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Schols Schols Schols, information and venting thread.

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  • #422
    LenovoUser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭LenovoUser


    dan719 wrote: »
    What utter rubbish. People have got schols with two weeks study, and people who have studied for six months haven't. You have no idea what you are talking about. Or whether or not scruttocks will get schols. STFU and GTFO.
    How splendid an insight you have, please tell us more...


  • #423
    Sir Ophiuchus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭Sir Ophiuchus


    *ignores the sound of trolls starving to death*

    So, overall, how do people feel things went? I figure I've an excellent chance of exemptions (actually, I'd be disappointed if I don't get them), and a minor chance at schols.

    Best of luck to those doing their last exams tomorrow!


  • #424
    mathew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mathew


    Sir Ophiuchus wrote: »
    *ignores the sound of trolls starving to death*

    So, overall, how do people feel things went? I figure I've an excellent chance of exemptions (actually, I'd be disappointed if I don't get them), and a minor chance at schols.

    Best of luck to those doing their last exams tomorrow!

    Id be the same as you. Pretty confident about the exemptions, glimmer of hope with the schols themselves..


  • #425
    tolosenc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,889 ✭✭✭tolosenc


    I think I've a fairly good shout for exemptions (obviously not getting hopes up or anything), but I'd be supremely surprised if I got schols after a couple of shocking exams...

    JC, do you know when our exemptions are published?


  • #426
    Gallardo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭Gallardo


    Hey, I have one exam left in TP and hopefully if the markers are very generous I'll get exemptions. Tomorrow isn't going to be a nice finish cause I don't really know anything about Fourier analysis for maths methods. I really want schols, did anyone here get schols in 3rd year. I know I have to study 2 years materials at the same time but I was thinking of doing a bit of study over the summer and studying really hard for the 2nd year summer exams. Would it be a good idea to try and study as much as possible of the third year material as possible over the summer and then the last few months put alot of work into the schols for after christmas. At least if I look at the third year stuff over the summer I should recognise things and pick things up easier even though Ill be studying second year material and I won't fall to far behind...hopefully. Anyone any suggestions on this. I'm interested in going to MIT when I have my degree and having schols would make a great impression. Thanks and good luck to everyone finishing tomorrow! :)


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  • #427
    scruttocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭scruttocks


    LenovoUser wrote: »
    To get the schols you would want to study right across the summer before ! Better luck next time :-)

    ( As a lecturer who got the schols told me, he took two weeks off from the books in July, a week at Xmas, and that was that ! He still does the same, remaining in College all year round ) .

    Sufficient but not necessary, as my logic or maths lecturers would put it.

    Also what a strange thing to say.


  • #428
    LenovoUser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭LenovoUser


    scruttocks wrote: »
    Sufficient but not necessary, as my logic or maths lecturers would put it.

    Also what a strange thing to say.
    There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, my dear Horatio...


  • #429
    scruttocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭scruttocks


    *shrug*

    enjoy your summer exams anyway


  • #430
    LenovoUser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭LenovoUser


    scruttocks wrote: »
    *shrug*

    enjoy your summer exams anyway
    Necessary evils on the exodus from the thralldom of the Junior Freshman year .

    I have already expressed the fervent wish that Brian Coghlan forgets that tricky question he has about the impotent green-eyed flies .

    Actually I don't mind the summer exams at all, I welcome them for the break that follows .
    What I hate is this continuous assessment period in which I shed marks like a bitch dog sheds hair under the summer sun .

    Stephen Hawking never had to put up with continuous assessment, so why should I ?


  • #431
    scruttocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭scruttocks


    ****ing positive discrimination, eh?


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  • #432
    LenovoUser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭LenovoUser


    scruttocks wrote: »
    ****ing positive discrimination, eh?
    It was easy for Stephen,, being marked out of a hundred, as everybody was in those days including in Trinity, and even then he got between a 2.1 and a 1, Oxford granted him the First at interview with relief when they heard he was heading for Cambridge !

    I must start going on about " offers from UCD ", might work here, get a brilliant mark if they thought I was off, hehehe


  • #433
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,305 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    LenovoUser wrote: »
    To get the schols you would want to study right across the summer before ! Better luck next time :-)

    ( As a lecturer who got the schols told me, he took two weeks off from the books in July, a week at Xmas, and that was that ! He still does the same, remaining in College all year round ) .
    LenovoUser wrote: »
    How splendid an insight you have, please tell us more...
    LenovoUser wrote: »
    There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, my dear Horatio...
    LenovoUser wrote: »
    Necessary evils on the exodus from the thralldom of the Junior Freshman year .

    I have already expressed the fervent wish that Brian Coghlan forgets that tricky question he has about the impotent green-eyed flies .

    Actually I don't mind the summer exams at all, I welcome them for the break that follows .
    What I hate is this continuous assessment period in which I shed marks like a bitch dog sheds hair under the summer sun .

    Stephen Hawking never had to put up with continuous assessment, so why should I ?
    LenovoUser wrote: »
    It was easy for Stephen,, being marked out of a hundred, as everybody was in those days including in Trinity, and even then he got between a 2.1 and a 1, Oxford granted him the First at interview with relief when they heard he was heading for Cambridge !

    I must start going on about " offers from UCD ", might work here, get a brilliant mark if they thought I was off, hehehe
    I thought joe put it rather nicely.


  • #434
    LenovoUser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭LenovoUser


    jmccrohan wrote: »
    I thought joe put it rather nicely.
    "Faith may move mountains but only the clarity of our vision will move them to the right places... "

    ( From the oration of the Archdruid of Ireland to the Gathering on the Hill of Tara, Midsummer Day, 1997 )

    Thought for the night, Oiche mhaith, codhladh samh .

