One thing on how you would improve NUI maynooth

spartacus815

let your ideas flow free

TO_ARTHUR!

spartacus815 wrote: »

let your ideas flow free

A 50 meter swimming pool would be cool but seriously was there not a thread just like this one a few months back?

Usually turns into a hate thread on all the things people hate about NUIM. Every Uni has it's ups and downs, management/union seem to be doing a good job of improving so far.

Toshi101

huge garden heaters every 10 meters outside. nice looking ones of course..

Pudsy33

I know its been mentioned in the general thread, but toilet training for the male population of the college, as some clearly struggle.

roxyworldgirl

Obvious one but...SUBWAY!
we have over 4 places for coffee but not a place which should completely be in a student town if not on campus...

How so Joe

Subway comes up over and over again on this forum, I'm surprised it hasn't been a campaign promise yet!

Thwip!

Pudsy33 wrote: »

I know its been mentioned in the general thread, but toilet training for the male population of the college, as some clearly struggle.

Surprisingly when I was in first year all i ever heard were complaints bout the Ladies' toilets in JH. Granted I heard some bad things bout the lads' in arts block but never on the same level.

aaabbbb

We definitely need another atm on campus....

Doctor Strange

Ah lads, election bingo ended last week.

aaabbbb

Unforgettable _ Fire wrote: »

Ah lads, election bingo ended last week.

Gotta start early for next year you know.... :P

Jimmy Iovine

A 'what's wrong with Maynooth' thread that's not started by unclejunior?

I never thought I'd see the day.

How so Joe

Actually, I haven't seen him on this forum in ages! Don't tell me he's gone?

Thwip!

Yes and all his re-regs too.

How so Joe

Awwwwh. I was convinced it was banquo re-regged and just looking for a fight sometimes.

Doctor Strange

How so Joe wrote: »

Actually, I haven't seen him on this forum in ages! Don't tell me he's gone?

Someone swung the site-banhammer at him, afaik.

Thwip!

How so Joe wrote: »

Awwwwh. I was convinced it was banquo re-regged and just looking for a fight sometimes.

I still have my doubts :P

Though Siomha apparently met him (I may be remembering this incorrectly, there was alcohol nearby when I heard it)

Eric Cartman

A large multistory carpark for the college,
rebuild the SU smoking area as a quasi-legal enclosed space with heaters,
fix the traffic lights in the middle of town.
put the bridge back.
have an on campus off licence / 24 hour tuck shop selling cans and smokes near the apartments.

Turtyturd

Have all core books available as e-books....got an essay last week based on one book, which only has 3 copies in the library for a class with 60 members.

XxMCRxBabyxX

Thwip! wrote: »

I still have my doubts :P

Though Siomha apparently met him (I may be remembering this incorrectly, there was alcohol nearby when I heard it)

No he just claimed that he knew who I was and was mean to me.

I was either him or Paky. Or both.

I miss unclejunior. Can we bring him back?

Doctor Strange

Turtyturd wrote: »

Have all core books available as e-books....got an essay last week based on one book, which only has 3 copies in the library for a class with 60 members.

The books are easy to find if you know where to look

Turtyturd

Normally...but some academic books won't show up anywhere.

How so Joe

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

No he just claimed that he knew who I was and was mean to me.

I was either him or Paky. Or both.

I miss unclejunior. Can we bring him back?

unclejunior appreciation thread?

TO_ARTHUR!

Would ye not just be content to see UncleJunior in Prison?

Alt_Grrr

TO_ARTHUR! wrote: »

Would ye not just be content to see UncleJunior in Prison?

I think I know who he is in real life too (well I have some clues pointing in that direction).
If he is who I think he is; He is the sort of person with a lot of keyboard courage but wouldn't last very long in a prison.

Oh well.

TO_ARTHUR!

Alt_Grrr wrote: »

I think I know who he is in real life too (well I have some clues pointing in that direction).
If he is who I think he is; He is the sort of person with a lot of keyboard courage but wouldn't last very long in a prison.

Oh well.

I meant in the Prison forum...

Alt_Grrr

Before Banquo posts it,
Google Apps, etc.

I'd like to see the university have a much better online strategy,
The nuim homepage looks awful and lets not get started on the horrible mismatched bits that make the library search a pain to use.

Also footpaths on campus have the horrible habit of not following a straight line or being too narrow in places or just generally being crap. Its not a huge deal until you talk to students who are in wheelchairs or have mobility impairments.

Oh and for selfish proposes I'd give my office a view of something that isn't a brick wall.

Alt_Grrr

TO_ARTHUR! wrote: »

I meant in the Prison forum...

Man he wouldn't last in there ether, those guys can make shanks out of smilies.

Thwip!

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

No he just claimed that he knew who I was and was mean to me.

I was either him or Paky. Or both.

I miss unclejunior. Can we bring him back?

Permanent Sitebanning for multiple breaches of forum charters across boards (not just an nuim issue), ignoring mod instructions for his behaviour, countless reregging and various infractions on here and other forums for trolling and slurs of an uncivil and often racial nature.....In short... NO

How so Joe wrote: »

unclejunior appreciation thread?

Yeah... that'll be nuked... trust me

Jimmy Iovine

A 24-hour computer lab would be a very good addition to the college in my opinion. I'm in college over in Bangor (the one in Wales) and there are multiple 24-hour rooms dotted around the college. You just scan your student card over a sensor and the door opens. You do the exact same when trying to get back out again.

You won't realise how useful it is until you start using it.

