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IHeartChemistry · 10-01-2012 08:11PM

cloud493 wrote: »

She called me a self harming english ****. Have to draw a line somewhere and all that.

Man, you have such a rough life. One drama after another.

cloud493 · 10-01-2012 08:21PM

IHeartChemistry wrote: »

Man, you have such a rough life. One drama after another.

This isn't worth a drama

There was just absolutely, no need, for such a comment.

IHeartChemistry · 10-01-2012 08:24PM

cloud493 wrote: »

This isn't worth a drama There was just absolutely, no need, for such a comment.

But she hardly randomly just came out with that like. Why would anyone just randomly call you a ''self harming english cnut'' ?

Eathrin · 10-01-2012 08:27PM

Aoibheann wrote: »

But but Dublin has awesome maths! And awesome boardsies! :O

What do you study? I'm looking to do Maths science next year:)

cloud493 · 10-01-2012 08:31PM

IHeartChemistry wrote: »

But she hardly randomly just came out with that like. Why would anyone just randomly call you a ''self harming english cnut'' ?

Well, before the christmas break, I started wearing short sleeves, as a confidence thing, to show, I don't care about it. Bout the start of december. And the guidance counsellor, with the headmaster, called me into her(guidance counsellors office) and asked, where they did the scars come from? And I told them straight out, confidence thing and all that. And they were all 'oh I see, well if you need any support you know where we are etc' Which was sound. Anyhow, i assume the other teachers noticed, or were told, since, without being explicit, its not pretty scarring. In fact, its not good at all. And a few other teachers had told me if I needed any support, I could talk to them.
I assume said english teacher noticed, and this wasn't the first disagreement we've had. And I haven't always been so 'non retaliatory' with her, in fairness. But even disregarding my less than perfect conduct, no need for that comment.

IHeartChemistry · 10-01-2012 08:35PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Well, before the christmas break, I started wearing short sleeves, as a confidence thing, to show, I don't care about it. Bout the start of december. And the guidance counsellor, with the headmaster, called me into her(guidance counsellors office) and asked, where they did the scars come from? And I told them straight out, confidence thing and all that. And they were all 'oh I see, well if you need any support you know where we are etc' Which was sound. Anyhow, i assume the other teachers noticed, or were told, since, without being explicit, its not pretty scarring. In fact, its not good at all. And a few other teachers had told me if I needed any support, I could talk to them.
I assume said english teacher noticed, and this wasn't the first disagreement we've had. And I haven't always been so 'non retaliatory' with her, in fairness. But even disregarding my less than perfect conduct, no need for that comment.

Dude, I didnt ask you that, I asked why did she just today, randomly call you that?

cloud493 · 10-01-2012 08:36PM

She was having a go at the class. For a ****ing 20 minute period, saying absolutely nothing, essentially. So I said 'no, our lack of progress couldn't be your substandard* teaching, or the fact your wasting our lessons shouting at us?' Then she said it.

I did not say substandard. I said ****.

Grindylow · 10-01-2012 08:37PM

A teacher would be fired for that if it really happened, and it would be made into something a lot more than what you're making it out to be. God.

cloud493 · 10-01-2012 08:37PM

Well it was only this afternoon

IHeartChemistry · 10-01-2012 08:49PM

Man, in all fairness, you went out of line with saying that to her. But I really would doubt that a teacher would say that to ANY student. If she said it, then fine. But you did start it with her, so she had a right to snap back at you. Her choice of words were wrong, but if a student said that to me, I'd be pretty pissed off too.

10-01-2012 08:52PM

Cian A wrote: »

What do you study? I'm looking to do Maths science next year:)

Go for it! I do Maths Science in UCD.

cloud493 · 10-01-2012 08:57PM

IHeartChemistry wrote: »

Man, in all fairness, you went out of line with saying that to her. But I really would doubt that a teacher would say that to ANY student. If she said it, then fine. But you did start it with her, so she had a right to snap back at you. Her choice of words were wrong, but if a student said that to me, I'd be pretty pissed off too.

