Official Bitch about daily life in NUIG!

superstar111

Saw this on the UL forum, thought it might be a good idea to start one on the NUIG forum!
Just basically post here what kind of a day you had in college! Whether it was a crappy 3 hour lecture you endured, spent the day in the oven of a library or hung around the college bar all day! Whatever.... you get the idea!

whadabouchasir

superstar111 wrote: »

spent the day in the oven of a library

I wouldn't mind spending the day in the library,if i could get a fcuking seat!

poisonated

Don't wanna be pedantic but..."bitch" means.... ah never mind.

I got up early. My bus to college broke down but I still got there at a reasonable time. I then went to an interesting talk by an esteemed psychologist.

JonSnuuu

Stupid lecturers who talk way too fast and change slides before anyone has the notes taken down, and then they tell you the notes wont be on blackboard!:mad:

cr0bar

Not much annoys me - but I get slightly irked by lecturers who go over time. One time the lecturer was babbling on until 10 past the hour, and the people coming in for another lecture after appeared to be quite confused.

click_here!!!

There's this one lecturer we have for first year maths who laughs at the most mundane stuff. It's impossible to understand what he's doing or to take him seriously, but he'd put you in a good mood I suppose.

I can't really think of anything else infuriating about NUIG, but I suppose I wasn't around here for long;).

Nuigforce

I was supposed to hand an essay into my 10 o clock lecture this morning... arrived into pc suite at half nine to print it.. finally got a computer at around 10 and didnt have any print credit.... so i got credit and queued again, eventually when i got my essay printed i didnt have a stapler. So I bought one any eventually stormed into my lecture at 10.50

Rant Over

click_here!!!

The library steward's desk has a stapler you can use for free.:P

brianthebard

fecking undergrads. That is all. :P

RolandIRL

brianthebard wrote: »

fecking undergrads. That is all. :P

you were an undergrad once, remember? :P

fecking dossers on the computer suites. two girls logged in, put some copies in front of the monitor, then walked off somewhere to probably get tea. didn't come back for about 45 mins, all the while 3 or 4 people waiting in queue to get on the computer suites. if i was waiting, i'd just have logged them off and threw their stuff aside :mad: feck them anyway

niamhocxox

So sick of going into computer suites where retards deicide to listen to music really loudly! Are they that stupid to think that everyone can't hear the music too!! Drives me insane! Or the idiots who watch south park etc and constantly laugh out loud! God just go home and watch it! :mad:

RolandIRL

niamhocxox wrote: »

So sick of going into computer suites where retards deicide to listen to music really loudly! Are they that stupid to think that everyone can't hear the music too!! Drives me insane! Or the idiots who watch south park etc and constantly laugh out loud! God just go home and watch it! :mad:

fecker beside me this morning was playing music loudly:mad: oh well, if he wants to be deaf that's his problem but don't make me deaf as well

dmcg90

The price of every meal in Friars, Smokeys and The Bialann needs to be cut by at least a euro to make it reasonable. In friars its €.79 for an apple?!?

Sofas need to be brought back where Starbucks is now

They need to shift the books over from the middle of each floor of the library to the outside, that would block out the sometimes ridiculous sun.

Reading room needs plugs on the desks like the library.

Someone needs to tell people to shut the hell up in the study areas in Cairnes.


Rant/Bitch over... Phew

click_here!!!

dmcg90 wrote: »

The price of every meal in Friars, Smokeys and The Bialann needs to be cut by at least a euro to make it reasonable. In friars its €.79 for an apple?!?

In The Bialann it costs about €6.30 for a sandwich, crisps and an orange juice. You could buy basically the same thing in Tesco for €2.50.

niamhocxox wrote: »

So sick of going into computer suites where retards decide to listen to music really loudly! Are they that stupid to think that everyone can't hear the music too!! Drives me insane! Or the idiots who watch south park etc and constantly laugh out loud! God just go home and watch it! :mad:

There are signs that say something like "These computers are for serious academic use only." You'd feel like moving the signs right on front of them, but I never have the courage.:(

beagle001

Can't get a seat in the library,people leaving closed notebooks on a spare desk then heading of for an hour.
As previously stated mp3 players on full blast in pc suites and folks on facebook etc during a lecture v v annoying

RolandIRL

beagle001 wrote: »

Can't get a seat in the library,people leaving closed notebooks on a spare desk then heading of for an hour.

this was rampant in the reading room last year, except they'd just leave a copy...my brother saw this, and decided to move the copy away (if they had nothing else there like a jacket or bag) so that someone else could get a seat. if i see nothing else but a copy, i do the same. tell them to feck off if they come back

cr0bar

Also the parking arrangements for students irks me - it's like it hasn't changed in a decade. Back then hardly any students had cars so it was grand. Now more and more have wheels. The upside is I'm always in college now at 8am.

Zillah

dmcg90 wrote: »

The price of every meal in Friars, Smokeys and The Bialann needs to be cut by at least a euro to make it reasonable. In friars its €.79 for an apple?!?

You want an apple to cost -€.21?

