CK101 - Arts 09/10

Bonzo-Reborn

Anybody else going into this course in September? Any idea on what subjects your doing or accommodation your staying in?

Wouldnt mind chatting to a few people i might be able to befriend come september, dont wanna be a loner

TanG411

My subjects are:

English
Sociology
Psychology

And I'm still thinking of a 4th subject. Maybe politics?

As for accomodation, I'll be staying at home :pac:

Byron85

Going to be picking Psychology, History, Sociology and Religions and Global Diversity.

As for accomodation, i'm renting out on the Douglas road.

Also, i'm a mature student. I'm the "ripe" age of 24. :P

Skapoot

Chinese Studies, English History Psychology


Going to be living in the Old Mental Hospital buildings! (its the new part, but still shur)

(The old tenant left a load of books in the house btw - theyre all titles like "kill you at midnight " " you will die" " mass murder at dawn" . Stuff like that.)

Creepy!

If we're giving ages I'll be 21 when starting. "ripe" 21 year old!

grenache

Sociology AND psychology?!! :eek:


You poor people.

Byron85

grenache wrote: »

Sociology AND psychology?!! :eek:


You poor people.

I've wanted to study Psychology for the last few years now. I did a year long plc course in Applied Psychology for the last year and to be honest I found it easy. It helps when you love the subject. It's the career i'm headed for eventually too.

Bonzo-Reborn

is that the old asylum up on the hill?that place is creepy, im gonna try get up there sometime to have a look around, seems amazing looking kinda eery haha

Byron85

TarquinTitsworh wrote: »

LOL!!! What do you expect from a PLC course?! You pass a PLC college exam if you spell your name correctly.

Guffaw!:D

Yeah, sure. :rolleyes:

captainspeckle

TarquinTitsworh wrote: »

LOL!!! What do you expect from a PLC course?! You pass a PLC college exam if you spell your name correctly.

Guffaw!:D

TarquinTitsworh wrote: »

Chuckle, I've completed my degree at this age.

What do you think of that eh?:D

this thread is about meeting your future classmates for the first time...

and you are not leaving a very good first impression of yourself.

captainspeckle

grenache wrote: »

Sociology AND psychology?!! :eek:


You poor people.

psychlogy yes.

sociology, dear god nnnnnnooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:eek:

TanG411

captainspeckle wrote: »

psychlogy yes.

sociology, dear god nnnnnnooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:eek:

Sociology FTW!

I always here bad stories about it, but it seems intersting when reading about it. Same with psychology.

Have to give it a go at least. Can always change if I need to :pac:

captainspeckle

yeah sure give it a try and even if you dont change and it turns out you arint that fond of it, its a pretty easy subject to pass!:D

ash:)

Hey!
Im goin doin irish, history, history of art and celtic civilisation!:) Livin in brookfield! Cant wait to move down!!! Anyone second that motion?:p

captainspeckle

TarquinTitsworh wrote: »

Listen up numpty; this isn't a PLC college- you can't collect Weetabix tokens to pass exams in UCC.:rolleyes:

If 99.9% of people think a course a rubbish, it generally will be.

Comprende?

if you haven't done the course yourself, you are in no position to give an opinion.

troll perhaps?

Orizio

Tarquinwhateverthe**** banned for being an enormous attention whore.

In future, just report and then ignore trolling posts. Name calling and backseat modding aren't acceptable.

Skapoot

Bonzo-Reborn wrote: »

is that the old asylum up on the hill?that place is creepy, im gonna try get up there sometime to have a look around, seems amazing looking kinda eery haha

Oh god yeah do. At night. Lookin out the window last night was an eerie orange sky with clouds and a full moon over the creepy spiral towers with boarded up windows and cross on top! aaah

And it helps that theres trees all around. Adds more scariness.

Oh yeah and homeless people sleep in the un-renovated side! I know it aint that scary but if you saw a crusty guy in the middle o the night in that place surely you'd think twas the devil.



Jaysus , PLC courses are tough,. And the fact that it was done in College Of Commerce makes it almost unbearable as theyre strict and slave drivers so I've heard! Any course is tough if you want good marks.

Lol, all the unneccesary aggression!! Weetabix tokens like!!:pac:

KCAccidental

georgraphy, english, politics and history for me.

i'll hope by the end of the year to be typing 90wpm

TanG411

My final subjects are:

English
Sociology
Psychology
Maths Studies.

If I can I might switch the places for sociology and psychology. I asked my brother about them and recommended that I do .
Should be a fun year. Only problem are seminars for psychology. Having to walk to the South mall .

Byron85

Just officially registered my choices.

Psychology
History
Religions and Global Diversity
Sociology

lauraisginger

Hey!
I've chosen:
French
English
Physcology
Spanish [beginners]

I'm staying in Castlewhite, moving up Sunday! exciting stuff!:D

In the exact same boat though!

