Fresher's week!!!

Jonny Arson · 18-09-2005 2:28pm #1

From my perspective it's a load of overrated BS but hopefully it willl be better than the non-event of last year.

So what clubs/societies is everyone planning on joining?

Any good clubs/societies that you would recommend joining from previous experience? (umm I wonder what Rainbow Kirby and Blondie83 will be promoting? :rolleyes: )

What day is the Iron Stomoch on? Gotta see that!

Any other tomfoolery happening that I don't know about?

Will you drink yourself to oblivion this week?

Get posting!

Mr.Nice Guy · 18-09-2005 2:33pm

Gonna maybe join the Pool/Snooker club and whatever society offers me free stuff.

18-09-2005 2:38pm

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

So what clubs/societies is everyone planning on joining?

Pool/snooker - It's the only thing I'm half-decent at.

Ultimate Frisbee - Sounds cool enough.

And i might have a go at tennis.

Any good clubs/societies that you would recommend joining from previous experience?

From the little I know about you, I recommend you join everything.

Will you drink yourself to oblivion this week?

Al-kee-hall is bad.

panda100 · 18-09-2005 3:00pm

Best one to join will be world aid society cos you're doing something good for the world and its a nice friendly society.gonna join labour youth to as there events usually are a bit of craic.maybe we should set up a boards soc and instead of free donoughts we could give out a free mouse mat to everyone?

Bottle_of_Smoke · 18-09-2005 3:05pm

If you do join any don't do anything stupid like becoming a commitee member, you'll still have to put up those event posters when it gets freezing cold

Dave! · 18-09-2005 3:05pm

This is my revised list of societies and clubs that I plan to join...

Societies:
Games soc (oooh yeah!

)
An Cumann Gaelach (wanna get meself fluent!)
Photographic Soc (I like pictures and I can't take good ones

)
Pokersoc (I always have fun playing, but I can never remember how to, lol)

Clubs:
Archery (seems pretty cool)
Boxing (I love watching boxing and fighting, so I thought I'd give it a shot)
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (I did this for a few months, might as well get back into it)
Fencing (pretty old sport, it'd be cool to take it up)
Mountaineering (this seems like the best club to see nature, etc. and I like climbing)
Olympic Handball (played this in primary school, lol -- good fun)
Rifle (I'm kinda into guns, so should be cool -- plus, I wanna try paintball)
Table Tennis (watched a bit of this in the Olympics and it looks great)
Volleyball (played this in PE a few times, enjoyed it; is it mostly girls in it though?)
Snowsports (I'd love to try skiing/snowboarding)

Anyone got comments on these?

18-09-2005 3:06pm

panda100 wrote:

maybe we should set up a boards soc and instead of free donoughts we could give out a free mouse mat to everyone?

That's a great idea!

Slippers · 18-09-2005 3:22pm

I'll be joining
juggling society
ninjutsu club
shaolin club

I also want to try the yoga in hall C if my timetable allows and audition for the fashion show.

edit: I can't seem to figure out how to indent.

Slash/ED · 18-09-2005 3:33pm

Will be joining gamesoc anyway, There better be a PES4 event, I would take on the entire campus on that. Retronight also sounds excellent, I still play the old Snes games all the time. I'll join a superleague team too, maybe.

Dave! · 18-09-2005 3:38pm

PES4 fan eh? Well I'm afraid you have met your match!

Slash/ED · 18-09-2005 3:41pm

Many a person has said that to me, none are around to tell the story (that's because their not registered, not because I killed them or anything)

Anyway, a PES tournament is always a good idea. I'd say you'd get loads of people up for that.

tribulus · 18-09-2005 3:42pm

don't worry slash/ed is all talk and no walk

i recently mopped the floor with him at a certain retro game he claims to be the king at

i'll probably join gamesoc and maybe chemsoc. tbh last year being a silly liitle fresher i just joined what offered the best deals in the tent, condoms, pizza and chocolate won out!! This year i'll be more careful

HappyCrackHead · 18-09-2005 3:51pm

panda100 wrote:

Best one to join will be world aid society cos you're doing something good for the world and its a nice friendly society.gonna join labour youth to as there events usually are a bit of craic.maybe we should set up a boards soc and instead of free donoughts we could give out a free mouse mat to everyone?

gotta agree with panda here, i know a couple of the people who started the society and others still involved. i believe that this years "theme", to call it that, is child exploitation. you know ur really nice Gap jeans that were made by some kid whipped and forced to work 16hour days and paid 5cent a month so you can look flashy and everyone can see your builders cleavage... with the exception of panda100 that would be a bad thing...

anyway, i recommend philsoc, gamesoc, tae kwon do, frisbee, juggling, world aid soc, pokersoc, uh..... dramsoc i guess if u have thick skin and the confidance to keep going to auditions then you'll succeed.

obviously i dont suggest joining em all. that'd be over twenty quid which'd be better spent at the boards beers.

