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Books

  • 14-09-2005 9:02pm
    #1
    ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I'm starting Trinity College here in October, and I was wondering, what's the story with the books I am going to need for my course? The University hasn't sent me anything so I have no idea what I need to buy. Will they tell us this stuff during Fresher's week or do I need to figure it out myself and stuff? And where to buy books? :confused:


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  • #2
    claire h
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭claire h


    Generally you'll find out in the first lecture of each class what books you'll need. Often where to get these books, too. Hodges Figgis usually has everything you'll need, though, or you could try the SU bookshop, or even just use the library (though the main textbooks'll probably be difficult to get a hold of a lot of the time). Worry not.


  • #3
    ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI


    OK thanks, that's Groovy :).


  • #4
    Time Magazine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,452 ✭✭✭Time Magazine


    Depending on course, you may not need to buy too many books.

    I did JF BESS last year and I would not have needed anything but the Maths books. You can get most from the library and if you are good at a subject you don't need the book.

    Of course it would be different for something like science.


  • #5
    ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI


    Angry Banana wrote:
    Depending on course, you may not need to buy too many books.

    I did JF BESS last year and I would not have needed anything but the Maths books. You can get most from the library and if you are good at a subject you don't need the book.

    Of course it would be different for something like science.

    Lucky me then; It turns out I am doing science :( Or at least Computer Science :)


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This was answered well by Cuckoo in a post somewhere else...not sure where.


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  • #7
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    Myth wrote:
    This was answered well by Cuckoo in a post somewhere else...not sure where.
    Is this the one you mean? http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=3337141&postcount=65


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Thanking you, Ms. Fishie.


  • #9
    snorlax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭snorlax


    it really confusing they way your Avatar's are the same!


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yeah we've had words.


  • #11
    snorlax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭snorlax


    i dunno i just look up on my screen and i see Myth's taken over the tcd boards.

    should i change my avatar too and join in? ;)!


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  • #12
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    snorlax wrote:
    it really confusing they way your Avatar's are the same!
    I had it first! I had it first! :D


  • #13
    snorlax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭snorlax


    ladies get preference ;)!


  • #14
    ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI


    Yeah I found the thread you were talking about....how the hell was I supposed to know that the information and answers that I was looking for about books for starting 1st year as a prospective shtudent would be contained inside a thread with such an arcane, obscure and esoteric title as "Prospective Students: Q&A and Information on courses"...geh :(:(

    And yes, ladies get preference :)


  • #15
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    Ok now it's really confusing skimming through the thread, cos it looks like I posted most of the replies...
    ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI wrote:
    how the hell was I supposed to know that the information and answers that I was looking for about books for starting 1st year as a prospective shtudent would be contained inside a thread with such an arcane, obscure and esoteric title as "Prospective Students: Q&A and Information on courses"...geh :(:(
    Ah, he wasn't being narky about it, he was just saying that there was more useful information elsewhere.


  • #16
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    snorlax wrote:
    ladies get preference ;)!
    But I am a lady too, so where does that leave us?


  • #17
    ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI


    Fishie wrote:
    Ah, he wasn't being narky about it, he was just saying that there was more useful information elsewhere.

    Heh, I was taking the piss at myself for not reading the obvious link ( well in fairness I tried, but it looked like it was getting trolled all over the gaff so I gave up halfway through) :) Look at my wording:
    how the hell was I supposed to know that the information and answers that I was looking for about books for starting 1st year as a prospective shtudent

    Although I know sarcasm doesn't carry easily over the interweb, so I'll let you off by just acting snooty to you forever :)


  • #18
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    a prospective shtudent
    You could just be a drunken prospective student?! Ha, well maybe I'll be snooty right back at ya... Once I've worked out who you are... ;)


  • #19
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    Fishie wrote:
    But I am a lady too, so where does that leave us?
    your implying myth is aswell? he might dispute that...


  • #20
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    Serenity wrote:
    your implying myth is aswell? he might dispute that...
    No, I was implying snorlax is a lady - am I wrong? :o


  • #21
    Crash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,198 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    One thing for computer science students - check the fricking hamilton library - nobody in cs uses the books there at all (all of them buying their own books instead) so there are at least 8 copies of each book you will use during first year.

    caveat emptor and all that, was just how my year was.


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  • #22
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    Fishie wrote:
    No, I was implying snorlax is a lady - am I wrong? :o
    I'm lost, it was a discussion over avatars originally which u and myth both share the same one. And no your not wrong...


  • #23
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    Serenity wrote:
    I'm lost, it was a discussion over avatars originally which u and myth both share the same one. And no your not wrong...
    Snorlax changed her avatar to the Darkwing Duck one that Myth and I also share, and said 'Ladies get preference'. But then I pointed out I was also a lady, and she changed it back


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