Campus or private Accommodation

Beno

I got the offer that i was not expecting so it looks like i am goin to ucd.
Campus or private which is more fun expensive and which is more recomended to a first year student like myself

zap

ok campus accom is being judged by how far from your door to ucd you are so in wexford you have a chance but you will be behind people from cork limerick galway etc, private accom if ya can get it fair play to ya i have been looking for weeks, what course ya get?

Beno

mechanical engineering

rainer

I'v got an on-campus accom, since I'm a chinese and my door is sure much further from UCD than all yours, LOL

rainer

How's the on-campus accom anyway, has anybody here actually lived there be4?

Beno

i've just moved to new zealand

Vainglory

I was on scholarship in first year and so I had the option of on-campus accommodation if I wanted it but I turned it down...I don't fancy being spied on by RA's all the time, no overnight guests, no parties, becoming completely institutionalised in Belfield and never leaving the bloody place

Vainglory

But FYI anyway....


FIRST YEAR STUDENTS

The accommodation office will accept applications from First Year Students from 1st August 2005 up to 26 August 2005. The accommodation will be allocated on a door-to-door commuting time from home to UCD on public transport, preference will be given to candidates with longest traveling time.

Applications will not be accepted after 5pm on Friday 26th August 2005.

Written applications to Include: Name and Address of Applicant
C.A.O. Number
Deposit of €350.00 (Cheque or Postal Order)
Passport Photograph
Telephone Number

panda100

I lived in roebuck in 1st year and belgrove in 3rd year!on campus is the best-you meet loadsa people and end up having a great laugh!the ra's are only final year students so they dont impose any rules or regulations really cept if a party is really out of control and loud!As for the rule no overnight guests thats only imposed on the night of the freshers ball and we used to have guests staying all the time.

zap

no parties and no over night guests they just say that there is usually no problems

Ruskie4Rent

What are the chances of someone from Leixlip, Kildare getting accommodation.

Julesie

pretty low i'd say.... ive commuted from leixlip for the last three years and havent come close to getting on campus. its not too bad if you use the 66x's cuts the travelling quite a lot.

zap

it's probably clost to between 0 and zero.

zap

it's probably close to between zero and none

Ruskie4Rent

Ah balls! So its gonna take me about 90mins coming and going? Thats what I'm told anyway.

zap

find a place in dub

Attol

Are there many parties in the on campus accom? How can you fit overnight guests in the rooms anyway? The pictures I've seen make em look tiny.

The door to door commuting time being the deciding factor is a bit ridiculous in my opinion. As someone pointed out before after a point it just gets ridiculous. Whether you're from Galway or from another country it'll be just as impossible for you to make the trip each day.

Scraggs

when do we find out if we've gotten a place or not??

rainer

Scraggs wrote:

when do we find out if we've gotten a place or not??

You would recieve a letter acknowledging you that you hav been allocated a room, along with the contract and things.

Scraggs

but do ya know when? they're stopping accepting applicants on friday do we find out mon kinda thing

zap

for having over night guest, depending on who it is, they can sare your room/bed or in the sitting room. Last year applications closed on Friday was decided on Saturday and I received my rejection letter in the post on the Wednesday.

LadyLotts there is a bit over 1,800 and I understand your point about after a point it is impossible to travel everyday but the problem is establishing where exactly that point is.

rainer

Scraggs wrote:

but do ya know when? they're stopping accepting applicants on friday do we find out mon kinda thing

I really don know then. I hav received a letter last week and it does say that this friday is a deadline. So I s'pose in the case you'v receive no letter, it's either you failed or the post's gone missing(never trust post...). I'd suggest that you call and query about that.

Blush_01

The offers will be out next wednesday or so.

To be honest, I think the door-to-door thing is a much better idea than what they've been doing for the past few years. I'm from Tipperary, so I hoped I'd get a place in first year, but didn't. However, I knew people who lived in Ranelagh who got campus. Hardly fair, when they could have just walked, never mind messing with trains and buses. Campus isn't exactly cheap either.

I like being the boss. Hence private accommodation all the way.

Megg

just applied for pon campus, i'm gonna be first year arts.. I'm from cork, so hopeful.. is it usually a big problem having overnight guests?

Pythia

Is it not totally random who gets campus accomm?
My friend got it last year and she lives on the number 10 bus route. Another got it and she lives in Rathgar.

pretty*monster

LadyLotts wrote:

Are there many parties in the on campus accom? How can you fit overnight guests in the rooms anyway? The pictures I've seen make em look tiny.

