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"Snobs" in Trinity

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  • #32
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    I think the public perception of Trinity is worse than reality. I've had people from other colleges take the piss when I told them where I went and all that "ooooh Trinners for winners" nonsense. (I've never heard anyone who actually went to TCD call it "Trinners", by the way.) I never really encountered any snobs there, to be honest. People don't sit around Trinity talking about the other colleges/general society with disdain, congratulating each other on how brilliant they are... at least not the people I talked to anyway.

    The social scene in Trinity definitely is a bit weird though. You meet more people in societies than your classes, so if you don't join any, you're at an immediate disadvantage. Plus, the bigger your course group and the more options on your timetable (like TSM and BESS), the less likely you are to gel with your class group, so you need societies or clubs to fill that void.

    There are cliques from the start - those who live in Halls meet a week earlier and tend to stick together in the first few lectures, so in bigger classes, people who live in Dublin get a bit left behind. There are also certain "feeder schools" that send a lot of students to TCD, so a lot of them cling together too. I don't think that's based on snobbery though - I think it's more to do with people sticking with those they know. I knew nobody when I started and it took me a long time to settle in... but it'd be unfair to blame the cliques for that, because I'm sure that if half my friends had gone there too, I'd have stuck to them like glue in those first weeks.

    I don't know. I'm sure there are snobs in Trinity, but I'm equally sure there are snobs elsewhere too: we just don't hear about them because there's not such a history of prestige and privilege behind them.


  • #33
    Mr Pseudonym
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    languagenerd wrote: »
    I've never heard anyone who actually went to TCD call it "Trinners", by the way.

    (Tentatively raises hand) Erm...I think I call it "Trinners", on occasion. I started doing it ironically, but now I use it playfully. Does that make me a snob? :confused:


  • #34
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    Mr Pseudonym wrote: »
    (Tentatively raises hand) Erm...I think I call it "Trinners", on occasion. I started doing it ironically, but now I use it playfully. Does that make me a snob? :confused:

    Haha, I just meant that whenever people who didn't go to TCD play the "Trinity students are snobs" card, they always refer to it as "Trinners"... yet, nobody who I met during my four years there ever called it that. If you do/if other people on campus do, then consider me corrected! :)


  • #35
    Mr Pseudonym
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭Mr Pseudonym


    languagenerd wrote: »
    Haha, I just meant that whenever people who didn't go to TCD play the "Trinity students are snobs" card, they always refer to it as "Trinners"... yet, nobody who I met during my four years there ever called it that. If you do/if other people on campus do, then consider me corrected! :)

    In fairness, I think it's only the cool kids who do. :cool:


  • #36
    Aoifums
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    languagenerd wrote: »
    The social scene in Trinity definitely is a bit weird though. You meet more people in societies than your classes, so if you don't join any, you're at an immediate disadvantage. Plus, the bigger your course group and the more options on your timetable (like TSM and BESS), the less likely you are to gel with your class group, so you need societies or clubs to fill that void.

    That's not weird. It's the same in most universities, from what I've experienced and from what I've heard from other people.


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  • #37
    andrew
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    Re. 'cliques': cliques are not exclusive to Trinity. Human social interaction is based upon the existence of cliques. What university isn't cliquey?

    Yes, snobs exist in Trinity. I don't think this is surprising; if you have a group of people who on average are quite well off, you're going to have snobs. In general, if you have a group of people who have any defining attribute, you're going to have people within that group who look down on people who don't have that attribute. But in my experience, most people aren't 'snobby', and I say that as someone who did BESS and debating, the two areas you might expect to find the most 'snobs.' At worst, people are sometimes ignorant of how well off they are in comparison to most, and will spend money on and do things which they don't realise the majority of people can't do.


  • #38
    Eoin247
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Eoin247


    I think this 'snob' impression comes from people visiting the arts block. Not that they are snobs (for the mostpart i think), but because of the way they act and dress. Walking through the arts block you see a lot of students dressed in a way (Well dressed/ expensively dressed) that comes off as snobbish for some reason, and you see a lot of small groups of similar people. I remember when going to the pav with a few non TCD students, they commented on the way saying that these people ''look like total snobs''.
    Mulqers wrote: »
    The upper classes have the good sense to send their kids to the UK (where they were probably educated too).

    The middle classes (a dying breed) are never the snobby ones in my experience -- they're too reserved for that kind of behaviour, it's the LMCs who clamber over one another like rats to get another rung up the class ladder or get one over on their neighbour with the new car. Trinity College attracts these types like flies to sh*t.

    Depends on your definition of middle class i suppose, but i'd hardly call them a dying breed.
    UCDCritic wrote: »
    It's even worse in UCD

    We get the thick Snobs who weren't intelligent enough to get into TCD

    Love the username lol


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