WallyGUFC

Also, is an apple even a "meal?"

po0k

Nuigforce wrote: »

I was supposed to hand an essay into my 10 o clock lecture this morning... arrived into pc suite at half nine to print it.. finally got a computer at around 10 and didnt have any print credit.... so i got credit and queued again, eventually when i got my essay printed i didnt have a stapler. So I bought one any eventually stormed into my lecture at 10.50

Rant Over

...?
Print?
Email it surely?
Timestamped, reasonable identify verification, saving paper, free and faster etc.???
Or is the lecturer fond of tree flesh/afraid of compooters?

Lockstep

+1 on the people who come in, dump their stuff and then leave for the entire day.

dmcg90

Zillah wrote: »

You want an apple to cost -€.21?

Is an apple a meal?

No. I clearly said the price of a 'meal'.

Should have been clearer that the apple was a separate point mind.

Ficheall

Why can't an apple be a meal? In some countries an apple could feed a family of four for a week! And they would then plant it for an apple tree.

****ing students - don't know how well off they are. :mad:

Nuigforce

po0k wrote: »

...?
Print?
Email it surely?
Timestamped, reasonable identify verification, saving paper, free and faster etc.???
Or is the lecturer fond of tree flesh/afraid of compooters?

Had to be handed in

Zillah

WallyGUFC wrote: »

Also, is an apple even a "meal?"

It probably has more nutritional value than most student meals.

dmcg90 wrote: »

Is an apple a meal?

No. I clearly said the price of a 'meal'.

Should have been clearer that the apple was a separate point mind.

Or, y'know, just take a joke.

po0k

Nuigforce wrote: »

Had to be handed in

Arbornecrophiles are a strange breed

sillybird

Ficheall wrote: »

Why can't an apple be a meal? In some countries an apple could feed a family of four for a week! And they would then plant it for an apple tree.

****ing students - don't know how well off they are. :mad:

Would love to know what your problem is with bashing students? Aren't you a student?

Ficheall

sillybird wrote: »

Would love to know what your problem is with bashing students? Aren't you a student?

Woah! I have no problem with bashing students.

sillybird

I see that from your posts.

Ficheall

Look, love, the post about the apple was clearly tongue in cheek.
The family of four referred to, for starters, would clearly not survive on an apple for a week. They would be delighted, I'm sure, to receive said apple, and to taste something that wasn't complete ****, and it would do them the world of good to get a bit of the apple, important vitamins etc, but no - a meal it is not. Also the bit about planting the remains is clearly bollocks. The poor people in the hypothetical situation probably don't live anywhere where an apple tree would grow - crappy soil, lack of rain, too hot etc. And even if by some miracle it did grow, it would be many years before the tree produced any fruit that they could eat - the family would long before have died of starvation and disease. Not to mention the fighting that such a food source would lead to - people would kill each other for control of that tree, whose wood could be used to build stuff, and further seeds could then perhaps be used to grow an entire orchard. There would be so much bloodshed.
If the family could open their eyes and look ahead beyond their ravenous hunger and see the destruction their apple might lead to, I'm sure they would not thank you for your 79cent apple, and be only too happy to return it to the needy students.

cianl1

Ficheall wrote: »

Look, love, the post about the apple was clearly tongue in cheek.
The family of four referred to, for starters, would clearly not survive on an apple for a week. They would be delighted, I'm sure, to receive said apple, and to taste something that wasn't complete ****, and it would do them the world of good to get a bit of the apple, important vitamins etc, but no - a meal it is not. Also the bit about planting the remains is clearly bollocks. The poor people in the hypothetical situation probably don't live anywhere where an apple tree would grow - crappy soil, lack of rain, too hot etc. And even if by some miracle it did grow, it would be many years before the tree produced any fruit that they could eat - the family would long before have died of starvation and disease. Not to mention the fighting that such a food source would lead to - people would kill each other for control of that tree, whose wood could be used to build stuff, and further seeds could then perhaps be used to grow an entire orchard. There would be so much bloodshed.
If the family could open their eyes and look ahead beyond their ravenous hunger and see the destruction their apple might lead to, I'm sure they would not thank you for your 79cent apple, and be only too happy to return it to the needy students.

And this is why I go to chess on Wednesdays.

/shameless plug

Bummer1234

Went in for a pint 8pm on "christmas day" in college bar...."No more nails" wouldn't stick me aswel to the floor with all the drink dried on it!!!!

barry181091

Lads, apart from early lectures, I think we all know daily life in NUIG is pretty awesome

I feel sorry for the other college's, seriously

charlie_says

First semester 2nd year electronic and computer engineering. It's horrible.

Fionn MacCool

po0k wrote: »

...?
Print?
Email it surely?
Timestamped, reasonable identify verification, saving paper, free and faster etc.???
Or is the lecturer fond of tree flesh/afraid of compooters?

Loads of lecturers ask for hard copies of assignments/essays. It's ridiculous, as you say it is a waste of paper, takes more time and effort, is not as accountable or reliable as emailing (see: my lecturer emptying the drop-box and leaving 10 minutes before the deadline). And surely it's easier for them to use TurnItIn than to manually check for plagiarism?

