What's everyone doing for the Summer?

Jonny Arson

Eh well I'm sarting work on Monday and have Sociology repeat exams in August....... exciting heh. Wooooo

If anyone else Summer sounds as boring as mine I give you a massive online hug out of sympathy*

*disclaimer: only if you are female as if I gave a bloke a massive hug it may ruin my street cred

arbeitsscheuer

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

*disclaimer: only if you are female as if I gave a bloke a massive hug it may ruin my street cred

Oh thank cr@p.

Anyway, Plan for the Summer (or Operation Progress):

1) Get job
2) Get HCH to teach me to play guitar
3) Study for Repeats (please god just Politics)
4) Begin work on HCH's flick. Buff up for the part (I'm too weedy as it stands), work out choreography, stance (apparently this is where I'm not so good, according to him), grow beard to Kings-of-Leon's-drummer proportions.
5) Sit repeats, pass (yaaay)
6) Film flick
7) After hectic Summer, quit job and go on 8 month holiday courtesy of parents in the lush surroundings of Belfield

How's that for a slice of fried gold? :cool:

pretty*monster

1) Work, work, work... (I'm in work right now so i really can't say it's that much of a b!tch, but I'm looking at only getting weekends and bank holidays off for the next 4 months)

2)Pollute my body and break my brain with all the drink and drugs I can get my hands on

3)Sit repeats or go to Spain (or possibly neither if other people have to sit repeats, or if we turn out to be too lazy to book a holiday, or if I can't get time off work... yeah, I'm almost certainly not going to Spain).

4)Go to Oxegen (see 2)

5) trhow a couple of parties (see 2)

beanyb

Well, my plan is to go inter-railing in August, but this depends clearly on my results and my friends results. Stupid repeats! We havent planned anything for it yet either so it probably wont end up happening, stupid unorganisedness! So I'll probably just be working for the summer in my really crappy job!

panda100

Heading home to Limerick-cant wait at this stage!Its definaatly repeats for me cos i deffered some of my exams-seemed like a good idea at the time-now kicking myself for doing it!Am just gonna chill out,study and go to the odd gaa match-go on Limerick!

ghostchant

i was gonna go inter-railing too but it fell through, but we're going to new-york for 5 days so it's not all bad
have a month of work to put in before that though...

rainbow kirby

Working for the summer, and living on almost nothing to make sure I have enough money to pay my fees in September.

Sangre

rainbow kirby wrote:

Working for the summer, and living on almost nothing to make sure I have enough money to pay my fees in September.

Santa Barbara, California 4th June until 7th September.

Giggity Giggity...

tintinr35

SebtheBum wrote:

3) Study for Repeats (please god just Politics)

if u end up failing politics dont leave it till the last minute to start studying for the repeats in august as i did last year and as aresult have just finished repeating the year another thing that might put the ****s up ya to study is that last year 110people sat the repeat in autumn 85% failed!!!!!


Goin to new york this summer, as much as i hate those charity workers on the street thats what im doin $700 a week me thinks is pretty good for charity

MalefarmerAnn

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Eh well I'm sarting work on Monday and have Sociology repeat exams in August....... exciting heh. Wooooo

If anyone else Summer sounds as boring as mine I give you a massive online hug out of sympathy*

*disclaimer: only if you are female as if I gave a bloke a massive hug it may ruin my street cred

Mine is worse, I want to do medicine and my dad doesnt think i will get enough points, so i have to study all summer incase I have to repeat!

rainbow kirby

That's kinda crazy.

Exar Khun

Irvine, California for at least until the repeats, then back out to California to complete my surfing/working experience.
I am so glad I bought the insurance that flys me home incase I fail my exams and it only cost me 20 eurons.

Mr.Nice Guy

Depends on whether or not I have to repeat or not. If not, the plan will be:

1. Get job.
2. Sort out my outdated wardrobe.
3. Get in good shape and join gym. I have the fitness levels of an 80 year old.
4. Go out alot more often.
5. Go on holiday in August (unless I'm doing repeats )
6. I hope to do some studying if I have passed my exams so I can catch up with everyone else.

Don't laugh at that last point.

