What will they learn?

Mr.Nice Guy

OK, we've had a thread about the Dos and Don'ts for 1st years but what will first years learn about UCD? Off the top of my head, they will learn:

- The library book fines are not pleasant. Not pleasant at all.

- Arts has many pretty girls!

- The wonders of Pat Paterson!

- The prices in the Arts cafe are a disgrace.

- UCD has alot of concrete.

- Missing lectures and tutorials is pretty easy.

Anyone got any more?

LovelyHurling

That a certain librarian, lets call her Helga, is always up for a good time.

Jonny Arson

Mr.Nice Guy wrote:

- Arts has many pretty girls!

WTF??? :rolleyes:

Mr.Nice Guy wrote:

- The wonders of Pat Paterson!

Oh yes Pat rawwwks! Give me Pat over stuck up, minging Arts oompa loompas anyday!


BTW all of you little 1st years will eventually learn that Mr.Nice Guy does not exist. Seriously. Have you ever seen him at a Boards Beers? :rolleyes:

Mr.Nice Guy

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

BTW all of you little 1st years will eventually learn that Mr.Nice Guy does not exist. Seriously. Have you ever seen him at a Boards Beers? :rolleyes:

Hey, I arranged the first ever one! I showed up for one Boards Beers on one occaion but everyone was late so I had to stand around awkwardly until I left by myself.

And I couldn't make the last one which is why I voted for the other option.

So I DO exist.

LovelyHurling

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Oh yes Pat rawwwks! Give me Pat over stuck up, minging Arts oompa loompas anyday!

Well Im no Ray Darcy nor am I on the Lovely Girls Committee but even from my cow**** splattered abode beyond Loch Belfield I can assure you who holds the greater legend status among the men, and possibly some of the women with whom I am aquainted.

Arts girls, theyre focking rides!

Red Alert

You'd want to be careful, there's a few around here!

LovelyHurling

Red Alert wrote:

You'd want to be careful, there's a few around here!

Sure they wouldnt object to being called rides its quite an endearing and flattering as well as a romantic description!

ozt9vdujny3srf

So "ride" is romantic now.

We're doomed.

LovelyHurling

Oh yeah Shakespeare wrote about riding all the time it must be

jellie

LovelyHurling wrote:

Arts girls, theyre focking rides!

u like the 3 inches of orange make up look?

jellie

LovelyHurling wrote:

Id rather orange peel on my pillows on a Monday morning over some of the girls in my faculty. Who hopefully dont come here *nervously laughing*

dare i ask what faculty?

i have no faculty anymore byebye ucd

ozt9vdujny3srf

LovelyHurling wrote:

The Vets but Im going to delete this post in a minute!!

Not if i quote it.

jellie

LovelyHurling wrote:

The Vets but Im going to delete this post in a minute!!

girls who like animals. hmmm.

worse than girls who like computers..?

LovelyHurling

I didnt say that you made me say it heh heh ****. Actually I find them highly attractive and oh whats the point %^&%$£!!!!!!!!

rainbow kirby

sar84 wrote:

worse than girls who like computers..?

What's wrong with girls that like computers?

LovelyHurling

I know of at least one girl in a very nerdy wing of the science block who raises a few... eyebrows

jellie

rainbow kirby wrote:

What's wrong with girls that like computers?

nothing much if your a guy who likes computers. but comp sci girls r quite rare in the 'real world'. or so ive found anyway.

(im a computer girl..incase that wasnt obvious)

DadaKopf

- That the Arts Café is actually called Hilpers.

That a certain librarian, lets call her Helga, is always up for a good time.

WHO? Take it to PM. I'm curious.

LovelyHurling

Main Library thats all Im saying!

DadaKopf

No, you gotta be more specific. I got ideas. Take it to PM, man.

pretty*monster

-Not all arts girls wear orange make up (this should be obvious to all but the slowest children in the class).

-No matter how poor you are you will find a way to get pissed.

-Hanging around doing nothing but smoking and drinking coffee for hours on end is quite nice

arbeitsscheuer

- The whole thing's a waste of f**king time.


Trust me, you'll learn. Oh yes, you will learn.

Alana

LovelyHurling wrote:

Well Im no Ray Darcy nor am I on the Lovely Girls Committee but even from my cow**** splattered abode beyond Loch Belfield I can assure you who holds the greater legend status among the men, and possibly some of the women with whom I am aquainted.

Arts girls, theyre focking rides!

Eh hem....

Well not what you'll learn but.... I just wonder how many free condoms I'll get this year.

arbeitsscheuer

I just wonder how many free lollipops I'll get this year.

And no, that wasn't a euphemism.

boneless

SebtheBum wrote:

I just wonder how many free lollipops I'll get this year.

And no, that wasn't a euphemism.

I was going to start a thread about that... and it was a euphemism!!

larryone

Alana wrote:

Eh hem....

Well not what you'll learn but.... I just wonder how many free condoms I'll get this year.

I would never use any of those free condoms.
Ever.
Again.

Mr.Nice Guy

I still have a few of those condoms I got for free last year. I suppose they couldn't be used now though...