Slash/ED · 18-09-2005 3:58pm

tribulus wrote:

don't worry slash/ed is all talk and no walk

i recently mopped the floor with him at a certain retro game he claims to be the king at

I was the king, but haven't played in years. I'm now the king of PES4

18-09-2005 4:02pm

I smell a challenge already.

Anyways, my best game would probably be Tiger Woods, so hopefully we get to play that.

pretty*monster · 18-09-2005 4:06pm

I'll be joining
Phil Soc - Obviously I have to, being a committee member, we've got a full caledner of speakers(including Noom Chomsky!!!), coffee mornings, films, and night club events planned out. Should be a great year provided I find someone else to get stuck doing postering

Comedy Soc - I know the auditor, lovely guy, wasn't really listening when he told be what was on the agenda for this year but I remember it sounded good

Henry Newman Soc - A bunch of us went to their last talk last year, drank all their booze and made a bit of a mess. They were nice guys, I feel like I owe them.
Dram Soc - I had good intenetions to get involved last year, I have them again this year... we'll see what happens

Mr.Nice Guy · 18-09-2005 4:17pm

What's with Pokersoc? Is this a new one?

I'm surprised the college allows that. Still, I think I might join unless you have to bet an awful alot.

beanyb · 18-09-2005 5:45pm

Just to warn ya DaveMcG, some of the sports clubs are a tenner to join, so all them could set you back a lot...

I'm thinking of joining the world aid soc and getting involved alright, it seems like a worthy thing to join, and a nice friendly little society!

Waltons · 18-09-2005 6:41pm

I'm thinking of GameSoc, Sci-fi Soc, NetSoc, JazzSoc (and any other music societies I can find), and Comp Sci Soc. Not really into many of the clubs. May have a look at the rifle club

Dave! · 18-09-2005 7:22pm

beanyb wrote:

Just to warn ya DaveMcG, some of the sports clubs are a tenner to join, so all them could set you back a lot...

:eek:

I might just stick to the €2 ones then, lol...

We'll see

Thanks for the heads up!

rainbow kirby · 18-09-2005 9:13pm

Erm... apart from the blatantly obvious (TKD and GameSoc)... I'll be joining Netsoc, Sci-Fi, Mathsoc, and pretty much anything else where I know people who are involved.
*NERD*

Jonny Arson · 18-09-2005 9:28pm

I might be a big ol' nerd myself and join NetSoc. Might check out PhotoSoc, World Aid Soc, Archaeology Soc, PatSoc and Labour Youth. Don't have a clue about clubs though.

kas · 18-09-2005 11:02pm

Well, Kirby's been pimpin' TKD so hard it hurts these past few months so I'm gonna join just so I can legitimately kick her ass.

Other than that I'll be joining the

Rifle club, perfect concentration is a rarity for me these days, there it's a necessity or you may as well not pull the trigger.
Trampoline club, it just looked like so much fun everytime I saw them last year.
Photosoc, because maybe this year it might be good, maybe.
Philsoc/L+H, 'cos this year they (forget which) have Noam Chomsky - OMFG, the man's a legend.
Netsoc, 2GB web hosting for a fiver a year, sweet holy mother.

...and some club that will teach me horse riding. Failing that I'll do it privately elsewhere.

ah, funk it - i'll just join everything like I did last year and decide later. Here I come LawSoc, B+L, C+E,

ghostchant · 18-09-2005 11:03pm

Well I'm joining mathsoc, newman society, sci-fi soc (are we going to EirtaKon?

