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LC Off Topic Thread (2015/16)

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  • #902
    FifaPlaya
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 406 ✭✭FifaPlaya


    pvakelly wrote: »
    In fairness, it is a grind school (not the IOE!) :)

    I really cannot wait to start, I think the whole structure and way of doing things is really going to suit me!

    The IOE is more flexible with study which is not manditory after school


  • #903
    FifaPlaya
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 406 ✭✭FifaPlaya


    pvakelly wrote: »
    Ok, fairly random question now :), anyone else into Tea/Coffee?

    I'm in the minority among my friends, they wouldn't touch either of them!

    Ginger and lemon tea only


  • #904
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,441 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    FifaPlaya wrote: »
    The IOE is more flexible with study which is not manditory after school

    The IOE is not a school, they can be as flexible as they want about anything. They can pay as much attention to the Department of Education as your local chipper does.


  • #905
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    spurious wrote: »
    Please do not ask people to post identifying information on this forum.
    Please think twice about any personal details you post.
    Posts identifying you on boards will be online long after you have left school.

    I posted what school I went to a few posts back and didn't think twice about it.

    If we've to be secretive here then so be it.

    Won't happen again.

    Sorry :rolleyes:


  • #906
    coolerboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭coolerboy


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    I posted what school I went to a few posts back and didn't think twice about it.

    If we've to be secretive here then so be it.

    Won't happen again.

    Sorry :rolleyes:

    Same man you're not alone :pac:


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  • #907
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,441 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    I posted what school I went to a few posts back and didn't think twice about it.

    If we've to be secretive here then so be it.

    Won't happen again.

    Sorry :rolleyes:

    You don't have to be secretive at all. It's for your own good. You post your name/school/subject choices/college courses now, someone links it to this account, it's easy enough to identify who you are. Ireland's not that big a country.

    Fast forward five, ten years and you are looking for a job, your potential employer might have an issue with something you posted in 2015 or 2016.

    By all means post away, but be aware that you may not want everything you post to be traceable to you.


  • #908
    FifaPlaya
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 406 ✭✭FifaPlaya


    coolerboy wrote: »
    Same man you're not alone :pac:

    Same here


  • #909
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    spurious wrote: »
    You don't have to be secretive at all. It's for your own good. You post your name/school/subject choices/college courses now, someone links it to this account, it's easy enough to identify who you are. Ireland's not that big a country.

    Fast forward five, ten years and you are looking for a job, your potential employer might have an issue with something you posted in 2015 or 2016.

    By all means post away, but be aware that you may not want everything you post to be traceable to you.

    I can understand that but I generally stand by what I post here on Boards.

    If you type my username into Google it comes up with my Google+/FaceBook/Twitter pages so it'd be easy to identify me if someone really wanted to!:pac:

    I can't see why anyone would want to though, maybe I'll change my Boards username one day, I don't know.

    Also, if an employer can't respect and acknowledge that their employees may have different opinions, some similar to their own and some different then that definitely wouldn't be a place I'd like to work! :L
    coolerboy wrote: »
    Same man you're not alone :pac:

    Yay! Lol.

    Spurious is right though, we definitely all should be careful with what we say or who we talk to.


  • #910
    coolerboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭coolerboy


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    I can understand that but I generally stand by what I post here on Boards.

    If you type my username into Google it comes up with my Google+/FaceBook/Twitter pages so it'd be easy to identify me if someone really wanted to!:pac:

    I can't see why anyone would want to though, maybe I'll change my Boards username one day, I don't know.

    Also, if an employer can't respect and acknowledge that their employees may have different opinions, some similar to their own and some different then that definitely wouldn't be a place I'd like to work! :L



    Yay! Lol.

    Spurious is right though, we definitely all should be careful with what we say or who we talk to.

    Haha your right :)


  • #911
    DublinArnie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭DublinArnie


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    I can understand that but I generally stand by what I post here on Boards.

    If you type my username into Google it comes up with my Google+/FaceBook/Twitter pages so it'd be easy to identify me if someone really wanted to!:pac:

    I can't see why anyone would want to though, maybe I'll change my Boards username one day, I don't know.

    Also, if an employer can't respect and acknowledge that their employees may have different opinions, some similar to their own and some different then that definitely wouldn't be a place I'd like to work! :L



    Yay! Lol.

    Spurious is right though, we definitely all should be careful with what we say or who we talk to.

    Unfortunately you can't change your username and if you delete your account, the posts stay there forever...


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  • #912
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    DublinArnie wrote: »
    Unfortunately you can't change your username and if you delete your account, the posts stay there forever...

