The Happy Place

t0mm

People on this board are far to cynical these days.

So to combat all the negativity, I want to know your absolutely favorite thing in Trinity, be it club, soc, place, lecturer, or just something that happens/happened that has made your time here.

For me it is sunny days by the cricket pitch, knowing you should be studying but honestly having too much of a laugh to care even a little bit. Best feeling in the world IMHO.

gaybitch

When it was snowing earlier on this year, I was sitting in the Phil hungover and sleepy, and it was all warm and while watching the snow come down over the grass outside I fell asleep. That was lovely.

I love the cricket pitch on a sunny day with a group of friends, smoking outside the arts block, skipping a lecture and going to the pav to have a chat and deciding to just stay all day and night. I like going to see comedy gigs and plays, and I just like the general atmosphere around Trinity on a sunny day.

At the start of this year I wasn't sure if I liked Trinity, but I'm realising now I'll miss it (and the friends I met there) during the summer more than I expected to - a lot more!

Agent Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF2ImyQjzyc

PurpleFistMixer

God yes, sitting on the cricket pitch in the sun is so nice. Makes getting to lectures nigh-on imposible. If this country had more than 2 days of sunshine a year we'd all fail miserably.

My favourite lecturer this year was probably either Paschalis (I think this is a given for anyone studying maths), or a graduate called Pluta who took TP/Maths for 2 terms of crazy mad maths that we thankfully won't be examined on but was really interesting nonetheless.

Also, one day in the lab, this:



We all stood around going "woah MAGIC!" for altogether far too long.

Tricity Bendix

Studying on the steps of House XXX. Watching the world go by while trying to learn about the Solow model or signalling.

The Dining Hall. It never stopped being a surreal experience.

Food Markets with Alan Matthews. Applying boring economic stuff to real life. Got me passionate about wheat prices.

Sneaking around campus late at night. More often than not getting caught by security.

When I first got involved in politics through the PDs. Two years later I was ready to hang myself, but in the early days I acctually belived people could want to do good things without being egotistical.

Ron DMC

Second year #1

mathew

not gonna say the cricket pitch again, so aside from that you can beat wasting time on the jcr couches!

dan719

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

My favourite lecturer this year was probably either Paschalis (I think this is a given for anyone studying maths), or a graduate called Pluta who took TP/Maths for 2 terms of crazy mad maths that we thankfully won't be examined on but was really interesting nonetheless.

His name is Pete!

Also Bah Humberg to this thread.

ilovemybrick

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

Second year #1

A little sitting room in the corner of new square. Hundreds of plastic soldiers, thousands of cups of tea and stories.

Awayindahils

When college is getting me down, and its not sunny, I sit in the windows on the 6th floor of the Arts Block and watch the world go by. There are sort of platforms beside the windows caused by the stairwell.

Other than that sunny Trinity. Pav days. All the memories of all the very fun and happy times.

Jonathan

All the missed lectures during TT last year that were spent frisbeeing.

Nothing of the sort this year due to over zealous fun police, and the weather being crap.

Kwekubo

Best place to unwind? Table football in the Phil room between lectures.

The Walsho

gaybitch wrote: »

I love the cricket pitch on a sunny day with a group of friends, smoking outside the arts block, skipping a lecture and going to the pav to have a chat and deciding to just stay all day and night. I like going to see comedy gigs and plays, and I just like the general atmosphere around Trinity on a sunny day.

At the start of this year I wasn't sure if I liked Trinity, but I'm realising now I'll miss it (and the friends I met there) during the summer more than I expected to - a lot more!

This. When you decide to go to the pav "for one or two" and end up staying ages and getting hammered and chatting to people you sort of recognise from a tutorial or something.

Again with the sunshine, everyone is just in a good mood when it's sunny.

I love when you're walking somewhere and it takes far too long because you're getting stopped to chat every few seconds by people you know.

Receiving a text from a friend saying "Free drink in ___, get here quick!"

PurpleFistMixer

dan719 wrote: »

His name is Pete!