), gamesoc, maybe philsoc, and maybe musicsoc if its better than last year
oh yeah and also L&H , lawsoc and C&E - the free food will do as a cheap lunch

rainbow kirby · 18-09-2005 11:09pm

Well, Kirby's been pimpin' TKD so hard it hurts these past few months so I'm gonna join just so I can legitimately kick her ass.

We'll see.

Waltons · 18-09-2005 11:20pm

kas wrote:

Well, Kirby's been pimpin' TKD so hard it hurts these past few months so I'm gonna join just so I can legitimately kick her ass.

Other than that I'll be joining the

Rifle club, perfect concentration is a rarity for me these days, there it's a necessity or you may as well not pull the trigger.
Trampoline club, it just looked like so much fun everytime I saw them last year.
Photosoc, because maybe this year it might be good, maybe.
Philsoc/L+H, 'cos this year they (forget which) have Noam Chomsky - OMFG, the man's a legend.
Netsoc, 2GB web hosting for a fiver a year, sweet holy mother.

...and some club that will teach me horse riding. Failing that I'll do it privately elsewhere.

ah, funk it - i'll just join everything like I did last year and decide later. Here I come LawSoc, B+L, C+E,

Chomsky? You're ****ting me! *joins*

kas · 18-09-2005 11:20pm

rainbow kirby wrote:

We'll see.

If I can't kick it in the ring I'll slap it in the corridor, eithers good

Oh, and I forgot to mention SciFi soc, their trillions of film evenings are cool and have introduced me to the wonders of Invader Zim and utter crapness of Battle Royale II (Japanese).

rainbow kirby · 18-09-2005 11:29pm

Battle Royale 2 is possibly the most disappointing film ever. The original ROCKS!!!

Waltons · 18-09-2005 11:44pm

I did see they had a Kevin Smith week and they showed Evil Dead!
"This is my boomstick!"

elbee · 19-09-2005 6:10am

Netsoc is only 3 euro this year. You still get 2 gigs

Jonny Arson · 19-09-2005 10:04am

NetSoc sounds tempting but I'd say it's full of nerds tho' (moi nerd...... c'mon! :rolleyes:

)

PatSoc is going down a storm this year!

rainbow kirby · 19-09-2005 10:22am

Now now, what's wrong with nerds?

Dave! · 19-09-2005 10:24am

Hey does anyone know where I can get my "First Year Survival Guide"? There were a load of posters up last week... but they didn't say when or where one might get one, lol... Thankya!

Jonny Arson · 19-09-2005 10:36am

rainbow kirby wrote:

Now now, what's wrong with nerds?

Nerds are cool! :rolleyes:

NetSoc should be renamed NerdSoc....... and I'm gonna join now! :cool:

rainbow kirby · 19-09-2005 10:38am

yay

Don't forget to join the other nerd societies too

Vainglory · 19-09-2005 10:59am

DaveMcG wrote:

Hey does anyone know where I can get my "First Year Survival Guide"? There were a load of posters up last week... but they didn't say when or where one might get one, lol... Thankya!

At the SU stand in the Freshers' Tent.

arbeitsscheuer · 19-09-2005 12:55pm

Joined already:
GamesSoc (we better have a PES3 or PES4 tournament, because I WILL kick all your asses)
History Soc
SWSS (the guy at the stall recognised me, so I got roped into it AGAIN :rolleyes: )

That's about it.

Gonna Join:
Cricket Soc

Maybes:
Dramsoc
Netsoc
Filmsoc
SciFi soc

panda100 · 19-09-2005 12:59pm

This year ive definatly decided to boycott all the big usless ones like c+e,b+l.There certainly not getting my 2euro cos i think its shameful the way they use sex to sell themselves to us.You can garuntee they'll be at least 30 bop girls with their tshirts tied up with stomach showing and boobs hanging out going around trying to get people to sign up.Ah it annoys me so much!

kas · 19-09-2005 1:30pm

panda100 wrote:

This year ive definatly decided to boycott all the big usless ones like c+e,b+l.There certainly not getting my 2euro cos i think its shameful the way they use sex to sell themselves to us.You can garuntee they'll be at least 30 bop girls with their tshirts tied up with stomach showing and boobs hanging out going around trying to get people to sign up.Ah it annoys me so much!

I don't know about selling themselves but they bought and sold me I can tell you.
They may be air heads but they're pretty air head so I joined them ALL.

I feel no dirtier than last weeks walk through the red light district...

