Best TA '05

LordCran

I was just wondering what people thought of their TAs. Some of them were pretty cool. I was in International History and my TA, Ciara, was pretty sound. What about the rest of you?

synge

Achaeology A, my TA Mary was awesome. She let us listen to music in study the last week and we got to tease her all the time about her and the Modern Maths TA and she didn't really deny anything.

carlowboy

Ciaran (RA session 2) was my TA in Modern Maths. The guy was a focking ledge, best TA I eevr had (sorry Jen and Derek!)

Raphael

Neil (crash_000) was the best ever. The following is why

1. Despite TAing TheoPhys, he knew NOTHING about physics. He's a CS student.

2. He played Quake on the data projector.

3. The netsend episode. Everyone got a netsend message saying "hahaha". His response to this was tog et up and warn anyone against using netsend. We investigated the message....turns out it was from his computer.

Yanniscaus

I agree with raphael, neil was legend. hehe, just thinking of the studies, we pissed him off so much with extremely immature sexual references to bassically anything said..*high five*

Flashling

Kerrie, the philosophy TA. Not only is she great (let me hold study one time and abuse my authorit-ay, lent me smutty greek comedies, had cool shoes etc.) but she WENT TO MY SCHOOL! (Which has produced many ctyizens, like me, larry, eoin silke, david whYte, alison walsh, debbie, (who got the rock birthday serenade in s1) sadbh...her....ohh,ohh, and mystic fibrosis and his..group of people who I can't name!)

Liquorice

Julius Caesar/Julian. He spent most of the time in class asleep and didn't care what we were doing in study once our work was half-finished. That said, playing Quake on a projector is quite mention-worthy.

Silky and Larry are High School people? Kerazy.

Outcast

Andrew the journalism TA was Tom Cruise. How much cooller can ya get?

He also played badminton

carlowboy

Neil told me he was going to be computer apps TA. Weird

Jim_Are_Great

Kevin Tracey (Psychology A TA). He wins. He just does, sorry everybody else.

1.He played a game involving launching wheeled shoes off a ramp at our textbooks with Barry the RA during study once.

2. He stole a certificate off a mini-CTYIer.

3. He knew infinately more about Psychology than our instructor ("Is that right, Kevin?" was the instructor's catchphrase) and he knew it.

4. He genuinely likes Fleetwood Mac. That's good enough reason for anyone to be a legend in my book.

5. ... I'll think of some more later.

Can I get an AMEN from anyone else in Psych A?

Shiney

AMEN!

he also said that'd he didnt want to become an RA because he wouldn't be able to drink

using the words of Darren Ward:
KEVIN IS A LEGEND!!!!

Raphael

Kevin was cool, he let me steal Jen

Lizzie

WE LOVE CLAIRE*!!!
yay! as well as being an ex-student she was really cool, had some excellent quotes, and sometimes let us play cards.




*see, i can spell it!!!

Jade Chihuahua

She always waited until she thought I wasnt looking to act freaked out.... IM ALWAYS WATCHING CLAIRE, YOURE NEVER SAFE!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

LiamD

Everyone is just gonna say their TA was best so may as well have my two cents.

Gillian McNally, legal studies TA was really cool and a great TA to have.Such a nice girl, shame she never hooked up with Soren though.

RefulgentGnomon

Andrew the journalism TA was Tom Cruise. How much cooller can ya get?

He also played badminton

He was TA for Corporate Business (Session 2) as well. He was really sound and next year will be editor of the Trinity News (TCD newspaper).

claire h

Jade Chihuahua wrote:

She always waited until she thought I wasnt looking to act freaked out.... IM ALWAYS WATCHING CLAIRE, YOURE NEVER SAFE!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my god, there's a pirate at my window! Muttering "click!" to himself!

lemon_sherbert

Jun (Chinese TA) was pretty cool, though she spent the first 2 weeks laughing at our pronunciation, and noone ever seemed to able to pronounce her name right.
Including the instructor...who had the same name.

T.J.

AMEN

Kevin wasn't a legend, he was THE legend

PurpleFistMixer

Jim_Are_Great wrote:

1.He played a game involving launching wheeled shoes off a ramp at our textbooks with Barry the RA during study once.