Seraphina

erm

1. drink beer in the sunshine
2. do drugs in the sunshine
3. go to oxegen and do both of the above at the same time
4. possibly work a little
5. visit friend in germany, see 1 and 2 for more info
6. visit friend in scotland. repeat 1 and 2
7. go to see the pixies. repeat 1 and 2

im beginning to see a bit of a pattern.
none of those actions are actually weather dependent tho, i do them rail hail or shine.
had a rough year so im definitely just looking to relax and enjoy myself

tribulus

the plan
1) try get a job that i can quit in september and still get a reference
2) go on holiday in june
3)come back from holiday, rest of family goes on holidays i.e. free gaf
4)get wasted , see 3
5)ruin zane's street cred by constantly hugging him

blondie83

Where's everyone working? Well I won't be repeating this year - cos we don't have repeats! Here's my plan:

*Head off to Sicily with parents for a week
*Come back get a job that pays me lots of money while requiring very little work (i.e. temping!)
*Graduate in July with a degree of some sort - Hoping for a 2-1 but not sure what I'll get (Goddamn 20% of degree being from 3rd year rule :mad: )
*8 friends, 2 tents, a lot of beer and a weekend at Oxygen
*Meant to be going to Edinburugh at some stage
*Also meant to be going to Croatia and Amsterdam at some stage at end of August
*Also possibly going to Japan at some stage with Ninjutsu club at start of Sept

Actually all things considered I better have a really understanding employer! Anyway will do that during the Summer untill mid October, then heading off around the world next year with friends - can't wait!

ferdi

work till july 8th then go to south east asia on a drug fuelled quest to find myself, WOOHOO

kasintahan

-Get a job for the summer.
-Pay back parents (have €10,000 loan on a 'whenever you can' basis to cover my first two years of college).
-Gym: Less cardio, more heavy lifting. Fix bodyfat % (stupid belly *grrrrr* :mad:).
-Debauched holiday for one somewhere in the Canaries (probably).
-Write program to catalogue my mp3 and movie collection (it's gargantuan! :eek: ).
-Buy a Canon 350D, a 10-22mm and Sigma's 50-500mm lens (total: €3,000 ; result: 'aint going to happen) and a Pentax Optio WP (€300 , so probably).
-Bake cookies, lots of cookies. :cool:
-Read Bertrand Russell's "the history of western philosophy" (its been sitting on my bookshelf sneering at me for over a year now... :eek: ) and some Albert Camus too.
-Work out how I could possibly need 5 computers and have the guts of a dozen more...

Superman

Vancouver from 8th june till 8th september! anything can happen,
maybe learn to drive there so I can get away without waiting in the queues here.

Syth

* Work in the Computer Science department in an internship for the summer, should find out ina about a week if I've got it.
* Help Larry poke Orca till she can't be poked no more to give loadsa new and funky services available for the next year. (And yes I'm talking about netsoc).

Alana

Zane, you'll be fine with them ol krazy exams!

Plan
-go back to work and beg for more hours
-spend more time in the park with my friends, more picnics, more hip flasks
-remind work that I'm going to Italy for a month, study, get drunk, do traveling
-at the end go to rome for ickl while, meet up with few ppl, fly home, get drunk
-come home, beg for job back, go to pub
-go to more gigs,already got tom vek, and smog lined up...anyone got any beck tickets....anyone...?get drunk more
-maybe depending on funding finally move out-yay!get more drunk
-then go to galway or kilkenny or something for a massive session before uni starts again, drunk more get

As for repeats they don't exist and there's no such thing as exams....ever..

Jonny Arson

tribulus wrote:

the plan
1) try get a job that i can quit in september and still get a reference
2) go on holiday in june
3)come back from holiday, rest of family goes on holidays i.e. free gaf
4)get wasted , see 3
5)ruin zane's street cred by constantly hugging him

Eh Science Boy? You only crush me like a bug if you attempted to hug with those huge arms of yours! Raaaarrrrgghhhhhhh

Are you not having any indoor barbecues this summer Science Boy?


