Where can one go in TCD to relax?

combs

Does anyone else experience this? Often in the college, usually in the afternoon, I feel a bit tired and, with an hour or two to kill before the next lecture, I don't feel like to doing much. I'd like to go someplace and lie down. Is there any hidden area of TCD where this is possible?

lomb

yeah, the lecky

HomesickAlien

the sfsoc room in house 6 has comfy couches, a playstation, a dvd playerwith a load of dvds and more books than the lecky.

also, the buttery has tuborg for €2 a can

JCR - the back room with pool tables and cool couches.
Or go play a game of pool in the buttery, beware though, has a vicious slant.

You always see people getting a bit of sleep at the Hamilton Couches in the Afternoon...

Boston

Theres a little garden beside the museusm building=, I go there sometimes

Chick

I still haven't been into the JCR yet...

Nietzschean

Chick wrote:

I still haven't been into the JCR yet...

yer not beating me, i was there in freshers week of first year...thats the only time i've been there...

Chick

I didn't even go during freshers wk though!

Nietzschean

yeah but i lived right above it last year

ApeXaviour

Myth wrote:

You always see people getting a bit of sleep at the Hamilton Couches in the Afternoon...

I second this.. The ham couches are great. The initial impression is less favourable, stark and lifeless. Yet this quickly dissapaits once you sit down on the couches and see it from an entirely different perspective. There's no traffic going through cos it's a kind of cul de sac. Also in spite of it's central position, you can't really see it from many parts of the hamilton (so few people are the wiser that you're catching a few winks). It's got the whole kind of lying in the park thing goin for it because of the copious amounts daylight that are shining in on you. Perfect for sleeping, eating lunch, reading or just plain kickin your feet up..

Only to be substituted for the entire fringe of the cricket pitch on a warm sunny summers day. GOOD GOD I miss that, to the freshers here yet to experience this. It's better than sex..

John

DURNS room has lots of couches and a shelf mounted bottle opener. JCR is great, nice tea and couches and cheap chocolate. Why wouldn't you go?

wayfarer

GMB aswell. Great place for a kip but sometimes you do get kept awake listening to some pretentious debating and discussions (occasionally humourous in a kinda David Brent way). Have newspapers there aswell, and a fussball table

Evilution

wayfarer wrote:

GMB aswell. Great place for a kip but sometimes you do get kept awake listening to some pretentious debating and discussions (occasionally humourous in a kinda David Brent way).

Man, its amazing how serious those people take themselves. I joined the Phil in 1st year and used to go to the room in the GMB, but just couldn't force myself to go anymore after having to listen to a few knobs talking crap under the guise of debating. Its torture. Those couches were good for a kip though, but you couldn't get a coffee there.
I've always had a soft spot for the Mac Lab in Aras an Phiarsaigh - its only for Psychology students so its never crowded and there are never queues. You can drink coffee in there too because nobody really tries to enforce not using it. Bliss. Failing that I just go to the cinema.

combs

Right, thanks, I'll keep all of those places in mind, even if I don't know where most of them are, and wouldn't dare venture into them if I did.

Agent Smith

your very welcome to the sci-fi room, i'm usually there monday-wendsday around 1 onwards....


and i've only once been in the Jcr, what a **** hole

Time Magazine

The Phil are quite wankerish but I do like The Hist. You just have to climb a stairs. But I'm used to that, scaling the height of the GMB to this computer room....

combs

agent smith wrote:

your very welcome to the sci-fi room, i'm usually there monday-wendsday around 1 onwards....


and i've only once been in the Jcr, what a **** hole

Why, thank you!

Evilution

agent smith wrote:

and i've only once been in the Jcr, what a **** hole

Forgive me for hiking one of your namesakes quotes, but...

"Its the smell"

Kevin_rc_ie

yer not beating me, i was there in freshers week of first year...thats the only time i've been there...

And today, or was that your evil twin or my imagination. Because I saw you near the counter, but then I'm quite certain you disappeared.

xeduCat

I lived on campus most of the time, so that was obviously an escape. But in terms of the libraries, there's a lot to be said for grabbing one of the chairs beside the really low tables upstairs in the Ussher and watching whatever is going on on the cricket pitch/running track from the 4th floor.

