Trinity Hall - Anyone else get accepted?

rhapsody!

Anyone here got accommodation at Trinity Hall?

danishidiot

Just got the e-mail! I'm in room 91.05.02! Its pretty expensive tho....parents aren't liken the price too much but sure that's the way the cookie crumbles! Any one else in the same room as me? Or can anyone figure out how the college room numbers work? My friend got is in the same room which is great news as well....wOOt!:)

johnl

Has rent there fallen in line with other accommodation in the city?

Señor Juárez

Yep, along with campus accommodation. But only by a token amount of a couple of hundred for the entire year, I think.

johnl

Not really good enough, is it.
Needs more deregulation.

timmywex

88.01 for me!

Roll on :cool:

johnl

timmywex wrote: »

88.01 for me!

Roll on :cool:

Sounds like a radio station!

Alexl

I stupidly didn't check the closing date for applications:(:(:(!!!!!
Put in application 3 days ago and hopefully might get in on second offers

diluvial

Has anyone who got a second round offer (i.e. today) managed to register to apply for trinity hall on the accommodation site? My sister has been trying unsuccessfully all day.

dog_pig

85.06.02

joannapedrina

Hi! I'll be in room 91.09.06.
Anyone know what it means ?

timmywex

diluvial wrote: »

Has anyone who got a second round offer (i.e. today) managed to register to apply for trinity hall on the accommodation site? My sister has been trying unsuccessfully all day.

It takes a while to update the system, people who applied first round had the same problems!

timmywex

joannapedrina wrote: »

Hi! I'll be in room 91.09.06.
Anyone know what it means ?

91 is the house number.

09 is the apartment number within the house

and 06 is the room number within the apartment!

MrPain

Does anyone know do they put you in apartments with people doing similar courses?

Ron DMC

MrPain wrote: »

Does anyone know do they put you in apartments with people doing similar courses?

Not usually.

The only apartment that has people selected specifically is the Scéim Chónaithe, which this year I believe will not only be select apartments, but an entire House, made up of people who got the Scéim, who'll get their subsidy etc, and also people who applied and didn't get the subsidy. They're trying to set up a mini-Gaeltacht by the sounds of it.

diluvial

timmywex wrote: »

It takes a while to update the system, people who applied first round had the same problems!

Thanks. Just after I posted it started working.

funkadelica

Hells yes! 89.09 for the win, anyone else in house 89? Cant wait now (:

A Neurotic

I'm in 87.03, the heart of the mini-gaeltacht

v87

I'm in 86.05...not sure what to expect of trinity halls, considering that I don't even know Dublin at all.

Captain Flaps

91.05.00 for me. Hop to see you all around!

SligoBrewer

A Neurotic wrote: »

I'm in 87.03, the heart of the mini-gaeltacht

Collecting monies, and speaking the Queen's glorious language?;)

Gloom

79.2.11

A room to myself. Delighted!!

emz4

Origionally posted by A Nurotic
"I'm in 87.03, the heart of the mini-gaeltacht"

Im in 87.06! does that mean im in d mini gaeltacht? I luv Irish an all bt im nt sur im ready 4 dat!
Cant wait tho! So happy i gt in cos i dont kno dublin at all!

SligoBrewer

Gloom wrote: »

79.2.11

A room to myself. Delighted!!

11? Wow.

emollett

SligoBrewer wrote: »

11? Wow.

Cunningham house. The numbers go up really high, i think i was 79.03.38

Gloom

Well, I can't afford the modern houses so, I am still happy with this.

karlr42

emz4 wrote: »

Origionally posted by A Nurotic
"I'm in 87.03, the heart of the mini-gaeltacht"

Im in 87.06! does that mean im in d mini gaeltacht? I luv Irish an all bt im nt sur im ready 4 dat!
Cant wait tho! So happy i gt in cos i dont kno dublin at all!

You clearly don't love English, however.
How much is the rent, anyway?

Femke

I didn't hear anything, does everyone get an e-mail or just the people that are accepted?

Anyway, my number's not on the list I found somewhere else on the forum but I'm a one year student.. And I've read here before that one year students always get accommodation (on campus) but Trinity sent me and information package a few months ago and it said there were only very few rooms available for international/one year students?

I'm worried about not finding anything

t0mm

In my experience they usually do put people doing similar courses together. I started doing science, shared a room with people doing science, and the rest were meds. I know another appartment that was all nurses (two in fact), and another made up entirely of Eurostuds and TSMs, all of which were studying a language, and another of people doing either BESS or MSISS. My take on it is so that you are all leaving and coming home at the same time, so if you all have 9.00 starts you won't have the waster arts students compaining about being woken up in the morning, or the studious med complaining about being kept up late by said waster arts student.

A Neurotic

^Hmm. I was in correspondence with someone in the residence office about my application (long story) and she told me that the point of the personal statement is to put people with similar interests (music or sport or whatever) together. Maybe that applies to courses too.

rhapsody!

Does anyone know if vegetarians are put together? I mentioned in my application I'm vegetarian so I was hoping I'd be put into accommodation with vegetarians.

lfqnic

rhapsody! wrote: »

Does anyone know if vegetarians are put together?