    AND :

    " A Junior Frshman is living proof that time shrinks ! "

    ( Vinny Cahill would love that one, hehehe ) .


  • #435
    dan719
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭dan719


    LenovoUser wrote: »
    How splendid an insight you have, please tell us more...

    To be honest, I have no desire to tell you anything. Wow, you read some Hawking? Along with every other psuedo-intellectual sixteen year old. (Myself included). You don't like continuous assesment? Who does? Until you can (and this is a paraphrase) achieve in an hour what your classmates struggle with in two weeks, why not lay off the comparisons with the Hawking and concentrate on passing first year.

    When I find myself agreeing with Boston, I am truly terrified but you do talk nothing but bollix.

    Edit; I believe the examiners awarded Hawking a first when they realised 'they were speaking to someone with far more understanding of physics then themselves' no? Or did you really just want to name drop oxbridge in a single post?


  • #436
    LenovoUser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭LenovoUser


    dan719 wrote: »
    To be honest, I have no desire to tell you anything. Wow, you read some Hawking? Along with every other psuedo-intellectual sixteen year old. (Myself included). You don't like continuous assesment? Who does? Until you can (and this is a paraphrase) achieve in an hour what your classmates struggle with in two weeks, why not lay off the comparisons with the Hawking and concentrate on passing first year.

    When I find myself agreeing with Boston, I am truly terrified but you do talk nothing but bollix.
    I am truly overwhelmed with all the genuine concern so fluently expressed here for my fate in the Junior Freshman CS exams. Good night and thank you, my dear friends, all .


  • #437
    mathew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mathew


    LenovoUser wrote: »

    ( From the oration of the Archdruid of Ireland to the Gathering on the Hill of Tara, Midsummer Day, 1997 )

    The what now?? Who the hell is the Archdruid of Ireland??


  • #438
    dan719
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭dan719


    LenovoUser wrote: »
    I am truly overwhelmed with all the genuine concern so fluently expressed here for my fate in the Junior Freshman CS exams. Good night and thank you, my dear friends, all .


    Do you often quote a post, and then only partially refer to the quote? Or do you just like avoiding answering?:rolleyes:


  • #439
    LenovoUser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭LenovoUser


    Yawn...


  • #440
    mathew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mathew


    Maybe we should bring this back on topic..

    Does anyone know, is the anouncement on Trinity Monday black tie?


  • #441
    tolosenc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,889 ✭✭✭tolosenc


    mathew wrote: »
    Maybe we should bring this back on topic..

    Does anyone know, is the anouncement on Trinity Monday black tie?

    Nope. You stand around in Front Square listening, hopefully, for your name, if I'm not mistaken.


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  • #442
    HoboJesus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭HoboJesus


    mathew wrote: »
    Does anyone know, is the anouncement on Trinity Monday black tie?

    Not the announcement, but if you get schols, there'll be robe rental for various events. Also if you get it, you can go to the free dinner in the dining hall, which is black tie PLUS robes. Height of fanciness.


  • #443
    Unregistered.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭Unregistered.


    Black tie in this instance means a suit and a (bow) tie right? Or does it have to be a full blown tuxedo???


  • #444
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,305 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Unregistered. wrote: »
    Black tie in this instance means a suit and a (bow) tie right? Or does it have to be a full blown tuxedo???
    I'd assume a tux. Not that much of a difference. Differences being on the jacket the foldy back bit is shiny, and there is shiny bit running down the length of the trousers.


  • #445
    Unregistered.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭Unregistered.


    Yeah, they have a satin finish! And funny shirts....

    I guess that would rule out mafioso style pinstripe... :(


  • #446
    LenovoUser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭LenovoUser


    Unregistered. wrote: »
    Black tie in this instance means a suit and a (bow) tie right? Or does it have to be a full blown tuxedo???
    Hi again, friend, your local undertaker could fit you out - he strips them off before the lid is finally screwed down, y'know .


  • #447
    mathew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mathew


    HoboJesus wrote: »
    Not the announcement, but if you get schols, there'll be robe rental for various events. Also if you get it, you can go to the free dinner in the dining hall, which is black tie PLUS robes. Height of fanciness.

    Oh.. I thought you had to turn up the tux.. That makes things nicer.. Wont look out of place having lunch in mc donalds if i dont get it so! :P

    Edit: i also propose ignoring trolling...


  • #448
    dan719
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭dan719


    mathew wrote: »
    Maybe we should bring this back on topic..

    Does anyone know, is the anouncement on Trinity Monday black tie?

    AFAIK no. I know it states that the dinner on TM is black tie on the scholar website, but if you look at any photos of newly announced scholars all of them are wearing casual clothes.


  • #449
    LenovoUser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭LenovoUser


    mathew wrote: »
    Oh.. I thought you had to turn up the tux.. That makes things nicer.. Wont look out of place having lunch in mc donalds if i dont get it so! :P

    Edit: i also propose ignoring trolling...
    Black humour, levity, , guess you're not a fan of Woody Allen ? ( thought it would help while people worry about the schols ) .

    Actually, come to think of it, more Lennonesque.
    #
    The schols I know are absolute gentlemen, I wonder is there a direct relationship between being a nice guy and getting a schol ?

    The College has its ways, you know, hidden ways, to ensure that the real Trinity person always surfaces !


  • #450
    Karlusss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭Karlusss


    Racking up the points on the pseud scorecard there with all these name-drops.

    If the announcement on Trinity Monday was black tie I would not go. I'm not spending money to hear confirmed through silence what I already know - no schols for me.

    Oh well.


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  • #451
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,735 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nah, I don't remember many students wearing black tie into the exam hall (raining that year) to hear the new scholars. For one, think how stupid you'd feel if you didn't get it and you dressed up.

    If you get Schols, worry about the suit/tux then :)


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