Evidence(360k). (I think this was filmed by Donncha)

So he was great.

And he let me copy his abstract for an essay we had to write.

Outcast

RefulgentGnomon wrote:

He was TA for Corporate Business (Session 2) as well. He was really sound and next year will be editor of the Trinity News (TCD newspaper).

I know. He was always lying to our instructor about why none of us had work done. He was so much smarter than her she got really pissed about it.

guX

AMEN! Go Kevin! He let us steal Sean Nangle from Psychology B and we got to keep him!

Spraypaint

guX wrote:

AMEN! Go Kevin! He let us steal Sean Nangle from Psychology B and we got to keep him!

Bah! Kerrie from Psychology B was much cooler. She was an absloute legend.
She let us away with doing nothing in study and covered for us when the instructor asked why we had nothing to show for two hours of "study". She was always game for a laugh. She couldn't get angry even if she wanted to. She made and helped make countless innuendos and finally if anyone is familiar with the chair spinning incident, they'll know why Kerrie is the coolest TA ever. The video of said incident is still on Dearbhla Kelly's phone.

P.S. We got Seán back as soon as he got hungry.

Undergod

lemon_sherbert wrote:

Jun (Chinese TA) was pretty cool, though she spent the first 2 weeks laughing at our pronunciation, and noone ever seemed to able to pronounce her name right.
Including the instructor...who had the same name.

Much hillarity ensued.

doonothing

claire was cool, as was andrew! such nice people...
anyone remember luke? both sessions 03... so cool, showed us family guy for study! what a ledge

Jack Lynch

LordCran, did you just start this so people would praise your brother?

Last year, i had Eilish Burke as TA in Psychology. On the last day, she made us all medals with the Tower Of Hanoi drawn on them and then we had a private graduation.

However, the year before i had Roderic. Nuff said

Crash

Hahah oh i bet Kevin put him up to it - remind me to rip the piss out of him for that :P

LordCran

Yes, it's true, he made me do it. His fiendish plan seems to have succeeded, and you'll never catch me! Mwahaha! (pulls handle, wall slides across to reveal an opening barely big enough for a fly) Dammit! Anyway, he's checking this regularly, so be sure to have a crack at him, just to piss him off. And now, if you'll excuse me, I have a back-up trapdoor. (pushes button, falls through hole in floor).

Really big AMEN!!

kevin rocked the kasbah

TheCat

Further reasons why Kevin was the best TA:

1) He was, in the wise words of Niamh, a legend
2) He joined us in mocking 'study'
3) He had a sexy pen (also stolen)
4) He remembered my hat when signing my book
5) He helped us create THE bathtub of the future

Viva Kevin!

Crash

Bah, i also had a sexy pen. we found em at the same time - and in fact my degree from CTYI is in "Rockets, Bangs and Explosions + Irish Myths and legends" :P

Undergod

Jack Lynch wrote:

Last year, i had Eilish Burke as TA in Psychology. On the last day, she made us all medals with the Tower Of Hanoi drawn on them and then we had a private graduation.

I got the purple ribbon!

Jack Lynch

Mine was blue. God, i miss that Tower. I still hold the record, despite there being to Psy classes in Session 2 this year

Spraypaint

Jack Lynch wrote:

Mine was blue. God, i miss that Tower. I still hold the record, despite there being to Psy classes in Session 2 this year

The closest anyone in Psychology this year came to Kevin Conlon's immortal record was Howard who was still 6 seconds shy of Kevin's time. As I recall, Kevin put him to shame while we were conducting our experiment(using THE tower) and he walked by and just nonchalantly did it in 11 seconds. By the end the entire of Psychology B could do it in 31 moves but the time will never be beaten.

Shiney

Jim_Are_Great wrote:

Kevin Tracey (Psychology A TA). He wins. He just does, sorry everybody else.

1.He played a game involving launching wheeled shoes off a ramp at our textbooks with Barry the RA during study once.

