The Grapevine (OFF TOPIC CHAT)

Tar.Aldarion · 23-05-2010 10:15PM

I bet heh heh heh

23-05-2010 10:16PM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I bet heh heh heh

What are you suggesting? :eek:

Tar.Aldarion · 23-05-2010 10:17PM

You enjoy mechanical engineering

23-05-2010 10:20PM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

You enjoy mechanical engineering

SMACK!

Just in case. :P

anothernight · 23-05-2010 10:21PM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

yay for vampires hsss hsss. It's too hot these days. How long til your exams

Exams start on the 9th. Can't wait! Wish my friends would stop telling me to shut up when I say that though lol

Moonbaby wrote: »

I'm hoping to go back to Mech this year. ~fingers crossed~
I really enjoy the machiney parts.

So you did mechanical engineering? =] Where, if you don't mind me asking?

Tar.Aldarion · 23-05-2010 10:22PM

Moonbaby wrote: »

SMACK!

Just in case. :P

*eyelashes*

anothernight wrote: »

Exams start on the 9th. Can't wait! Wish my friends would stop telling me to shut up when I say that though lol

Awww, our pet nerd

anothernight · 23-05-2010 10:31PM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Awww, our pet nerd

>_<

I'm only looking forward to it because the sooner it begins, the sooner it will end, and it's not exactly hard =]

23-05-2010 10:35PM

anothernight wrote: »

Exams start on the 9th. Can't wait! Wish my friends would stop telling me to shut up when I say that though lol

People get really stressed over this stuff. It is great that you aren't.
I got a smack in the face from my bestie for not giving a damn about mine.
So maybe it is wise to keep a lid on it.

anothernight wrote: »

So you did mechanical engineering? =] Where, if you don't mind me asking?

I was a mechanical technician. I don't think this really exists as a study option anymore. Upskilled tradespeople have taken over what is left of the sector.
I went to DIT Bolton St.
Where do you want to go? Ideally?

23-05-2010 10:35PM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

*eyelashes*

They are so soft, like butterfly kisses!

~sighs~

Tar.Aldarion · 23-05-2010 10:37PM

I really enjoyed not needing many points for mine, no worry at all, games all night before exams kinda lark. Only figured out what study was come 4th year of college

lol@butterfly kisses and I can't believe you felt them up :mad:

anothernight · 23-05-2010 10:40PM

Moonbaby wrote: »

I was a mechanical technician. I don't think this really exists as a study option anymore. Upskilled tradespeople have taken over what is left of the sector.
I went to DIT Bolton St.
Where do you want to go? Ideally?

No I don't think it exist anymore. At least we've never been told about it.

My first choice is Trinity, mostly because it's sooo much easier to get to from Lucan compared to the other colleges (and NUIM doesn't have what I want)

entropi · 23-05-2010 11:01PM

Aye Lucan's pretty handy if you live near a 151/25/25a stop:) Many a time I've got a 7:25am or so bus home from my friends place there on a Sun morn haha!!

Dont sweat too much about teh LC...take it seriously but not too much like, else you'll just overload and crash...happened to me

anothernight · 23-05-2010 11:06PM

Master of Nothing wrote: »

Dont sweat too much about teh LC...take it seriously but not too much like, else you'll just overload and crash...happened to me

You? Really? I was under the impression that all you people were totally cool with the LC when yous did it lol

23-05-2010 11:07PM

anothernight wrote: »

No I don't think it exist anymore. At least we've never been told about it.

My first choice is Trinity, mostly because it's sooo much easier to get to from Lucan compared to the other colleges (and NUIM doesn't have what I want)

No the Job sector has vanished to Eastern europe and Asia

hhmm The Trinity degree is supposed to be more mathsie than the rest, and somewhat lacking in technical practicality. I don't think it is a B. Eng either.
But I don't think it really matters where you go in the end. An engineering degree is just equipping you with the languages, you learn how to do it when you go out to the real world.

23-05-2010 11:18PM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I really enjoyed not needing many points for mine, no worry at all, games all night before exams kinda lark. Only figured out what study was come 4th year of college

I was challenging as a teenage ginger student. I got kicked out of honours maths.
So the only way I was doing engineering was through an IT. I needed something ridculious like 12 points.
I remember for history, I started studying in the lunch break before. But only after I went home to cook a dinner. I did deserve that slap.

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

lol@butterfly kisses and I can't believe you felt them up :mad:

You can't believe it....seriously? But yeah like Sorry.

entropi · 23-05-2010 11:28PM

anothernight wrote: »

You? Really? I was under the impression that all you people were totally cool with the LC when yous did it lol

Well its probably the toughest testing I've ever had to do, yet had no bearing on my life after school as what I've done since then had nothing to do with LC subjects. I hated math, so focused on history, business and geography mostly:p

It'll be different for you entering engineering, which will have you using Higher maths and probably mechanical drawing for most of your working life but you'll do really well I know it

Moonbaby wrote: »

I was challenging as a teenage ginger student. I got kicked out of honours maths.
So the only way I was doing engineering was through an IT. I needed something ridculious like 12 points.
I remember for history, I started studying in the lunch break before. But only after I went home to cook a dinner. I did deserve that slap.