I shouldn't have said it, absolutely not. Moment of stupidity on my part. And she had every right to shout back at me. But there was no need to say something like that. No need at all. But anyway. I guess I'l find out tomorrow, I've been told to go see the principal when I get in, so we'll see.

Anyhow. Temperature has dropped again. Its bloody freezing.

Aisling(",) · 10-01-2012 10:01PM

hmmmm...to try get a night out for thursday or not.I don't have exams till next Tuesday so I think I'll have to give it a bash!

Eathrin · 10-01-2012 10:42PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Go for it! I do Maths Science in UCD.

In that case you're a valuable resource to me:D CAO deadline coming up and all:( That's my first choice right now, trying to decide if it'd be as good as Actuarial studies or Theoretical physics in TCD.

seanbmc · 10-01-2012 10:46PM

Well Netflix is awesome.

Aoibheann · 10-01-2012 10:48PM

Cian A wrote: »

In that case you're a valuable resource to me:D CAO deadline coming up and all:( That's my first choice right now, trying to decide if it'd be as good as Actuarial studies or Theoretical physics in TCD.

To answer your question before, I'm doing Maths in Trinity. I transferred from TP into it midway through second year.. In order to make myself a better theoretical physicist.. :pac: The maths department in Trinity do TP courses a lot better than the physics department, oddly enough! If you need info on the Maths or TP course, I'll be happy to help.

Professey Chin · 10-01-2012 11:11PM

seanbmc wrote: »

Well Netflix is awesome.

Doctor Who has me set for a while.
Forgot how much I loved the 1st Dalek episode.
"Im here to help. Im the Doctor"
"Doc.....tor.......The......Doc...tor!!!!!EXTERMINATE!!!EXTERMINATE!!!!!!!"

Holy sh!t im a nerd

Eathrin · 10-01-2012 11:51PM

Aoibheann wrote: »

To answer your question before, I'm doing Maths in Trinity. I transferred from TP into it midway through second year.. In order to make myself a better theoretical physicist.. :pac: The maths department in Trinity do TP courses a lot better than the physics department, oddly enough! If you need info on the Maths or TP course, I'll be happy to help.

Weird enough thing to do:p! How do you find doing maths all of the time? It's difficult to imagine just doing maths as much as I like it in school. I was leaning towards UCD but someone told me that TCD has a better science building, I can't imagine either being greatly better either way.

How far are you in your course?

Aoibheann · 11-01-2012 12:04AM

Cian A wrote: »

Weird enough thing to do:p! How do you find doing maths all of the time? It's difficult to imagine just doing maths as much as I like it in school. I was leaning towards UCD but someone told me that TCD has a better science building, I can't imagine either being greatly better either way.

How far are you in your course?

It's actually a very common thing to do, we've had a lot of transfers for that exact reason! Well, I find it a lot better than the mixture of maths and physics I was doing! And tbh, the variety of courses I'm taking means that it's not like I'm doing the same thing the whole time. For example, this year I'm taking courses in theoretical physics (quantum mechanics, classical field theory, statistical physics and have sat in on several others), pure maths (galois theory, lie algebras, PDES, etc), statistics (statistical inference) and "applied" maths (information theory, category theory). I found the physics I was doing in first and second year was almost entirely irrelevant for a theoretical physics student and was much more geared towards a materials physicist - not what I'm into at all.

Personally, I think that the maths course in Trinity is better for the pure maths aspect. I find that UCD's course is much more geared towards the real world (definitely not a bad thing, it's probably very useful :P) in that they have mandatory statistics courses in most (all?) years and seem to have a lot of applied maths courses. I'd be very surprised if UCD's course gave you a better grounding in theoretical physics or pure maths (their postgraduate/postdoctorate research in analysis is excellent, but it does not yet seem to have filtered to the undergraduate level which is most unfortunate), but I can see that it has its own benefits and it really does depend on what you're looking for in a course?

