Starting in UCD in September 2012

BoomCha wrote: »

Hi guys !!

I'm a french girl starting in UCD in september too and I wonder if you know the examinations dates or when they'll be available ? (I have to do an important thing in december when I come back home and the sooner the better, so i'd like to know!!)

Term dates but the dates for exams won't be set until later.
http://www.ucd.ie/registry/academicsecretariat/20122013term_dates.pdf

BoomCha wrote: »

I'm lost about the module registration thing too I'm in a study programm where all the students have to take the same modules and aren't allowed to take other ones, so is it only about chosing the times of modules?

Difficult to say, but any lectures will have a set time. Only tutorials, seminars etc will have different times for you to choose from.

vikingflowers wrote: »

i got the ad astra scholarship too! i'm going to be staying in roebuck hall

Cool, me too, see you there! What apartment are you in?

guys if you dont have accomodation can you not register yet or whats the craic?

Neeson wrote: »

I don't think first year registration begins until tomorrow does it not?

You should have already gotten a booking time, which was today. If you didn't do that, one was assigned to you, so check your email. Tomorrow is the start of registration, so log in at your start time.

Paula95 wrote: »

Does anybody know if you have to log in at your start time tomoro or can you leave it for a few hours?

You can leave it if you have to. It won't lock.

someone please help!! mine is at 9.30 friday morning? does this mean ill be limited in what i can choose and what not? as i was working all day i couldnt pick a start time

tgdaly wrote: »

Depends how many other people have picked the ones you want to pick by the time you get around to it

It will also depend on subject. Eg, English has up to 500 places, Geog about 300-350, History about 400... etc. If you applied for a subject choice via the CAO, then you will be preselected for at least two of your modules, which is enough to let you continue to the next year.

gwakamoley wrote: »

Is anyone else meant to be doing the next step of registration at 9:30 this morning? What are we actually meant to do?

Log onto SIS, and enter registration process. And then just pick youre modules!

gwakamoley wrote: »

Ok so I'm logged into SIS but where do I go to enter the registration process?

On the very first page after you log in, theres a botton on the bottom that says enter registration, click that and a message from the president comes up. Select module registration from the top tabs.

I'm not in at 9 any day in either semester :eek: Niceeeeee :pac:
Only have one lecture of Spanish on Friday too. Kinda wish they'd let me take more electives to fill up some space, so I'd have extra credits and idk, wouldnt have to pass them - I took an elective in linguistics because my overall course is international languages, but I've always loved physics, though I couldn't do it for the LC in my school so I'd love to try it, but knowing I'd HAVE to pass it is too daunting.

vikingflowers wrote: »

apartment 17! what about you?

I'm in apartment 11. Sure we might bump into each other at some stage! :pac: What course are you doing? I'm getting kinda excited about starting college now actually!

BasketCase18 wrote: »

What's the deal with it anyway? I don't really understand what I'm meant to do. So do you ONLY pick your extra electives? Do you have to pick modules for your main course? Like I'm doing food science.

Do you just go on, have your main modules already picked for you and then you pick like 2 extra modules?

I would really appreciate someone's help! I have to go on at 5pm today

Well I think it depends on your course tbh, in mine for example I already have 10 core modules so I just have to pick my 2 electives, but for other courses you have more choices to make. I'm sorry but I don't know what it's like with Food Science! Try this link and it should tell you the core modules for your course, I think!

BasketCase18 wrote: »

What's the deal with it anyway? I don't really understand what I'm meant to do. So do you ONLY pick your extra electives? Do you have to pick modules for your main course? Like I'm doing food science.

Do you just go on, have your main modules already picked for you and then you pick like 2 extra modules?

I would really appreciate someone's help! I have to go on at 5pm today

Well I handed in a form on Monday with my core and option modules picked, so they were already there and I just had to pick a time for some of them. So yeah I just picked my one elective, only had room for one </3 :P

drbtrenier wrote: »

BasketCase18 wrote: »

What's the deal with it anyway? I don't really understand what I'm meant to do. So do you ONLY pick your extra electives? Do you have to pick modules for your main course? Like I'm doing food science.

Do you just go on, have your main modules already picked for you and then you pick like 2 extra modules?

I would really appreciate someone's help! I have to go on at 5pm today

Well I think it depends on your course tbh, in mine for example I already have 10 core modules so I just have to pick my 2 electives, but for other courses you have more choices to make. I'm sorry but I don't know what it's like with Food Science! Try this link and it should tell you the core modules for your course, I think!

Thank you! It's probably the same thing for me then. Sure I'll see when I get on.

Did you already know which electives you wanted before you logged on today?
Should I research the different types of modules today before logging on?

BasketCase18 wrote: »

Yeah I was wondering about that aswell! Is it available on the ucd website?

It just says that 'this is not something we can do for you'