So whose dropping what next year?

GusherING

To all you fellow 1st Arts students out there, what are you guys dropping when (and if!) you get into 2nd Year? Are you sticking with 2 subjects or are you doing a mode 1 course?

Personally, I'm dropping Greek & Roman, sticking with History & Politics and declining the Mode 1 offer I got (remarkably with only 60% in the exams!!).

So how about yourselves??

kasintahan

I'm dropping psychology. Have to, no choice, didn't apply for a mode 1 (and wouldn't have got it on my results).

Keeping computers and information studies,

Looking forward to going back

Arucard

im quitting altogether! no more Psychology English or Philosophy for me! altho Philosophy was cool

beardedchicken

i'm dropping college entirely! one more month and then Huzzah! i'm finished!!! that is, if i can survive without a full night's sleep sleep for that long. so...tired...need...coffee. zzzzzzzzzzzz.

arbeitsscheuer

GusherING wrote:

To all you fellow 1st Arts students out there, what are you guys dropping when (and if!) you get into 2nd Year? Are you sticking with 2 subjects or are you doing a mode 1 course?

Personally, I'm dropping Greek & Roman, sticking with History & Politics and declining the Mode 1 offer I got (remarkably with only 60% in the exams!!).

So how about yourselves??

AAAAAAAH!!!!! :eek: :mad:
No no no no no no no!
I f**king chose History and Politics as well last year, dropping Philosophy.
Worst. Decision. Ever.
If you got Mode 1 offer for History, take it man.

Read my lips... er... words...
Second. Year. Politics. Is. Awful.

Ahem... I'm glad I got that off my chest.

slumped

Gushering

Take up English and learn how to use grammar!

Whose or Who Is

beanyb

I'm dropping Maths Studies and keeping on History and Politics. I dont care what Seb says, I like politics so I'm keeping it on!

GusherING

I like it too. So I'll keep it! I apoligise for the grammatical error but don't be so pedantic over a mistake.

Mr.Nice Guy

I'm dropping philosophy and sticking with history and politics.

When do we sort the whole thing out? Is it when we go back we have to sign up with the subjects or what?

GusherING

I assume so. The only communication I've had with UCD is my offer for Mode 1. I haven't heard a peep out of them with regard to anything else. I'm sure its like last year when we had to sign up for subjects in the Admin building.

AngelofFire

Im dropping Psychology, im suprised i even passed it. keeping sociology and politics.

Mr.Nice Guy

There's alot of people doing politics around this place. :cool:

arbeitsscheuer

Ah well, I tried to warn them...
I said don't do politics. What did I say?
(voice in background) You said don't do politics.
I said don't do politics...

Just thought I'd reiterate that. Just so you all remember when you're REPEATING this time next year who could have saved you 12 months of cr*pness.

*Shakes head in dismay*

P.S. 2nd year History is great, although that might just be by comparison.

Chinafoot

SebtheBum wrote:

Ah well, I tried to warn them...
I said don't do politics. What did I say?
(voice in background) You said don't do politics.
I said don't do politics...

Just thought I'd reiterate that. Just so you all remember when you're REPEATING this time next year who could have saved you 12 months of cr*pness.

*Shakes head in dismay*

P.S. 2nd year History is great, although that might just be by comparison.

Definitely just by comparison!

Jonny Arson

I'm dropping Sociology in favour of Geologicalgraphy and Information Studies.

Why? Because the Sociology department are a bunch muppets who don't have any slight interest in their students, make an extremely fascinating and interesting subject impossible by presuming that we are a bunch of qualified social workers and goons who read the C**munist M**ifesto every single day, they hope half of us will f**k off and die this summer, they charge zillions of euros for sh!tty notes, they have the cheek to make us re-register during August, the 1st year population is full of D4 heads.......... blah blah blah........ BLAH!

Mr.Nice Guy

SebtheBum wrote:

Just thought I'd reiterate that. Just so you all remember when you're REPEATING this time next year who could have saved you 12 months of cr*pness.

*Shakes head in dismay*

Oh ye of little faith!

Aren't there options in politics? Like can we drop courses like Marxism in favour of others?

kasintahan

*my head is broken*

Kevin_rc_ie

if i was doing sociology, politics and philosphy i'd drop politics.

arbeitsscheuer

Yeah, you tell em, Kev!
Who can argue with the great Kev?