Haha thrown out for having opinions...I love it:D

And you only spent like a little while on history study? I revised for a week for that one, then again writing like 6+ pages each on different historical figureheads needed that amount of attention, let alone the simple questions:pac:

And my two most important practical exams are in the morning, so I better get back to some study (origin/insertion/action of around 60 muscles...shoot me now).

anothernight · 23-05-2010 11:35PM

What do you do, MoN? Just curious

23-05-2010 11:48PM

Master of Nothing wrote: »

Haha thrown out for having opinions...I love it:D

And you only spent like a little while on history study? I revised for a week for that one, then again writing like 6+ pages each on different historical figureheads needed that amount of attention, let alone the simple questions:pac:

And my two most important practical exams are in the morning, so I better get back to some study (origin/insertion/action of around 60 muscles...shoot me now).

For being a lazy pain in the hole more like :P
The teacher was painfully shy though, her disciplining method for other people was to pull a silent but dignified sad face.
I like to think yelling at me was therapeutic for her. :P

An hour tops. I have a really unnaturally good memory though. If I see something written down it usually sticks.
It can freak people out, because I'll met them once and remember what we were talking about years later. Like a crazy stalker lady.

You know you'll kick ass! I will beat you if I see you online again though :P
Good luck!

--LOS-- · 23-05-2010 11:51PM

Moonbaby wrote: »

hhmm The Trinity degree is supposed to be more mathsie than the rest, and somewhat lacking in technical practicality. I don't think it is a B. Eng either.
But I don't think it really matters where you go in the end. An engineering degree is just equipping you with the languages, you learn how to do it when you go out to the real world.

I think engineering can vary a lot between colleges, depends whether you want the more practical side of things versus theoretical. A friend of mine did mech in trinity and covered a lot of similar stuff to me in the beginning, same maths etc but it wouldn't like this everywhere.

In trinity it's a B.A.I. which is confusing coz it makes it sound like bachelor of arts but it's actually just a latin term, I wouldn't think it would matter too much on your cv anyway.

A lot of people do go into engineering looking for that "engineer job" but I would just say it's a science like physics or maths or whatever and it needn't be as clear cut as that.

Master of Nothing wrote: »

Well its probably the toughest testing I've ever had to do, yet had no bearing on my life after school as what I've done since then had nothing to do with LC subjects.

I never understand this, to me the leaving cert was nothing compared to college.

Master of Nothing wrote: »

And my two most important practical exams are in the morning, so I better get back to some study (origin/insertion/action of around 60 muscles...shoot me now).

G'luck!

anothernight · 24-05-2010 12:11AM

--LOS-- wrote: »

A lot of people do go into engineering looking for that "engineer job" but I would just say it's a science like physics or maths or whatever and it needn't be as clear cut as that.

I'm actually looking at it that way. Going to college to get some skills and then doing something with those skills. Not too sure that I'll want to try and become a 'proper' engineer (as in get your 'typical' regular engineering job). I mean I wouldn't actually mind that, but I'm certainly not assuming that that's where I'll end up.
Tbh I'd rather be self employed at some stage in my life anyway.

--LOS-- · 24-05-2010 12:23AM

anothernight wrote: »

I'm actually looking at it that way. Going to college to get some skills and then doing something with those skills. Not too sure that I'll want to try and become a 'proper' engineer (as in get your 'typical' regular engineering job). I mean I wouldn't actually mind that, but I'm certainly not assuming that that's where I'll end up.
Tbh I'd rather be self employed at some stage in my life anyway.

Nothing wrong with those jobs, also nothing wrong with academic engineers or switching between disciplines afterwards. I think a physics degree will give you all the same skills though, obviously depends on your own interests you can cover totally different stuff between the disciplines but a lot of people have little idea what they're really interested in when they start so I think it isn't something to get too hung up on.

I don't like that a lot of engineering subjects are very application based. I think if you're an academic then you are kinda self-employed in a way.

Anyway my point is physics is better hahahahaa :pac:

Tar.Aldarion · 24-05-2010 12:26AM

Moonbaby wrote: »

I was challenging as a teenage ginger student. I got kicked out of honours maths.
So the only way I was doing engineering was through an IT. I needed something ridculious like 12 points.
I remember for history, I started studying in the lunch break before. But only after I went home to cook a dinner. I did deserve that slap.

You can't believe it....seriously? But yeah like Sorry.

