer room tell you that most students have laptops?

The JFK analogy is bullcrap, it should not be up to the student to improve the place

lighthouse

munsterdevil wrote: »

I'm afraid friendliness is at a premium around Mary I.

Not everyone can afford to go to Scotts, their "student specials" arent the cheapest either, and even if they were cheap a student should not have to go there.

Prefabs are roasting in the summer, and freezing in the winter, I though that would be obvious.

The EU toilet claim, was an exaggerated claim to highlight how bad the toilets are, which I also thought would have been obvious.

Does the queue out the door of every computer room tell you that most students have laptops?

The JFK analogy is bullcrap, it should not be up to the student to improve the place

Regarding Scott's I consider their specials at 8 Euro very good value and excellent food. Students don't have to go there, it is simply an alternative.
I have never encountered the problems that you have mentioned regarding the prefabs. In fact some of the lecture rooms in the main building are like ovens during winter because of excessive heat.
Glad you clarified the point about the toilets, I was beginning to wonder how you had time for College what with surveying toilets across the EU.
There will always be queues just before assignment deadlines. I do accept facilities are inadequate but I'm not sure how this arguement backs up your claim of hating the place.
Finally I have to disagree with you on my JFK analogy. Thank God all the students in Mary I don't have your attitude, otherwise we'd have no students union, students union executive, class reps etc.
I rest my case.

munsterdevil

lighthouse wrote: »

Regarding Scott's I consider their specials at 8 Euro very good value and excellent food. Students don't have to go there, it is simply an alternative.
I have never encountered the problems that you have mentioned regarding the prefabs. In fact some of the lecture rooms in the main building are like ovens during winter because of excessive heat.
Glad you clarified the point about the toilets, I was beginning to wonder how you had time for College what with surveying toilets across the EU.
There will always be queues just before assignment deadlines. I do accept facilities are inadequate but I'm not sure how this arguement backs up your claim of hating the place.
Finally I have to disagree with you on my JFK analogy. Thank God all the students in Mary I don't have your attitude, otherwise we'd have no students union, students union executive, class reps etc.
I rest my case.

*€8 five days a week is €40 at Scotts, hardly within a student budget
*It's the 21st century, there shoud be no prefabs in secondary schools let alone colleges
*No problem on clarifying the toilet issue, given that you have trouble spotting sarcasm
*You accept that facilities are inadequate, and then you don't see how this argument backs up why I hate the place. ?????????
*The college should look after the student, before the student looks after the college

I rest my case

lighthouse

munsterdevil wrote: »

*€8 five days a week is €40 at Scotts, hardly within a student budget
*It's the 21st century, there shoud be no prefabs in secondary schools let alone colleges
*No problem on clarifying the toilet issue, given that you have trouble spotting sarcasm
*You accept that facilities are inadequate, and then you don't see how this argument backs up why I hate the place. ?????????
*The college should look after the student, before the student looks after the college

I rest my case

We could go on like this all day. I have made my points. Just one further point, I know of numerous people who work/recreate/pass time etc. in facilities that are inadequate yet they love what they do. Might I suggest your reasons for hating the place might have something to do with yourself rather than the College!

munsterdevil

lighthouse wrote: »

We could go on like this all day. I have made my points. Just one further point, I know of numerous people who work/recreate/pass time etc. in facilities that are inadequate yet they love what they do. Might I suggest your reasons for hating the place might have something to do with yourself rather than the College!

If they are happy with what they do in INADEQUATE facilities, then they probably have never been to another college.

Hating the place is seeing the place for what it is.

lighthouse

munsterdevil wrote: »

If they are happy with what they do in INADEQUATE facilities, then they probably have never been to another college.

Hating the place is seeing the place for what it is.

I wasn't referring to students in Colleges. Just one example, take for instance the thousands of people who take part in voluntary activities in their local communities in inadequate facilities who love what they do.
Personally, as a mature student this is my third time in a third level College and I would never cite the facilities as a reason for hating a place.

D4RK ONION

I continue to gape mouth wide open when I visit UL, such are the differences in facilities. I am saying nothing about the people or the courses, but the place itself, wow...

munsterdevil

D4RK ONION wrote: »

I continue to gape mouth wide open when I visit UL, such are the differences in facilities. I am saying nothing about the people or the courses, but the place itself, wow...

Exactly, but hopefully with the extension that will change. But there is still no new library planned (at least I don't think there is).

The present library is tiny.

munsterdevil

Lighthouse Said:

I would never cite the facilities as a reason for hating a place.

Well I guess that is where we differ...

EddyC15

The toilets in the Library building are daycent enough.

But, yeah, we're running low in the facilities department alright. I still like it though. Nice people.

D4RK ONION

The people are a bit... TOO nice, if you get my drift. No one ever gets angry or anything. Always super happy!

lighthouse

D4RK ONION wrote: »

The people are a bit... TOO nice, if you get my drift. No one ever gets angry or anything. Always super happy!

Nice way to be, wish I was like that.

D4RK ONION

Really? It'd drive me insane!

munsterdevil

D4RK ONION wrote: »

The people are a bit... TOO nice, if you get my drift. No one ever gets angry or anything. Always super happy!

and not to mention the mature students who know it all, asking questions they know the answers to. They are a disaster at tutorials.:mad:

lighthouse

munsterdevil wrote: »

and not to mention the mature students who know it all, asking questions they know the answers to. They are a disaster at tutorials.:mad:

2 points : 1. If you can't win your arguement by its own merits is it fair to attack the other person by virtue of their status?
2. Notwithstanding the previous point, it is of no relevance whatsoever, I suppose mature students are unique to Mary I!

munsterdevil

lighthouse wrote: »

2 points : 1. If you can't win your arguement by its own merits is it fair to attack the other person by virtue of their status?
2. Notwithstanding the previous point, it is of no relevance whatsoever, I suppose mature students are unique to Mary I!

So asking questions you already know the answer to, is now part of an argument? Well that's a new one...

lighthouse

munsterdevil wrote: »

So asking questions you already know the answer to, is now part of an argument? Well that's a new one...

Not quite sure why you put my reply in quotes when you don't addresse the content of my quotes. Then I suppose it's difficult for you when you know your arguement is already crumbling at the foundations. Keep digging my boy.

munsterdevil

lighthouse wrote: »

Not quite sure why you put my reply in quotes when you don't addresse the content of my quotes. Then I suppose it's difficult for you when you know your arguement is already crumbling at the foundations. Keep digging my boy.

Don't be so childish by claiming victory in your argument already, especially with the use of 2crumbling at the foundations" piece of imagery, bit dramatic don't you think, and the reason why highlighted your post is that I'm not really sure what you were tring to get at...

Peace out...

byhookorbycrook

if you think MaryI has poor facilities, primary education is going to be an awful shock, when you land in most schools

sceptre

Lighthouse, Munsterdevil, stop acting petulant and posting like children.

If you can't bear that in mind and treat the forum as your playground, then I don't have a problem putting you outside the door and pull your access to the forum.

Politeness is so cheap that you can spend all you have and still have more. Take a few pills of calm the frick down please.