UCD vs. TCD - which is best?

Gwyllin

Are there any negative and positive differences between Trinity and UCD?
Which is best and why?

slumped

Well, where do you start.

UCD is a concrete jungle. Trinity although in the city has class and history.

TCD lecturers in some subjects have great reputation but can be seen as a bit snobby.

UCD is OK but for reputation TCD is better.

TCD was voted into the top 20 universities list in Europe recently, UCD not featured.

Oh yeah, I am a trinners graduate. Tally ho boys!
S

arbeitsscheuer

*Yawn*

I'm not commenting on this thread except to say that it is pointless.
Can't we just say that one has good points and bad, and the other has different good points and different bad?

This is an argument that has been brought up time and again, and never with any conclusive answers.

Pointless.

slumped

I assume you didnt go to either and that is why you are a bum?

Mr.Nice Guy

UCD is better.

larryone

depends on what you're looking for. For any sciences with the exception of physics UCD is great. Trinity have a better physics dept. UCD seem to have better departments (or "schools") for other sciences.

wait - what exactly is the motivation for your question? If it is simply a "who's better" without qualifying it in any way, then I'd agree with seb and say the question is pointless.
If you're looking for a comparison of particular aspects of the uni, ask for that...
you specify, we testify.

Jonny Arson

I don't think anyone here could be really in a position to say what's good/bad about Trinity but here's my 2 cents on UCD........

It sucks.......... concrete, sub-standard services, expensive, utterly huge campus, full of unfriendly people........ blah, blah, blah...... I could go on all day long.

This post can be applied to any college.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=263824

Jonny Arson

Myth wrote:

This post can be applied to any college.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=263824

I came to UCD intending to have the time of my life, meet loads of people, make life-long friends, to party all the time and to get pissed every day. Did I ever do or achieve any of this? No. So that theory is out the window.

boneless

slumped wrote:

I assume you didnt go to either and that is why you are a bum?

A very uninformed and derogatory statement... only reinforces my belief that snobbery is very much alive and well in TCD.

snorlax

lol were not all that bad. there's snobby people everywhere you turn, i don;'t think its university specific.

as someone else pointed out there's good and bad things about both uni's, it depends what exactly your looking for in a college and what course you want to do.

Zane from MTV2

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

I came to UCD intending to have the time of my life, meet loads of people, make life-long friends, to party all the time and to get pissed every day. Did I ever do or achieve any of this? No. So that theory is out the window.

I was kinda aiming at the summary

Other colleges contain people who party hard. DCU contains people who party hard.

But point taken.

pretty*monster

I am endlessly grateful that I didn't get the points to go to tcd and ended up in ucd, I had the best year of my life last year, met great people, got to know a fair few sound lecturers, drank ridiculous amount and generally had a whale of a time (and managed to pass all my exams).

From what I know of tcd (from people who do similar subjects there) I wouldn't have had as good a time there. But that's nothing but a personal preference on my part.

Personally, the grey concrete doesn't bother me at all, but from the complaints I guess that I'm in a minority, Ucd has some pretty spots, lake 2, the view from the library over lake 1, the patch of grass between the arts block and the restaurant, the little gravel garden yoke outside the admin building. It's probably not as pretty as trinity but, whatever like.

Unless you want to ask a more specific question I don't think anyone's going to be able to be of much help to you. whether or not you 'mesh' with the college really comes down to personality and whether or not you're willing to make the effort to have a good time/

Blush_01

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

I came to UCD intending to have the time of my life, meet loads of people, make life-long friends, to party all the time and to get pissed every day. Did I ever do or achieve any of this? No. So that theory is out the window.

Zane, I think you're a bit biased there. I'm biased too, but I love UCD. I rarely leave the Arts block on a normal day before the alarm sounds, because there's just so much to get involved in. If you want to have a good time in UCD, YOU have to find it, it won't just walk up to you and bite you on the ass while you're looking in the opposite direction. You have to get involved in societies like Dramsoc, Jugglesoc, ELS... or clubs like th Dive club, Surf club, the lists go on. I've only named those because they're the first ones that come to mind, but they're only a fragment of what's out there - you can get involved in whatever floats your particular vehicle of choice, be it water or land based. If you have a crap time it's up to you to change it. Keep that in mind. Get involved in Arts Day. If student apathy didn't abound to the degree that it does it'd be a brilliant day out - but everyone slates it as being crap because it doesn't go to their homes and drag them out of bed.

OP - it depends on your course. I chose UCD by fluke - but I wouldn't choose anywhere else if I had the choice now.

Jonny Arson

Blush_01 wrote:

Zane, I think you're a bit biased there. I'm biased too, but I love UCD. I rarely leave the Arts block on a normal day before the alarm sounds, because there's just so much to get involved in. If you want to have a good time in UCD, YOU have to find it, it won't just walk up to you and bite you on the ass while you're looking in the opposite direction. You have to get involved in societies like Dramsoc, Jugglesoc, ELS... or clubs like th Dive club, Surf club, the lists go on. I've only named those because they're the first ones that come to mind, but they're only a fragment of what's out there - you can get involved in whatever floats your particular vehicle of choice, be it water or land based. If you have a crap time it's up to you to change it. Keep that in mind. Get involved in Arts Day. If student apathy didn't abound to the degree that it does it'd be a brilliant day out - but everyone slates it as being crap because it doesn't go to their homes and drag them out of bed.