I've used many different ones all year and I've yet to experience any drunken people coming in after a night out. And one of those rooms is located 200 yards away from the college nightclub.

I can't see any reason why they can't be introduced in Maynooth.

mickstupp

A wifi network that just remembers me, logs me on automatically so that I don't have to go through an awful long-winded login process every single time.

GLaDOS

mickstupp wrote: »

A wifi network that just remembers me, logs me on automatically so that I don't have to go through an awful long-winded login process every single time.

Maybe it's not available all over campus (I spend 90% of my time in Callan building ), but I use the eduroam wireless and that logs on automatically.

Compton

mickstupp wrote: »

A wifi network that just remembers me, logs me on automatically so that I don't have to go through an awful long-winded login process every single time.

theres an app on android for that

How so Joe

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Maybe it's not available all over campus (I spend 90% of my time in Callan building ), but I use the eduroam wireless and that logs on automatically.

Eduroam is fantastic - I was over last week and had Internet access with my current college username and password.
Did freak me out a little when I magically had Internet though, was thinking ucl had some pretty strong signal boosters.

I heard a few weeks ago about a university who didn't build any paths when they first built the campus - they just watched to see where students naturally walked and then built the paths in the same places later.
Clever, I thought?

mickstupp

I kind of don't think there should have to be an app in the first place. Whether for android or ios or anything else. It should just work. Login once. Never again. And not require a slow visit to a slow website to input details and hope that it actually manages to connect so as to let us finally get internet access if we're lucky, every single time. All platforms these days are capable of interacting with networks in a normal, standard way. There shouldn't need to be an app.

I've no idea about this Eduroam business though. I'll have to see if I can get onto it.

Jimmy Iovine

Geraldine Moran wrote: »

by releasing a plague of locusts on the local population

How so Joe

Geraldine Moran wrote: »

by releasing a plague of locusts on the local population

The student population or the native population?
Or both?

XxMCRxBabyxX

Thwip! wrote: »

Permanent Sitebanning for multiple breaches of forum charters across boards (not just an nuim issue), ignoring mod instructions for his behaviour, countless reregging and various infractions on here and other forums for trolling and slurs of an uncivil and often racial nature.....In short... NO




Yeah... that'll be nuked... trust me

Please? :-P

How does eduroam work? It never works for me!

How so Joe

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

Please? :-P

How does eduroam work? It never works for me!

I believe that counts as arguing with a mod on-thread!

I think you just connect to eduroam instead of nuim wireless and then just log in with your normal sn/password? Not entirely sure.

banquo

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

A 24-hour computer lab would be a very good addition to the college in my opinion. I'm in college over in Bangor (the one in Wales) and there are multiple 24-hour rooms dotted around the college. You just scan your student card over a sensor and the door opens. You do the exact same when trying to get back out again.

You won't realise how useful it is until you start using it.

I've used many different ones all year and I've yet to experience any drunken people coming in after a night out. And one of those rooms is located 200 yards away from the college nightclub.

I can't see any reason why they can't be introduced in Maynooth.

In the new library soon

Alt_Grrr

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

I can't see any reason why they can't be introduced in Maynooth.

Just to comment on that, there might not be a reason other then the institutional inertia of the place.

Its usually the staff of the place who are against making changes which would improve the experience for students, sometimes its selfish reasons (protecting their chushy number), But more often in my experience its the old "Change? ...but we fear change..." line.

Of course things are improving. But sometimes you need to give people a kick up the arse, if they don't think something is wrong, they aren't inclined to fix it.

Thwip!

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

Please? :-P

How does eduroam work? It never works for me!

Site banned by Admin, not by category mods or forum mods. It's like asking Doctor Doom to do the job of Galactus


You should be happy though... from the looks of it he's back under a different guise...not for long

TO_ARTHUR!

Thwip! wrote: »

It's like asking Doctor Doom to do the job of Galactus

Class, marvel references.

I agree that the bridge should be brought back.

Thwip!

And another Unclejunior rereg bites the dust

upinthesky

nuim really needs more places to sit, and more places you can eat your own lunch.

Also there is not enough group study areas were you can sit and talk about an assignment.

And were did all the down stairs seating go in the library? nice big black seats over the opposite side of Starbucks, the area was full the first week.

DylanII

The paths are the worst design ever. Im pretty sure it was designed with Americans in mind. i.e. forcing them to exercise by taking the longest possible route.

Callan Hall should be destroyed, or at least the interior refurbished.

You should be able to print from your own laptop in the library.

This one may be completely unrealistic, but, they should buy mannor mills and allow students to park in it.

How so Joe

Students used to be allowed to park in manor mills, but some tits insisted on walking up the ramp instead of going through the centre, so manor mills management revoked the parking access. Unsurprising, really.

banquo

How so Joe wrote: »

Students used to be allowed to park in manor mills, but some tits insisted on walking up the ramp instead of going through the centre, so manor mills management revoked the parking access. Unsurprising, really.

YES. Also, students hardly used it.

Eric Cartman

banquo wrote: »

YES. Also, students hardly used it.

it might also have to do with security taking a dislike to drunk people stumbling in after the roost to sleep in 4x4s .... allegedly

K4t

Sort out the drinking water fountains in the college. Be quicker melting ice than using the one in the library.

Alt_Grrr

I saw a sign in the new library, something along the lines of "Please ensure the door doesn't slam behind you",
Maybe they should get the door closer adjusted to make sure it doesn't slam rather then asking people to work around the obvious flaw...