In answer to Mr.NiceGuy:

Ho ho ho ho ho tee hee hee hee Ba Wha HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA....

Ah, excuse me. *Wipes tear of laughter from eye*
Oh, you'll learn soon enough, my young Padwan.

m1ke

Good to see lots of ppl doing politics, I actually really enjoyed it. However, 2nd year is definitely the hardest and you don't get a lot of room to choose your subjects - especially if you want to engineer it so you don't have to be in at 9 in the morning However, the good news is that 3rd year is sooo much better. The times are better and you get to choose 100% what you want without being forced to do any particular subject.

Jonny Arson

Politics is for nerds.

BTW screw you Seb for beating me to 1,000 posts. I bet most of your posts are spam so I shall be appealing this! :mad:

arbeitsscheuer

Heh heh, I hadn't even noticed TBH!

But now that you mention it...
WOOOOOOO
and indeed
HOOOOOOO

In your stinking face Zanemeister!

Jonny Arson

SebtheBum wrote:

Heh heh, I hadn't even noticed TBH!

But now that you mention it...
WOOOOOOO
and indeed
HOOOOOOO

In your stinking face Zanemeister!

You are now officially in Zane's BLACK BOOK!!!!

P.S. after this piece of spam....... 4 to go!

beanyb

Yeah that whole 9 o'clock thing is going to be a killer. But I'm kind of praying that with modularisation coming in for the 1st years they might have to change the timetable?? Kinda, sorta, maybe? It's doubtful, but I'm going to hope that I wont have 9 o'clock lectures every day!!! ahh!

Alana

Mr.Nice Guy wrote:

There's alot of people doing politics around this place. :cool:

Well there'll be one less person next year as I'm dropping the thing, wooo, i liked it a great deal, but i can't take any more philosophy-argh!!! So next year it's italiano and geography, hurray!

blondie83

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

BTW screw you Seb for beating me to 1,000 posts. I bet most of your posts are spam so I shall be appealing this! :mad:

Ah I was so close, I wanted to be the 1st to 1000 posts! Ah well, as long as i beat theCzar thats the important thing

Mr.Nice Guy

SebtheBum wrote:

In answer to Mr.NiceGuy:

Ho ho ho ho ho tee hee hee hee Ba Wha HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA....

Ah, excuse me. *Wipes tear of laughter from eye*
Oh, you'll learn soon enough, my young Padwan.

I may end up going over to the dark side - studying in the library.

m1ke wrote:

Good to see lots of ppl doing politics, I actually really enjoyed it. However, 2nd year is definitely the hardest and you don't get a lot of room to choose your subjects - especially if you want to engineer it so you don't have to be in at 9 in the morning

Don't tell me there are 9 o'clock classes! Please no!

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Politics is for nerds.

Uh, aren't you doing Information Studies? Neeeeeerrrrrrrrrrdddddddddd!

Alana wrote:

Well there'll be one less person next year as I'm dropping the thing, wooo, i liked it a great deal, but i can't take any more philosophy-argh!!! So next year it's italiano and geography, hurray!

Boo.

Jonny Arson

blondie83 wrote:

Ah I was so close, I wanted to be the 1st to 1000 posts! Ah well, as long as i beat theCzar thats the important thing

C'mon blondie 2 more posts to go.... c'mon you can do it...... spam spam spam! :cool:

Mr.Nice Guy wrote:

Uh, aren't you doing Information Studies? Neeeeeerrrrrrrrrrdddddddddd!

Information Studies is for stupid people not nerds.

Who are you calling a nerd anyway when you spend all of your days on the internet spamming by calling people nerds..... the cheek!..........*cough*.........*cough*

kasintahan

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Information Studies is for stupid people not nerds.

Zane has a point.

1st Information Studies is UCD's unofficial special needs course.
Personally I think it relies on its status as such in order to survive.

Jonny Arson

kasintahan wrote:

1st Information Studies is UCD's unofficial special needs course.

Very true!

However I think it's the lecturers that are the ones with the special needs for when it comes to lecturing........*cough* BTB *cough*

BTW kas......... are we going to be the only two people doing that special needs course next year?

