CTYI "Back in the Day"

gigglingrat · 29-07-2005 4:56pm #1

Well then, CTYI 05 is over forever now, and as I sat and reminisced about my last three years I couldn't help but think how much has changed about the place even since I began back in '03.

Which lead me to wondering what the very first CTYI was like...and the subsiquent ones that I am far too young to remember...what has changed, for good, for bad.

Anybody?

Please don't nuke me with your spell-checking bombs, I'm far too tired to be fully literate.

Outcast · 31-07-2005 1:40pm

My first year was '02 and since then the food believe it or not has gotten better, much better range of courses, way more little people and disco's have been in the canteen

And Willie has gone from Asst. Site Director to Site director since Feargal left

Eva · 13-09-2005 8:38pm

I remember CTYI in '94. Vaguely.
Oh lordy I feel old :-)

Piste · 13-09-2005 9:45pm

94? Wow....

StupidLikeAFox · 13-09-2005 9:47pm

Were you even born then liz???

Piste · 13-09-2005 10:09pm

Very Witty Col

I was 3....

LordCran · 14-09-2005 1:56pm

Well, I have no idea, but I know someone who does *shouts*
"OH KEVIN!"
Now here's one of the few old CTYI stories I know:
My very talented brother Kevin (psy A TA 2005, if you didn't know) and my cousin Greg both went to CTYI for 3 years, '94-'97, I believe. One day, Greg dropped his hat in the (now drained) pond-thingy. Kevin has a picture of him fishing it out.
And since Kevin was back 9 years after leaving, he's the perfect "things were better in my day" person. Now where is he...

TalkISCheap · 14-09-2005 5:08pm

Biggest change for me was the movement-ification of the discos...

Manda5678 · 14-09-2005 5:15pm

TalkISCheap wrote:

Biggest change for me was the movement-ification of the discos...

Yep I disliked that change greatly! They had to do it in my nevermore year and all....I don't like it I tell you.
Discos in the hub were tradition..

LiamD · 14-09-2005 7:14pm

I remember the discos back in '02 - they were in the Hub and they used all the Hub's special lights and everything.I much preferred that to the canteen..

Outcast · 14-09-2005 7:27pm

Yeah, what's with the bullsh*t about them not being able to get the hub? They'e known for the last year at least that we'd want it. Street Spirit in the Canteen is damn scary, even Grafton Street was cleaner!

Plunky · 14-09-2005 7:30pm

Nownow, back in the DAY day, (i.e. 2000/2001) the discos were in the canteen, so REALLY, they were just going retro this year!

LiamD · 14-09-2005 7:38pm

Who cares?The Hub is better. End of.

Manda5678 · 14-09-2005 7:43pm

Outcast wrote:

Yeah, what's with the bullsh*t about them not being able to get the hub? They'e known for the last year at least that we'd want it. Street Spirit in the Canteen is damn scary, even Grafton Street was cleaner!

I would have thought that after we had to have two canteen discos last year (and known how unpopular they were) that they would have done their best to get the hub for this year. If they couldn't get the hub on Saturday couldn't we have had a disco on Friday in the hub?

Yeah I agree with you there Niamh street spirit in the canteen was scary. I mean the food they serve you is scary enough whens its on a plate but when there was possible (and most likely) remains of it on the floor where we were lying..that is damn scary

Scarinae · 14-09-2005 7:43pm

And I think I heard from the super-duper aul' wans a few years ago that the discos used to be in the library, as in pre-2000, but I may have dreamed it. Can any aul' wans please come out of the woodwork and confirm/deny this?

Manda5678 · 14-09-2005 7:48pm

The library?!? well in that case i may nver complain about the canteen again..tho the library may have been cleaner..

Scarinae · 14-09-2005 8:02pm

The old library, that is. Or maybe it was the meals that were in the library, because there was no canteen... But really, I probably just dreamed it!

Outcast · 14-09-2005 8:07pm

The new library won't let us study in there let alone have a disco

claire h · 14-09-2005 8:18pm

I can confirm that in 1999 the old library was where meals and discos were. Don't know about before that though.

See, you weren't dreaming.

Manda5678 · 14-09-2005 9:21pm

claire h wrote:

I can confirm that in 1999 the old library was where meals and discos were. Don't know about before that though.

See, you weren't dreaming.

i cant imagine that..

