Know Your Maynoothians 13/14

Thwip!

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

Get used to your new place, explore Maynooth, go out, meet new people, have great craic.

Orientation week is a good time for that kind of stuff too. You'll be more prepared once lectures start too.

I fully endorse this statement

SeanyboyQPR

Thwip! wrote: »

I fully endorse this statement

But like how and where?:L

Fluffy Stuff Buffer

It's easy, you just run at close-knit groups of strangers while shouting your name and hobbies, just like in this thread.

Thwip!

SeanyboyQPR wrote: »

But like how and where?:L

You're livin on campus, go knock on other apartment doors and introduce yourself

XxMCRxBabyxX

Thwip! wrote: »

You're livin on campus, go knock on other apartment doors and introduce yourself

And meet people in your orientation groups and other groups. And Go out and meet people in the SU and other places. Sure I met some of my best friends just happening to be sitting outside my apt block (at 3am while they were breathing fire...)

SeanyboyQPR

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

And meet people in your orientation groups and other groups. And Go out and meet people in the SU and other places. Sure I met some of my best friends just happening to be sitting outside my apt block (at 3am while they were breathing fire...)

Sounds like I haven't a clue what to expect!

XxMCRxBabyxX

SeanyboyQPR wrote: »

Sounds like I haven't a clue what to expect!

Learn in time you will young one.

PictureFrame

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

Learn in time you will young one.

Toshi101

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

And meet people in your orientation groups and other groups. And Go out and meet people in the SU and other places. Sure I met some of my best friends just happening to be sitting outside my apt block (at 3am while they were breathing fire...)

Your orientation group is great for making friends, their gonna be in your course most likely. I remember mine, i saw a really interesting looking bloke with dreadlocks and i said to a girl i met earlier, i gotta be friends with that guy!. we are now living in the same place this year

PictureFrame

I met my best friend in February in a shít 4pm Sociology lecture in Iontás. We really came together over our mutual hatred for the subject :pac:

You make friends in the strangest places/times in Maynooth

orlaiiith

karengrace93 wrote: »

I'm not on campus, but one of my best friends is in Pottors 6?

Think I'm in 8

Orlaghx

Anyone doing Science??

Orlaghx

K, I did it wrong :P

Name: Orlagh
Age: 17
From: Kildare (Naas)
Course/Year: 1st year Science
Interests: Im bad at this stuff..

banquo

The relevant Facebook group is heyor.

JellyBeanx

Orlaghx wrote: »

K, I did it wrong :P

Name: Orlagh
Age: 17
From: Kildare (Naas)
Course/Year: 1st year Science
Interests: Im bad at this stuff..

Hey I am doing science too! :P

Thwip!

banquo wrote: »

The relevant Facebook group is heyor.

JOIN IT

Orlaghx

JellyBeanx wrote: »

Hey I am doing science too! :P

Really? Yay! hi :P

Paczini

PictureFrame wrote: »

I met my best friend in February in a shít 4pm Sociology lecture in Iontás. We really came together over our mutual hatred for the subject :pac:

You make friends in the strangest places/times in Maynooth

It reminds me of how I met my best friend that changed my life in college. We sat beside each other in our first ever language lab, our tutor told us to turn to person beside us and introduce ourselves It took us a long while to actually become good friends but now I know that he will be a life long friendship

Hello! I too am like banquo...bloody ancient

Name: Kellie
Age: 23
From: Maynooth
Course: I DON'T EVEN GO HERE (anymore, did my BA and MSc here)

Still knocking about though cos I live in the town and I teach Geography in the village

Tis a fab place, yisser gonna have a ball!

Fluffy Stuff Buffer

kellief wrote: »

Hello! I too am like banquo...bloody ancient

Name: Kellie
Age: 23
From: Maynooth
Course: I DON'T EVEN GO HERE (anymore, did my BA and MSc here)

Still knocking about though cos I live in the town and I teach Geography in the village

Tis a fab place, yisser gonna have a ball!

