Daily bitch about life in Maynooth! (read post #1)

aaabbbb · 22-08-2012 08:20PM #1

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Happy ranting!!

Really was sure this had been done before , but can't seem to find it

Anyways every other college seems to have one so why not the 'nooth !

What are your daily rants/bitchings about life in Maynooth ?!

Like for me the lack of a gate on bond bridge into the old college ! :mad:

Or that UPC isn't avaliable in all the houses grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !! (this one I'm really fuming about atm ! :P )

Or the shortage of places to go out esp on really busy nights , such as the last day of term!!

Turtyturd · 22-08-2012 08:44PM

There is still no sign of the timetable.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::pac:

aaabbbb · 22-08-2012 08:46PM

+1 for that too grrrr trying to apply for jobs with no timetable is impossible!! Went into one place today and was asked when I'd be available to work , only answer I could give was I honestly didn't know ?!

PictureFrame · 22-08-2012 08:48PM

Turtyturd wrote: »

There is still no sign of the timetable.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::pac:

^ Yeah this is especially annoying. I'm going into first year Business & Law but it'd be nice to know what hours and days i'm looking at so I can organise my job and travel etc around the hours! Surely it'll be up by the 26th? End of this week like?

aaabbbb · 22-08-2012 08:52PM

PictureFrame wrote: »

^ Yeah this is especially annoying. I'm going into first year Business & Law but it'd be nice to know what hours and days i'm looking at so I can organise my job and travel etc around the hours! Surely it'll be up by the 26th? End of this week like?

It better!!!! Or they will hear me.... ROAR!!!!

Actually if someone was to bother write a strongly worded letter re: timetables what office would it be addressed to ? It wouldn't be the presidents office would it , since he's wholly responsible for the overall running of the University ?

Seren_ · 22-08-2012 09:01PM

I think the registrar is the person in charge of timetables?

Rant: internet is being an ass.

aaabbbb · 22-08-2012 09:09PM

Seren_ wrote: »

I think the registrar is the person in charge of timetables?

Rant: internet is being an ass.

Really? I always wondered what that office did :P

Well whoever it is seriously needs to get their ass into gear!! Or else they're going to have a 1000+ people at their door with bayonets and flaming torches(and perhaps the odd fertilizer bomb for the farming folk among us !

) demanding to know what the f#*k they have been doing these past 12 months !!!!

I WANT MY TIMETABLE AND I WANT IT NOW!!!!

Please and thank you! :P

and as of today I officially hate ISP'S been trying to get internet set up for when I move in in Sept so I'm not stuck with that bloody dongle again !! But they're all either:

1. Not available in my area (Beaufield)
2.Waaayyy to expensive
3. Only available for at least a 24/12 mnth contract!!!!

Grrrrrrrr defiantly not a happy bunny today!!

PictureFrame · 22-08-2012 09:09PM

Seren_ wrote: »

I think the registrar is the person in charge of timetables?

Rant: internet is being an ass.

I don't know who the registrar is.. Does anyone wanna email them? :P

PictureFrame · 22-08-2012 09:11PM

I went onto the Graduates centers page under timetables and they don't even have half of their timetables up yet either.. Kinda disgraceful..

aaabbbb · 22-08-2012 09:17PM

PictureFrame wrote: »

I went onto the Graduates centers page under timetables and they don't even have half of their timetables up yet either.. Kinda disgraceful..

It really is!!

Job description of the register....The Office of the University Registrar supports the academic and research missions of the university and serves as a central administrative office for students, faculty and alumni. We provide data to internal and external constituencies, enabling these offices to make informed enrollment management and policy decisions. This office ensures adherence to academic policy, preserving academic integrity and safeguarding academic records.

So basically they keep a big list and make timetables SERIOUSLY !! They've been given one job to do and they can't even get that right....:mad:

Jonah42 · 22-08-2012 09:19PM

THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH!

Something tells me I'll be posting on this thread a lot in the coming year.

PictureFrame · 22-08-2012 09:24PM

aaabbbb wrote: »

It really is!!

Job description of the register....The Office of the University Registrar supports the academic and research missions of the university and serves as a central administrative office for students, faculty and alumni. We provide data to internal and external constituencies, enabling these offices to make informed enrollment management and policy decisions. This office ensures adherence to academic policy, preserving academic integrity and safeguarding academic records.

So basically they keep a big list and make timetables SERIOUSLY !! They've been given one job to do and they can't even get that right....:mad:

That's it. Im'ma email this registrar person and find out when they are going to publish those timetables.

God, they're going to love me up in NUI Maynooth, haven't even done 1 day up there yet and i'm already demanding stuff.. :pac:

Daemos · 22-08-2012 09:26PM

I love it when I'm in Maynooth. But right now, as with this time last year, I just want to f-cking stay home and do absolutely nothing for a year. I'm sick of studying and I haven't even started yet and moving is so stressful :mad:

DylanII · 22-08-2012 09:26PM

Is there nt some software where they can just put the info in and they get a timetable for it?

It cant be that difficult and it's not like they have been overflowing with work for the past 12 months. It was up this week last year

aaabbbb · 22-08-2012 09:29PM

PictureFrame wrote: »

That's it. Im'ma email this registrar person and find out when they are going to publish those timetables.

