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Missing the first 2-3 days of lectures

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  • 24-08-2009 3:10am
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    JoeyH
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭


    I have to miss the first few days of lectures as my sister is getting married on the 7th.

    Will this affect me much?
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    Frisbee
    Registered Users Posts: 23,564 ✭✭✭✭Frisbee


    No, I'd doubt it


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    Infernon
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭Infernon


    Depends on what subjects you have and which year.But IMHO you'll be grand


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    JoeyH
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭JoeyH


    Its 1st year Bcomm.

    Thats good to know.

    Thanks


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    Jev/N
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Jev/N


    You're going to hell*


    *j/k you'll be fine!


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    Funglegunk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    JoeyH wrote: »
    I have to miss the first few days of lectures as my sister is getting married on the 7th.

    Will this affect me much?

    I'm in exactly the same situation except at the end of the year: my sister is getting married in Spain on May 8th next year (right smack in the middle of my exams).

    Anybody know if theres a possibility of deferring exams for reasons like this?


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    IrishKnight
    Registered Users Posts: 922 ✭✭✭IrishKnight


    Hmm. Can't use a Extenuating Circumstances as you know about it. Only thing I can see is go to your progamme office sooner rather than later and see what they say


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    Funglegunk
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    IrishKnight wrote: »
    Hmm. Can't use a Extenuating Circumstances as you know about it. Only thing I can see is go to your progamme office sooner rather than later and see what they say

    Cheers, I'll do that first thing next week. I'll be absolutely gutted if I can't sort this out.


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    liamygunner29
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭liamygunner29


    I have to miss the first week due to the fact that Tipp are in the All-Ireland Final :D


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    IrishKnight
    Registered Users Posts: 922 ✭✭✭IrishKnight


    liamygunner29 wrote: »
    I have to miss the first week due to the fact that Tipp are in the All-Ireland Final :D

    :(


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    Mushy
    Registered Users Posts: 21,206 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    liamygunner29 wrote: »
    I have to miss the first week due to the fact that Tipp are in the All-Ireland Final :D

    Haha, if they win, the first week is going to be a write-off for me:D


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    El Siglo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    JoeyH wrote: »
    I have to miss the first few days of lectures as my sister is getting married on the 7th.

    Will this affect me much?

    :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:
    Relax, you'll be grand!!!;)


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    taz70
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    Funglegunk wrote: »
    I'm in exactly the same situation except at the end of the year: my sister is getting married in Spain on May 8th next year (right smack in the middle of my exams).

    Anybody know if theres a possibility of deferring exams for reasons like this?

    I doubt they'll shift university exams to accommodate your social life.

    I had a friend who had her OWN wedding to attend (booked BEFORE she started the programme) and she missed an exam because it clashed. They didn't let her take it at another time.


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    graduate
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    There is no possibility of deferring exams to accommodate a social event, especially one that could have been at any time of the year.

    People often arrive late for the first week of term, CAO second round offers and the like.


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    Funglegunk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    taz70 wrote: »
    I doubt they'll shift university exams to accommodate your social life.

    I had a friend who had her OWN wedding to attend (booked BEFORE she started the programme) and she missed an exam because it clashed. They didn't let her take it at another time.

    Just to clarify I wasn't asking if UCD would "shift university exams to accommodate my social life". I was asking if it was possible to sit the exam at another time, the repeat paper at the end of the summer perhaps. So to defer my sitting of the exam, rather than the exam itself...obviously. I'm not crazy enough to believe a university would do the latter.

    And from your friend's experience it looks like the former isn't possible either. Not good news.


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    Frisbee
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    Funglegunk wrote: »
    the repeat paper at the end of the summer perhaps.

    UCD don't do summer repeats. If you fail you do it the next Christmas.


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    Riamfada
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    2-3 Days? Try missing 2-3 weeks because the good season of Stargate is on daytime TV. Ah ill miss college


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    Michaelrsh
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    JoeyH wrote: »
    I have to miss the first few days of lectures as my sister is getting married on the 7th.

    Will this affect me much?

    I'm gonna have to miss at least 2-3 days of lecture,
    (reason: Hangover from Debs:eek:)


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    JoeyH
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭JoeyH


    Thanks guys :D


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    cats-pyjamas
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    I once had an exam in the morning, went to my BF's wedding reception afterwards and had to get up for an exam the next day. Suck it up. I doubt extenuating circumstances will apply. After all, they'd hardly apply if you were getting married yourself, so I doubt they will apply for attending someone else's wedding


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    JoeyH
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭JoeyH


    cats-pyjamas wrote: »
    I once had an exam in the morning, went to my BF's wedding reception afterwards and had to get up for an exam the next day.

    Your boyfriend's wedding reception? So your his bit on the side and you went to his wedding? :P


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    cats-pyjamas
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    JoeyH wrote: »
    Your boyfriend's wedding reception? So your his bit on the side and you went to his wedding? :P

    LOL! No, my best friends wedding. Unfortunate timing on her part seeing as she wanted me in the wedding, but seemed to be under the impression that we finished our exams in april or something (wedding was in may)


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