UL first years 2014-2015

Ompala

niamhmoloney0 wrote: »

Did anyone register their modules yet or do we do that next week??

Next week

niamhmoloney0

Ompala wrote: »

Next week

Okay thank you

peterswellman

Where are we supposed to be at 8.45 tommorrow? Anyone?

Midkemia

Find it both hard and easy to make friends :P

highlydebased

peterswellman wrote: »

Where are we supposed to be at 8.45 tommorrow? Anyone?

Concert Hall

jamo2oo9

Only finished my orientation now. It's nice for the tour for 1st years but it's absolutely exhausting! Got tons of new information, enrolled and got my student card

iLaura

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

Only finished my orientation now. It's nice for the tour for 1st years but it's absolutely exhausting! Got tons of new information, enrolled and got my student card

It can be overwhelming and you probably will forgot a lot of what you were told and where you're meant to go for certain things, but you'll eventually remember/figure stuff out.

Out of curiosity, what kinda stuff did ye get in the little orientation bag things, apart from the typical Pot Noodles and Rice Krispie bars? :P

jamo2oo9

iLaura wrote: »

It can be overwhelming and you probably will forgot a lot of what you were told and where you're meant to go for certain things, but you'll eventually remember/figure stuff out.

Out of curiosity, what kinda stuff did ye get in the little orientation bag things, apart from the typical Pot Noodles and Rice Krispie bars? :P

In the Irish Times bag? We got Student diary, curry and rice packets, a condom, a few discount card for O'Briens and Abra Kebabra and a ton of advertisement pages plus a CD from the band Crush 87 I think?

iLaura

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

In the Irish Times bag? We got Student diary, curry and rice packets, a condom, a few discount card for O'Briens and Abra Kebabra and a ton of advertisement pages plus a CD from the band Crush 87 I think?

Moving up in the world with your CDs :P I don't remember getting anything as fancy as that. You might find some of the ad pages to be useful, and I know that they usually give out a free entry into the Arena, which would be helpful if you're thinking of joining the gym and want to get a feel of the place

jamo2oo9

iLaura wrote: »

Moving up in the world with your CDs :P I don't remember getting anything as fancy as that. You might find some of the ad pages to be useful, and I know that they usually give out a free entry into the Arena, which would be helpful if you're thinking of joining the gym and want to get a feel of the place

Didn't get the free entry to the Arena although we got a tour of it today. It's actually unbelievable with the amount of facilities there is! So joining it next week!

iLaura

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

Didn't get the free entry to the Arena although we got a tour of it today. It's actually unbelievable with the amount of facilities there is! So joining it next week!

Oh, they usually give out the free pass thingy, at least they have the last two years. Unless its buried under all the other ad pages and stuff. I never got to do a tour of it during my orientation, which leads to me still managing to get lost whenever I go

onethreefive

Hey! My orientation is tomorrow! What did they say about SUSI grants. It says on my account I have 1375 to pay by the 5th of September but I will most likely be getting the grant to pay for this. Did anyone else in the same situation get it sorted today? And how did everyone who went without knowing anyone in orientation get on?

jamo2oo9

onethreefive wrote: »

Hey! My orientation is tomorrow! What did they say about SUSI grants. It says on my account I have 1375 to pay by the 5th of September but I will most likely be getting the grant to pay for this. Did anyone else in the same situation get it sorted today? And how did everyone who went without knowing anyone in orientation get on?

For the enrolment, you queue up, they ask you for your student id number, then you go to the next person who asks you for your ID (passport or whatever) and then you get your photo taken and given a student card. All of that in 10mins. Nobody mentioned a thing about the fees or anything. Got my loan come through today so I'll be paying for half of it now and wait till SUSI gets back to me for the other half

iLaura

Usually what happens in relation to SUSI is that you have until around the end of October to show the fees office a copy of the letter from SUSI saying you were awarded a grant and thats it.

onethreefive

iLaura wrote: »

Usually what happens in relation to SUSI is that you have until around the end of October to show the fees office a copy of the letter from SUSI saying you were awarded a grant and thats it.