That would be great. I'm kicking myself for not putting vegan on my form now, but I'd surprised if they were that considerate. I think (if I get in), I'd just beg my roomies to give me the top shelf in the fridge and hope they have their own pots and pans..

rhapsody!

Yeah it'd be handy on buying food aswell and less awkward when it came to cooking.
I'm sure some other vegetarians would have stated in their applications that they were vegetarians; so I guess I can only hope!

t0mm

A Neurotic wrote: »

^Hmm. I was in correspondence with someone in the residence office about my application (long story) and she told me that the point of the personal statement is to put people with similar interests (music or sport or whatever) together. Maybe that applies to courses too.

They take that into account as well but to a lesser extent than course in my experience.

papu

Got 79.1.01 =]

rhapsody!

Is the broadband good there?
And are you allowed on things like Facebook and Bebo lol

joannapedrina

rhapsody! wrote: »

Does anyone know if vegetarians are put together? I mentioned in my application I'm vegetarian so I was hoping I'd be put into accommodation with vegetarians.

I'm a vegetarian but I didn't put it in my application, I was so rushed it's a wonder I got in... I wonder how it will all work out, but I'll hope for the best.

SNiB

87.07.06

Yeah, I know a girl going into 2nd year Pharm and in her flat in Halls last year there were two Pharm students, two Meds and two Radiation Therapy students... so they were paired up and, in a way, the courses were kinda linked too. Also, I was told that they wouldn't, for example, put a nursing student (who would have a lot of hours) with a drama student (who wouldn't)

Just wondering though, what's all this about 87 being a "mini-Gaeltacht"?!

t0mm

rhapsody! wrote: »

Is the broadband good there?
And are you allowed on things like Facebook and Bebo lol

Same as in Trinity, so yes, very good. Setting up access is kinda tricky for the less computer literate, but you are given a little booklet telling you how to do it, and if you are having any trouble then you can head into special work shops in college where they will set it up for you. Nothing is blocked except torrents and p2p (limewire, etc).

This is annoying as though many use torrents and p2p programmes to download illegal copyrighted material, some people also use them to download legal material. If you are one of these people then the easiest option for filesharing is to buy a rapidshare.com account (€55 for a year) coupled with an account on a warez site. This gives you fast, easy access to files on the internet for not a very great cost.

papu

t0mm wrote: »

Same as in Trinity, so yes, very good. Setting up access is kinda tricky for the less computer literate, but you are given a little booklet telling you how to do it, and if you are having any trouble then you can head into special work shops in college where they will set it up for you. Nothing is blocked except torrents and p2p (limewire, etc).

This is annoying as though many use torrents and p2p programmes to download illegal copyrighted material, some people also use them to download legal material. If you are one of these people then the easiest option for filesharing is to buy a rapidshare.com account (€55 for a year) coupled with an account on a warez site. This gives you fast, easy access to files on the internet for not a very great cost.

as i Hear everything has to go through trinity's Proxy server , this means No Online Gaming , No steam , and Msn/Skype only if you input the Proxy Details , their are Programs like proxify that Change the Proxy for all your programs so you dont have to do it manually.

nicola09

I'm in 87.08!! Not liking the sound of this mini-Gaeltacht anymore though, on the day of the interviews for the scéim it was kind of annoying listening to "O mo dhia...tá mé...like....CHOMH tuirseach?!" THAT ISN'T IRISH!:mad: And they probably got picked instead of me!:pac:

Oh well it should still be fun, our first weekend looks mad!:D

gamma23

papu wrote: »

Msn/Skype only if you input the Proxy Details

You managed to get msn working??? as in messenger??? Everyone i know had to use meebo.com to get on that.
Getting Skype sorted is no bother really, just have to remember that when you change your college password you have to change it in the proxy settings too.

A Neurotic

No msn? How annoying. Meebo just isn't the same...

rhapsody!

NO MSN? That's insane; that's like all I use.

O2 Broadband it is for me lol; Student broadband package - 10GB a month at 9.99 a month.

Ron DMC

MSN works fine.

Instructions on setting it up located here

SNiB

Seriously, what's the story with the mini-Gaeltacht thing? Could someone please explain? I didn't apply for scéim, but I'm in house 87.. is it only certain apartments in 87 or what?

JamesGranahan

Its 5pm now ..............um, ..how do I check the list?

lfqnic

Just keep reloading the index page I think...

karlr42

I'd kill myself if I had to live in a building with people speaking Irish all day, hearing their simple language constructs liberally interspersed with English when an appropriate noun doesn't exist in Irish.

lfqnic

Yay! Just received my offer, so relieved. I'm in 87 too, I'd be delighted if it was a mini-gaeltacht but considering I don't even have leaving cert Irish, I'd be surprised!

Good luck people!

JamesGranahan

lfqnic wrote: »

Yay! Just received my offer, so relieved. I'm in 87 too, I'd be delighted if it was a mini-gaeltacht but considering I don't even have leaving cert Irish, I'd be surprised!

Good luck people!

Congrats!