We worked for ours

Count Marcula

I heard some smug arsehole in UCD pool last week complaining about mature students and how they get everything for free. Somehow he believed their credentials werent up to scratch because their parents didnt pay for their education and this lead him to believe that his education was a higher value than theirs.
It reminded of the teenager in Dun Laoighre who made a similar complaint about social housing and how she had to work for hers.

Count Marcula

What makes you think they all have bad leaving certs?

Not all of them get BTEA either.

evolving_doors

Christ this country is gone so divided.
Beggars begging of beggars at this stage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwIVigKKkSI

Wanderer78

Maybe we should raise the cost of our higher educational system and reserve it for certain classes of people. Damn peasants, always ruining things for us better classes!

Your Face

There is a lot of different ways to get a college education.
I think its simplistic to say that one persons path through education is more noble than anothers.

Jawgap

Count Marcula wrote: »

I heard some smug arsehole in UCD pool last week complaining about mature students and how they get everything for free. Somehow he believed their credentials werent up to scratch because their parents didnt pay for their education and this lead him to believe that his education was a higher value than theirs.
It reminded of the teenager in Dun Laoighre who made a similar complaint about social housing and how she had to work for hers.

Count Marcula wrote: »

What makes you think they all have bad leaving certs?

Not all of them get BTEA either.

OP, you forgot to change your logon when you were responding to yourself

endacl

Jawgap wrote: »

OP, you forgot to change your logon when you were responding to yourself

Wasn't me! It was my brotherhousmatewholivesinthesamehouse! Honest! We both have an account!

Wompa1

Jawgap wrote: »

OP, you forgot to change your logon when you were responding to yourself

OP is the Niall Boylan of Boards.ie.

McCrack

Im 99.9 percent sure boards.ie themselves start a lot of threads.

There was a particularly bad one recently started asking were richer people more intelligent than poorer people.

Count Marcula

I dont get the joke?

endacl

Count Marcula wrote: »

I dont get the joke?

The punchline rarely does.

jimgoose

alberto67

Count Marcula wrote: »

I dont get the joke?

We don't get your post.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Count Marcula wrote: »

I dont get the joke?

Oh, you do you know.

wakka12

Jawgap wrote: »

OP, you forgot to change your logon when you were responding to yourself

im cringing

_Roz_

Why would anyone even do this...?

Jawgap

_Roz_ wrote: »

Why would anyone even do this...?

Go to UCD?

It's not that bad.

_Roz_

Jawgap wrote: »

Go to UCD?

It's not that bad.

donegaLroad

_Roz_ wrote: »

Why would anyone even do this...?

the thought of going to UCD as a mature student and be looked down upon by a shower of insufferable D4 tossers would be enough to make me reconsider my 3rd level options.

_Roz_

I did mean why would anyone argue with their own argument in a thread but I do agree.

I don't think I'd want to be a mature student anywhere, tbh. I went to UCC and in my utter ignorance felt quite unsure of the mature students. I would expect that and worse from young'uns if I went back.

Jaysus, that mature fella I became good friends with back then was two years younger then than I am now. That's scary.

donegaLroad

_Roz_ wrote: »

I did mean why would anyone argue with their own argument in a thread but I do agree.

I don't think I'd want to be a mature student anywhere, tbh. I went to UCC and in my utter ignorance felt quite unsure of the mature students. I would expect that and worse from young'uns if I went back.

Jaysus, that mature fella I became good friends with back then was two years younger then than I am now. That's scary.

UCC would be ok compared to UCD. You wouldn't get the same level of snootiness in UCC.

_Roz_

donegaLroad wrote: »

UCC would be ok compared to UCD. You wouldn't get the same level of snootiness in UCC.

Really?? I'd never last a day in UCD so. Or maybe I just was really unlucky with literally everyone I met in UCC. Didn't like the students there at all.

Tokyo

Jawgap wrote: »

OP, you forgot to change your logon when you were responding to yourself

There was another post after the OP's that he was responding to, that has since been deleted.

donegaLroad

_Roz_ wrote: »

Really?? I'd never last a day in UCD so. Or maybe I just was really unlucky with literally everyone I met in UCC. Didn't like the students there at all.

I suppose its hard to generalize, as colleges change completely from year to year. I knew UCD well, I knew a lot of people who graduated from there, and I went to college just down the street from UCD. But that was over 20 years ago. I also worked in UCD for 6 months, but that was 15 years ago.

osarusan

mike_ie wrote: »

There was another post after the OP's that he was responding to, that has since been deleted.

You shouldn't have told us that...it was better that way.

frozenfrozen

mike_ie wrote: »

There was another post after the OP's that he was responding to, that has since been deleted.

this just feeds the 'boards make these posts themselves' idea.. nice try covering it up! :pac:

_Roz_

donegaLroad wrote: »

I suppose its hard to generalize, as colleges change completely from year to year. I knew UCD well, I knew a lot of people who graduated from there, and I went to college just down the street from UCD. But that was over 20 years ago. I also worked in UCD for 6 months, but that was 15 years ago.

I work in UCC, have done for years. Feel the same about the student types (although, I will admit, I have met a LOAD of lovely ones who I would have loved to have had when I was a student.) Actually, one of my besties was a student here, but I met her years after I was gone as a student, she's a few years younger. So I shouldn't generalise about UCC, and to be fair, I dislike students in general, not just UCC ones.

Also, it was more fun not knowing about the deleted post.

alberto67

mike_ie wrote: »

There was another post after the OP's that he was responding to, that has since been deleted.

You've just ruined Jawgap's day... nearly 100 thanks at risk.

endacl

alberto67 wrote: »

You've just ruined Jawgap's day... nearly 100 thanks at risk.

Feck it. Joke still works.

jimgoose

_Roz_ wrote: »

...I dislike students in general...

"Hello Martin, it's Linda!"

_Roz_

jimgoose wrote: »

"Hello Martin, it's Linda!"

Lost on me I'm afraid, sorry! Want to explain?