You think you're old, I'm 22 and I'm going into 1st year, they're going to call me Grandpa and ask me in wonder what life was like before the internet.

Fluffy Stuff Buffer

Fluffy Stuff Buffer wrote: »

You think you're old, I'm 22 and I'm going into 1st year, they're going to call me Grandpa and ask me in wonder what life was like before the internet.

I think it's more that I don't go here anymore and want to start all over again!!

XxMCRxBabyxX

kellief wrote: »

I think it's more that I don't go here anymore and want to start all over again!!

Yea this. We tend to measure age on how long we've been in Maynooth and on these boards too. Banquo has been in Maynooth FOREVER thus why he's our resident oldie. Though I'm catching up with my 5 years!

degausserxo

Fluffy Stuff Buffer wrote: »

You think you're old, I'm 22 and I'm going into 1st year, they're going to call me Grandpa and ask me in wonder what life was like before the internet.

Ah, a fellow old person!

How so Joe

Fluffy Stuff Buffer wrote: »

You think you're old, I'm 22 and I'm going into 1st year, they're going to call me Grandpa and ask me in wonder what life was like before the internet.

Eh, I don't think you can really declare that you're old until you're old enough to be classed as a mature student. So you're alright for a while yet.

And I think, to be fair, that Kellie has to be winning on length of time in Maynooth, given that she's a native.
I spent a measly six years around the town. I don't think that even counts!

Orlaghx

Anyone studying general science? Can you transfer to Biological and biomedical science after 1st year???

XxMCRxBabyxX

How so Joe wrote: »

Eh, I don't think you can really declare that you're old until you're old enough to be classed as a mature student. So you're alright for a while yet.

And I think, to be fair, that Kellie has to be winning on length of time in Maynooth, given that she's a native.
I spent a measly six years around the town. I don't think that even counts!

By the time summer exams come around I will be old enough to be considered a mature student. That day scares me

You know what I meant! University wise.

JellyBeanx

Orlaghx wrote: »

Anyone studying general science? Can you transfer to Biological and biomedical science after 1st year???

Hi I am interested in doing that as well!
I called the admissions office a few days ago and I was told that you're definitely able to do it! They said just to make yourself know to the biology/chemistry lectures and show you have a keen interest. Its a lot of hard work I was told and you have to do well in those labs/ exams etc. It's not impossible as people do transfer into any of the science degrees from general science in Maynooth.
At the end it your transfer is presented to the heads of the department you want to transfer into and they decide whether your allowed to transfer across. Basically from what I was told it seems that you just have to do well in first year and you may get chosen

Hope that helps and makes sense :P

Orlaghx

JellyBeanx wrote: »

Hi I am interested in doing that as well!
I called the admissions office a few days ago and I was told that you're definitely able to do it! They said just to make yourself know to the biology/chemistry lectures and show you have a keen interest. Its a lot of hard work I was told and you have to do well in those labs/ exams etc. It's not impossible as people do transfer into any of the science degrees from general science in Maynooth.
At the end it your transfer is presented to the heads of the department you want to transfer into and they decide whether your allowed to transfer across. Basically from what I was told it seems that you just have to do well in first year and you may get chosen

Hope that helps and makes sense :P

Thanks so much I love chem and bio so it shouldnt be a problem, hopefully :P oh are you going into 1st year actually? It would be handy to know someone else with the same plan as me in my year also, would you be a 2nd year biological and biomed student or would you be transfered back into 1st year of that course??

Boeing777

I didn't know you could transfer from general science to biological & biomedical science. I know that you can transfer to most science degrees after first year from general, but the fact that biomed had that extra lecture each week plus their presentation project would make me think you couldn't, but you obviously can. That's something I've learned today :pac:

leahwechat

Name:Leah
Age:22
From:China
Course/Year:4th year of Foreign languages
Interests:reading , cooking , watching tv and movie ,make friends....