Oh, and I'm in third year atm - which unfortunately has equal weighting to my fourth year! >.<

**Timbuk2** · 11-01-2012 12:15AM

Cian A wrote: »

In that case you're a valuable resource to me:D CAO deadline coming up and all:( That's my first choice right now, trying to decide if it'd be as good as Actuarial studies or Theoretical physics in TCD.

I'm doing Actuarial and Financial Studies in UCD (in 2nd year at the moment) so feel free to PM me if you have any questions. I love it, but it's quite different from Pure Maths or Theoretical Physics. It's quite maths based, but less proof/theorem/proof/theorem than pure maths and more computational, and obviously more finance-y than both courses. There's quite a bit of statistics in my course, whereas TP has very little.
In first year we do Maths (share some pure maths modules with the MathSci students), Computer Science (intro to C++), Statistics (first year stats is quite easy though), economics and accounting.
In second year we do Actuarial Maths (very very tough, but good lecturer), statistics/probability (again, nothing too challenging, great lecturers so far, only half way through), corporate finance and then whichever elective/option modules we take (I took more calculus and microeconomics).

Insect Overlord · 11-01-2012 12:33AM

I was watching Rude Tube on E4 earlier. Now I feel like I should be trying to get famous on the Internet. Somebody talk some sense into me, please.

Eathrin · 11-01-2012 12:58AM

Aoibheann wrote: »

It's actually a very common thing to do, we've had a lot of transfers for that exact reason! Well, I find it a lot better than the mixture of maths and physics I was doing! And tbh, the variety of courses I'm taking means that it's not like I'm doing the same thing the whole time. For example, this year I'm taking courses in theoretical physics (quantum mechanics, classical field theory, statistical physics and have sat in on several others), pure maths (galois theory, lie algebras, PDES, etc), statistics (statistical inference) and "applied" maths (information theory, category theory). I found the physics I was doing in first and second year was almost entirely irrelevant for a theoretical physics student and was much more geared towards a materials physicist - not what I'm into at all.

Personally, I think that the maths course in Trinity is better for the pure maths aspect. I find that UCD's course is much more geared towards the real world (definitely not a bad thing, it's probably very useful :P) in that they have mandatory statistics courses in most (all?) years and seem to have a lot of applied maths courses. I'd be very surprised if UCD's course gave you a better grounding in theoretical physics or pure maths (their postgraduate/postdoctorate research in analysis is excellent, but it does not yet seem to have filtered to the undergraduate level which is most unfortunate), but I can see that it has its own benefits and it really does depend on what you're looking for in a course?

Oh, and I'm in third year atm - which unfortunately has equal weighting to my fourth year! >.<

Thanks that's really good info:) Somebody else told me before that the TP in TCD is actually much more hands-on than the name implies.

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

I'm doing Actuarial and Financial Studies in UCD (in 2nd year at the moment) so feel free to PM me if you have any questions. I love it, but it's quite different from Pure Maths or Theoretical Physics. It's quite maths based, but less proof/theorem/proof/theorem than pure maths and more computational, and obviously more finance-y than both courses. There's quite a bit of statistics in my course, whereas TP has very little.
In first year we do Maths (share some pure maths modules with the MathSci students), Computer Science (intro to C++), Statistics (first year stats is quite easy though), economics and accounting.
In second year we do Actuarial Maths (very very tough, but good lecturer), statistics/probability (again, nothing too challenging, great lecturers so far, only half way through), corporate finance and then whichever elective/option modules we take (I took more calculus and microeconomics).

That all sounds like stuff I'd be into doing, the only problem I see with doing that degree is I feel that I'd be restricting myself to one specific career where MathsSci seems like the broader degree for prospects, or maybe that's just me.