Chris IS Cool · 14-09-2005 9:35pm

Really makes it sound much more like nerdcamp, having discos in a library, doesn't it? ... but it's strangely appealing... discos in the library... especially if it used all the library... with all the different levels and racks of books and stuff... and groovy disco lights.... and really loud music.... good vibes... *slaps some sense into self*

Raphael · 14-09-2005 9:41pm

I remember the library food from the minis.

Scarinae · 14-09-2005 10:58pm

claire h wrote:

I can confirm that in 1999 the old library was where meals and discos were. Don't know about before that though.

See, you weren't dreaming.

Yay, I wasn't dreaming! It just sounded so improbable and ridiculous, and I couldn't remember where I'd got the idea from, so I thought I might have made it up. But um, yeah, having a CTYI disco in a library seems like a bad idea to me because it gives me visions of bookshelves toppling over and knocking others over in a kind of domino effect, scattering books everywhere and crushing screaming teenagers.... But I've never been inside the old library, so in fact I have no idea where this idea comes from either. Oh dear.

Eva · 15-09-2005 1:24pm

Way back in the day, the discos were always in the canteen. (Which back then, was orange and brown... Ah, good times) DCU started renovating the place in 99, turning it into the exciting and ultramodern food hall it is today. CTYI had nowhere to have dinner or discos though, so they moved everything into the old library area. Not the main one, it's the glass room that's to your left when you're walking from the canteen to res.
Is the fountain back on yet in DCU by the way? We used to push RAs in there on the last day. Though I'm sure that can't be the only reason they emptied it.

CONOR!!! f... · 15-09-2005 5:36pm

hmm..the library stopped letting ctyi study there in my 1st year. '03. and i can tell you why. the command prompt. dont use it. aoife and i...and liam...jackass were sending messages on the command prompt. the college students complained. end of library study. very sorry. and yeah my 1st year had discos in the hub too. the upside to the canteen is theres not as much room. in the hub there was WAY too much space. still. hub=better.

Outcast · 15-09-2005 5:51pm

What class was that?

CONOR!!! f... · 15-09-2005 6:09pm

class? legal studies session 2 2003.

Undergod · 15-09-2005 6:34pm

The second ever CTYI, a certain female sibling of mine went that year, shared a room with Sarah MacElwee, (Psychology tutor in 03+04), food was in canteen as were discos. Beat that for a memory.

I just know someone will beat that for a memory.

TalkISCheap · 16-09-2005 7:13pm

I was in the minis the year before they started renovating - memories of the old layout are tres blurred. I remember the meals in the old library when they used let the minis stay res. Then they got sense! (or ran out of space...)

Crash · 16-09-2005 7:57pm

oi! i fecking sweeped that floor! and cleaned tables at one point - it was damn clean i'll have you know.

but anyhow - yeah my disco days were always in the hub.

and for the record, they have tried their best to get the hub.

Outcast · 16-09-2005 8:03pm

Yeah, to give credit where credit is due the Ra's tryed pretty damn hard to sort something. And putting the tables back on the last night with people crying their eyes out was a classic moment

LordCran · 17-09-2005 1:15pm

Sounds like it. Cleaning up after the discos was damn annoying. Bring back the Hub!

Ok, I don't actually remember when it was in the Hub, but... Shut up! Don't look at me that way...

Outcast · 17-09-2005 4:27pm

Yeah the hub rocked.

Manda5678 · 17-09-2005 4:55pm

LordCran wrote:

Sounds like it. Cleaning up after the discos was damn annoying. Bring back the Hub!

Ok, I don't actually remember when it was in the Hub, but... Shut up! Don't look at me that way...

you dont remember?
*gasps*

Chris IS Cool · 17-09-2005 7:41pm

LordCran wrote:

Sounds like it. Cleaning up after the discos was damn annoying. Bring back the Hub!

Ok, I don't actually remember when it was in the Hub, but... Shut up! Don't look at me that way...

*looks at LordCran that way*
You can't remember the hub? That IS odd... probably the only disco ever which featured people sitting outside playing chess, Monopoly and armwrestling, and in one guy's case (Teapot, what a man) reading a fantasy novel for most of the disco...

carlowboy · 17-09-2005 8:07pm

Chris- Wheel of time I believe it was

Jim_Are_Great · 17-09-2005 10:06pm

Ah.

But where exactly IS the old library?

Raphael · 17-09-2005 10:44pm

Walk from spar to the canteen. It's the curved building on your right rith the blue rail and the moat of stones

Love · 19-09-2005 9:24am

crash_000 wrote:

oi! i fecking sweeped that floor!

LordCran wrote:

Cleaning up after the discos was damn annoying

I apologise to anyone who had to clear up after the disco. I was the owner of the red boa in '04. And also in '05.