LovelyHurling

Alana wrote:

Eh hem....

I just wonder how many free condoms I'll get this year.

In my experience those condoms are wasted on the first years. Especially guys like myself who went to an all-boys. Lets just say for the first little while "things happen" before they should... re American Pie (we were all there once). Give them the free condoms in October I say!

boneless

When I wus a stale fresher, ie. a new "mature" (thats a misnomer) the little folk giving out the rubbers used to pass me by... I had to remind them that old folk have sex too. The look of horror on their little faces!! I laughed for hours!!

Clive

Things to learn in UCD:

1. Who Johnny Airflow is (you´ve all seen him, and once you know him, you´ll see him everyday, everywhere)

2. The best place to have sex on campus (outside of Res or an office) is in the Eng building, but I´m not saying where

3. Most people who get involved in politics are knob-ends

4. How to use the UCD phone system to your advantage

5. Which places pizza can be delivered to in UCD (4th Elec project lab for example)

6. How to get into pretty much any building in UCD

7. The real names for all the buildings, shops etc and why you should never use them

8. How to get free printing

9. How to get free photocopying

Loads more...

HappyCrackHead

Don't join C&E... or as i like to call em The Cloning and Eugenics Society...

you'll end up a blonde orange skinned pink wearing mutant cousin of an oompa loompa... Boardsies are pure of heart and spirit and alcohol content.

Dave!

C&E gave me a leaflet thing for a shindig in Bondi tomorrow night -- can't say I'll be there though, unfortunately! What's C&E's full name, btw?

Economaniac!

DaveMcG wrote:

What's C&E's full name, btw?

Commerce and Economics Society - Basically, the cheerleaders and jocks of UCD. My advice is to join a few of the big societies just to get their nightclub pass cards. When u join these places for 3euro and save 5-10euro a week on nightclubs it really makes sense. Other reasons include being a manic partier and saving money going to C&E, B&L, L&H parties and getting them for member rates. Also u can get some useful stuff in their party bags which would cost way more than 2-3euro.

HappyCrackHead

Economaniac! wrote:

Commerce and Economics Society - Basically, the cheerleaders and jocks of UCD. My advice is to join a few of the big societies just to get their nightclub pass cards. When u join these places for 3euro and save 5-10euro a week on nightclubs it really makes sense. Other reasons include being a manic partier and saving money going to C&E, B&L, L&H parties and getting them for member rates. Also u can get some useful stuff in their party bags which would cost way more than 2-3euro.

C&E use ur money and your mass membership to syphon money out of the smaller societies who need the money way more. its a sham, if, like me, you think nightclubs suck ass, particularly bondi (its ireland, its cold and its wet outside and i dont need sand in my drink)

There are better societies who give out FREE Drink and then hit the pub later. all your doing is giving these stupid asses money so they can colour their skin orange and work in chocolate factories...

Jonny Arson

Free condoms????? I didn't get any last year!!!!!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

PiZaRR-0

Jesus's theres lots of agro about the arts chicks. Its deffo the best place for birds, no arguments. There are a lot of umpo's, but a there a lot of savage birds too.

Anyway things to do

- Drink at the secret lake
- Get thrown out of the SU bar ( My personal favourite )
- Play "put them under pressure" on the jukebox.
- Attend no lectures or anything and do first year again cause its savage
- Get pissed every night, go wondering around, get to know other drunkin head cases and find entrances, exits that are only visible after about 10 fatfrogs.
- Get lots of chicks
- Join some societies ( ones that give pizza )
- Watch the Iron stomach
- Do all the drinkin games in the SU bar during fresh week ( they sucked this year IMO )
- Talk to lots of randomers.
- Dont make eye contact with lectures so they wont know you, so you can pull a 007 all year.

First year rocks, Espec if ur doin arts, or medicine.

Ruskie4Rent

Whats with these orange chicks?
D4 heads and what like?

Jonny Arson

Ruskie4Rent wrote:

Whats with these orange chicks?
D4 heads and what like?

Well simply quite a few girls around campus (esp. Arts girls) OTT the makeup and fake tan thus amking thme loook like oompa loompas. It's exaggerated alot but it's a good laugh anyway. I usually find the more posh/private school background girls to be more like this in comparison to the country gals.

D4 heads? TBH me and D4 heads do not connect at all. Alot of them are stuck up, unsociabale towards non D4 people and are very cliquey. A huge proportion of D4 make up UCD so you can't really avoid them. I'm a North Dubliner and I do see that alot of D4 (and people from other Southside areas) don't want to know you if you don't have the well spoken accent, aren't from an affluent background or don't have massive social connections. It's sad but you'll get to live with it. I found country people to be by far more the friendlier and cooler people on campus....... culchies rawk!

Dave!

I've gotta find me a culchie friend, so...

Glennifer

I usually find the more posh/private school background girls to be more like this in comparison to the country gals.

Teehee, I manage to defy logic by being one of those posh private school girls and still live in Wicklow!

I found country people to be by far more the friendlier and cooler people on campus

I'm assuming they'll be easily found in my Ag Sci lectures?

rainbow kirby

I'm assuming they'll be easily found in my Ag Sci lectures?

