Schols Schols Schols, information and venting thread.

mathew · 07-05-2009 08:37PM

So.. Who on here is on the Board?? :P

Sir Ophiuchus · 07-05-2009 08:40PM

Well, I know TSM generally elects eight scholars (did in 08, 07 and 06, at least) and given the numbers this year, should elect at least that many this year.

Twenty-three TSM students (according to the list) got full exemptions. Therefore a TSM student's odds are most likely 8/23 - 34.8%.

And yes, I know stats are absolutely no use in this. But they keep me busy while I wait.

tolosenc · 07-05-2009 09:09PM

Sorry, mine was meant to be thirty per cent. Em, if that 320 is only those who sat, I go to more like 55%. I just didn't want to be there and not get schols if it was 83 getting it, and 10 or so not...

HoboJesus · 07-05-2009 09:56PM

Nobody keeps track of that stuff. I wouldn't worry mate.

tolosenc · 07-05-2009 10:17PM

HoboJesus wrote: »

Nobody keeps track of that stuff. I wouldn't worry mate.

I know, I just really wouldn't want to be one of the ten...

Podge_irl · 07-05-2009 11:01PM

obl wrote: »

Sorry, mine was meant to be thirty per cent. Em, if that 320 is only those who sat, I go to more like 55%. I just didn't want to be there and not get schols if it was 83 getting it, and 10 or so not...

If you're talking about the announcment on Trinity Monday, then there will be loads of people there - a lot who will get schols and a lot who won't, and a fair proportion of won't even have taken the exams (I tended to go every year for example). You also get some very confused tourists wondering what's going on.

scruttocks · 08-05-2009 03:30AM

got a call

JC 2K3 · 08-05-2009 09:29AM

BESS?

mathew · 08-05-2009 10:02AM

scruttocks wrote: »

got a call

aw.. not fair...:(

What does a call mean tho... Can you take it that you got it?

JC 2K3 · 08-05-2009 10:03AM

AFAIK BESS scholars get a call the friday before Trinity Monday, essentially telling them it'd be a good idea to show up on the day.

dan719 · 08-05-2009 10:36AM

Anyone in BESS, TSM Eonomics and Business is called on the Thursday before Trinity Monday to inform thet would be 'in their interest to be in front square'. Theoretically it can mean you won a prize for being the 'best non-scholar' but in reality it means Scruttocks is living the life from here on in. Shame about his looks though.:P

Supposedly this applies in Law also but I can't vouch for that.

tolosenc · 08-05-2009 01:05PM

scruttocks wrote: »

got a call

Congratulations dude.

tolosenc · 08-05-2009 06:23PM

JC 2K3 wrote: »

AFAIK BESS scholars get a call the friday before Trinity Monday, essentially telling them it'd be a good idea to show up on the day.

dan719 wrote: »

Anyone in BESS, TSM Eonomics and Business is called on the Thursday before Trinity Monday to inform thet would be 'in their interest to be in front square'. Theoretically it can mean you won a prize for being the 'best non-scholar' but in reality it means Scruttocks is living the life from here on in. Shame about his looks though.:P

Supposedly this applies in Law also but I can't vouch for that.

Thinking about this, I doesn't make sense that some departments tell their students early. It should be all or none. And too, if those departments that tell their students are ones who expect to get at least one scholar each year(I'm guessing that BESS and Law would consistently get at least one scholar) rather than those who rarely get them. The courses that JC and I take overlap for ~half of the exams, and there have been only 3 or 4 scholars between them since 04. Logically, shouldn't we be the ones to told?

Podge_irl · 08-05-2009 08:08PM

There is no reason anyone should be told, anymore than you should ever get your exam results early. Its not an official policy in any department to tell people, but lecturers know who got schols and they are, after all, real people and so some feel its fairer to give students a heads up while some don't.

Anyway, I would think the announcement would be less memorable if you already knew.

tolosenc · 09-05-2009 03:24AM

I'd like to know beforehand, so I could get to grips with the result on my own, rather than be ungracious in any way on Monday.

Kwekubo · 09-05-2009 12:56PM

I'm somewhat miffed that I didn't think to ask the Provost whether I got schols when I introduced myself to him last night.

Brods · 09-05-2009 01:23PM

obl wrote: »

I'd like to know beforehand, so I could get to grips with the result on my own, rather than be ungracious in any way on Monday.

Ditto...

mathew · 09-05-2009 09:13PM

So.. anyone up for posting names and courses so we can listen out for each other on Monday?

Mathew Lyons
Engineering

gearoidof · 09-05-2009 09:26PM

gogo mathew ^.^

mathew · 09-05-2009 09:30PM

gearoidof wrote: »

gogo mathew ^.^

postCount++; right there :P

Thank you for your wishes tho

tolosenc · 09-05-2009 10:47PM

mathew wrote: »

So.. anyone up for posting names and courses so we can listen out for each other on Monday?

Richard King
Computer Science, Linguistics and a Language

Out of interest, what order are the new scholars read out? Alphabetically, or by course, or some other way?

shay_562 · 09-05-2009 11:12PM

obl wrote:

Out of interest, what order are the new scholars read out? Alphabetically, or by course, or some other way?

By department (in alphabetical order of departments from Biblical and Theological Studies to TSM) and within department, by surname.

tolosenc · 09-05-2009 11:21PM

shay_562 wrote: »

By department (in alphabetical order of departments from Biblical and Theological Studies to TSM) and within department, by surname.

Ah bollox. Not a single person ever seems to know what department, or even faculty, I'm in.

Sir Ophiuchus · 10-05-2009 12:14AM

Stephen Kenneally
TSM

Podge_irl · 10-05-2009 01:39AM

obl wrote: »

Ah bollox. Not a single person ever seems to know what department, or even faculty, I'm in.

Its read out by course title rather than department I believe.

JC 2K3 · 10-05-2009 12:42PM

I heard it was reverse alphabetical order...

Podge_irl · 10-05-2009 12:47PM

Person or course? Anyway, its neither unless they've changed it (trust me I know, bloody TP is one of the last ones to be called out!)

JC 2K3 · 10-05-2009 01:01PM

Course.

I heard it was long and drawn out, that the fellows were anounced first, followed by the scholars, with a lot of applause after each name, and that CS was one of the last ones to be called out, as it was done in reverse alphabetical order by course.

Then I looked at the schedule and it's only 30 mins long, so I suspect I may have been given false information....

tolosenc · 10-05-2009 01:15PM

I'd imagine this to be representative of the order:

http://www.tcd.ie/Secretary/FellowsScholars/

Wonder if they have the article for tomorrow already on the servers...

HoboJesus · 10-05-2009 01:17PM

Last time it went by course in forward alphabetical order, and within each course, by surname a-z. It'll be the same again this year. Just a note for scientists, your course title in this case is "Science" not "Natural Science". I thought the official title was natural science, so freaked out a little when they went from M to O

.

Schols Schols Schols, information and venting thread.

Comments