Don't kill me...

LordCran · 20-09-2005 6:44pm

Oh, it was you. I was trying to remember who it was, and was failing utterly. It was my RA group that cleaned up at that disco. Thanks.
And I wouldn't remember the Hub. N00b this year, y'see. I'm sure I would have remembered it, but...

Manda5678 · 20-09-2005 7:22pm

LordCran wrote:

Oh, it was you. I was trying to remember who it was, and was failing utterly. It was my RA group that cleaned up at that disco. Thanks.
And I wouldn't remember the Hub. N00b this year, y'see. I'm sure I would have remembered it, but...

Oooh! well that makes sense, i just thought you coudln't remember the hub or something! Dont worry you would have remembered it had you been there before this year!

the evil lime · 20-09-2005 8:08pm

I too remember back in the day of canteen discos (and library discos too for that matter, when I was in the mini-ctyi).
Oddly though, the food realy does seem to improve each year (exepting the orange juice, which invariably tastes like ****[pick one]). Of course, this leads to the question, what did the food taste like in '93?
....a matter which may be too disturbing to consider.

Mr.D.Leprachaun · 20-09-2005 10:14pm

Outcast wrote:

Yeah, to give credit where credit is due the Ra's tryed pretty damn hard to sort something. And putting the tables back on the last night with people crying their eyes out was a classic moment

Certainly bloody wasn't for us who had to do it! There's me in a hurry to get some sentimental things done and I have to arrange furniture! Badly! :mad:

Crash · 21-09-2005 5:41pm

Hehehe, i sweeped that floor, then aileen slagged me over my sweeping technique, so i went on crowd control

Mr.D.Leprachaun · 21-09-2005 7:20pm

Amusing story: Disco 2 S2 '05. I was sitting down waiting for a good song to come on when I noticed a little mouse strolling across the floor. I was the only one who saw it and it seemed to find the goings on nothing out of the ordinary. Always brings a giggle to think of what havoc would have been caused if one particular girl in high-heel sandals had noticed that it was less than 3 inches from her exposed toes!

Love · 21-09-2005 8:03pm

LordCran wrote:

Oh, it was you. I was trying to remember who it was, and was failing utterly. It was my RA group that cleaned up at that disco. Thanks.

Sorry! Hub = better

halenger · 21-09-2005 10:40pm

All you youngsters are being somewhat misled or at least you don't understand.

1998 - disco was in the old restaurant (same place as the new one)
1999 - there was no restaurant so the building across from it (now CSD/Computer Services) was the restaurant and that's where the disco was
2000 - the new restaurant was there and so were the discos

It's not, nor was it, the library - in the way you're thinking of it. It may have been a study area in the past but that's somewhat different. It wasn't used to house books, to my knowledge.

LordCran · 22-09-2005 4:16pm

Well, there's proof that we should stop talking about things we only have vague ideas about. Maybe I should actually ask Kevin at some point, instead of using him as an excuse to post here...

JenLorigan · 22-09-2005 9:10pm

Kevin are cool! Tell him I say hi.

He was my TA. I don't make random people say hi to their siblings from me.)

Johnee · 24-09-2005 5:57pm

halenger wrote:

All you youngsters are being somewhat misled or at least you don't understand.

1998 - disco was in the old restaurant (same place as the new one)
1999 - there was no restaurant so the building across from it (now CSD/Computer Services) was the restaurant and that's where the disco was
2000 - the new restaurant was there and so were the discos

It's not, nor was it, the library - in the way you're thinking of it. It may have been a study area in the past but that's somewhat different. It wasn't used to house books, to my knowledge.

You see, this is the problem with you youngsters. The CSD-Computer Services building was the old library back in the days when DCU was a lot smaller, there was only the one (old) residence, there were several football pitches and the nipple-topped library was but a distant dream.

CTYI students would have used the library/CSD/'99 temporary disco building as evening study way back in the 93-97 period when it was the only library on campus. Apparently DCU students didnt need much in the way of books.

halenger · 24-09-2005 10:23pm

As I said, study area - not library in the sense of having rows of books.

No point in calling me a youngster, even though I am in with regard to some people - I was there back when there were football pitches.

Nevermind "nipple-topped" library. I remember when there was no X-Block. That was just being started when I started at CTYI.

Then again I know people who were in DCU in '89 and they'd put you and your '93 to shame.

Back in the days when there was Albert College and there was Grattan (at best).

CTYI "Back in the Day"

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