General Chit Chat Thread

earleuginedoyle · 06-04-2010 6:07pm

you would think that it being a small setting, particularly small in mary i! that change shouldnt take that long to come about, but again, this is mary i! everything takes alot longer than it should..

dambarude · 06-04-2010 6:22pm

earleuginedoyle wrote: »

you would think that it being a small setting, particularly small in mary i! that change shouldnt take that long to come about, but again, this is mary i! everything takes alot longer than it should..

We're very old fashioned and set in our ways I suppose- it takes a long time to do stuff:D. You could be right!

I see that the people running has gone up on the misu website. There's loads of officers with no candidate, or just one candidate....

RibenaHead · 08-04-2010 5:23pm

Continuous assessment in Mary I... yay or nay?

dambarude · 08-04-2010 6:33pm

It depends on how well it's run really. And what type it is...

I don't really see why they call essays 'continuous assessment', it's not really. Presentations can be a pain...
And don't get me started on group work! It's so unfair- I can't put my hatred for it in words!

RibenaHead · 08-04-2010 6:35pm

dambarude wrote: »

And don't get me started on group work! It's so unfair- I can't put my hatred for it in words!

Definitely agree with you on that one... It's such a pain trying to meet up with different groups and then it's harder to coordinate the workload! GRRRR

dambarude · 08-04-2010 8:26pm

RibenaHead wrote: »

Definitely agree with you on that one... It's such a pain trying to meet up with different groups and then it's harder to coordinate the workload! GRRRR

Not to mention social loafers...

earleuginedoyle · 09-04-2010 12:46pm

group work would be far better if they ran it like they do in other colleges - so not everyone gets the same grade, you submit a paper saying what bits you did and get marked accordingly!

Insect Overlord · 09-04-2010 5:41pm

earleuginedoyle wrote: »

group work would be far better if they ran it like they do in other colleges - so not everyone gets the same grade, you submit a paper saying what bits you did and get marked accordingly!

This is the approach the Visual Arts department is taking in the Ped-Op this semester.

dambarude · 09-04-2010 7:11pm

Even with individualisation of marks I still don't think it's very fair... It's not too bad when you've a small group, 2/3 maybe, it's harder for people to not bother doing things, but 4+ just doesn't work unless you've a group of very like minded people.

D4RK ONION · 10-04-2010 6:08am

Hahaha, Claire Hannon and Laura Splillane are running for pres and vice. I wouldn't trust them with... well anything!

dambarude · 10-04-2010 1:45pm

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Hahaha, Claire Hannon and Laura Splillane are running for pres and vice. I wouldn't trust them with... well anything!

Interesting... I don't now them so i'll reserve my judgement until Hustings!

Insect Overlord · 10-04-2010 2:02pm

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Hahaha, Claire Hannon and Laura Splillane are running for pres and vice. I wouldn't trust them with... well anything!

I knew the pair of us should have run!

D4RK ONION · 10-04-2010 2:59pm

Alas, we lack the required bosoms and monotonous thought patterns to appeal to the electorate. Although, I have been working on the bosoms.

earleuginedoyle · 10-04-2010 5:24pm

ye wouldn't have got through hustings without cracking up

D4RK ONION · 10-04-2010 8:06pm

I'd like to think people would have been laughing with us, come up with the most ridiculous answers possible.

RibenaHead · 12-04-2010 7:32pm

Together you'd be, "Dark Overlord"

Sounds ominous! :eek:

D4RK ONION · 13-04-2010 4:26am

Damn it that'd be awesome. Wish we'd run now!

dambarude · 13-04-2010 7:52pm

Just looking at the candidate manifestos there... they're pretty uninspiring/unrealistic. Some of the ideas just sound silly to me. I'd love to know what

Introduce more recognition of the importance of paperwork in the B.Ed and B.Ed and Psychology course.

is meant to mean.

Things like:

Calling nurse / nurse query line of sorts

are very unlikely to happen.

And this one:

Promote cycling or walking to college.

doesn't make any sense. It's not like everyone drives from Castlewell and Ashdown into college! They'd have nowhere to park anyway!

This one did make me smile though:):

Often the B.Ed and Psychs are forgotten about on things as simple as sign in sheets and groups for assignments. I intend to work on getting the B.Ed and Psychs more recognition. Nobody should feel out of place on campus even because of something small.

I feel so out of place!

D4RK ONION · 13-04-2010 10:01pm

Claire and Laura have some decent and pretty realistic ideas, and the other ones (the one with that awful photoshop of them as superman/wonderwoman in particular) is completely ridiculous.

Excellent post Dan.

earleuginedoyle · 13-04-2010 10:01pm

I spent the day laughing to myself after reading the manifesto's this morning!
most of the stuff is completely out of the power of an SU president or vice-president, and more of it is just completely rediculous!
roll on hustings tomorrow for some more laughs

RibenaHead · 13-04-2010 10:19pm

And, for laughs right now, look at Mairéad and Noel's campaign video - it's cheesetastic!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1334066403557

D4RK ONION · 13-04-2010 10:20pm

Cheese video... I'd rather not

dambarude · 13-04-2010 10:21pm

D4RK ONION wrote: »

the one with that awful photoshop of them as superman/wonderwoman in particular) is completely ridiculous.

My lord... when I saw that poster my mind was made up straight away. The little policy statements around the two characters are pretty lame, so it's both uninteresting policy-wise and aesthetically revolting. I agree with you Onion, that Claire Hannon's manifesto is much more realistic, but I still think I'm going to be voting RON for president.

dambarude · 13-04-2010 10:33pm

I'm going to smell of cheese for days

D4RK ONION · 15-04-2010 4:26pm

I hope everyone made an informed vote today

dambarude · 15-04-2010 4:55pm

I voted, but it wasn't particularly well informed! I didn't have time to go hustings last night so I didn't really know who I was voting for

. I voted RON for president though. I thought the electoral campaign this year was a lot deader this year, I don't know why. That said, there was nice buzz about today. The sun makes such a difference!

D4RK ONION · 15-04-2010 8:38pm

It was a lot "deader" because plastering posters everywhere and spending money on ice-cream trucks and that kind of thing is now banned. You have to campaign on the merits of your manifesto and not on how much money Daddy is willing to fork out. You should have gone to hustings tbh.

dambarude · 15-04-2010 9:42pm

D4RK ONION wrote: »

It was a lot "deader" because plastering posters everywhere and spending money on ice-cream trucks and that kind of thing is now banned. You have to campaign on the merits of your manifesto and not on how much money Daddy is willing to fork out. You should have gone to hustings tbh.

Take it easy please Onion.

I know I should have gone to hustings, and I would have if I could. Sadly, having exams, lab reports and history assignments crammed into the next week and a half doesn't leave much time for other events. I went last year, and I knew exactly who I'd vote for afterwards, but I didn't have that opportunity this year. I read most of the manifestos instead.

And there was more to the deadness of the elections than the lack of capital investment in campaigns. I think it's because there was no run up to the election- everyone was off last week for Easter. I had totally forgotten that elections were on today until I saw everyone jumping about with posters outside the library.

ciarraioch1 · 16-04-2010 1:01am

Congratulations to Mairead Collins and Noel Byrne, who were elected President and vice president of MISU for the 2010-2011 academic year!!

D4RK ONION · 16-04-2010 1:16pm

Delighted

They were in Baker's last night, seemed over the moon. Great stuff

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