what's going on here...

doonothing

anyone remember the thread from last year, i think it was called "its oh so close"... it was started a good few weeks before ctyi, and everyone (myself included) were insanely excited and used that thread to vent said excitement.

why does no one seem all that excited for this year? last year we rambled incessantly for weeks, nay, months in advance, session 1 has already started, whats with the lack of enthusiasm? are people just bored with ctyi? has it lost its magic? or was last year just really not that great?

PurpleFistMixer

I wasn't that excited before last year. Maybe the week before I'll get excited. Until then I'm doing other stuff (doing a music course next week, par shampla), so.. yeah... And anyway, getting exciting also involves getting... expectations, and they're not always the best.
Although we all KNOW CTYI will be great. Great and wonderful.

Actually I got a bit excited today 'cause I was in one of those.. serve yourself canteen sorta thingies today that reminded me of the DCU canteen. The oddest things bring back memories...

Chowburger

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

The oddest things bring back memories...

Amen.
I keep randomly bursting into giggles of excitement when I see that ad on E4 that has 'Gay Bar' as the music.

I'm looking forward to it a ridiculous amount (though I'm almost sure it won't live up to last year's session), I just figured that I'd get frowned upon for starting an 'Oh-em-gee lYkE, CTYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!1111two' thread.

LiamD

It's good, I'm looking forward to it but its not occupying my every waking moment thinking about it.It's just a thing in the near future that will be enjoyable.

dervy

Feck all this "I'm so cool I'll pretend not to be excited" stuff, I can't wait. It should be really savage. Only thing thats holdin me back in my excitement is the fact that it's gonna be my last year.

Chowburger

La la la can't hear you la la la...

Don't really want to think about the end of it, just the actual experience.

Piste

I'm really looking forward to it

JenLorigan

Yep, 'twill rock

Only reason I'm not making lots of "w00, CTYI!" posts is that they'd get annoying mighty fast.

Aoibheann

...yeah, wasnt that the start of the spam season cycle anyway..the 'I'm so excited thread'?

*nods wisely*

Anyway, yes, I am excited. I've been telling people how excited I am non-stop. Yes. 16 days

Piste

Did anyone else think of the start to the Crazy Frog ''song'' when they say the thread title?











no? Just me so.

Chowburger

That freaking frog makes me want to do violent things to the creator.

Hugh Hefner

I thought a few days ago why there were no excitment threads. I knew I didn't make one cos' it just would have been in bad taste. I then assumed everyone else had made the same moral decision. I didn't say anything cos' I didn't want to jinx it. I am excited though. Aoibheann can testify that I told her earlier, "16 days to CTYI!"

Lady penelopy

*ahem*...whee! ctyi! horray for it and all that jazz. 16?! good good.

Aoibheann

Hugh Hefner wrote:

I thought a few days ago why there were no excitment threads. I knew I didn't make one cos' it just would have been in bad taste. I then assumed everyone else had made the same moral decision. I didn't say anything cos' I didn't want to jinx it. I am excited though. Aoibheann can testify that I told her earlier, "16 days to CTYI!"

He did. and I had mentioned same earlier to others. and now tis only 15 days!

lemon_sherbert

I can't wait. The only way I can contain the excitement is by overplanning what i'm going to pack and tell my friends stories from last year. I've become that band camp nerd. This one time, at CTYI
See you all in 15 days, god it's strange that we spend all year leading up to this and then we're only there for 3 weeks

abraham lincoln

une question(perhaps a stupid one but no less): did or does anybody else find it hard to tell their non-ctyi compadraes about ctyi?

StupidLikeAFox

Yep.

Im not excited because im not goin. Its that straight forward.

the_red_cherry

ColHol wrote:

Yep.

Im not excited because im not goin. Its that straight forward.

ditto.

abraham lincoln

abraham lincoln wrote:

une question(perhaps a stupid one but no less): did or does anybody else find it hard to tell their non-ctyi compadraes about ctyi?

surprisingly not.I just tell them what it is, their never gonna experience it, so i don't mind some of the stupid comments you get about it. Take all the slagging or whatever, it only lasts a while.

Piste

abraham lincoln wrote:

did or does anybody else find it hard to tell their non-ctyi compadraes about ctyi?

Sometimes, with a name like 'Irish Centre for Talented Youth' it sounds a bit pretentious when you have to explain it. Could be worse theough, in Britain they have the 'National Acedemy for Gifted Children'

JenLorigan

I just say 'Nerd Camp' when people ask what it is.

Chowburger

Yeah, but then people ask what 'CTYI' stands for... *cringe*

I don't really think any of my non-nerd friends care about my stories from there, but I just ramble on anyway. Meh. Their loss.

gigglingrat

I just say DCU summer courses and leave it at that. They can google it if they're that interested.

JenLorigan

I ramble to the people who'll be interested.

Lady penelopy

Chowburger wrote:

I don't really think any of my non-nerd friends care about my stories from there, but I just ramble on anyway. Meh. Their loss.

ditto. then every now and again ill talk to one of my best friends, who went to ctyi, for hours in a free class or somethingm, so at least i have that!

jono087

most people don't seem to care, they jus think it's like irish college or something.......