Oh god yes. Ag is culchie central

HappyCrackHead

i personally dont think its fair to say either all cultchies/posh/private school are good/bad/indifferent.

however i'll tell you a few truths that i have discovered in relation to his subject.

-its all about the clique : people fall into crowds, fact of life, some crowds have more/less of an influence on people than others. basically the wee culchie girls can still be bitches, and the oompa loopma posh girls can be sound. for instance the people who i hung with last year were a mix of posh-d4 heads(i mean real ones not the fake ones)/culchies/regular dubs(north south east and west)

-You'll see the cliques as you walk around, watch out for the cliquey arts lesbiens.... they dont like me.

-you shouldnt drop out of your lectures just cause all you're "new friends" are going off . tbh ditching lectures in the first few weeks is a surefire way to end up dropping out. i started ditching lectures in november... heh heh.

-Culchies can be good, by this i mean all country folk outside the greater dublin area, but you'll notice that some who you meet early on will be totally different by then end. its weird, like being away from home makes the personality change greater. or maybe it just wasnt so obvious.

-D4/Dort heads. the D4's i met were really cool, they werent the fake D16/14/8 types these were the real deal, mansions in dalkey and what not. to be honest the guys(male) were sound but the girls... not so much there was quite a bit of stereotype conformity.

-Private school, not the same as D4... Private school girls do make up the majority of the ooompa looompa subrace. however i went to a private school for 3 years, after 12 years of public schools, and im alright.

-plebs... this is basically everyone else. and obviously a mixed bag but most people you know will come from this group.

If you ask me, try to get the kinda variety in your friends that i had, im not tooting my own horn but i hated college for a while, and then i realised these cool people were around. heres a quick break down of some people spent quite a bit of time with 2privateschool guys, one i went to school with (sebthebum) and a D4 head who was really cool. a couple of private school girls but not the willy wonka variety. a 28 year old ex civil servant/tallafornian like me. 28year old canooer from the country.

theres a suggestion, mature students are really cool to know. always good craic and great for getting lecture notes off.

Dinxminx

I'm going into Arts this year (AHHH! On Monday! Only two days to go!!!) and I don't wear make-up generally speaking, I never wear fake-tan and I'm not blonde! (I'm going to look like Casper the ghost in there, amn't I?) This stereotyping is really unfair!

Blush_01

HappyCrackHead wrote:

C&E use ur money and your mass membership to syphon money out of the smaller societies who need the money way more. its a sham, if, like me, you think nightclubs suck ass, particularly bondi (its ireland, its cold and its wet outside and i dont need sand in my drink)

There are better societies who give out FREE Drink and then hit the pub later. all your doing is giving these stupid asses money so they can colour their skin orange and work in chocolate factories...

I know for definite that I will never join B&L or C&E again, even for the free stuff (Although that Terry's chocolate orange did taste amazing - fock them). Main reason being, I still get the occasional text from Bondi. And I know I've never been there, nor would I ever, even at my drunkest, sign up for texts from there. So, my number was given to someone without my permission - a breach of the data protection acts of 1988 and 2003, and I'm pointing the finger at C&E (as they were Bondi's biatches last year - giving out free Bondi t-shirts was a vomit-inducing move). Which I'm still thick over. But as I can't prove that it was them, I can do nothing about it.

Also, I know of certain large society auditors who, though their society did next to nothing all year, thought the society chequebook was a great aid in financing their alcohol needs.

Just one more reason why I'd have more tolerance for a pissed off rattlesnake who was sharing my underwear than I'll ever have for them.

anna20

have to disagree with u Zane. i'm from the northside and all my friends from college are southsiders save a few. i think they are brilliant, some of the most genuine people i have ever met. ye of course their are a few bad eggs but thats to be expected...

Vic Mackey

how come if your from outside dublin your a culchie, im from dundalk, 50,000 people, bigger than some dub suberbs, and i can honestly say iv never in my life been on/near a tractor, lol!

also, this cliches exist everywhere........a mate of mine goin in2 1st year arts this year, who is brill ant rugby, is worried that alot of the rugby lads will have a click of their own, ross o carroll kelly like, and basically ignore him.

do these things really happen in ucd?

Dave!

^
Dublin is the North Pole, everywhere else is "down the country"

Vic Mackey

lol

pretty*monster

Dinxminx wrote:

I'm going into Arts this year (AHHH! On Monday! Only two days to go!!!) and I don't wear make-up generally speaking, I never wear fake-tan and I'm not blonde! (I'm going to look like Casper the ghost in there, amn't I?) This stereotyping is really unfair!

Woman, if you aren't an airhead, blond, fake-tanner then when people talk about D4-heads thay are not talking about you! Being from D4 and being a D4 head aren't the same. No one is saying that they are :rolleyes:

Just like being from the northside doesn't mean that I rob cars on the weekend

Ruskie4Rent

Just Monday to friday

arbeitsscheuer

Ruskie4Rent wrote:

Just Monday to friday

God yeah, I mean ya gotta have some me time.