Bonzo-Reborn

omg im moving sunday too, and im doin english

castlewhite session ftw!

lauraisginger

ah deadly!
Castlewhite ftw!
Looking forward to it?:)

Bonzo-Reborn

ah yeah, see im only moving my stuff down sunday then ill move properly down either the 8th or the 13th so yeah i dunno yet

lauraisginger

ah nice, i think i'm gonna stay around from sunday, to save going home and coming back again. where're you coming from?:)

Bonzo-Reborn

tipperary lol you?

lauraisginger

Nice!lol.Waterford!

Bonzo-Reborn

shur look we already know the same people so, and thats fact because i know half of waterford, i live like 20 mins away from the city :P

lauraisginger

Nice!lol.Waterford!

bp1989

Don't do sociology! Yes it looks interesting if you read about it online, but the course is HORRIBLE. The lecturers will put you asleep, its really confusing and you'll never really know what sociology is - because they do a terrible job of explaining it.

I did Arts for 1 year before leaving and doing Computer Science. I wasted a whole year on an incredibly difficult (I would put days of work into essays only to barely pass or even fail) essays which did my nut in.

If you want to spend the year in the library writing pointless essay after pointless essay with barely anything to show for it, do Arts. If not, do any other course.

It just all feels so irrelevant. Plus the classes are HUGE (we're talking 300+ for the major subjects at least) and it's really quite hard to get much attention from the lecturer, many of which would leave you feeling helpless anyway.

I spent the entire year being stressed out, spending my nights reading book after boring book for english and my days sitting in the library trying to get my ahead around greek and roman mythology (they just "expect" you to know about it, they dont even teach it to you), and what do I have to show for it? I passed the year with adequate grades, yes, but it wasn't worth all the stress.

Since changing to Computer Science, the course is far less stressful, I put in far less effort and I come out with grades of 70% upwards. Screw Arts!

hudsonriver

Skapoot wrote: »

Chinese Studies, English History Psychology


Going to be living in the Old Mental Hospital buildings! (its the new part, but still shur)

(The old tenant left a load of books in the house btw - theyre all titles like "kill you at midnight " " you will die" " mass murder at dawn" . Stuff like that.)

Creepy!

If we're giving ages I'll be 21 when starting. "ripe" 21 year old!

Hey, just wondering if you could tell me how much they are costing, I think it would be an amazing place to live. Explored both St Kevins and the Magdaline sisters hospitals, very interesting/scary/dangerous places, dont get caught!

Im not doing arts, second year civil engineering but Im staying in castle****e so im sure Il see ya around = session.

lauraisginger

haha small world!its all very irish,you expect to meet strangers, but then they end up being a friend of a friend. happens too often lol

Skapoot

hudsonriver wrote: »

Hey, just wondering if you could tell me how much they are costing, I think it would be an amazing place to live. Explored both St Kevins and the Magdaline sisters hospitals, very interesting/scary/dangerous places, dont get caught!

Im living in the new apartments

The usual is like in between 800 to 950 pm . The one I got was 850 for 1 year lease.

Two double rooms, one with ensuite. Although it mightaswell be two ensuites since if you're sharing with one other person you get the big bathroom to yourself.

All the refuse is included and if you're living in the higher floors its really warm, so the heating wont cost anything, literally. You will barely need it.

Its worth checking out. If you really want to live in the actual old building then I dont know how much they are I went to view one. It is faiiiiirrr freaky in the corridors inside!

Just type in Rivertowers in Daft for the new apts. For the old, I dunno, try typing Lee road in? Im not sure what the name of the apts are sorry!

captainspeckle

bp1989 wrote: »

Don't do sociology! Yes it looks interesting if you read about it online, but the course is HORRIBLE. The lecturers will put you asleep, its really confusing and you'll never really know what sociology is - because they do a terrible job of explaining it.

I did Arts for 1 year before leaving and doing Computer Science. I wasted a whole year on an incredibly difficult (I would put days of work into essays only to barely pass or even fail) essays which did my nut in.

If you want to spend the year in the library writing pointless essay after pointless essay with barely anything to show for it, do Arts. If not, do any other course.

It just all feels so irrelevant. Plus the classes are HUGE (we're talking 300+ for the major subjects at least) and it's really quite hard to get much attention from the lecturer, many of which would leave you feeling helpless anyway.

I spent the entire year being stressed out, spending my nights reading book after boring book for english and my days sitting in the library trying to get my ahead around greek and roman mythology (they just "expect" you to know about it, they dont even teach it to you), and what do I have to show for it? I passed the year with adequate grades, yes, but it wasn't worth all the stress.

Since changing to Computer Science, the course is far less stressful, I put in far less effort and I come out with grades of 70% upwards. Screw Arts!

not exactly tho best thing to say to people who are just going into this course. you didnt like it, thats fair enough. but just because you hated it doesnt mean everyone else will. i love it! pretty pointless post overall to be honest.

captainspeckle

Orizio wrote: »

Tarquinwhateverthe**** banned for being an enormous attention whore.

In future, just report and then ignore trolling posts. Name calling and backseat modding aren't acceptable.

thanks. i wasnt trying to be a back seat mod, just got really annoyed. sorry again!

Bonzo-Reborn

checked into castlewhite today, didnt seem so bad, walls are a bit prison ish but nothing a few posters wont change