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What did you do during your free periods in college ?!

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    #62
    Jeebus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 649 ✭✭✭Jeebus


    orestes wrote: »
    A whole page and noone has said anything about having a fap? Wow

    I said it in the OP!

    Anyway, I did the shopping. Good times!


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    #63
    Idjit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭Idjit


    well im doing a plc in a business park enclosed inside an industrial estate twenty minutes from a tiny village with nothing but a shop,a deli,a garage and a smattering of iddy biddy houses so I dont know what your complaining about! whenever i have a free period the entire time is spent just trying to work out which end of the village is the least dreary! The college itself uses a hallway with a couple of vending machines as a cantine and theres no gym,library or sofas to be seen! As far as I know, there isn't even friggin wireless internet!
    So heres some tips from someone who REALLY knows what it means to be bored!:
    -Bring a gameboy/DS/phone with games on it/other portable console+several games or one really good game.
    -If you're doing a language in college,buy/borrow(from the library)a CD/casette tape of lessons for that language and spend you're free periods listening to it.
    -The most simple:Bring a book. Borrow as many books from the library as possible and read them up over the free periods you get. If you have a recommended reading list, read the books from this and get ahead of the game!
    -Study(not an option for a PLC student really but I think you 3rd level heads are meant to be doing that).
    -Bring a deck of cards/boardgames if theres more than one of you with a free period together.(or just bring a deck of cards when you're alone and teach yourself magic tricks :P)
    -MP3 player/Walkman/Radio etc.Listen to some good tunes and chill out.Since you're meant to be exerting so much energy in lectures, you should take the time to just do nothing outside them.
    -Catch up with friends from other colleges/in work/different locations on the phone.
    -If you're lucky enough to have a gym, use it. Or for the cheaper option,go for a walk/cycle and just enjoy being out and about!


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    #64
    wolfric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭wolfric


    I hate to think what happens when you don't have college... What's it like when you have the whole day free?


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    #65
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    Abigayle wrote: »
    Go to the library to do some research for an assignment I'm doing.

    Nerd:pac:


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    #66
    donmeister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭donmeister


    Naikon wrote: »
    Nerd:pac:

    .....says the guy sitting behind a NAT box :pac:


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    #67
    candy-gal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    down in the students union to play pool or watch mtv!
    pub!
    library to study :eek:


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    #68
    banshee_bones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,160 ✭✭✭✭banshee_bones


    eat, drink tea, chat,read,go into town, study, go home and sleep off hangover!

    I didnt discover boards til after college.... my postgrad now may be at stake! eeep!


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    #69
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Hey OP - next time you're at a loss you can come over to my house and play the time-honoured student game entitled 'Doing Anonoboy's washing and cleaning his house you feckin' sponging b*stard'.

    It's loads of fun. Promise. :)


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    #70
    orestes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    muffy wrote: »
    Going to Wildchild's closing down sale has been taking up alot of time laos lately. Damn addictive 2er hats.

    Wait, Wild Child is closing down?! :eek:


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    #71
    civis_liberalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    Lollipops23 wrote: »
    We usually descended on the canteen en masse, and enjoyed cups of tea that tasted exactly like mushroom soup...
    I dunno man, I think it was just the shrooms...


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    #72
    pikachucheeks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭pikachucheeks


    Sit in the canteen chatting.

    ... or being a dork online.


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    #73
    zuroph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,102 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    oxygen.ie was my boards back then.

    that, or if the exGF was around, we found quiet spots in the building :p


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    #74
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Didnt do the "pile into the canteen and talk sh!t" routine as I was abit antisocial in college. Probably spent most free classes in computer labs playing Quake2 on the lan with a few other lads in my class:D - God I wish I could get back to those days. Ocasionally afew of us would go to the college bar and get ourselves liquered up so that we'd coast thru the rest of the afternoon in abit of a daze.
    If it was coming up to exams, Id study I spose.


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    #75
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Magnus wrote: »
    Go for a run, it'll clear your head in preparation for all the studying you have to do next.

    What kind of maniac actually goes for a run? Might as well take a hammer to your knees and save up for the hip-replacement operations. It'd be less work and slightly more sane. Or go for broke and have a root canal and some dried prunes for breakfast.

    A run. What a quaint notion.


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    #76
    Cupcake_Crisis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    pikachucheeks wrote: »
    Sit in the canteen chatting.

    ... or being a dork online.

    My college has all the fun sites blocked, even boards!! :( sometimes, the boredom gets so bad i actually have to talk to people.....*shudder*


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    #77
    104494431
    Closed Accounts Posts: 210 ✭✭104494431


    had sex


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    #78
    nameproblem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭nameproblem


    banshee_bones wrote: »
    eat, drink tea, chat,read,go into town, study, go home and sleep off hangover!

    I didnt discover boards til after college.... my postgrad now may be at stake! eeep!

    Luckily my postgrad involves being on boards :) waste time on here and get approval from my supervisor for doing so :)


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