fresher's week?

regi

Howdy all,

What date does fresher's week start this year?

Might join some socs this year...

snorlax

it starts Monday the 3rd of October, and lectures start on the 10th:)

the societies http://www.csc.tcd.ie/
the sports body http://www.tcd.ie/Clubs/DUCAC/index.php

Boston

If I see yea, I'm going ot force yea to join gamers.

DrIndy

Regi wrote:

Howdy all,

What date does fresher's week start this year?

Might join some socs this year...

You a trinner?

Join Sci-Fi. Gamers is OK, some other societies might catch your eye. Phil and Hist have some good debates and famous people if you are interested (going to see one is worth the membership fee), otherwise avoid, avoid, avoid......

Don't worry too much about joining all and sundry, as you can take out membership later on in the year if you want.

regi

I paid my dues for gamers long, long ago. Happy memories of being in 4.4.1, playing mtg and smoking cigarettes

Ron DMC

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JOIN AN CUMANN GAELACH

Best. Soc. Ever.

snorlax

you should also try paintball soc, they're great fun, and the film makers show a free film every thursday in the hist's room in the GMB

John

DURNS. We are better then all (written evidence currently being "researched")

Chardee MacDennis

you wanna be joining SciFi for various reasons to be listed during freshers week...

fade

LiouVille wrote:

If I see yea, I'm going ot force yea to join gamers.

i hope you arent that annoying bastard that wouldnt let me pass the gamers stand unless i coughed up 2 euro, my blood still boils at the thought.


and anyway, forget about all of the above, you only need one club, and that club is the Dublin University Surfing and Bodyboarding Club.

air_vent

Heres one for you DONT JOIN anything just turn up at the parties and feast and leave!!!!!!!!!

There better not be an iron stomach in freshers week !!!!!!!!! BEst left for rag week that is!

Nietzschean

fade wrote:

and anyway, forget about all of the above, you only need one club, and that club is the Dublin University Surfing and Bodyboarding Club.

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fade

Serenity wrote:

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what a lovely touch seren, i couldnt have done it better myself

i wonder if penelope dave and frank the tank are alive over in Bali? i kinda hope frank got the clap, which i pointed out to him on numerous occassions. and as for penelope dave, well dick dastardly has other plans for him...

DrIndy

Serenity wrote:

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A very good point.

Chardee MacDennis

DrIndy wrote:

A very good point.

poor joke alert

nosmo

I heard something about the hist giving out candy floss and 3000 free condoms. I'm so there.

what, I'm a sucker for sugar.

cuckoo

mmmmm, free stuff.

snorlax

join the student union Nosmo, i could have gotten a whole box of them last year during freshers week!;)

Crash

you could've created some sort of condom fort. :P

snorlax

does anyone remember the guy running around with a flag giving out stawberry flavoured ones? cant remember what society it was...

punka

snorlax wrote:

does anyone remember the guy running around with a flag giving out stawberry flavoured ones? cant remember what society it was...

The Assorted Berry Picking Society. (Or maybe it's a club.....) They got derecognised after the Great Gooseberry Incident of '05.

snorlax

ohh i thought it was the Phil or something..

what exactly does the Berry Picking society do?it sounds abit dodge anyhow..

Frankiestylee

Durns

the_rook

capeoira or yoga. both have hot chicks.

Zukustious

Looking forward to a couple of these. If they give out as much condoms as they seem to, I might just try to make that fort. Wow that'd deadly.

Frankiestylee

Make sure you make the door to the fort out of those extra thick safety condoms.... cause the door is the first place attackers will go for

evilbert

I can't believe nobody has mentioned the Card Soc. it's all the rage over on the tcdsu website... quite the society apparently.

wayfarer

Where abouts?

Maybe it's coz the guy who ran the soc last year, turned it around from about 16 members to a couple of hundred, is the Ents Officer this year. Could he be abusing his powers?!

regi

Do they play poker in the card soc?

evilbert

evilbert wrote:

I can't believe nobody has mentioned the Card Soc. it's all the rage over on the tcdsu website... quite the society apparently.

Shameless.

snorlax

Myth wer'e you in the admissions office this afternoon cos i think i might have spotted you.
do you have glasses/ drak hair/ kinda tall? i was working on the photocopiers there

snorlax

snorlax wrote:

Myth wer'e you in the admissions office this afternoon cos i think i might have spotted you.
do you have glasses/ drak hair/ kinda tall? i was working on the photocopiers there

Well if you saw a walking mullet, that was me! I was in a bit of a rush actually, would have said hello when I left but you were gone and your friend was there by herself...

snorlax

so you saw me! we had to photocopy 250 booklets about a hep b vacine(30,000 pages in all), as a box from the printers went missing. i was probably marching over to Foster's place with a box of them when you came back down (and probably watching the wedding that was going on at the same time;)!).

supprised you weren't sunbathing today! it was 18 degress celcius at 4 pm today.

Crash

Donal turns out i know a mate of yours - suda? dunno how to spell his name actually :P

ApeXaviour

Regi wrote:

Do they play poker in the card soc?

