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Freshers Thread
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10-09-2012 09:28PM#1Hey all,
Looked around and couldn't find a thread for all us freshers, and the facebook page is an absolute disaster...
So yeah, general enough chat, maybe it'll help ease the social awkwardness next week when we're all thrown in there together... Or maybe it'll multiply it tenfold...
But yeah lemme get this ball rolling, name's Greg, doing medicinal chemistry, and I know nobody going to Trinity... Surely there's others in a similar situation... ARGH IM SUCH LONERRRR
what societies are we all hoping to join? and whats everybodys general plan for ye old week of the freshers....0
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Ah commuiting also, from Wicklow, so its a bit of a pain, but nothing too horrific. Where you gonna be heading from?
But yeah the threads awfully quiet.... its eerie lol, bleh, at least its better than the sh*tstorm on facebook, everybody freaking out about the registration issue....
Whats your plan for freshers week, seems sort of like a pissup for a week, which is gonna be weird for us commuters, Id sort of feel bad just bumming off somebody's accommodation... but if needs be...
the clubs socs thing isnt really too bad for commuting i think, like a monthly pass on the bus, and we can travel at any time, so really iv got no problems with the occasional late evening, i mean, as long as its not that regular that its interfering with the actual coursework0 -
I'll be coming from Celbridge, which can be a bitch sometimes when it comes to nitelinks and buses home, I'd say ill have a few nights of walking home from leixlip..
FW looks to be a week long binge which is just what ill be needing 
What's the deal with the wristbands/nights out? hopefully I'll make a friend in the halls and get an invite to crash at theirs somehow haha Yeah I'm hoping the socs will go grand, the TKD club was the main one i wanted to join but classes are on at 9pm or something 0 -
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ah wouldnt half hurt a starcraft 2 tourney, maybe some night in gamersoc,
but yeah the ball thingy, its all on facebook page for trinity events... apparently its like 30 euro for a week of events, though mostly its just a pissup. The silent disco on friday night does sound pretty badass though in fairness
https://www.facebook.com/events/354821374602162/?notif_t=plan_user_invited
Its gonna be pretty daunting walking in on the first day, seeing all the groups of people at the society's stalls around trinity, totally on my own like some outcast! at least for the tutor meetings we're in groups of around 10, so that should give us some first introductions...
The sci-fi soc too seems like a really good way to get to know some people, with the movies and all during freshers week. If anybody wants to catch an ep of game of thrones or two i'll see yas there
oh ya, and when i seen Richard Dawkins on the speakerlist for the phil this year, i think i transcended into a higher state of being
ooh 2 med chems, a human genetics, and a maths student, i think we might all be sharing certain lectures this wear! emma you better be doing a science or something!! 0 -
Cheers for the link I think for Fri, Sat and Sun there's more nights out too, organized by the Halls Gonna be a strange experience thats for sure.
I forgot about tutor meetings, has anyone been given their times yet or is it just me thats so lost? I'll be going to the free(ish) movie nights no doubt, good way to meet some out-of-course people! 0 -
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nope no word from the tutors, we're supposedly meant to hear from them via our portal page, after registration I assume, which is also meant to be via the tcd portal page... the whole thing seems to be delayed i think... though i have heard some people saying that we register during freshers week in person, despite it specifically stating that its carried out online this year... its a bit of a mess really....
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UnholyGregor wrote: »its a bit of a mess really....
What else to expect from a system in its first year It's handier than having to pay fees etc via bank though, saves a trek into college too if they finally get the online registration sorted out 0 -
Incoming science student here Thanks for the link to the events on during Fresher's Week, I hadn't seen them already! Don't know if I'd be bothered going to most of them but the Friday in the Pav sounds grand enough, if you can get individual tickets I'll probably go to that! Otherwise I'm planning on joining far too many societies, going to a fair few events that were mentioned in that thing we got in the post today, and like others, scoping out the free food Should be a good week all round! :P 0
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It's threads like this that remind me how excited I am for college to start (good work UnholyGregor!)