OP - it depends on your course. I chose UCD by fluke - but I wouldn't choose anywhere else if I had the choice now.

I'll be the 1st person to admit I shoulda joined more clubs socs (joined 6 socs, all crap/ 2 clubs, 1 rubbish other good fun but people weren't my kind)BUT if you broke your balls as hard as I did to make friends and be friendly to people in my course you'd be as much f**ked off as I am with this college.

jellie

this AGAIN? so old..

Jonny Arson

sar84 wrote:

this AGAIN? so old..

It's called flow of conversation. :rolleyes:

Actually there is something I like about UCD................er 2nd thoughts there isn't..... bah

Blush_01

Oh come off it Zane. I came to college knowing nobody. I'm from Tipperary. I'd never even stayed overnight in Dublin before. I knew nothing about the place, nothing about the college, and I definitely didn't have any friends with me to hold my hand. I was shaking so much when I talked to the first person I had a conversation with in college that he confessed later to thinking I had a nervous twitch. It's about forcing yourself on regardless. So you made no friends this year. So what? Give it another go, and another. I had a bit of an up-in-the-air year in first year, but second year was so much better because I really really got to know people after all the oddities in first year. You get knocked down, but you get up again. Chumbawumba had something. College is life with safety nets. It's not secondary school anymore!

I'll be your friend!

arbeitsscheuer

sar84 wrote:

this AGAIN? so old..

That's EXACTLY what I said. Scroll up, I pointed out how seriously "done" this topic has been, and nobody takes the blindest bit of notice and fires away with all their misconceptions, false anecdotes and entirely personal experiences that they have posted on just this subject countless times before.

Sheesh, give it a rest, ppl.

Jonny Arson

Blush_01 wrote:

Oh come off it Zane. I came to college knowing nobody. I'm from Tipperary. I'd never even stayed overnight in Dublin before. I knew nothing about the place, nothing about the college, and I definitely didn't have any friends with me to hold my hand. I was shaking so much when I talked to the first person I had a conversation with in college that he confessed later to thinking I had a nervous twitch. It's about forcing yourself on regardless.

and what have I been saying all along? :rolleyes:

Blush_01 wrote:

So you made no friends this year. So what? Give it another go, and another. I had a bit of an up-in-the-air year in first year, but second year was so much better because I really really got to know people after all the oddities in first year. You get knocked down, but you get up again. Chumbawumba had something. College is life with safety nets. It's not secondary school anymore!

I'll be your friend!

The funny thing is I'm gonna fail my exams at the mo' so there won't be a 2nd year!

Anyone know what the societies in McDonalds are like?

Here no one please mention me and my love/hate/hate/hate/hate/hate relationship with this college again...... it's not doing my fragile health any good at all!

Jonny Arson

SebtheBum wrote:

That's EXACTLY what I said. Scroll up, I pointed out how seriously "done" this topic has been, and nobody takes the blindest bit of notice and fires away with all their misconceptions, false anecdotes and entirely personal experiences that they have posted on just this subject countless times before.

Sheesh, give it a rest, ppl.

You're in a quite moany old mood today aren't ya Sebastian!

Best of luck with exam tomorrow!

arbeitsscheuer

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

You're in a quite moany old mood today aren't ya Sebastian!

Best of luck with exam tomorrow!

Tomorrow?

TOMORROW?!??!

Oh sweet mother of almighty F**K!!!!!

AngelofFire

This thread is moronic, they are both the same, they`re both universitys they have nearly the same courses, and there are as many tossers in UCD as there is in trinity.

Blush_01

I'm sensing that it might be time for a group hug!

Bring on the big breasted women!

Pod 78

Having studied and worked at both the cobbled yaw yaw land of Trinners and the industralised Roadstone campus. Currently working in the land of concrete. Conclusion, competition is good. How else would academic standards/research, heighten, expand and explore.

Difference is good= choice for everyone for students and staff.

However, after a difficult day at Roadstone I'd happily bring the bulldozers in- fairly frustrating backward place to work at times. Students are great and hightly appreciative- never to hardly ever a thanks from colleagues though.

There ye go bad day for concrete shuttering!

Blush_01

The smell at the entrance to the trap for the past few months has been pretty foul too... maybe it had something to do with the tsunami?

Kevin_er_ei

ucd have much, much better non-academic facilities. in some ways. they've nothing that can beat the pav.

Blush_01

It's like two sides of a coin. There's something different on both sides, but without each side the coin would be pointless. It's all good. Not as good as wine, but hey, you have to roll with the punches!

Mr.Nice Guy

Kevin_er_ei wrote:

ucd have much, much better non-academic facilities. in some ways. they've nothing that can beat the pav.

Ah but the Pav isn't on Trinity's campus is it, whereas we have..well we've only 2 bars now since the sports bar closed, right?

ozt9vdujny3srf

Uhuh..