PurpleFistMixer

To explain it I usually just say "It's like Irish college... only no Irish" because even if they're TOTALLY different, it's the only way to explain it to an outsider.

Well, it's either that or "nerd camp/summer school", so... take your pick tbh.

Stephen Forde

i told all my friends it was irish college except one of them and he kept calling me a nerd cos of goign to nerd camp then 2 years later he went!

just face it all ur friends should know by now that ur all nerds.....

halenger

This can now get back to whatever it was actually about... Alcohol related posts in the appropriate thread please. Don't make more work for me (the ban button is easier than splitting your post over to there - bear that in mind).

incredula pert

apologies!

Crash

He didnt delete all the posts. see the thread called "alcohol"?

now d'ya mind quitting jumping to conclusions before actually looking? cheers.

Scarinae

Emily, you're going back this year? I thought you finished last year, I dunno why

Chowburger

Well I turn 17 four days into session 2, so last year probably should've been my last. I guess they were feeling nice and let me come back.

Oh Lord, I'll be so old!

Scarinae

Well now you'll know how feckin ancient I felt in Archaeology! What course you gonna be doing?

Chowburger

Ah, but you know you loved that class! How could you not, what with the tampon-shooting and general Ashley-related oddness...

I'm doing Speculative Fiction. I'm hoping it'll be cool and not full of ridiculously talented people who'll overshadow those of us unable to write (aka me.)

doonothing

woo! i can't write either! someone else like me...
im hoping this class will be people wanting to learn how to write, not just be fantastic at it...but wehey! ctyi!

Scarinae

Oh my god, the tampon-shooting... I'd forgotten about that, I had tears in my eyes I was laughing so hard when I read that! When does session 2 even start? I might drop in if I get the chance

Chowburger

doonothing wrote:

woo! i can't write either! someone else like me...
im hoping this class will be people wanting to learn how to write, not just be fantastic at it...but wehey! ctyi!

Wootage! So I assume I'll see you there in EIGHT DAYS OMGZ (that piece of incoherence may answer your question, Ailbhe.) If all else fails we'll start a 'We Can't Write!' club in the corner of the classroom whilst everyone else goes about being talented

Piste

Jesus, eight days.....

JenLorigan

Seven, and half an hour.

Piste

[Samara]Sssseven Dayssss[/Samara]

Aoibheann

Chowburger wrote:

Wootage! So I assume I'll see you there in EIGHT DAYS OMGZ (that piece of incoherence may answer your question, Ailbhe.) If all else fails we'll start a 'We Can't Write!' club in the corner of the classroom whilst everyone else goes about being talented

oooh, can I join the club? I like writing, but I'm awful at it!

Chowburger

Yes! I'm a whole lot less scared of this course now!

Liquorice

The excitement only hit me yesterday in Blanchardstown visiting people. Ah, wandering around with orange post-its on each breast, one saying 'Boobs' with the 's' crossed out and the other saying 'other boob'. I would say I'm going to miss the place but I'm in denial about how I'm going to bear the esteemed and upsetting title of 'nevermore' in less than a week.

doonothing

ahhhhhhhh!! everthings flooding back...the joys of ctyi!
and yay! another one of them *worst. student. ever.* clubs!
in international history, me and deirdre just sat at the back absolutely clueless about what was going on.... good times
whoa so excited

mentalimplosion

i am completely dreading packing. in the past year, my wardrobe has doubled and i can't remember what sort of clothes to bring. i keep looking at things and thinking 'nope, can't wear that, it's inappropriate', like people were told last year.

Matthewthebig

Ah you all enjoy it. a lot. Ok. My last year sucked the major cock. SO make up for it. As i won't be around to abuse you all

LiamD

mentalimplosion wrote:

i am completely dreading packing. in the past year, my wardrobe has doubled and i can't remember what sort of clothes to bring. i keep looking at things and thinking 'nope, can't wear that, it's inappropriate', like people were told last year.

Who told them that?

Scarinae

mentalimplosion wrote:

i keep looking at things and thinking 'nope, can't wear that, it's inappropriate', like people were told last year.

You're not allowed wear inappropriate stuff anymore? WHAT?! What is their definition of inappropriate?

JenLorigan

Piste wrote:

[Samara]Sssseven Dayssss[/Samara]

"Jenny, if you don't stop that I'm going to kill you!"

Ah, the memories... I make a damn good possessed child!

Awayindahils

doonothing wrote:

anyone remember the thread from last year, i think it was called "its oh so close"... it was started a good few weeks before ctyi, and everyone (myself included) were insanely excited and used that thread to vent said excitement.

i started that thread last year, and i really wish i hadnt, not because i made a fool out of myself, but because sess 2 got hyped out of its existance, and then failed till live up to expectation. it wasnt that sess2 was bad, just that we created this idealised picture of exactly what we all wanted it to be and it wasnt like that in the end.

personally, i dont think the lack of an "it oh so close" thread is a sign that people think ctyi is boring, or that they have become lack lustre,rather alot of people left ctyi last year, so there may possibly be fewer nevermores on the boards building up the whole thing. also the regulars on these boards tend to see each other alot so theres no need to have a thread to build up ctyi antcipation, they see each other in person instead.