To introduce myself, I'm starting History and Political Science and staying in Halls. Really looking forward to freshers, the Phil looks to have a great line up for next week (I'll be certainly joining it ASAP), and if Dawkins is there sometime in the coming year, well, that would be fantastic too! I think I could well end up joining the sci-fi too (along with probably a dozen others lol).
I'm just dying to know more about my course (timetable, reading etc.). I wish the college would be just a bit more forthright with info! Hopefully this thread works, and I'll see some of ye next week! 0 -
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yeah basically my goal was to gather some people here that arent total psychopaths, and if theres enough of us, we can just meet up at one of the events during some downtime on our orientation timetables.... though that could backfire horribly and we'll all implode with awkwardness.... still **** it, cant wait either way ill take ye on in mariokart i suppose if yis are around the sci fi soc (though mathstalk's post was pretty intimidation
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Just saw the thread there, exactly what we need as I had considered starting something like it myself. Anyway the name is Shane, from Limerick going doing theoretical physics and I too know nobody, which is quite daunting but very exciting at the same time .. Anyone else really looking forward to freshers week? 0
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Wish my course meeting was on Monday but it isn't till Thursday. Would have made life easier to get to know people if it was a monday
Mines Tuesday luckily enough but you never know, you could have your tutor meeting earlier on in the week which'll supply you with some people to go on the crawls with! 0 -
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I'm in on Monday morning to pick modules so that's handy enough
Oh God! Do we have to pick modules that early? I thought we'd have some more time to choose what to doill take ye on in mariokart i suppose if yis are around the sci fi soc (though mathstalk's post was pretty intimidation )
I admit my skills are slightly diminished since my dog went loco on the disk earlier this year, but I accept any challenges 0 -
well might as well keep this going since we've got a few people here! How'd everyone get on in the leaving cert? I mean, we're prob gonna be bored ****less hearing about it after the 1st week of freshers week, seems like the perfect ice breaker...
What about your course choices? Anybody pick the course with a specific career in mind?
I did med chem since i narrowly missed out on medicine in hpat points
The plan's so do medicine grad entry after, and this course compliments medicine really well, since its basically the scientific side of medicine, and even overlaps quite a bit module-wise, so hopefully , IF, i stick to my (very vague, general) plan, ill (hopefully) piss through medicine
Anybody sign up for the optional language module? I sent in a form to do the french one, would be great to have something more than a school standerd in another language. Id love to be near fluent in french and maybe live/work there for a few years in the future... would be BADASS 0 -
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UnholyGregor wrote: »well might as well keep this going since we've got a few people here! How'd everyone get on in the leaving cert? I mean, we're prob gonna be bored ****less hearing about it after the 1st week of freshers week, seems like the perfect ice breaker...
What about your course choices? Anybody pick the course with a specific career in mind?
I did med chem since i narrowly missed out on medicine in hpat points
The plan's so do medicine grad entry after, and this course compliments medicine really well, since its basically the scientific side of medicine, and even overlaps quite a bit module-wise, so hopefully , IF, i stick to my (very vague, general) plan, ill (hopefully) piss through medicine
Anybody sign up for the optional language module? I sent in a form to do the french one, would be great to have something more than a school standerd in another language. Id love to be near fluent in french and maybe live/work there for a few years in the future... would be BADASS
We're the ones going to Trinity so I'd say most of us did fairly well in the leaving cert lol. I got my first choice (Hist/Pol) comfortably enough tbh. As to career prospects, well, you're as informed as I am about that. My first (and probably only) concern was picking a course that would interest me and that I'd enjoy. Might not have been the wisest career move but whatever...
Fluency in another language would be pretty cool alright but unfortunately I despised language classes in school more than anything else and I really wasn't prepared to sign myself up for something I could very well hate feck it, I want to enjoy college! 0
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