UCD irritations... ie first world problems! (See Mod Note, 1st post)

rebecca1988

WeeBushy wrote: »

http://www.ucd.ie/library/using_the_library/using_services/pg_centre/

thanks! only for arts schools **** one!:mad:

conor.hogan.2

Well the other libraries are tiny, and not one for every discipline.

Jigglypuff

Blackboard/UcdConnect in general has been down for over half an hour whyyyy oh whyyyyyyyyyy Can't access my notes, it's moved way past being just "mildy annoying but sure it'll be back up in a sec". Ridiculous! :mad:

Raphael

UCDs connection to the internet dropping for half an hour while I'm trying to get work done (to the above, that's why - it's back now)

justified

UCD connect is down AGAIN argg :mad::mad::mad:

L

Raphael wrote: »

UCDs connection to the internet dropping for half an hour while I'm trying to get work done (to the above, that's why - it's back now)

Coming into UCD to do some work I couldn't do from home - then finding the internet was down so I couldn't get the files I needed from home. Two stools - caught between them. -_-

Pandoras Twist

Stupid daedalus fire. I need to get into my emails to send my lecturer a mail about an exam on saturday. He uses a non ucd email and the only place I have it is in my old mails.

RAWR!

Blacey

Pandoras Twist wrote: »

Stupid daedalus fire. I need to get into my emails to send my lecturer a mail about an exam on saturday. He uses a non ucd email and the only place I have it is in my old mails.

RAWR!

RAWR indeed, but email is back now

Wonderstruck

Three nine o'clock exams overall, and other one is on the same day as a 9am, but at 6pm! I think this is payback for having no 9am lectures :pac:

UnawareCaesar

4 9am lectures a week, 4 9am exams, 9am and 6pm exams one day.

There's got to be some good karma coming my way somewhere

Ilyana

I think 6pm exams might be worse than 9ams (although I haven't sat an exam in UCD yet)...I'm more productive in the morning.
And, the less time I have to stress out on the day of the exam, the better
My 6pm exam is on a Friday too, so icky!

conor.hogan.2

If it was possible I would swap to a 6 or 7pm exam, travelling across town to the rds for 9am is a PITA.

**Timbuk2**

I hate 6pm exams - you spend the day worrying about the exam, probably going over the stuff, meaning that you're tired from the revision before the exam even starts! Don't mind 9ams, a pain for those commuting but at least you get the exam out of the way very early. 12-2 is probably the 'perfect' time!

Wilde

Due to UCD power outages/repair, you can no longer log on to your UCD account on the computers but you can still log on to UCD connect (so far.) The lads in the Daedalus building don't know when it'll be back up and running.

Pandoras Twist

Blacey wrote: »

RAWR indeed, but email is back now

Too late. I missed the lecturers cut off for emails. Exam is tomorrow. BLEGH!

Also, int he girls bathroom in the library, the dude that was chaning the toilet rolls just through out loads of ones that were half or nearly gone. Bloody stupid considering he could have left them on the shelf for people to dry their hands with. That's what most of the toilet roll goes on anyway.

Jackmcg

must say I found the over-flowing toilets in quinn quite irritating there on thursday.. I walked in and there was bits of sh*te speckled around a 2-cubicle radius without so much as a "wet floor" sign!!

also, the quiet study area is for quiet study- not for handsy foreign students to display their affection while im studying for my exams!

upandcumming

Fucking **** standing in at entrances and exits to escalators, doors, outside the exit turnstiles, inside the entrance turnstile, at the door to the shop, on the stairs, right outside the OUT door, or I saw a guy yesterday sitting on the stairs! All chatting and laughing about nothing but ****. Librocop should kick the **** into them. I saw him the other day roaring at a group of women standing near the entrance turnstile.
As a rule though, I would have some ex Secret Service boy with a sniper paintball gun. Their clothes would be destroyed, their hair, and it'd leave a nice bruise. They wouldn't be too quick about doing it again.

To the guy that stopped people skipping the queue into the library and told them to go back to the end, I salute you!

fairyprincessx

Campus is not equipped to deal with large volumes of people on Sundays. With Newman closed people have nowhere to sit, and food options are limited too. Bleugh.

Completely off topic, some genius stuck a euro coin to the library steps. Spent my study break watching 3 dozen people try to pick it up

WeeBushy

fairyprincessx wrote: »

Completely off topic, some genius stuck a euro coin to the library steps. Spent my study break watching 3 dozen people try to pick it up

Someone did that coming up to the exams a couple of years ago as well. Very entertaining!

honru

fairyprincessx wrote: »

Completely off topic, some genius stuck a euro coin to the library steps. Spent my study break watching 3 dozen people try to pick it up

^ I fell for it...

Digits

fairyprincessx wrote: »

Completely off topic, some genius stuck a euro coin to the library steps. Spent my study break watching 3 dozen people try to pick it up

Haha yeah and all the lads at the bottom of the stairs shouting WEAH! every time someone tried to pick it up.

roosky

Digits wrote: »

Haha yeah and all the lads at the bottom of the stairs shouting WEAH! every time someone tried to pick it up.

guilty to being one of ..."THE LADS"

**Timbuk2**

fairyprincessx wrote: »

Completely off topic, some genius stuck a euro coin to the library steps. Spent my study break watching 3 dozen people try to pick it up

Ah dammit fell for that as well

We'll see who's laughing when I arrive there at 8.30am Monday morning with a screwdriver, +€1 for me thanks! :P

eoin2nc

SU photo copy bureau will not reopen after Xmas, two of the staff let go. Very annoying as its unlikely some lectures will upload of that material onto blackboard. Was very handy being able to get copies of the relevant reading chapters without having to splash out on the book or wait ages for it to be free in the library!

HavingCrack

When the announcer in the RDS keeps talking after the exam has started about errors to papers , very distracting :mad:.

WeeBushy

HavingCrack wrote: »

When the announcer in the RDS keeps talking after the exam has started about errors to papers , very distracting :mad:.

Wear ear plugs in your exams. I always wore them and it was great, the announcer and invigilators constantly walking past don't distract you. Although I would always listen to the beginning of what he was saying in case it was related to my exam!

eoin2nc

WeeBushy wrote: »

Wear ear plugs in your exams. I always wore them and it was great, the announcer and invigilators constantly walking past don't distract you. Although I would always listen to the beginning of what he was saying in case it was related to my exam!

Ye great tip, I started doing this last year and it really help me stay 'in the zone' Very annoying to lose your train of thought when someone sneezes or creaks their chair ect

titleist91

The guy on the 3rd floor of the library wearing the australia jersey who sniffs every 10 seconds. Impossible to concentrate. Such an ignorant tool. Stay at home if u need to sniff that often.

OneOfThem Stumbled

HavingCrack wrote: »

When the announcer in the RDS keeps talking after the exam has started about errors to papers , very distracting :mad:.

For people in chairs between 239 and 469, two-three-nine and four-six-nine, introduction to principles of obfuscation; Fusc-one-zero-three-oh, paper one, question 17, part a, reads "having", this should read, "had".

Conor108

The temptation to take that €1 coin today. Thank god I saw this thread and avoided the "WAHEEEEY" from 'The Lads'.