In all in anyways I've come up with my manifesto for the summer

1. not to get sacked from my job
2 not to fail my repeat exams
3. go to Oxegen and drink, do illegal substances and have some sex
4. hang out at Oxegen with my mates G-rohl, Homme, Cornell and Flowers
5. win a competition to go abroad (I have no money)
6. drink alcohol evey day
7. go to the gym to outdo tribulus in the musclemaniac department
8. make my long awaited football comeback after 5 years out of the game with 6 successful seasons at Baldoyle United as the worlds greatest right footed left-back and pioneer of no-nonsense football
9. think up of something to do for no.9
10. meet Zane Lowe in person

Jonny Arson

Alana wrote:

Zane, you'll be fine with them ol krazy exams!

11. evenmtually realise that Alana talks BS all the time

Jonny Arson

12. don't spell eventually as evenmtually ever again

rainbow kirby

'Zane fail English? That's un-possible!'

kasintahan

Syth wrote:

* Help Larry poke Orca till she can't be poked no more to give loadsa new and funky services available for the next year. (And yes I'm talking about netsoc).

Don't poke her too much, she's working just fine for me right now...
('cept SCP logins have been acting up, but that might be my end)

Alana

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

11. evenmtually realise that Alana talks BS all the time

Well excuse me mr!! It be the finest quality BS, no hefers need apply...only the real sh1t.

Meh at least I can spell

Orca? Sounds like place the cartoons on tg4 come from

Mr.Nice Guy

Alana wrote:

Well excuse me mr!! It be the finest quality BS, no hefers need apply...only the real sh1t.

Meh at least I can spell

You spelt 'heifer' wrong.

Red Alert

Ah so we have a netsoc admin on our hands here! (Expect lots of PM's when I switch to OpenBSD!!!) I'm feeling horribly detached from Orca at the minute - my BB is down at home, which is probably a good thing considering exams are coming!

My plan for the summer:

1) Work on an internship in the elec department
2) Go to Rome
3) Get drunk
4) Renew relations with the female species :cool:
5) Visit a friend in sunderland (see 3/4)
6) Visit a friend in nottingham (see 3/4)
7) Possibly go to amsterdam (see 3/4)

Superman

Syth wrote:

* Work in the Computer Science department in an internship for the summer, should find out ina about a week if I've got it.
* Help Larry poke Orca till she can't be poked no more to give loadsa new and funky services available for the next year. (And yes I'm talking about netsoc).

Fair play, but don't forget to go outside , you don't want to end up looking like those feeble pasty people I constantly see arround computer science. I could nearly say some of them are deficient in sunlight.
BTW is there anyway you can use orca as a proxy to access a vnc (TightVNC) server at another location?
thanks

Syth

kasintahan wrote:

Don't poke her too much, she's working just fine for me right now...
('cept SCP logins have been acting up, but that might be my end)

Try using orca.ucd.ie instead of scp.netsoc.ucd.ie. That may not work if your default shell is flash (which unless you've changed it, it will be). You can change your shell from flash to ksh by logging in, pressing 'b' to go to the shell, and running 'chsh', if you know vi, you have to change the Shell: line to say Shell: /bin/ksh, if you don't know vi, then as soon as you type chsh, type

jf:lDA/bin/ksh<esc>:wq<enter>

Then log out and scp should work. Note that <esc> and <enter> are the actual escape and enter keys. Hopefully that should work.

Outside? The big blue room? Phht!

blondie83

kasintahan wrote:

Gym: Less cardio, more heavy lifting. Fix bodyfat % (stupid belly *grrrrr* :mad:)....Bake cookies, lots of cookies. :cool:

I saw no exidence of a belly on you at any of the boards beer thingys! Anyway have to agree about baking cookies - can't believe I forgot that!

Red Alert wrote:

1) Work on an internship in the elec department

Interesting...who are you working with?

Red Alert

I'm going to be working with Conor Heneghan. Must check actually when I start.

I like the computer-count Kas! 1 desktop, 1 laptop, 1 server (linux) and soon to be 1 firewall/web server (openbsd)! That program to do catalogueing sounds good - mine are all in a mess too, and the worst thing is that the ID tags are wrong on a lot of the files! :eek:

EDIT: AFAIK I think Netsoc may have disabled either the inbound or outbound port forwards from the server's perspective. You should probably ask one of the admins to open the port for you.

Alana

Mr.Nice Guy wrote:

You spelt 'heifer' wrong.

irony...or humour or sarcasm or something....


ah crud.

well i did post it at like 1am...strange things happen after the witching hour...pixis steal your ability to spell, so they do..

lateasever

you spelt pixies wrong

rainbow kirby

Syth wrote:

Outside? The big blue room? Phht!

