Trinity...the A to Zed or Zee

Randomness · 12-03-2008 08:32PM

C is for Cricket Pitch

which looks funny from google earth

xeduCat · 12-03-2008 08:44PM

And the College Calendar, which does many important things including giving us the middle names that we never knew (as in the Board post above); where would we be without it?

Randomness · 12-03-2008 08:55PM

xeduCat wrote: »

And the College Calendar, which does many important things including giving us the middle names that we never knew (as in the Board post above); where would we be without it?

interesting indeed, what if perhaps "hypothetically" (ok ok it's me!!) one didn't have a middle name???

EDIT: hmmm i mixed up the order of words in your post, obviously if you didn't have a middle name it just wouldn't be written in. upon going off on a tangent i somehow thought...well come to think of it i don't know what i was talking about!!

Crash · 12-03-2008 09:27PM

C is also, more importantly, for crying.

Which is what my final year project, worth a quarter of my degree, is very likely to cause within the next ten minutes.

Tricity Bendix · 12-03-2008 09:50PM

çrash_000 wrote: »

C is also, more importantly, for crying.

Which is what my final year project, worth a quarter of my degree, is very likely to cause within the next ten minutes.

Your final year project is to make people cry? Neato.

shay_562 · 12-03-2008 10:28PM

D is for Death Ray (quite possibly to be inserted into the HeggoBot's right arm, Samus-style). Well, at least I presume that's what Crash's final year project is (based on the above). Tenuous links ftw!

(Curses. Now I need to check the thread every 5 minutes 'til someone posts "E")

Randomness · 13-03-2008 11:20AM

shay_562 wrote: »

(Curses. Now I need to check the thread every 5 minutes 'til someone posts "E")

I can do E

E is for Entrance Exhibitions!

feel free to proceed to F... pick up €100 when you pass "GO"

Ron DMC · 13-03-2008 11:26AM

/me yoinks F to piss off Shay. Mwahahaa...

F is for Film Studies. A joke of a course where they get to watch films and eat popcorn and write an occasional essay on sexism in Die Hard.*

*I'm very jealous that I didn't have enough points/bother applying for this course.

Degsy · 13-03-2008 12:25PM

G is for God..as in "Oh My God" which usually precedes anything spoken by certain female students.

I'm leaping ahead here but..

L is for Like..as in "I was like..".."it was like"."I like,went to like,a lecture?,like" or "I was sooo like,embarassed,like?".
Againe this padding has taken the place of coherent conversation in many areas around college.The US show Laguna Beach may or may not be responsible..

Jonathan · 13-03-2008 12:27PM

Degsy wrote: »

G is for God..as in "Oh My God" which usually precedes anything spoken by certain female students.

I'm leaping ahead here but..

L is for Like..as in "I was like..".."it was like"."I like,went to like,a lecture?,like" or "I was sooo like,embarassed,like?".
Againe this padding has taken the place of coherent conversation in many areas around college.The US show Laguna Beach may or may not be responsible..

O is for Orts

Ron DMC · 13-03-2008 12:34PM

Degsy wrote: »

G is for God..as in "Oh My God" which usually precedes anything spoken by certain female students.

I'm leaping ahead here but..

L is for Like..as in "I was like..".."it was like"."I like,went to like,a lecture?,like" or "I was sooo like,embarassed,like?".
Againe this padding has taken the place of coherent conversation in many areas around college.The US show Laguna Beach may or may not be responsible..

I'm seeing a trend in your posts

Cantab. · 13-03-2008 01:21PM

Hey! No more skipping, right?

H is for Heggo, our beloved Provost (complete with DSc gown)

http://tinyurl.com/2j59f5

^^^ Some interesting views. I'm not sure I'm 100% in agreement with him, but he gives an interesting speech.

I'll leave
- I
- J
- K

for someone else

shay_562 · 13-03-2008 01:37PM

I is for ISS (Information Systems Services), sometimes infuriatingly referred to as "ISS Services", presumably by the same people who refer to ATM Machines. Alterately incredibly helpful and the most useless people on the planet, depending on what day it is and how much cleavage you're showing.

I is also for I'm going to kill Ronny. *shakes fist menacingly while waiting for the next "F"*

Randomness · 13-03-2008 01:43PM

b.ie polar wrote: »

I is for isservices. Well done guys on Beckett 2. I love you for it.

shay_562 wrote: »

I is for ISS (Information Systems Services), sometimes infuriatingly referred to as "ISS Services", presumably by the same people who refer to ATM Machines. Alterately incredibly helpful and the most useless people on the planet, depending on what day it is and how much cleavage you're showing.

