Newbies

Adesina

Anyone here got any advice or stuff for newbies? It'll be my first time this Summer. So anything anybody wants to tell me (or ya know doesn't want to tell me but'll tell me anyway) would be much appreciated.

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

Don't go in there with any preconceived notions of the place... be open minded, friendly and willing to put the effort into making friends. Like anything, you'll get out of it what you put into it so if you sit in the corner quietly it won't be much fun, but if you are friendly and chatty - even if you have to force yourself to be - then you'll enjoy it so much more.

Do not attempt to tell someone you like them using the Bob™ method. Neil (crash_000) will explain.

jono087

just be willing to have a laugh, and do crazy things......

Matthewthebig

Just remember there are people older than you there. prepare to learn some things

It wasn't me!

That sounds so sleazy Matt! True though... Don't act the asshole. People are older than you, so they'll know a lot more interesting crap, but they'll still treat you like a peer. Your age is irrelevant, so don't worry. Everyone there is your equal, and you'll pick up soem weird and wonderful things that'll make you a more open, easy-going, and generally a better person. That's what I found anyway. As regards tips, caffeine addictions are good, as are bad money-making scams(Jolt Slushees, aw yeah...), and just acting as openly and positively as possible, with, of course, a healthy dose of cynicism, but maybe that's just me. Have a great time though, what session are you doing? If you're session two, I could use an apprentice to corrupt, speaking of which get into BDSM if you're smart, rather than having it drilled into you.

Chowburger

Bring plenty of money to blow at the Spar, and, as a rule, the only edible food in the cafeteria is the bread :P
Oh, bring something to dress up in as there will inevitably be a fancy-dress disco/day/something-or-other, and I usually screw myself over by forgetting to bring stuff to wear.

Aaaand... Let me think... I dunno, just go ready to come back with an altered sense of perception (i.e. you will constantly think, 'This isn't as cool as CTYI!'). And have a laugh, above all else.

Piste

It wasn't me! wrote:

People are older than you, so they'll know a lot more interesting crap, but they'll still treat you like a peer. Your age is irrelevant, so don't worry. Everyone there is your equal, and you'll pick up soem weird and wonderful things that'll make you a more open, easy-going, and generally a better person.

get into BDSM if you're smart, rather than having it drilled into you.

Matthewthebig wrote:

Just remember there are people older than you there. prepare to learn some things

^^ What they said.

So try to make friends. Even if you are shy and reserved, try to get talking to a fellow newbie so you wont be alone and also get talking to someone who has been there before, they should help you out with anything and will introduce you too a few people. If you are open-mined and friendly, you will make friends.

What course and session will you be doing?

PurpleFistMixer

Bring food.

The food they give you in the canteen is..... odd. It does for meals but if you're like me then you'll need other stuff to eat during the rest of the day.
You can buy stuff in the spar but it's cheaper if you bring stuff from home. Stuff like fruit and things. And use your fridge. I spent a fortune last year living off drinks from vending machines, so I reckon this year I might try buying actual cartons of stuff from the spar.

And yeah, in general advice, just.... abandon all inhibitions and allow yourself to be insane. Normalcy ruins all.

Matthewthebig

Just be glad you won't see me constantly puking

Flashling

Great, I'm a newb S1 too so I wont be all alone! Out of curiosity, what kind of dress up?
And the Bob methord? Sounds ominous......

Hugh Hefner

Might I suggest you bring a classbag that you can carry on your back. A normal schoolbag. I've brought a handheld carry bag the last 2 years and it annoyed me that I never had 2 hands free.

Piste

Well last year the first disco had a specific theme (Angels and Devils), the second disco was just general fancy dree, and the last disco was wear whatever you want. Not everyone dresses up for the fancy dress ones though so if you really don't want to, you wont be the only one's dressing up. Before the first two discos you'll be going to Santry and Blanchardstown shopping centres so I'm sure you could pick up the makings of a costume there if you've come unprepared.

Raphael

I'll go with PFM, bring plenty of food. Not junk, edible instant stuff that you can make with a kettle and a toaster. Poptarts and pot noodle type of thing. Oh, and bringing some cutlery might be a good idea

It wasn't me!

To be honest it's as handy to swipe it from the canteen.

Chowburger

Just as it is handy to swipe as many muffins as humanly possible from there when they're on offer.

Just make sure the mad dessert woman/man doesn't see you...

LiamD

Adesina wrote:

Anyone here got any advice or stuff for newbies? It'll be my first time this Summer. So anything anybody wants to tell me (or ya know doesn't want to tell me but'll tell me anyway) would be much appreciated.

Don't plan at all.Just go with it when you get there and you definitely won't be dissapointed.If you go in with expectations you will be dissapointed when you don't get them.

rainbow kirby

Have fun, relax and enjoy yourself.

Bring plenty of money to blow at the Spar, and, as a rule, the only edible food in the cafeteria is the bread :P

This is true. Though I've heard the food isn't as bad as it was in my day. Also try to get the vegetarian options if you can, they're usually better.