Nothing but..

thegloriousend

All these societies sounds horrendous. TCD really has an uncool image - thats why I am going to form the Kewl society, and make trinners winners.
I'm goin to form a gang to squash out all you computer nerds and Star Trek fans.

air_vent

thegloriousend wrote:

All these societies sounds horrendous. TCD really has an uncool image - thats why I am going to form the Kewl society, and make trinners winners.
I'm goin to form a gang to squash out all you computer nerds and Star Trek fans.

Here here down with all the plastic sword wielding shennaggins during freshers week, although it is like watching car crash tv sometimes which is always great to watch!!!!

wheresthebeef

snorlax wrote:

so you saw me! we had to photocopy 250 booklets about a hep b vacine(30,000 pages in all), as a box from the printers went missing. i was probably marching over to Foster's place with a box of them when you came back down (and probably watching the wedding that was going on at the same time;)!).

supprised you weren't sunbathing today! it was 18 degress celcius at 4 pm today.

Were those HepB booklets for the student nurses by any chance????

snorlax

yep- the nurses, the ots, the meds, physios, rts, everyone except pharmacy. btw speech therapy has been moved into the arts faculty but they get them too.

there's about 12 pages in it altogether about injections your suppossed to get.

regi

Does every thread get hijacked in this forum?

Zukustious

Other than joining societies what exactly do you do for freshers week? It's a whole week like.

Crash

Drink.

Time Magazine

Freshers scurry to make friends for the rest of their life in the 5 days. There's always events to suit your tastes. I remember last year the Hist had a massive night out, DURNS room was open nearly 24/7, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have the annual Treaty Debate, Labour had Pat Rabbitte in etc etc. All the societies try rope you in during the night time.

Try make friends in Freshers' week - just talk to people if you can. And bring some money to join societies. I know I joined more than 20, and only really made use of about 5; but I hadn't put all my eggs in one basket and hung around my favourite ones. I'm into politics and I know I spent most of the week arguing with each of the parties and joined the one with the people I got on with the best.

cuckoo

There's lots of events on throughout the week, and stuff in the evening as well.

The classic freshers week involves meeting ppl that are doing your course, being so thankful to have met ppl who are on your course that you hang around with them, then by the Friday of Freshers Week you realise you have nothing in common with these ppl beyond your course, and in fact you really don't like them at all. You then spend the next 4 years avoiding them.

It's also known as 'f**k a fresher week' by the returning students, all those people sitting on society stands and running events, well, a lot of them are there to check out the new blood. Remember, the SU shop sells cost price condoms and they're usually given out on the SU stand throughout the week.

Crash

Obligatory Fresher

why do you think i'm returning in time for freshers week?

Ron DMC

Regi wrote:

Does every thread get hijacked in this forum?

In a word.... yes

Boston

evilbert wrote:

I can't believe nobody has mentioned the Card Soc. it's all the rage over on the tcdsu website... quite the society apparently.

I remember when we tried to take over that society, remember thsoe engineers. In the end I vote for you, cause that engineer guy was a ****.

LiouVille

LiouVille wrote:

I remember when we tried to take over that society, remember thsoe engineers. In the end I vote for you, cause that engineer guy was a ****.

Oddly enough, I was there at the coup too.

snorlax wrote:

Myth wer'e you in the admissions office this afternoon cos i think i might have spotted you. do you have glasses/ drak hair/ kinda tall?

Mwah hah hah! Yes! Go on the kinda tallness. In your face neil, I don't care if you do slouch and are marginally taller then me.

Boston

Myth wrote:

Oddly enough, I was there at the coup too.

Seriously didn't your man (mems student or something) just come off as an arsewhole of a guy.

Crash

I've also got a bigger penis Donal.

PHB

Freshers week is ****ing fantastic.

Things you should do!
Get every single piece of free drink you can
Join all the big societies, Hist/Phil/Players/Dubes/Law(if you're a lawyer or have lawyer friends)/

Also if you're looking to score, the hottest people are always in the Jazz soc, who have incredibly good looking guys, and Surf club, who has incredibly good looking girls.
Law class is where most really hot girls end up, not BESS anymore, so if you're trying to score, go to the Law Soc events.

Make sure you go on all the nights out if you can. If you can't, defo do something on monday night, surf club normally have somethign cool on.
then take tuesday off, although it is law night, see above...
Then uber party on wednesday and thursday, and then chillax on friday.

Also, go in the sumo suits, they rock.
Go in with a group of friends, as someone who has worked the stand, you're more likely to get cooler stuff if you are in a big group, and they will spend more time telling you cool stuff.

Some warnings:

Do not go on the library tour

Do not go on the computer tour, unless you're a computer retard

The SU as a whole are a joke in college, to anyone who isn't involved in the SU. Ignore them. The people on their stands are paid to be there, and are thus not much fun [That said the top people do some good work]

Don't dress up!!! You'll look stupid! Just dress in college cloths, jeans and a t shirt or something.

If a 2nd/3rd/4th year talks to you individually, he/she is trying to score you or get you into a society