Oh you were bad. We wouldn't have been friends so /front seat

anothernight wrote: »

I'm actually looking at it that way. Going to college to get some skills and then doing something with those skills. Not too sure that I'll want to try and become a 'proper' engineer (as in get your 'typical' regular engineering job). I mean I wouldn't actually mind that, but I'm certainly not assuming that that's where I'll end up.
Tbh I'd rather be self employed at some stage in my life anyway.

Yeah self employed would be good. I bet those girls make a lot of money.

Engineering is better.

/fades into woodwork after dishing out his snipes :pac:

--LOS-- · 24-05-2010 12:35AM

lalala can of worms lalalala

A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer were all given a red rubber
ball and told to find the volume. The mathematician carefully measured
the diameter and evaluated a triple integral. The physicist filled a
beaker with water, put the ball in the water, and measured the total
displacement. The engineer looked up the model and serial numbers in
his red-rubber-ball table.

If it was my company: The engineer tried to look up the model and serial
numbers, couldn't find them, so told his manager that it's just not going
to work.

anothernight · 24-05-2010 12:36AM

--LOS-- wrote: »

Nothing wrong with those jobs, also nothing wrong with academic engineers or switching between disciplines afterwards. I think a physics degree will give you all the same skills though, obviously depends on your own interests you can cover totally different stuff between the disciplines but a lot of people have little idea what they're really interested in when they start so I think it isn't something to get too hung up on.

I don't like that a lot of engineering subjects are very application based. I think if you're an academic then you are kinda self-employed in a way.

Anyway my point is physics is better hahahahaa :pac:

Theoretical Physics was going to be my first choice (it's hard to pick something when people keep telling you you can do anything >_< ) Except that then I realised that I much prefer the practical side of things. Theory is fine, but only if it is then applied to something practical. And that is how TP got removed hehe

And yes, engineering is better haha =P (I might be slightly biased. I know too many engineers)

EDIT: Weird.... Tar was away from this thread for hours! That's a first.

Tar.Aldarion · 24-05-2010 12:42AM

You only need to know one to know they are better there you.

An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist are each presented with a beautiful woman and the stipulation that at each time interval, they may move half of the remaining distance towards her.
The mathematician points out that the distance will never reach zero, and walks away in disgust.

The physicist observes that at each time interval, the amount of heat transfer (body to body) will quadruple, and proceeds.

The engineer, while fully understanding the math and physics involved, is puzzled. "What's the point?", he asks. "I mean, why bother?..."

Tar's version

In this version the engineer / mathematician / physicist are all placed 8 feet from the woman.

The mathematician concludes that after N iterations there will be 8 divided by 2N feet remaining which will never equal zero so he gives up on the spot.

The physicist opines that if each iteration requires a finite amount of energy then the energy expended in the approach will be inversely proportional to the distance remaining and gives up on the spot.

Tar says "8 feet, 4 feet, 2 feet, 1 foot, 6 inches, good enough for practical purposes".

--LOS-- · 24-05-2010 12:48AM

anothernight wrote: »

EDIT: Weird.... Tar was away from this thread for hours! That's a first.

I know, I thought he was gone too, only reason I started posting.

Tar..........fail.

/to the physicists are better joke store

anothernight · 24-05-2010 12:49AM

Haha nice. (bf also laughed. Had to show him that because you both seem to think alike =P)

24-05-2010 12:49AM

--LOS-- wrote: »

In trinity it's a B.A.I. which is confusing coz it makes it sound like bachelor of arts but it's actually just a latin term, I wouldn't think it would matter too much on your cv anyway.

Ahh! I dont imagine there is any difference so.

--LOS-- wrote: »

A lot of people do go into engineering looking for that "engineer job" but I would just say it's a science like physics or maths or whatever and it needn't be as clear cut as that.

I think the mindset is completely different. Scientists want to know, engineers want to do.
There is scientific content, but these things are only tools to be applied to shiney things that do something fun or useful or loud. :P
Things like teamwork, project management and other business skills are just as important.
The thing about mechanical engineering, is that you graduate with alot to learn. It can take years before you are up to speed with an established engineer. So companys are reluctant to spend the money on training you.
Any little bit of practically that might speed up the learning process, is an attractive asset to a future employer.

I don't think I have ever met an engineer who was attracted to academia at the outset.

--LOS-- wrote: »

Anyway my point is physics is better hahahahaa :pac:

That is what this is about! Your trying to steal her away!
Quick Tar explode something shiney to keep her in the cool kids camp!

What kind of physics do you study?

Tar.Aldarion · 24-05-2010 12:53AM

I came back at the same time as you guys, what a coinkidink.

It wasn't a fail really! Seems some people here have taste

/toss trinity scarf over shoulder and storm out

Oh how do you get -1 apples...you go to the mathematician next door and take the apple he doesn't have

hohoh

24-05-2010 12:54AM

anothernight wrote: »

Tbh I'd rather be self employed at some stage in my life anyway.

This is why I am changing back to Mech, more opportunities to make other people make your money for you :P

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