Before that you could sit in one of the Berkeley windows (padded windows, nothing quite like it!).

Computer labs...haven't been the same since the old laser hut ("the Arches") closed. Split level - PCs downstairs, Macs (first gen iMacs) upstairs. Half of them were broken and the other half just didn't work. Temperature somewhere about 30 degrees, trains overhead 12 times an hour. Yet still a strange sanctuary.

Outdoors, apart from that garden of mystery behind houses 8-10 (access from beside the laundry), most places have too many tourists

Pet

Outdoors, apart from that garden of mystery behind houses 8-10 (access from beside the laundry)

I'm intrigued!

Nietzschean

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

And today, or was that your evil twin or my imagination. Because I saw you near the counter, but then I'm quite certain you disappeared.

fs i'm being stalked , yeah was in there with a m8 handing in her j1 stuff......

Kevin_rc_ie

how about climbing into one of the washing machines in the laundry room. i read in a grisham novel that ppl find these places relaxing cos they mimic the environment of the womb. small, warm, gentle swishing noises.

also. i've heard of ppl drowning in big washing machines. so actually. it's not a good idea.

xeduCat

Pet wrote:

I'm intrigued!

Sort of inaccessible at the moment due to building works. But there's a grassy area between the back of the north side of Front Square (i.e. on your left as you come through the arch) and the boundary with College green (where the Nitelinks go from). It would be great for a BBQ! You used to be able to get into it by swiping into the laundry area (entrance to the left of the Banklink beside the Buttery), going to the far side of the laundry, and stepping through a door in the wooden fence.

I lived in house 8 at one stage and faced out onto it, but alas on the first floor!

ApeXaviour

EduCat wrote:

Outdoors, apart from that garden of mystery behind houses 8-10 (access from beside the laundry), most places have too many tourists

I take it you weren't a science student then..

xeduCat

ApeXaviour wrote:

I take it you weren't a science student then..

Law. But I've seen tourists take pictures of the Cocker lab, so there are few hiding places left..

Kevin_rc_ie

Law. But I've seen tourists take pictures of the Cock

he he he he

i'm stupid and childish. and childless.

aodh_rua

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

he he he he

i'm stupid and childish. and childless.

Maybe they were looking for our huge organ








in the Chapel

gom

The best sanctuary is definitely a campus room.
Failing that I would find a society/club room that has a door you can close and lock perferibly. Netsoc have a room that is tiny but has a couch. They have the door shut but it is easy enough to get the code if you hang around them long enough(some might find this very hard to do).

Writers for any of the magazines or Trinity News(not the University Record as its crap and has no room for anyone other than a Deputy President) you will have access to a huge room in house 6 with two couchs looking out on to Dame St and College Green. Very nice window to stand in for some santuary and good place for a kip. There is also a capachino machine with a good range of fresh ground coffee to choose from. Not to mention a printer with computers attached with many many mp3s and streams....

The strangest place I have found which offers sanctuary is the little stone seeat at the foot of the stair case in the Museum Building and also the ATIC Rooms in the Hamilton and Ussher...

combs

gom wrote:

The strangest place I have found which offers sanctuary is the little stone seeat at the foot of the stair case in the Museum Building and also...

Bit cold there in Winter, I imagine. And it's alright until someone tries to slide down the marble banister, falls off half way and lands on your head, creasing the two of you.

combs

Anudder ting: How come there's always lots of cubicle doors closed in the Hamilton jacks when it's not busy and there can't possibly be anyone in there using the facilities? Are they resident peepers and hole-drillers or are there lads "relaxing" or actually living in there? Has the accommodation situation become that bad?

combs

combs wrote:

Bit cold there in Winter, I imagine. And it's alright until someone tries to slide down the marble banister, falls off half way and lands on your head, creasing the two of you.

I haven't seen anyone fall off it yet, so it'd be a rare thing. You'd be unlucky if you had someone falling on your head, I'd say. Oh, and its anything but cold! Was in there yesterday and the day before - was ****ing freezing outside, and was lovely inside.

Well the Drawing Office was cold, but the inside of the building was grand. Strange that.

combs

I suppose it only looks cold then. I shuddered at the mention of the drawing office; I'd nearly forgotten about that place.

wayfarer

combs wrote:

Anudder ting: How come there's always lots of cubicle doors closed in the Hamilton jacks when it's not busy and there can't possibly be anyone in there using the facilities? Are they resident peepers and hole-drillers or are there lads "relaxing" or actually living in there? Has the accommodation situation become that bad?