2. He stole a certificate off a mini-CTYIer.

Here is Kevin and Barry the RA playing during study
(i forgot the flash)

http://community.webshots.com/myphotos?action=showPhoto&albumID=413167897&photoID=413319522&security=AqThEz

Here is the psychology A TA with cert for Chemistry & Drama he stole (which was later stolen off him)

http://community.webshots.com/myphotos?action=showPhoto&albumID=413167897&photoID=413316671&security=atwNdE

Crash

Spraypaint wrote:

The closest anyone in Psychology this year came to Kevin Conlon's immortal record was Howard who was still 6 seconds shy of Kevin's time. As I recall, Kevin put him to shame while we were conducting our experiment(using THE tower) and he walked by and just nonchalantly did it in 11 seconds. By the end the entire of Psychology B could do it in 31 moves but the time will never be beaten.

31 moves is the minimum. it cant mathematically be done in less.

Liquorice

Jack Lynch wrote:

However, the year before i had Roderic. Nuff said

They've weleased Wodewick, I was very disappointed. Seemingly he's writing up the official Green Party views on same-sex marriage, only he hasn't been told what they are yet..

Raphael

Same sex mawwiage you say?

Spraypaint

TheCat wrote:

Further reasons why Kevin was the best TA:

1) He was, in the wise words of Niamh, a legend
2) He joined us in mocking 'study'
3) He had a sexy pen (also stolen)
4) He remembered my hat when signing my book
5) He helped us create THE bathtub of the future

Viva Kevin!

If Kevin was so great, why couldn't he get his class to win a single debate?
They participated in and lost 2 on the bounce to Psychology B who had a much better TA.
(Yeah, he went there!)

PurpleFistMixer

We would have won if they'd let us do it in barbershop, damnit!

Crash

I had both Gwen and kevin giving out to me for suggestion a "king of the losers" debate between both classes

[Core]

In '05 psych the instructor consistently called Kevin "Steven" for at least 2 weeks. We'd all arrive up at study 5 minutes early to write "HI STEVIE" up on the board.
He was great though, he let us wage war on Jap Language and Studies, which was brilliant because the TA, and then the Instructor, came in raging at us and looking for ... me. Long story.

Jarge!!!

I'm disappointed that no one from Drama s1 or Archaeology s2 has mentioned Andrea yet. I can't speak for archaeology, but in Drama she joined in everything willingly and even participated in our end of session thing with a big smile on her face despite the fact that we took the mickey out of her at every possible opportunity and did nothing whatsoever in study.

I think I need say no more than 'scene change' and everyone who's anyone will know what I'm talking about...

Jack Lynch

In IH, Ciara used to let us do quizzes in study. Of course, they crashed and burned. We also had Beatles singalongs

Fabulo

Jarge!!! wrote:

I'm disappointed that no one from Drama s1 or Archaeology s2 has mentioned Andrea yet. I can't speak for archaeology, but in Drama she joined in everything willingly and even participated in our end of session thing with a big smile on her face despite the fact that we took the mickey out of her at every possible opportunity and did nothing whatsoever in study.

I think I need say no more than 'scene change' and everyone who's anyone will know what I'm talking about...

Heh. She texted me to complain that she hadn't been mentioned yet :P But no, she rocks unbelievably, I've had her for two years now, IH last year and Archaeology this year. Despite the fact she actually made us work this year *shakes fist* we had so much fun. Her anal retentiveness, her unfailing ability to find and latch onto the biggest staff homosexual and her raging alcoholism...

Hehe, we love you, Andrea! Suzy, especially. In fact she wanted me to pass on this message: "I had such a great time on the last day, maybe we could hook up again and go for some coffee or something... Call me!" Heh, that's a lie.

But yeah, she has an excellent sense of dress, an excellent sense of humour and is really really REALLY pretty.

Raphael

Woooo, Silkys got a girlfriend, Silkys got a girlfriend

TalkISCheap

ahhh, the maturity...

Fabulo

Yup. 'S all about the women with me.

...wait a minute...

Piste

I distinctly remember you saying back in January '2005's gonna be aaaaaaaall about the women ' I think you gave up on that a few minutes later though

Fabulo

Well, I'm sorry, but they have really useless dangly bits... Oh wait, so do men. :S

Jim_Are_Great

Fabulo wrote:

Well, I'm sorry, but they have really useless dangly bits... Oh wait, so do men. :S

They could hardly be described as useless...