I is also for I'm going to kill Ronny. *shakes fist menacingly while waiting for the next "F"*

thoses same people also say PIN Number!!!

haha, waiting for F

Ron DMC · 13-03-2008 01:51PM

and AIB Bank, and UCD Dublin. God that's annoying.

Degsy · 13-03-2008 02:45PM

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

I'm seeing a trend in your posts

no flies on you,eh?;)

Bartron Prime · 13-03-2008 02:53PM

F is for Faculties. Three of them have we. All with male Deans. So, like Three Wise Men but I refuse to accept Dr. Hegarty as the Baby Jesus in this story. Herod maybe?

Ron DMC · 13-03-2008 03:23PM

Randomness wrote:

haha, waiting for F

Bartron Prime wrote: »

F is for Faculties. Three of them have we. All with male Deans. So, like Three Wise Men but I refuse to accept Dr. Hegarty as the Baby Jesus in this story. Herod maybe?

F is not the next letter. Not for a good while yet anyway. I just did F. Stop ruining things, ruiner. We were having fun 'til you got here.

And now J. J is for jstore. I've only heard stories about this and have no idea what exactly it is.

[WRONG]From legend, rumour and hearsay I believe it to be some method of handing in assignments/essays online that people in some TSM courses use. It seems that it is confusing and hard to use but I don't know because I've never handed in any essays/did a course that used 'jstore'.[/WRONG]

See below posts by shay and xeducat, it's some kind of academic archive.

shay_562 · 13-03-2008 03:34PM

Not sure if you're joking, but www.jstor.org, online database of journal articles to which TCD has a subscription. Incredibly useful for reading lists/last minute 'references' for essays.

K is for Kayaks. Can't find any pictures of it, but there's a great big shed full of them (presumably DUKC's) next to the rugby pitch.

xeduCat · 13-03-2008 03:35PM

Is it a cousin of JSTOR, which the lovely library subscribes to?

Awayindahils · 13-03-2008 03:47PM

L is for Lost Property. There is the most amazing collection of lost usb sticks in the arts block. Loads and loads of them.

Ron DMC · 13-03-2008 03:50PM

Like I said, never used it, I obviously got very confused and didn't realise what it was about. All I knew was my friend needed to use it from home so I had to set them on the college proxy to access it.

Tricity Bendix · 13-03-2008 05:19PM

M is for Mature Students. People who ask annoying and blindingly irrelevent questions in lectures (nobody cares about what you have to say), yet are actually great craic once you get talking to them.

Jim_Are_Great · 13-03-2008 06:13PM

O is, quite obviously, for Oscar Wilde, one of our more famous graduates, and yet one after whom no notable object is named. Really, though - Hamilton, Goldsmith, Lecky, Burke; everyone gets something named after them. Oh, except that one guy who happened to be one of the greatest writers of all time. George Salmon gets a statue in Front Square. I would never even have heard of George Salmon were it not for that statue. Crazy.

Edit: Sorry about the skipping of N. My knowledge of the alphabet just ain't what it used to be.

13-03-2008 06:24PM

P is for parking, of which there is none.

Randomness · 13-03-2008 07:59PM

Q is for Quality Unit

"The Quality Office endeavours to promote and facilitate continuous quality improvement activities across academic departments within College".

whaaa?

Bartron Prime · 13-03-2008 10:35PM

The Quality Office is responsible for ensuring that we comply with the Quality Assurance legislation (Section 35 of the Universities Act 1997). Essentially this means that we are required to assess the performance of the 'academic units' (i.e. Schools) in College and their performance under areas such as strategic planning, strategic management, undergraduate education, postgraduate education, staffing, retention, systems, governance etc. It's done by rota on a pre-determined cycle so all the Schools are quality reviewed in about 7 years. The role of the Quality Office is to oversee the process, co-ordinate between the School and the external examiners and to ensure that best practice is followed.

Oh! They also liase with the Bologna Desk to ensure that Bologna is being implemented and any issues are caught as part of the quality review. Well, they do much more than that but that's a brief synopsis. Yay!

Anyway, R is for Registrar, the lovely, wonderful, lutheran and incredibly Germanic Jeurgen Barkhoff.

If that's been done then R is for Restructring.

xebec · 13-03-2008 11:17PM

S is for the Sports Centre part of the north-east corner development. Looks fancy from the outside, less nice from the inside. We're all members.

ilovemybrick · 14-03-2008 12:28AM

T is for T:FM

The country's only totally student run radio station and without question the very best radio station on campus.

Degsy · 14-03-2008 12:55PM

Deleted User wrote: »

P is for parking, of which there is none.

P is also for permit for parking,for which there is a wait of up to 500 people!

Trinity...the A to Zed or Zee

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