Can't stand the archaic lecturers who don't use Blackboard either. Although it's probably a sneaky way of punishing students who don't go in :pac:

brianthebard

There are some serious luddites outside of computer studies departments ime.

TheCosmicFrog

The ignorant c**ts who hang around outside the Reading Room door chatting and laughing at full volume, even in the late hours. I've been tempted to walk outside and calmly say, "Girls/lads, would ye kindly mind f*cking off over there? Thanks."

Or the people who think that walking through the double doors to the print credit areas in the library suddenly places them in a soundproof bubble. They proceed to chat on the phone in a perfectly audible volume.

Nuigforce

barry181091 wrote: »

Lads, apart from early lectures, I think we all know daily life in NUIG is pretty awesome

I feel sorry for the other college's, seriously

Massive thumbs up!!:D:D

reap-a-rat

Not liking the Baltic conditions here in the Cairnes study area. Seriously considering bringing in an electric heater tomorrow. 4 good layers, including thermal wear that had me melting out in the snow yesterday and I'm still freezing :mad:. Not a happy bunny!

MissMoppet

Having to Skate/Swim walking from Cois Abhann to Concourse..Ergh.. :mad:

Raging_Ninja

Fionn MacCool wrote: »

Loads of lecturers ask for hard copies of assignments/essays.

My programming lecturer asks for a hardcopy as well as submitting assignments via Blackboard. Reason is, he can mark the paper assignment and give it back so students can get feedback on where they might have gone wrong. The electronic version acts as a receipt and a backup in case the student loses the hardcopy.

Fionn MacCool

reap-a-rat wrote: »

Not liking the Baltic conditions here in the Cairnes study area. Seriously considering bringing in an electric heater tomorrow. 4 good layers, including thermal wear that had me melting out in the snow yesterday and I'm still freezing :mad:. Not a happy bunny!

Really? Are you sure you don't mean the old St Anthony's building? Cairnes is usually roasting (and smells awful) when the weathers bad.

Padkir

Fionn MacCool wrote: »

Really? Are you sure you don't mean the old St Anthony's building? Cairnes is usually roasting (and smells awful) when the weathers bad.

No, I can vouch for this, it's absolutely freezin in the study area upstairs!! Thats what you get with a glass wall when its -2C outside!!

Fionn MacCool

Anyone else hate the way whenever you enter a computer suite or study area, nearly everyone makes a point of turning around to look at you? Nosy sods.

Squeeonline

cr0bar wrote: »

Also the parking arrangements for students irks me - it's like it hasn't changed in a decade. Back then hardly any students had cars so it was grand. Now more and more have wheels. The upside is I'm always in college now at 8am.

8am is not an upside. Ever.

Squeeonline

Fionn MacCool wrote: »

Anyone else hate the way whenever you enter a computer suite or study area, nearly everyone makes a point of turning around to look at you? Nosy sods.

Probably just bored. But also you can get a peek at some very attractive members of the opposite sex (or same if that's your thing) around exam time. They all come out of the wood work.

ciano1

Squeeonline wrote: »

Probably just bored. But also you can get a peek at some very attractive members of the opposite sex (or same if that's your thing) around exam time. They all come out of the wood work.

Noticed that today actually in the IT building!!

reap-a-rat

ciano1 wrote: »

Noticed that today actually in the IT building!!

That's weird, coz, eh, I was in the IT building today:cool::p!

Fionn MacCool

reap-a-rat wrote: »

That's weird, coz, eh, I was in the IT building today:cool::p!

Looking at me.

reap-a-rat

Another thing that's really annoying is this: The people who come into the study space in Cairnes, or the library aswell possibly or the reading room, Def cairnes anyhow, and sit there, the WHOLE day laughing, talking OUT LOUD and just shíte actin in general, píssin off everyone around them and not giving a hoot. These are the same asses that will be giving out when they have to pay for repeat exams!

"I don't know how I failed, mom, I was studying from 9 til 7 every day"

Just because there's a book on the table and a tab with blackboard open in your browser does not mean you are studying!:mad:

Was opposite a girl 2 days ago, no yesterday actually, who spent the whole time giggling and running in and out of the room, and showing the girls beside her (one of whom was trying to study) "funny" videos or whatever and when she was leaving around 7pm, she was talking to someone for all to hear, and I heard her say "I have soooooooo much to do...:(" Bit of advice love, if you come in to study, do that, don't annoy the people who give a crap about their exams!!!:mad::mad::mad:

/rant

Squeeonline

Sometimes you just have to have the balls to go over to someone and tell them to shut the fsck up. I've done this in the library and the Ciarnes building. Often in comp suites as well.

They'll be so shocked, that they usually stop whatever it is they're doing.

Plus I'm in final year with real work to do, so I'm older than most of the 1-3rd yrs that inhabit/infest study areas, presuming that postgrads are usually elsewhere. I do quite like lording it over them.