Lol... Programmers are like vampires. The sunlight may kill them.

chebe

For the summer? Sleeping til I get a job. Then paying off debt. And trying to convince boyfriend to take time off to go on holiday. I also plan on doing as little thinking as possible without doing something like walking in front of buses.

boneless

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Eh well I'm sarting work on Monday and have Sociology repeat exams in August....... exciting heh. Wooooo

If anyone else Summer sounds as boring as mine I give you a massive online hug out of sympathy*

*disclaimer: only if you are female as if I gave a bloke a massive hug it may ruin my street cred

Real men feel pain too... even John Wayne admitted this!! So heres a male-bonding hug to ya!! BTW I'm a known hugger of any and everthing... from aardvarks to zygots....

larryone

Superman wrote:

Fair play, but don't forget to go outside , you don't want to end up looking like those feeble pasty people I constantly see arround computer science. I could nearly say some of them are deficient in sunlight.
BTW is there anyway you can use orca as a proxy to access a vnc (TightVNC) server at another location?
thanks

funny - the comp sci people who get the most sun are the ones who stand outside smoking... bit aof a health trade-off =0)

We were thinking about looking into TightVNC stuff at some point over the summer, but no guarentee ths will happen (possible secutity problems, ugly port forwarding stuff... yeknow)

larryone

larry's summer:
- hopefully be doing this summer internship in comp sci dept. (will know by friday)
- will be redesigning netsoc's entire inner structure (with the help of my sysad-minions)(like syth)
- will be helping the webmaster with completely redesigning netsoc web interface (same style, totally different content)
- will be doing 5h1tloads of caving and climbing, possibly a week of same in yorkshire
- will hopefully be going to a few gigs =0)
- will finally have a degree!!!! WOOHOO! been in UCD since 2000 and nothing to show for it yet. this will all change by the 21st of june =0)
- will qualify to go on into 4th year comp sci and get an honours degree (currently just a general sci degree)
- will go boogie boogie *waves index fingers in identical clockwise circles*

Superman

larryone wrote:

We were thinking about looking into TightVNC stuff at some point over the summer, but no guarentee ths will happen (possible secutity problems, ugly port forwarding stuff... yeknow)

Cool man! VNC tis' a handy thing!

beanyb

Well my plans for the summer, inter-railing, totally fell through last night, due to my friends' total inability to grasp reality. They seem to think they can visit pretty much everywhere in Europe in a month. So now, I dunno what I'm going to do! I refuse to stay in Dublin all summer, REFUSE!!!

anna20

go to toronto for the summer and hopefully have the time of my life away from irelands crappy summer weather and general boring atmosphere!

Alana

lateasever wrote:

you spelt pixies wrong

for the love of fluffy cheese!!!

Work from July for one whole year on campus.

Not your campus though.

Kevin_rc_ie

he's new tcd provost.

elbee

I'm working in a bank from June. Potentially forever, since these exams are finals. . .

Money is pretty good though

Pythia

Work, work, work. I want/need money.

pookie pixie

1. Finish these exams.....will the torment ever end??The restaurant is seriously getting old and you know you're in the minority when people come up drunk to the window and start scaring you (in a funny but not so funny way)......
2.Go home and remember what a family should look like
3.get on a plane and head to chigago for 2 weeks
4.get back on a plane, come home and sleep for 2 days
5.get on a plane and fly to london, new york and then haiti to volunteer for a month
6.get to the dominican republic somehow after the month is up
7.come back to ireland after a ridiculous amount of flying (2 days i think)
8.sleep,be all messed up in a weird time zone..........
9........then start worring about all the money i owe.

blondie83

pookie pixie wrote:

1. Finish these exams.....will the torment ever end??The restaurant is seriously getting old and you know you're in the minority when people come up drunk to the window and start scaring you (in a funny but not so funny way)......

Was in there the other night, and at about 11:30 a big gang of ppl started walking along right outside the window with cans and pizza - then settled down in full few and started to eat/drink/be drunk and laugh at us! I was tempted to go outside and join them, come next Saturday...

larryone

Alana wrote:

for the love of fluffy cheese!!!

Aah fluffy cheese!
I miss France!