Yeah I have no idea why I didn't write that. Perhaps bitterness over him ditching us for half a year. (

Agent Smith

One of my fav things to do was people watch. Just sit on the steps of the dineing hall and let the world pass you by...

t0mm

This one might sound weird but I like the higldy-pigldy nature of the arts block. Big open spaces and then narrow twisty corridors, and offices that you have to walk through three other offices to get to them. Madness to an outsider, once you find your way around it you feel like it's your home, like you have earned your right to be there by getting lost 400 times in the first month.

Brian

Agent Smith wrote: »

One of my fav things to do was people watch. Just sit on the steps of the dineing hall and let the world pass you by...

People watching is great.

I guess the internet is pretty quick too.

billykwok

t0mm wrote: »

People on this board are far to cynical these days.

So to combat all the negativity, I want to know your absolutely favorite thing in Trinity, be it club, soc, place, lecturer, or just something that happens/happened that has made your time here.

For me it is sunny days by the cricket pitch, knowing you should be studying but honestly having too much of a laugh to care even a little bit. Best feeling in the world IMHO.

I love walking through the front arch, still gives me that amazing feeling when i first walked through it
also love walking through the path just before u hit the cricket and rugger pitch, the one with loads of trees lining the sides...

caff

Been a part-time student working full time gives not much free time to really enjoy the studenty aspects of trinity but been able to pop down the country on the train for student prices is quite refreshing.

Brian

Still a ripoff tbh, s'like 40 return to Cork.

Boston

32 euro by plane

Jim_Are_Great

carbon footprint eff tea el.

shay_562

And Aircoach ftw - cheaper and not that much slower than the train.

My favourite thing is my flat in Front Square. Just realising how much I'm going to miss it

Brian

An hour slower, plus the discomfort, plus more mentalists travel by bus than train.

Peleus

Agent Smith wrote: »

One of my fav things to do was people watch. Just sit on the steps of the dineing hall and let the world pass you by...

ah ye thats great. When ever i smoke outside the hamilton i always watch people coming out of lectures/ walking by. Some of the stuff you see/hear is interesting.

I remember I was sitting there with a friend once and this guy sat down beside us and talked to us for 40 minutes about a computer science lecturer. Made me half an hour late for a lecture. Someone might know the guy. hes a first year mature student studying computer science with longish grey hair that always wears a leather jacket and stands outside places smoking.

Best thing about trinity for me was coming from training every friday, dropping my stuff of in my locker and heading straight to the pav.

Jonathan

Peleus wrote: »

I remember I was sitting there with a friend once and this guy sat down beside us and talked to us for 40 minutes about a computer science lecturer. Made me half an hour late for a lecture. Someone might know the guy. hes a first year mature student studying computer science with longish grey hair that always wears a leather jacket and stands outside places smoking.

He is another banned topic around here.

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI

Peleus wrote: »

hes a first year mature student studying computer science with longish grey hair that always wears a leather jacket and stands outside places smoking.

He doesn't always wear a leather jacket

Peleus

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI wrote: »

He doesn't always wear a leather jacket

haahaha that is brilliant. That guy is so strange. where did you get that?

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI

Believe me, it's the tip of the iceberg.

Jonathan

Peleus wrote: »

haahaha that is brilliant. That guy is so strange. where did you get that?

Did you not see the big thread about him that was deleted?

Peleus

Jonathan wrote: »

Did you not see the big thread about him that was deleted?

I might have, when was it? I knew someone would know him. He has randomly chatted to me twice without recognaising me the second time so im guessing he talks to alot of people.

Cantab.

Commons is my favourite thing (not the food, the tradition).

Cantab.

Peleus wrote: »

I remember I was sitting there with a friend once and this guy sat down beside us and talked to us for 40 minutes about a computer science lecturer. Made me half an hour late for a lecture. Someone might know the guy. hes a first year mature student studying computer science with longish grey hair that always wears a leather jacket and stands outside places smoking.

Yep. I know the guy. He claims he's the "chief druid of Ireland". I'm surprised he didn't get you to join StormFront during the conversation.