Being from Dublin I live at home but I've crashed in Belfield many a time, there's plenty of space so long as your drunk enough not to mind the discomfort. Couches, charis, floor, amd we set a camp bed once.

As for parties, so long as you keep the noise down RAs don't mind, though I was at a party after the SU elections last march that got broken up alegedly because the other students in the appartment complianed.

On campus you have the benefit of convinence, but off campus seems to be pretty cool if you can get it.

zap

ah yes I remember that party after the su elections.

Vainglory

zap wrote:

ah yes I remember that party after the su elections.

I think I heard about that party after the SU elections..

dirtydress

I lived on campus last year and we were a hell house for the admin office. We were put on a ban twice during the year for making noise. It was kinda crap that we couldnt freely have parties and such but that was only down to the completely anal girls living upstairs. Having people over is NEVER a problem. We were a little cautious since we had the ban on (as in everyone banned from our house at any time for a period of time) but we still did it. RAs never check the apartments and if they did they're not allowed to check the rooms themselves unless they have good reason (how do you justify going into a young girls room??) The apartments are...well crap to be honest. I lived in Merville and the apartment was so dirty when we moved in, there were stains and the walls were grey. So if you're looking for a nice place then campus isnt for you. On the other hand you have you're own room and its near to college which is great for first year. If youb don't know dublin I'd say go for it, you meet so many new people and there are great parties around campus.

Attol

Are the on campus apartments mixed? I've been wondering about it all day.

Vainglory

LadyLotts wrote:

Are the on campus apartments mixed? I've been wondering about it all day.

Not generally, they are in the Teach Gaeilge though...some of them at least.

irlrobins

LadyLotts wrote:

How can you fit overnight guests in the rooms anyway?

well most times u have an overnight guest u want them right beside u.... or on top..... ;-) so its not a prob...

RA's don't care about over night guests. Only if party gets out of hand (hint: keep windows and doors closed to keep noise in) or if part goers are vanalising stuff etc. Most partys are left alone.

Never p1ss off an RA. Payback's a b1tch...

Scraggs

any posters here get campus accomm?? supposedly [accordin to v friendly lady in the accomm office] nobody in the leinster area got in unless they had a scholarship, new-era or some disability.
I think that its shocking! I understand that it may be somewhat fairer to judge who gets in from housedoor to UCD but like it would take me 3hrs to get there! Nobody i know got in this year whereas last yr all my mates that applied got it!
[maybe i'm just bitter though coz i really really wanted it!]

Clive

All you have to do is give a bottle of whiskey to Mr. N (if he's still around) and Bob's your Uncle, you're on Res!

upmeath

so that means a very very few privileged leinster folk will be sharing with half of connacht, ulster, munster and china? guess who got a scholarship folks... does that mean we get preference?

Kate_17

We do indeed get preference, it will say on the back of the scholarship info you got. My mum rang up to enquire about the accommodation and the "presidential scholars" are on a separate list. They told her not all people from Donegal who applied got places, so I'm glad I've got it as opposed to looking for a flat.

How U Like That

I will hopefully be going to UCD next year and I was just wondering when I should apply for accomodation on campus? or do you only apply after you have been offered a course?

Red Alert

I stayed over in Merville and Belgrove a few times. Never even saw an RA.

LovelyHurling

I miss Mervie. Hopefully back in final year.

Belgroves a tip... Roebucks a tip, merv is a tip, best fun i had in my life, though! Lucky fcukin freshers...........

zap

How U Like That wrote:

I will hopefully be going to UCD next year and I was just wondering when I should apply for accomodation on campus? or do you only apply after you have been offered a course?

you apply after you get offered a place however, if you live within 70 miles of Dublin you haven't a chance.

How U Like That

ok, cheers for that "zap".

tintinr35

zap wrote:

you apply after you get offered a place however, if you live within 70 miles of Dublin you haven't a chance.

i dont know about that, 4 of my friends are all within 70 miles of campus and they are all livin ere
ive lived on campus for the last 2 years(merville) this is my third year(belgrove), its great in first year to get to know ppl etc but im not too happy about this first year and final year mix business, i have ended up with 2 first years in belgrove, quite annoying really but i dont spend much time ere so its not too bad i guess!!
as long as u are nice to the ra'a they will not bother u, as was said before u dont want to ge on their bad side because payback is a bitch!!
a friend of my sisters when i was in first year was an RA in merville and i remember her telling me that the "Random" selection thing was all the ra's and the 2 head ppl in the acom office sitting around a table and picking out the application forms with the photots of the ppl they liked!!