Blush_01

GusherING wrote:

I assume so. The only communication I've had with UCD is my offer for Mode 1. I haven't heard a peep out of them with regard to anything else. I'm sure its like last year when we had to sign up for subjects in the Admin building.

Last year's second years had to confirm their attendance online. I've tried to register for third year but obviously registration for 2005/2006 must not have started yet. But it'll be computerised if the recent trends have anything to do with it.

Second year is full of 9 am starts. That's the joy of second year. Plus, politics is vicious. It's reputedly the most failed subject in Arts. Stinky-poo.

AngelofFire - unless you applied for Mode 1 Psychology, you were virtually guaranteed a pass. I've only ever heard of one person failing. And I can't guarantee that he didn't have the i.q. of a piece of cheese.

My advice to anyone who gets a Mode 1 offer is to accept it if they're even thinking about doing it. You can always decline if you don't like it once the year has started, but if you've made the wrong choice in choosing a two subject degree and decide too late, there's no going back, someone else will have been offered your place. It's hard at first, doing only one subject, but it's far easier to concentrate on one thing than to jump from one to the next all the time - in my opinion anyway. I'm studying Mode 1 English - it's crazy (and you probably wouldn't guess from the state of my grammar!), but it's the best choice I ever made, and I almost rejected the offer.

Mr.Nice Guy

Blush_01 wrote:

Second year is full of 9 am starts. That's the joy of second year. Plus, politics is vicious. It's reputedly the most failed subject in Arts. Stinky-poo.

That's not something I needed to hear considering I hardly made any 9 am starts in first year and the fact I intend to do politics in 2nd year.

Blush_01

No hon, I'm afraid it IS something you need to hear. Because if you don't know what you're letting yourself in for, you could find yourself face down in a big steamy pile of poo.

Try it for a week or two - then change if you want/can.

<off topic> How come the computers in the LGs are covered in sticky stuff these days?</off topic>

tSubh Dearg

I'm finished with all that Arts business but while I was doing it I dropped Philosophy in favour of G&R and Music.

I loved Greek and Roman and I passed it in both 2nd and 3rd year without doing any work or attending a lot of lectures (I even managed to get an honours degreee in it) I loved all my lectures, esp the Peatfield one in 2nd year on Erotic art and Pornography in Ancient Greece...Hilarious! It was the most well attended lecture of the year with people who weren't even doing G&R sitting in.

If you're a music student I wouldn't advise keeping it up unless you're pretty good at all that theory stuff and have a good head for the history facts. It is better in 3rd year though, you get to do MIDI work and I also enjoyed learning how to transcribe ye olde music into modern notation.

I hope some of that was helpful, I really don't remember much of lectures as I was too busy Auditoring the Jazz Society, running for Welfare and doing other stuff that I really don't remember either. College was fun!

m1ke

I managed to get second year down to only two 9am starts. Unfortunately, all the really interesting courses were on at 9am, so it meant choosing difficult courses instead... including the infamous politics course with the 90% failure rate. So it's usually a flip between a good course and an early start or something really tough in the afternoon.... ahh third year was so easy in comparison!

Jonny Arson

tSubh Dearg wrote:

I loved Greek and Roman and I passed it in both 2nd and 3rd year without doing any work or attending a lot of lectures (I even managed to get an honours degreee in it) I loved all my lectures, esp the Peatfield one in 2nd year on Erotic art and Pornography in Ancient Greece...Hilarious! It was the most well attended lecture of the year with people who weren't even doing G&R sitting in.

I dunno if your a freak or what but everyone who I came across doing that subject absolutely detested it and is dropping it for next year.

tSubh Dearg

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

I dunno if your a freak or what but everyone who I came across doing that subject absolutely detested it and is dropping it for next year.

Well I know one of the best lecturers in G&R left about the year after I did and he was the main reason a lot of people kept up the subject. So I'm not surprised that people don't like it anymore when they're missing out on his excellent teaching methods.

Blush_01

It also helps in seminars if you have a good leader rather than your favourite topic. I got two seminars that I hate the thoughts of, but my leaders are great, so I know I won;t have a problem. T.P. Dolan rocks.