Anyone hoping for TCD, september 2011?

GaeilgeGoDeo.x

hi there,:p

sooo... the cao is filled (at last)..have tcd down based on the course reputation.anyone hoping for trinity college?:)
just out of interest do many people from the west/midlands , people from the country //outside of dublin go to trinity?:). am from the country myself and not sure what to expect (if i get the points to go there that is) .
would love to hear that country people also go to trinity, as where im from people seem to be of the opinion that its only well off people from the city that go to trinity. although i do understand that at the end of the day college is what you make of it, and you're bound to meet people from all sorts of backgrounds.:D
..but just curious,,anyone from the country/west going to tcd, and what are your opinions?;)

Lawliet

Of course people from outside Dublin go to Trinity. I don't know why people would think otherwise.

Scrappychimow

Don't worry the country people soon trade in the bootleg jeans for chinos , talk

with a swishel and they even learn to use knifes and forks to eat instead of

ramming fistfulls of potatoes into the gob.

El Siglo

Scrappychimow wrote:

Don't worry the country people soon trade in the bootleg jeans for chinos , talk

with a swishel and they even learn to use knifes and forks to eat instead of

ramming fistfulls of potatoes into the gob.

Once they started letting the Catholics in, it was all down hill from there...

Seriously op, Trinity is full of people from everywhere. In my course there was two Chinese, a Hungarian, and an American.

Jammyc

OP, What course are you hoping to do? Others here might be able to give you some insight into what to expect when you start!

andrew

I really don't get where some of the stereotypes that exist with regard to Trinity come from, it's mental. Anyways, yes OP, people from all around the country are in Trinity. Only people who havn't been to Trinity would really think that only rich Dublin people go to Trinity. Good luck with the leaving cert results, what course have you put down?

EuropeanSon

Of the 14 people (me included) I lived with in halls last year, we had 2 from Sligo, 1 from Leitrim, 1 from Dublin, 2 from Louth, 1 from Meath, 1 from Wexford, 1 from England, 1 from the US, 1 from Clare, and 1 from Waterford, 1 from France, and 1 from Hong Kong.

GaeilgeGoDeo.x

GaeilgeGoDeo.x wrote: »

would love to hear that country people also go to trinity

They do.

languagenerd

My course has people from all parts of the country in it - Dublin, Wicklow, Meath, Mayo, Roscommon, Donegal, Sligo, Galway, Waterford, Louth (that I can think of on the spot) - as well as other countries - the UK, the US, Russia, Spain, France, Italy, Lithuania and South Africa.

As for the "rich Dublin people" stereotype - non-existent nowadays. All colleges cost the same these days, and in fact, UCD technically costs more because they charge more for student services than TCD.

nicola09

I'm from the country don't worry you will survive!:) Friday in Heuston/Connolly will be your biggest source of stress if you go home at the weekend haha...people do sometimes laugh at the way I pronounce words though..but when you are from Kilkenny that's something that happens outside college too! :P
what course are you hoping to do?

AnneElizabeth

Hoping for Engineering, (Computer Science failing that), what's everyone else's #1?

Junior D

nicola09 wrote: »

I'm from the country don't worry you will survive!:) Friday in Heuston/Connolly will be your biggest source of stress if you go home at the weekend haha...people do sometimes laugh at the way I pronounce words though..but when you are from Kilkenny that's something that happens outside college too! :P
what course are you hoping to do?

Bein from Kilkenny is like bein another foriegner in and around the dental hospital. Everytime i talk, people learn towards and tilt their ear to me, as if I'm speakin another language. I've had Libyan's correct me on my grammer !!

nicola09

^^Hahaha people tend to find the way I say "water" and "father" highly amusing...and also the number "one" (WAN)...but lots of Irish accents are rather hilarious so I'm not (overly) offended!

OP, if you live in Trinity Hall in first year they will make an effort to match you up with people you have something in common with, like sports or where you are from or whatever, so don't worry if you don't know too many people at the start, you will make plenty of friends in freshers week!

karlram

just accepted my offer for TCD to do ID nursing as a mature student. cant wait to start

Junior D

nicola09 wrote: »

^^Hahaha people tend to find the way I say "water" and "father" highly amusing...and also the number "one" (WAN)...but lots of Irish accents are rather hilarious so I'm not (overly) offended!

The exact same for me as well. They spent a whole day once just pickin out random words for me to say so they could get a good laugh.
They found it hilarious when i said the word "sword" or the word quare, as is quare funny or quare good....

Still get ridiculed to this day over that

TrollHammaren

I'm from Dublin and I still get the piss taken out of me for the way I pronounce things. I'm from Ballyfermot and still have the accent, so I get a bit of stick for it but it's all in good fun. People usually greet me with "what's the bleedin' stahry?" and the likes.

Pet

Ah Jaysus, de hacka yeh TrollHammaren, scarleh for yeh so y'am.

OP: if you have an accent that sounds like you're spitting out lumps of potato with each plosive, then yes, you'll probably get some friendly ribbing, alright, but that's about the extent of it. Anyone who'd take it any further than friendly messing is not someone you'd want to waste your time with. Besides, fun-with-accents game goes both ways: get the D4s to say "roundabout". Laugh at their faces and the state of them. Rinse, repeat as needed.

Emmerz

Well I'm hoping for Trinners too and I'm from west Cork so I'm going in with an open mind..... sure location doesn't really affect peoples friendliness, whether from the country or city

brownacid

Unless you're from cork

Emmerz

brownacid wrote: »

Unless you're from cork

Lol Cork da plase 2 b!

languagenerd

Emmerz wrote: »

Well I'm hoping for Trinners too and I'm from west Cork so I'm going in with an open mind..... sure location doesn't really affect peoples friendliness, whether from the country or city

First lesson - 90% of students don't actually say "Trinners" :P.

Emmerz

languagenerd wrote: »

First lesson - 90% of students don't actually say "Trinners" :P.

Oh I know I dont usually either I just think its fun to write....makes me sound like a twat lol

LifesaverNiall

Trinity down as my first two..
General Science and then Earth Sciences, both look pretty good so i hope i get one of them.. otherwise its off to UCD

FUNKYTOWWWN

i just got my offer. French & spanish TSM
i can't wait !