God, they're going to love me up in NUI Maynooth, haven't even done 1 day up there yet and i'm already demanding stuff.. :pac:

Make sure it's strongly worded

and let them know they also have a few petrol bombs with their names inscribed on them coming their way if they don't hurry up! :P

and tbh demanding things/being diplomatic is really the only way you'll get any where properly in life imo !

aaabbbb · 22-08-2012 09:34PM

DylanII wrote: »

Is there nt some software where they can just put the info in and they get a timetable for it?

Like Google calender on a mass scale ?

DylanII wrote: »

It cant be that difficult and it's not like they have been overflowing with work for the past 12 months. It was up this week last year

That's exactly my thought , I mean if it is the registrars job then that pretty much is their only job so there really is no excuse!

Damm public sector workers :mad:

DB21 · 22-08-2012 10:20PM

Hope they've reopened the gate between the campuses by September. I am in my arse walking all the way around to go to Logic House/Callan Hall

aaabbbb · 22-08-2012 10:57PM

DB21 wrote: »

Hope they've reopened the gate between the campuses by September. I am in my arse walking all the way around to go to Logic House/Callan Hall

They better , that's how I walk to college and having to walk the back of the library way reallly is a right pain!!

DylanII · 22-08-2012 11:40PM

aaabbbb wrote: »

Like Google calender on a mass scale ?

Like they put into some software the name of each module, the number of students, the type (eg computer room) and how many times per week it needs to be on and then the software allocates each module to a lecture hall making sure none of them clash.

The walkway between the two campuses better be open, otherwise the south campus will be completely out of the question.

aaabbbb · 22-08-2012 11:48PM

DylanII wrote: »

Like they put into some software the name of each module, the number of students, the type (eg computer room) and how many times per week it needs to be on and then the software allocates each module to a lecture hall making sure none of them clash.

The walkway between the two campuses better be open, otherwise the south campus will be completely out of the question.

Think students would have had to have already registered for them to do something like that though

dr.quirky · 23-08-2012 02:35AM

Not specifically college based but...

Drove an hour to The Nooth this evening to meet a letting agent to give him a deposit to secure new house and finish moving my stuff out of house I'm in now. no sign of guy where I'm meeting him, his phone not ringing, wait half hour, nothing, go to house to move my stuff and discover as i went to put key in the door that I had a loan of a car, mines ****ed, that key to house is on MY car keys, which i left an hour away, with other occupants moved out. Drove back having done nothing outside of shouting at the sky alot.

Least.productive.evening.ever.

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4 · 23-08-2012 10:08AM

Turtyturd wrote: »

There is still no sign of the timetable.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::pac:

aaabbbb wrote: »

So basically they keep a big list and make timetables SERIOUSLY !! They've been given one job to do and they can't even get that right....:mad:

I would imaine they would have to wait until the first round of the CAO applications are over, and they get the results of all repeat exams so they will know the sizes of all lecturers and can assign an appropiate class room/lecturer hall/lab. in IT Sligo, we didnt get ours until a few days before lecturers started!

DylanII wrote: »

Like they put into some software the name of each module, the number of students, the type (eg computer room) and how many times per week it needs to be on and then the software allocates each module to a lecture hall making sure none of them clash.

exactly, but the software is only as good as the data thats inputed, i.e. student numbers

aaabbbb · 23-08-2012 04:21PM

Celine Kind Wastebasket wrote: »

I would imaine they would have to wait until the first round of the CAO applications are over, and they get the results of all repeat exams so they will know the sizes of all lecturers and can assign an appropiate class room/lecturer hall/lab. in IT Sligo, we didnt get ours until a few days before lecturers started!

The timetable was out this time last year , so they clearly dont use the student number thing. I have proof also, because in first year for the first semester of chemistry (before some ppl dropped for this very reason , among others) about 40 people had to stand per lecture if not more 'cos there wasn't enough seats for everyone in the lecture hall that was enrolled in the class!!!!:eek:

aaabbbb · 23-08-2012 04:52PM

I swear If I have to see this one more time , I'm not sure we will have a university to return to and I won't be held accountable for my actions either !!!! :pac:

Turtyturd · 24-08-2012 06:46PM

aaabbbb wrote: »

I swear If I have to see this one more time , I'm not sure we will have a university to return to and I won't be held accountable for my actions either !!!! :pac:

Tomorrow will be the tenth day since I received my email from admission saying the timetable will be up in the next ten days....wonder what time it will be up at?:rolleyes:

plumpote · 24-08-2012 06:49PM

Timetable's up !!!!!!

aaabbbb · 24-08-2012 06:52PM

Turtyturd wrote: »

Tomorrow will be the tenth day since I received my email from admission saying the timetable will be up in the next ten days....wonder what time it will be up at?:rolleyes:

:rolleyes: It better be up !! Lost myself out on a job today because I had no real idea when I'd be available ! :mad: Usually when they release things it's around 9AM so heres hoping....

aaabbbb · 24-08-2012 06:55PM

plumpote wrote: »

Timetable's up !!!!!!

WWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THANK THE LORD !!!! This has just made my day :P

Boeing777 · 24-08-2012 07:10PM

I'm slightly lost with my timetable... The labs aren't included on the timetable right?

plumpote · 24-08-2012 07:14PM

No, probably not. You'll find out those when you go back

aaabbbb · 24-08-2012 07:19PM

Boeing777 wrote: »

I'm slightly lost with my timetable... The labs aren't included on the timetable right?

Nope unfortunately nor are tutorials

but at least it still gives you some indication

Does anyone actually remember from last year when second year chem and bio labs were on ?

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