/me sighs and realises it's 4 years since she was a nevermore... and an old one at that.

Matthewthebig

for real food go vegan!

all your food is perfect as they only cook one portion

and you get to skip the line

Dermo

Bob wrote:

Don't go in there with any preconceived notions of the place... be open minded, friendly and willing to put the effort into making friends. Like anything, you'll get out of it what you put into it so if you sit in the corner quietly it won't be much fun, but if you are friendly and chatty - even if you have to force yourself to be - then you'll enjoy it so much more.

Do not attempt to tell someone you like them using the Bob™ method. Neil (crash_000) will explain.

don't do anything bob did is always a good thing

oh and make sure you don't get a crazy RA who doesn't know what the rules are for himself, never mind the children! :rolleyes:

Hugh Hefner

It wasn't me! wrote:

To be honest it's as handy to swipe it from the canteen.

Remember the "no offenders will be prosecuted" cutlery return bin? Leo thought we should steal it.


I've had enough of people complaining about the canteen food! It's not that bad! It might not be haut cuisine but it's not bad looking/tasting/etc. almost all of the time. Besides, it's only for 3 weeks. If it's not to your honed taste you can just put up for a while. Now lets not be so moaney.

Adesina

Thanks for all the responses. All very helpful. I'm doing Session 1, Medecine in the Lab for anyone who asked. Flashling what session and course you doing?

It wasn't me!

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Remember the "no offenders will be prosecuted" cutlery return bin? Leo thought we should steal it.

So did myself and Pierce, we just took a good idea that one step further... It was still on top of the vending machines when I left...

Matthewthebig

Adesina wrote:

Thanks for all the responses. All very helpful. I'm doing Session 1, Medecine in the Lab for anyone who asked. Flashling what session and course you doing?

are you any relation to babaera anne(sp?)

Adesina

Matthewthebig wrote:

are you any relation to babaera anne(sp?)

No, i'm not. I'm a girl and i'm pretty sure she was talking about her son. Son = boy and as i am a girl i can't be her son.

Matthewthebig

well

I'm slow

/me runs away to avoid beatings

Big matthew Barrington afraid of getting beaten up by a 13 year old girl!

Adesina

Don't worry I won 't beat you up (if I control my anger at being called a boy that is). And if you're slow, what are you doing at CTYI?

Barry Aldwell

Adesina wrote:

And if you're slow, what are you doing at CTYI?

Centre for Talented Youth, not intelligent youth. The ability to touch your nose with your tongue, or to dislocate all your joints at one time can be construed as talents (though CTYI obviously run a marginally more intellectual indoctrination, in the form of the SAT I tests). Don't go into CTYI expecting particularly intellectual conversation btw, you're more likely to run into people jabbering on about yu gi oh or whatever crap you kids are into these days.

Matthewthebig

Hey don't slag Yu Gi Oh!

Great show

I'm a wimp

i curl up in a ball and whimper

Adesina

Barry Aldwell wrote:

Centre for Talented Youth, not intelligent youth. The ability to touch your nose with your tongue, or to dislocate all your joints at one time can be construed as talents (though CTYI obviously run a marginally more intellectual indoctrination, in the form of the SAT I tests). Don't go into CTYI expecting particularly intellectual conversation btw, you're more likely to run into people jabbering on about yu gi oh or whatever crap you kids are into these days.

I didn't expect a load of intellectual conversations, discussions etc. as I can be really slow too. And there's nothing wrong with Yu Gi Oh either.

PurpleFistMixer

I had loads of intellectual discussions... debating whether things can be both fuzzy and shiny at the same time.
It's not possible, just isn't.

And, uh... well, there were probably intellectual discussions. Possibly......

It wasn't me!

Matthewthebig wrote:

I'm a wimp

i curl up in a ball and whimper

It's funny 'cause it's true!

Hobotastic

I had a lot of conversations about Family Guy on my first day. Don't bring cutlery, you can easily take that from the canteen, as someone said (I think it was Guy). Bring a bowl. Many's a day I spent eating cereal out of a plastic cup at CTYI, and I only went there once.

And Kev, the food does suck. Don't you remember that crazy "movie" the Writing for Life class made about the evil food that had Jim's head, and Irwin dropping a piano, and all that? no? Anyone? Ok... Hehe, we called that guy Boris, you know the guy with the mustache who stood menacingly by the muffins to make sure you didn't take more than one? Crazy ol' Boris.

Hugh Hefner

Adesina wrote:

Thanks for all the responses. All very helpful. I'm doing Session 1, Medecine in the Lab for anyone who asked. Flashling what session and course you doing?

Ooooooooooooooooooo, Medicine In The Lab. I did that my first year. It's really good. Be prepared to disect a heart on the first or second day.

The instructor is Tony Walshe. I have some things you must say to him!

