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Letting go of UCC

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  • 18-04-2011 12:14pm
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    Kensworld
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭


    I'm wondering if other people find it difficult to let go of UCC after finishing. Following graduatation I tried to find a job but now I'm back in UCC doing a PhD (so 4 more years). My social life at the moment revolves around current students and recent graduates of UCC, which is fantastic, but if you asked me 5 years ago if that would be the case in 2011 I'd have said no. Not with standing the current economic situation in Ireland I would have hoped to be in full time employment outside the remit of UCC and to be in a different social sphere encompassing all my friends, not just relying on the College scene

    UCC is a fantastic social hub, one which has furnished me with the best friends I'll ever have. I've experienced things I never thought I'd experience and being thaught lessons that will stand to me for the rest of my life. I know all good things come to an end but I'll fight until that end to keep the dream alive


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    x43r0
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    I've been thinking something similar recently. I'm just finishing my masters so it will have been 5 years in UCC when I leave to go to London working in July.

    I'm curious as to how much my social life will drop given the amount of contacts I have built up in UCC over the years


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    JohnMearsheimer
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    I know what you mean. I left UCC 4 years ago and I have an offer to go back there this September. I have spent a large chunk of the 4 years since I finished abroad. I'm not sure I'll accept the offer, I thought UCC would be firmly in the rear view mirror at this stage in my life. I guess sometimes you have to go backwards to go forward. I'm still close to the friends I made in UCC and I'm in regular enough contact with them but being away from home has meant I had to try and expand my social circle more.


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    Kensworld
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    What I miss alot is just sitting outside the Boole or the Student centre and bumping in to people randomly. Every day you were guaranteed to meet someone for a drink with or just hang around with.


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    #5
    Priori
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    I moved to Cork to study in UCC (Philosophy MA) and miss it like mad. In Dublin I never really got involved with so-called college life, but when I came to Cork this all changed.

    I intend on enrolling in a PhD program there in the not-too-distant future. I love the place.


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