I remember one friday I went in there before going out and while I was doing my business I noticed there was someone in the next cubile through one of those damn holes in the partition. Anyway, I could see that he couldnt been doing anything in there (If he was, he would have messed his trousers! and no, I wasnt perving) There was no sound from a phone or anything. He seemed to be just sitting there. Then after a few mins he jumped up and left. And this was at about 8/9 at night. I found that one very strage

Yeah that's something a bit strange, the way people get a chisel or some tool out to cut these massive holes in the walls of the hamilton toilets. Housekeeping put up a wooden piece covering the holes, with screws and all, and within a few days the screws had been taken off (glue remained though). Tis all a little bit disturbing

Caesar_Bojangle

wayfarer wrote:

I remember one friday I went in there before going out and while I was doing my business I noticed there was someone in the next cubile through one of those damn holes in the partition. Anyway, I could see that he couldnt been doing anything in there (If he was, he would have messed his trousers! and no, I wasnt perving) There was no sound from a phone or anything. He seemed to be just sitting there. Then after a few mins he jumped up and left. And this was at about 8/9 at night. I found that one very strage

Maybe he was experiencing stage fright when he seen you looking in at him, you sick bog perv.

wayfarer

There's only one hole in the cubicle wall and while your sitting, all you can see is a persons knee at most.

Nietzschean

wayfarer wrote:

There's only one hole in the cubicle wall and while your sitting, all you can see is a persons knee at most.

i'm more disturbed that u can say so matter of factly there is only one hole in those walls than much else. you put it there?

i certainly won't be using those toilets again..

ApeXaviour

I saw a hole in one of those cubicles before.. just stuffed it with tp.

problem solved.

I find the be a rent-boy adds all over the place much more disturbing (though mildly amoosing).

wayfarer

SkyLynx wrote:

i'm more disturbed that u can say so matter of factly there is only one hole in those walls than much else. you put it there?

I only assume that there is one hole. I hope there is only one but Ive never checked. No I didnt put it there. And if it makes you feel any better that was one of the very few times ive used those toilets. Dont think Ive used them since

Pet

ApeXaviour wrote:

I saw a hole in one of those cubicles before.. just stuffed it with tp.

problem solved.

I find the be a rent-boy adds all over the place much more disturbing (though mildly amoosing).

Funnier still are the rent boy RECRUITMENT ads!!

ApeXaviour

Cos that's not what I said?

Pet

ApeXaviour wrote:

Cos that's not what I said?

Oops, I didn't see the "be a" part, my bad.

Agent Smith

that could have been quite a freudian slip there

dr_banuska

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Computer labs...haven't been the same since the old laser hut ("the Arches") closed. Split level - PCs downstairs, Macs (first gen iMacs) upstairs. Half of them were broken and the other half just didn't work. Temperature somewhere about 30 degrees, trains overhead 12 times an hour. Yet still a strange sanctuary.

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Ah that brings me back!! The first time I was there and a train went overhead I thought I was in the middle of the apocalypse. Every time I pass by there I have flashbacks of printers letting me down in my time of need and legging it up to the Orts block trying to think up an excuse why I *wasn't* handing in my essay...

dr_banuska

Oops, didn't realize how old this thread was, sorry for bringing it up again...

Kevin_rc_ie

don't worry we may be able to forgive you.

xeduCat

you think that's bad? I read the description of the Laser Huts and thought it sounded familiar, and was going to post a response, until I realised that it was a quote from me!

Kevin_rc_ie

if you're on the stairs in luce hall, and look out the window there appears to be a computer room/lab. it's kinqa on the pearse street side of campus, i dunno, begind the construction area. what is this and is it an eng. comp sci only area? or is it a secret society thing?

wayfarer

Speaking of secret societies, whats the deal with The Knights of the Campanile. I read the article in the Trinity News listing the 20 most powerful students in Trinity and their president was in there. What sort of powers can the president of a secret society have? (all the others were self-explanatory)

EDIT: please excuse off-topicness

Kevin_rc_ie

magical c#ntishness.