Summarise Your Semester

LeixlipRed

I assume he means the internet. Or those seats in the roost just beside the stairs were you can see everyone pass. One or the other.

Wendero

Okay, where to start...

- Chicken is a great meal. Healthy, compared with anything else I eat Can be bought for a decent price at manor mills butcher's block. However, if you live on it for two months (combined basicly only with junk food from time to time), you'll get tired of it and long for mom's food.

- You can live without breakfast, but you sure are going to miss the feeling of actually having some energy in the morning, something you won't have if you don't eat it (unless you eat really late in the night). I'm trying to take every opportunity to have breakfast now during christmas break, which I'm celebrating here in Sweden. Five meals per day - that was a long time ago!

- Professors are way more strict with deadline than in high school

- Despite failing to do as well on assignments as I thought I would, I'm clearly the most intelligent guy from my high school class;) I visited my high school and talked with my teacher, and I'm the only one of his students who have gone on to university. The rest are unemployed, and his impression was that they're not trying to find a job either. So even if I don't end up a stock broker, chances are my high school reunion could be fun anyway:)

- You can learn a lot of accounting during lectures, and yet forget everything five minuits later. It just won't stick like information in other subjects. Wonder what's wrong:(

- Mature students are usually nice and, well, mature.

- Maynooth really needs a Burger King. Seriously, McDonald's and supermacs just isn't enough. There's something special about BK, right?

- It's easy to talk to people, but it's hard to really get to know them, and like, become friends (no offense to anyone on boards who may happen to know me). I mean, I don't see any friends regularly, yet everytime I'm on my way to class or when I'm in the SU, people recognize me and talk to me and stuff. Oh well, it's probably mostly my fault.

- Nothing beats a glas of julmust!:) I knew it all the time, and it has been confirmed again: Nothing beats julmust. It's a Swedish christmas soft drink (no alcohol or something) You can buy it at IKEA in Dublin, so check it out.

/John

BarryDoodles

- Not attending lectures all semester then going to the last one provokes people's staring reflexes.

- Not attending lectures all semester leads to a stressful christmas.

- My bank account hates me.

- My liver hates me.

- I have the best friends ever.

- The s.u is a black hole of time.

- Law students irratate me (irony)

- I can be a prick to some people.

- Old friends turning up randomly in first year is epic.

- College when your not broken hearted is very fun.

- I'm attracted to lesbiens (lol)

- I inhabit my own little world that involves friends, alcohol and waking up on couches. then studying all christmas which will result in good grades anyway

- Life is good

barleybooley

<- a Picture (sort of) speaking a thousand words

Thwip!

PACR is dead during exam week.
Click like to act like they know what they're talking about.
People are suprisingly easy to Frape.
Michelle is a grammar Nazi. (Love you really).
Tigerbread is single-handedly my favourite 20th century invention.
Brady's has so far claimed the lives of 12 of my friends' phones.
Being pro-active with next year's accommodation plans can result in you finding quite a reasonable house before the rush.
So many people streak around campus during exam week.
Had my first jamming session in over a year.
Subsequently started my first band in over a year.
Had an amazing Valentine's day.
Averaged a 2.1 in my group piano.
Did a lot more drawing.
Did a lot more songwriting.
Sat my final law exams for the rest of my life.
Convinced 43 people that there was a vegan protest outside McDonald's on April Fools' Day.
I am the dirtiest minded person Lorna has ever met.
Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh are still quite popular in college.
Rory looks strikingly similar to the new face of Doctor Who.
Went to see my first play in the Abbey.
Finally visited the magical land of Offaly.
Realised that someone I was talking to for weeks actually lives within ten minutes of me in Carlow.
Becoming more and more addicted to Glee.
Got shortlisted as a potential graphic artist for another DC remake of the Batman franchise. (Sadly I didn't get it.)
Rob finally repaid his debt with a delicious hot chocolate.
Went to see the phenomenon that is Avatar.
Still dying to see Bram Stoker's Dracula be introduced to the English Course.
Made a nice collection of recipes i designed while living on campus.

Rozabeez

Don't get your tonsils out the week before your final exams.
Don't let your job work you to death during thesis deadlines.
Tiger bread french toast is amazing.
I forget the rest because JP made me think of that and now I need to go make some...

irish_goat

...when did lectures start?

Rozabeez

Next September apparently. ¬_¬

allandanyways

jpcarlow wrote: »

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Still dying to see Bram Stoker's Dracula be introduced to the English Course.

It already has been, I did it last year. Great book.


Things I learned...

Final Year is horrendously tiring
Not drinking for six weeks and then drinking is a bad choice
Language students have a secret language room
Sometimes shít stuff happens and you thing your whole future is ruined but then good stuff can happen and it's deadly.

Summary of the entire year...