And you don't have to pay anything for fees? Just leave it to SUSI?

iLaura

onethreefive wrote: »

And you don't have to pay anything for fees? Just leave it to SUSI?

Nope, just leave it all up to SUSI and go on your merry way :P the only thing is, is that the queues up at the fees and SAA are stupidly long for the first few weeks so you'd wanna go show them the letter when you've at least an hour or two off

FlyingIrishMan

onethreefive wrote: »

Hey! My orientation is tomorrow! What did they say about SUSI grants. It says on my account I have 1375 to pay by the 5th of September but I will most likely be getting the grant to pay for this. Did anyone else in the same situation get it sorted today? And how did everyone who went without knowing anyone in orientation get on?

Nobody said a thing about any fees to me. We were asked if we completed the finance task but that was about it.

I went in without knowing anybody, it was fine I guess. Not really a lot of time to meet people today anyway, was just sort of shuffled around from place to place on tour.

jamo2oo9

Where do you register your modules? Is it on si.ul.ie or SULIS? I can't access SULIS at all for some reason but can access si.ul.ie

iLaura

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

Where do you register your modules? Is it on si.ul.ie or SULIS? I can't access SULIS at all for some reason but can access si.ul.ie

You register them through si.ul.ie, but registration doesnt open till Monday, and then you have 5 days to do so or you'll be fined. You wont get access to modules on SULIS until you register for the module, afaik

jamo2oo9

iLaura wrote: »

You register them through si.ul.ie, but registration doesnt open till Monday, and then you have 5 days to do so or you'll be fined. You wont get access to modules on SULIS until you register for the module, afaik

As that's alright then! I was thinking it's done on SULIS!

MajesticDonkey

the_ellenator wrote: »

Question: what's afaik?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=afaik

jamo2oo9

the_ellenator wrote: »

Question: what's afaik?

As Far As I Know

the_ellenator

*facepalm* Thanks guy I'm such a noob!

CheyK

Did anyone who had orientation today bring proof of payment of fees and if so, did they actually look at it?

FlyingIrishMan

CheyK wrote: »

Did anyone who had orientation today bring proof of payment of fees and if so, did they actually look at it?

We were asked our student id number (which they also give us a little earlier if you forget it), and then they checked on the computer if you did the finance task or not. That was it for me.
I didn't bring anything at all today. Though people around me seemed a lot more prepared with passports, and printed out emails, pictures, etc. They never asked for any of it anyway.

iLaura

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

We were asked our student id number (which they also give us a little earlier if you forget it), and then they checked on the computer if you did the finance task or not. That was it for me.
I didn't bring anything at all today. Though people around me seemed a lot more prepared with passports, and printed out emails, pictures, etc. They never asked for any of it anyway.

If you didn't bring a passport you'll get a text from UL in a week or two asking to bring it to the SAA so that they can verify that it is actually you.

FlyingIrishMan

iLaura wrote: »

If you didn't bring a passport you'll get a text from UL in a week or two asking to bring it to the SAA so that they can verify that it is actually you.

I was thinking it seemed odd. Seemed awfully easy for some random lad to walk in off the street and pretend to be someone else.

CheyK

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

We were asked our student id number (which they also give us a little earlier if you forget it), and then they checked on the computer if you did the finance task or not. That was it for me.
I didn't bring anything at all today. Though people around me seemed a lot more prepared with passports, and printed out emails, pictures, etc. They never asked for any of it anyway.

That's ok! I have my passport but don't have any physical proof of payment and no way of getting it for tomorrow.

iLaura

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

I was thinking it seemed odd. Seemed awfully easy for some random lad to walk in off the street and pretend to be someone else.

Yup, and sure any eejit can make up a student number, once its 8 digits long and starts with 1415 (at least I assume that's what all ye're student numbers are starting off with this year). You'd just be unlucky to make up a student ID that belonged to a girl if you're a guy, or vice versa...

onethreefive

Literally all I have to bring tomorrow is my passport