*Angel* · 19-09-2005 2:38pm

So yeah I just joined hockey, french soc (dunno how really...) and of course eng soc. I'll probably end up doing TKD but I'll see. And I got lots of yummy food, eng soc being the best for me, choc donut, crisps, popcorn, loads of sweets...

rainbow kirby · 19-09-2005 3:38pm

*Angel* wrote:

I'll probably end up doing TKD but I'll see.

You'd better

Ruskie4Rent · 19-09-2005 4:51pm

Had quick stroll around the freshers tent and spent alot of money on societies I can't remember. I think I joined the PD's and then the socialists but who knows?
Can you still join things tommorrow, I'll have more time to think about what I'm doing then.

beanyb · 19-09-2005 4:58pm

So far I've just joined the World Aid Soc and Trampolining, the 2 I actually intend to do stuff with. I'll join the others for the free stuff, but I'm boycotting Q Soc out of principle! The mini-coopers? I mean come on! There's a girl from my year in school in it whose daddy runs maxwell motors, I wonder where they got the minis???

Seifer · 19-09-2005 5:10pm

Joined the fencing club. Well worth the money, I'll be on the stand again tomorrow and prob for the rest of the week from about 1.
Gonna join eng soc and all the party socs; you've got to pace yourself with them, only one a day and you get lunch for €2 every day for the week. Probaby gonna join poker soc and a few others.

And as far as I know all the sports clubs are at least €10 (think rifle is €8) and all the socities are at least €2.

For the guy asking about poker soc. last years membership fee of €2 was your buy-in for the first game and I think it was a fiver there after for the other nights.

Seifer · 19-09-2005 5:19pm

You're joking me? 10e to join a club? What's stopping you from just turning up at training and insisting you paid. That's a joke. I hope bjj aren't looking for a tenner off ppl.

€10 for an entire year of gear use, coaching and hall space. You try and find a private fencing club with a price anywhere near that. It's ridiculously good value, as are most of the clubs.

As for your attempt to steal: we let people come along to the first session to see if they like if they don't want to sign up at the stand. Then upon signing up you give us your details and we give you a membership card, so its pretty easy to tell if someone hasn't paid.

Mr.Nice Guy · 19-09-2005 5:58pm

I didn't join anything yet. Well, except PatSoc of course. Come on people, we need more members!

Does anyone know what this 'Iron Stomach' thing is all about?

And what clubs and societies looked good this year?

Jonny Arson · 19-09-2005 7:18pm

For some reason I was very tetchy about joining clubs and societies. Maybe I'm just more careful with my money nowadays.... bah

I got around to joining.....

LawSoc - ok they are a big society but Dr. Cox, David O'Leary, Mick McCarthy, Mark Lawrenson and the greatest guest of them all..... sky sports' one and only Jeff Stelling! Wow!
PatSoc - got a PatPack containing a Pat t-shirt, a Pat mug, a Pat DVD and general Pat Paterson memorabilia..... what a society!
GamesSoc - Expecting a pat on back now from a certain R. Kirby!

gonna join NetSoc, Sci-Fi Soc, Archaeology Soc and Life Soc tomorrow.

don't know which clubs I'm gonna join though. Maybe a martial art and canoeing. Anyone have recommend a good club to join.... please

Slash/ED · 19-09-2005 7:23pm

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

LawSoc - ok they are a big society but Dr. Cox, David O'Leary, Mick McCarthy, Mark Lawrenson and the greatest guest of them all..... sky sports' one and only Jeff Stelling! Wow!

But sure you can get into those without joining anyway

*Angel* · 19-09-2005 7:48pm

rainbow kirby wrote:

You'd better

Calm now...

Seifer · 19-09-2005 8:05pm

Does anyone know what this 'Iron Stomach' thing is all about?

Skipped my first lecture for this last year. :rolleyes:
Basically about 10 contestants are lined up and have to eat/drink whatever is put infront of them. Once you puke you're out. I think pig penis was the decider between the two finalists last year.
All good clean fun

(unless you're in the first couple of rows)

tribulus · 19-09-2005 9:14pm

Didn't really have a proper look around today but joined gamesoc anyway, might join a few others simply for the free stuff or hot c & e girls!!!

*awaits punch form panda100

*

Fresher's week!!!

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