Ask him if the woman still thinks his name is Seamus.
Tell him Kevin from '03, "likes the things you do!"
Tell him he's the one and only Tony with the one and only laptop which I'm dissapointed is now an Apple.
Tell him his lab-coat modeling career was worthless.
Tell him to get some Solero Shots!

That is all.

Yu-Gi-Oh is the shizz nizz.

Scarinae

Chowburger wrote:

Just as it is handy to swipe as many muffins as humanly possible from there when they're on offer.

Just make sure the mad dessert woman/man doesn't see you...

What was with that woman? I took an apple and a banana once, and she actually came out from behind the counter and repossessed my banana, saying that we could only have one piece of fruit. Excuse me for trying to be healthy...

StupidLikeAFox

She gave out to me for robbing the italians yoghurt! the cheek! Im practically italian!

Chowburger

She gave us two cookies each once. It was quite a miracle. We smiled politely, thanked her, and walked away pretending that we didn't already have two each in our pockets.

Crash

I cried on friday when i realised i was finished college for the year and was watching yugi-oh on the last ever den. not really though. i'm too manly to cry

Bob you realise all the funny stories i'll have to tell in a "dont do things this way" way to people this year then? ALL of them involving you? :P

Raphael

Excellent. Study SHOULD be fun!

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

Neil, you know an awful, awful lot about me... absolutely none of it fit for anyone under the age of... well, anyone at all really. So I shall have to politely remind you of your aversion to poocock and my absolute desire for revenge! E.g. Plasticman cowering in his room for a good couple of hours re: a certain carton of juice incident!

PurpleFistMixer

Odd. I don't remember many difficulties with the food at all. I took numerous carrot cakes despite hating the damn things, and several packets of soda bread I then foolishly left in my bag and discovered after CTYI had ended....
Yeah, that wasn't pretty.

TalkISCheap

I called Boris Vladmir. More Dracula-esque!

Yeah, money-making scams are good. There was:

1) The Great 2003 Muffin Ring
2) The (Foiled) Drinks Escapade at the second disco
3) Karlstock
4) Frozen Toothbrushes (short-lived, that one...)

Feel free to add, for there were many more.

Hugh Hefner

What was the name of the guy who was selling bottles of tap water at the '03 discos.

Rory and I tried to sell cups of water to the morning joggers in '03. That just attracted Sportugitalianards who were looking for gin. That was awkward.

Adesina

Your all starting to make me very nervous about the food.
Do I really get to dissect a heart? What does Tony Walshe look like?

Piste

TalkISCheap wrote:

I called Boris Vladmir. More Dracula-esque!

Yeah, money-making scams are good. There was:

1) The Great 2003 Muffin Ring
2) The (Foiled) Drinks Escapade at the second disco
3) Karlstock
4) Frozen Toothbrushes (short-lived, that one...)

Feel free to add, for there were many more.

I'll have you know, Karlstock was NOT moneymaking scam! All money went to the costs of the T-shirts!*
I still have my t-shirt


4) Frozen Toothbrushes (short-lived, that one...)

Oh do go on....

*with a small profit to be had by Ian and Dave


I recomend a cup on a string to exchange stuff with the people below you (eg Jaffa Cakes, Chewing Gum, Poptarts)

Works a treat and is great fun provided to person below you doesn't smush your cup :mad: right Liam?

Hugh Hefner

Adesina wrote:

Your all starting to make me very nervous about the food.
Do I really get to dissect a heart? What does Tony Walshe look like?

Don't worry about the food. These babies are just whining.

Yeah you get to dissect a heart. There was much controversy over my dissection..... *ahem*

Tony Walshe looks like the instructor. You know, the guy who'll be standing infront of the class telling you all things about biology?
If that doesn't help there's a picture of him (along with his CV) here.

Adesina

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Don't worry about the food. These babies are just whining.

Yeah you get to dissect a heart. There was much controversy over my dissection..... *ahem*

Tony Walshe looks like the instructor. You know, the guy who'll be standing infront of the class telling you all things about biology?
If that doesn't help there's a picture of him (along with his CV) here.

So the foods not so bad?

Piste

Nah 's not bad really. Lasagne was quite nice. Also, you get watermelon, WATERMELON! As in: Nicest fruit EVAR! \0/

Matthewthebig

well if you like meh food then its ok

i survived on chicken fillet bagguettes(sp?)

LiamD

If you're a crap eater like me then I'd just forget the canteen food.Last year I didn't eat much of the stuff at dinner, because even if it was edible (which some people said it was) I just don't eat lasagnes and pasta and stuff like that.Some of the lunches were quite nice, chips, sausages, fish and bagels were all quite nice.Spar is good though, anyone who's real picky like me just eat out of there.The rolls are good.Don't just not eat though.That's not good.
Did anyone else get the field trip spar lunches?Now that was a lunch.


And yeah Liz, that wasn't me I swear, twas irrelevant Barry.That was pretty fun though, that food swapping pully thing.

Piste

Dont lie! It was totally you!