..stress makes exams interesting
..the internet is an amazing distraction
..I made some of the best friends this year and can honestly say I'm glad I met everyone I did...first year is full of so many opportunities and i loved it
..being a vegetarian without bringing lunch with you will mean the only choice for lunch is a plain cheese or egg mayo which gets very boring
...it's amazing easy to get drunk on cheap wine from tesco...xqzciara introduced me to lambrusco rose and I love her for it
..midnight french toast with my sister is the best fun ever
..I really value the one evening a week I got to spend with my boyfriend
..exams aren't the be all and end all
..mantra is no roost
..campus accomodation can be dangerous
..joining societies is like a disease
..watching hours of law and order svu will lead you to think you are an expert
..comedy programmes are 100 times funnier when you have study to do
..getting a job in the middle of the recession is a small miracle
..meeting random boardsies is very fun
..spending hours on boards is also very fun

..banquo still has my cup!

Aurongroove

"Busy"

mickstupp

-Second year was way harder than first year, for me. Not from a content point of view, but just time management and motivation. Realising I'd have to leave for a bunch of years to save up for a Masters degree sucked it out of me.
-I despise having to practically make appointments to see the friends I made in first year. Wonky timetables ftl.
-Did really well in essays that I threw together, which is very depressing considering the amount of work I normally put into them.
-Typing up exam notes from my class notes every Friday evening or Saturday morning (only took 2 or 3 hours) really helped me for these summer exams. As a result I felt I had a lot less studying to do than normal. And having it all organised in advance made the whole thing much less stressful.
-Some people shouldn't be allowed to dominate a class with stupid irrelevant questions. That will not be happening again.
-I study much better at home.
-Earplugs really help with the library.
-academicearth has some great lectures on video, helped with 2 of my modules this semester.
-I think people writing on the ground in chalk make the place look horrible.
-Rose in the Academic Advisory office is exceedingly awesome.
-This place continues to astound me with how nice people are. Everywhere you turn, really nice people.

JBoyle4eva

Summary of entire year

• That my ability to speak French significantly improved and I got told by French natives I'm the best Irish speaker of French
• I lost friends.....let's leave it at that
• I collected far too many receipts, leaflets, sheets of random paper and hold on to bus/train tickets
• I cannot keep track of headpones and USB cables, having replaced them a good bit
• I met my other half, Seán
• I realised I'm coparably more confident and proud of being gay then when I first came to Maynooth
• I ran in an election that I lost. Needless to say, losing something I really wanted pushed me to get postgrad/career sorted. So it worked out for the best
• I really found my niche in sociological research
• I enjoyed doing my two theses :eek:
• Lecturers became so much more easier to talk to. In fact, I made a friend in one of them
• I became very poor this year, living off the grant and family handouts. Made me appreciate the copper in my wallet all the more
• I learnt I want to move to Dublin or surrounding area. I can't live in the West forever anymore.

JBoyle4eva

mickstupp wrote: »

-Rose in the Academic Advisory office is exceedingly awesome.

+1

She's a friggin lifeline, as is her counter-part Eanan, who works there and in Career Development. Rose will help you no matter what the issue. She helped me deal with EIGHT repeat exams last August. And I remember in Feb, when I bumped into her at the election count, I was chatting to her and I went:

"remember how many repeats I had Rose?"

"Don't worry, [exec member] had more the year before" :pac:

mickstupp

mickstupp wrote: »

-Typing up exam notes from my class notes every Friday evening or Saturday morning (only took 2 or 3 hours) really helped me for these summer exams. As a result I felt I had a lot less studying to do than normal. And having it all organised in advance made the whole thing much less stressful.

Wow!! Such a great idea...never dawned on me but thanks a lot!

mickstupp

kellief wrote: »

Wow!! Such a great idea...never dawned on me but thanks a lot!

It's very nerdy but it really took a lot of pressure off

Rozabeez

My semester:

- Do not have an op the week before finals.
- We have a very understanding Anthropology department and the people in the examinations office are great.
- Don't take a month off drinking right before RAG week.
- Karaoke in the Orient is hilarious/embarrassing/amazing.
- Part time jobs while in college can only end in exhaustion.
- Don't lose contact with your non-college friends, they're wonderful
- Lecture skipping becomes addictive if it's done for extra sleep.
- A bag of hazelnuts goes a lot further than a bag of sweets!
- Maynooth is a lovely place, but it's not for everyone and it's time to move on. *Waves*

CnaG

^agree on the lecture skipping thing

Summarise my semester?
So. Glad. It's. Over.

I intend to sleep for the next month. That is all.

If there's one thing I think people heading into final year should do over the summer, it's check out postgrad courses. Just take a note of postgrad courses you'd be interested in and closing dates and the like (some of these are before Christmas...) and that way you can apply for them early next year, and won't have to be juggling application deadlines along with everything else (assignments, lectures, work, family stuff and research for your thesis) in your second semester. Wish I had.