Oh, another thing, I'm sure that whatever course I do it'll be male dominated right? Not a good thing:p

**Timbuk2** · 11-01-2012 01:02AM

Cian A wrote: »

That all sounds like stuff I'd be into doing, the only problem I see with doing that degree is I feel that I'd be restricting myself to one specific career where MathsSci seems like the broader degree for prospects, or maybe that's just me.

Well, it's fairly specific but I wouldn't say you restrict yourself too much - you still have options afterwards, branch off into finance, or even a maths postgraduate, or statistics postgraduate.

Another option if you aren't fully sure about being an actuary, is to do a degree such as MathSci, and then do the Actuarial Science Hdip in UCD - it's a one year intensive hdip which entitles you to some of the 8 CT exemptions from actuarial exams. Doing my course entitles you to the 8 CT exemptions and one of the CA1 exemptions (basically, less exams you have to pass after you graduate).

You can always become an actuary by doing neither, you can go straight from a mathematical/statistical degree into an actuarial firm (e.g. insurance firm) if they hire you, and do the exams from scratch, it's quite common to do this!

Pigwidgeon · 11-01-2012 01:06AM

Phone turned off, no alarm set, ear plugs in. This is going to be one epic sleep. Ahhhhh.

Professey Chin · 11-01-2012 01:07AM

Pigwidgeon wrote: »

Phone turned off, no alarm set, ear plugs in. This is going to be one epic sleep. Ahhhhh.

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SMASHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Pigwidgeon · 11-01-2012 01:09AM

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

WOOOOOOOOOWOOOOOOOOOOOOWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWOOOOOOOOOO
HONKHONKHONKHONKHONK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SMASHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

I CAN'T HEEEEEEEEEEEARRRRRRRRRRRRR YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU.

I don't know if I like earplugs or not. It's a very strange feeling wearing them. Kind of like being underwater.

QueenOfLeon · 11-01-2012 01:17AM

Pigwidgeon wrote: »

I don't know if I like earplugs or not. It's a very strange feeling wearing them. Kind of like being underwater.

I really hate wearing earplugs. It feels so isolated...anything could be happening around you and you'd have no idea!

Professey Chin · 11-01-2012 01:18AM

QueenOfLeon wrote: »

I really hate wearing earplugs. It feels so isolated...anything could be happening around you and you'd have no idea!

:pac:

Aoibheann · 11-01-2012 01:28AM

Cian A wrote: »

Thanks that's really good info:) Somebody else told me before that the TP in TCD is actually much more hands-on than the name implies.

I guess it can be alright. Well, you do 3 hours of labs a week.. That's the most hands-on it gets really!

Cian A wrote: »

That all sounds like stuff I'd be into doing, the only problem I see with doing that degree is I feel that I'd be restricting myself to one specific career where MathsSci seems like the broader degree for prospects, or maybe that's just me.

If you're not sure you want to go into the actuarial side of things, the maths degree is very useful and you can definitely specialise later - a friend of mine is working as an actuarial trainee (preparing to sit exams etc at the moment, it's part of the firm's graduate program) and he did a maths degree. You'd be doing most/all the exams from scratch, but that's not a major problem once you don't mind - you'd find you'd have a lot of the material covered by taking a lot of stats courses in maths anyway.

Cian A wrote: »

Oh, another thing, I'm sure that whatever course I do it'll be male dominated right? Not a good thing:p

Hmm, not entirely true. TP certainly was hugely male-dominated - there were 8 girls out of 40 in my year, and now only 3 of them are left in TP due to people switching to pure maths, physics or failing a year. In my year in maths however, out of about 18 of us, I can think of 8 girls, so the difference isn't huge. There can be a massive variation from year to year though, I know there was only 2 girls in this year's TP intake and one of them is gone already - however there were 10 girls in the corresponding maths class.

cloud493 · 11-01-2012 10:07AM

The awkward moment when your sleeping really well, nice and comfy in bed.... Then you have to pee.

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