    You can actually change your username if you pay €5 for a subscriber account!


  • #913
    pvakelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭pvakelly


    Excuse my stupidity but what's a subscriber account, and how is it different from the 'normal' account :)
    pvakelly wrote: »
    Excuse my stupidity but what's a subscriber account, and how is it different from the 'normal' account :)

    Never mind, just found out :)


  • #914
    Sam Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,227 ✭✭✭Sam Mac


    Switched from biology to history for my leaving. Starting Monday.

    Just took a look at my books - God, do I have a lot of catching up to do! :eek:

    Will definitely have to keep the head down & study for these next two years.


  • #915
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Anyone doing LCVP?


  • #916
    pvakelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭pvakelly


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    Anyone doing LCVP?

    No it's not offered, but I don't think I'd take it, even if it was. I don't really like the idea of only being able to get a maximum of 70 points.


  • #917
    Bazinga_N
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Bazinga_N


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    Anyone doing LCVP?

    We have to go to the LCVP class but we don't have to do it. There's only 7 out of 25 people in my class doing it. The rest of us can just study/do homework at the back. Our teacher said we can all join in with doing CVs and some of the other useful stuff if we want.

    I'm already doing 8 HL subjects so there's really no point in me doing it :)

    Seems like a nice course though. I mean the papers over in May before the LC and the portfolio is worth like 60% of the marks? Definitely seems worth it for people with a few OL subjects or even someone who could do with a guaranteed 50/70 marks (assuming you put in the effort :p ) Oh and also, anyone doing Business for the LC (or even for the JC) has most of the course done too!


  • #918
    Beca19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭Beca19


    Bazinga_N wrote: »

    I'm already doing 8 HL subjects so there's really no point in me doing it :)

    Sounds like a lot of work.. Are you gonna drop any to OL? :O and what are they?


  • #919
    Swood Grommet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭Swood Grommet


    Was back on the 28th. Went into French class and we were immediately given two tests! It's a good job that I actually like the subject, but I think this new French teacher will be very tough on us :o I've had three maths classes so far, one single and then a double on the following day. We spent all those classes studying the history of math! :(


  • #920
    DublinArnie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭DublinArnie


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    You can actually change your username if you pay €5 for a subscriber account!

    You learn something new everyday...


  • #921
    Bazinga_N
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Bazinga_N


    Beca19 wrote: »
    Sounds like a lot of work.. Are you gonna drop any to OL? :O and what are they?

    I think I'll be able to manage it. Not yet anyways, I'll have to see how it pans out during the year. I'm doing English, Irish, Maths, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Applied Maths and Business.
    Swood Grommet wrote: »
    Was back on the 28th. Went into French class and we were immediately given two tests! It's a good job that I actually like the subject, but I think this new French teacher will be very tough on us :o I've had three maths classes so far, one single and then a double on the following day. We spent all those classes studying the history of math! :(

    Is the history of math even on the LC course? :eek:


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  • #922
    Swood Grommet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭Swood Grommet


    Bazinga_N wrote: »
    Is the history of math even on the LC course? :eek:

    No it isn't! I love history, but a 35 minute and two 40 minute classes looking at a timeline of math history is not fun. I swear time slowed down in those classes. Every other class is away doing their course, and we're here learning about prime numbers in prehistoric Africa, and how Pythagoras didn't actually discover Pythagoras' Theorem :( There's been more faffing about than there was in ty...


  • #923
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    DublinArnie wrote: »
    You learn something new everyday...

    Haha yeah :)


  • #924
    Beca19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭Beca19


    Bazinga_N wrote: »
    I think I'll be able to manage it. Not yet anyways, I'll have to see how it pans out during the year. I'm doing English, Irish, Maths, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Applied Maths and Business.
    Well fair play & good luck :P I'm doing the same minus ap. maths and business plus French. And possibly Japanese or Ag science I haven't decided yet.. Don't know if I'll be able to manage 8 HL though :/
    What do you wanna do after?


  • #925
    Bazinga_N
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Bazinga_N


    Beca19 wrote: »
    Well fair play & good luck :P I'm doing the same minus ap. maths and business plus French. And possibly Japanese or Ag science I haven't decided yet.. Don't know if I'll be able to manage 8 HL though :/
    What do you wanna do after?
    Medicine, you? :)


  • #926
    Beca19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭Beca19


    Bazinga_N wrote: »
    Medicine, you? :)

    Same :)


  • #927
    coolerboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭coolerboy


    Beca19 wrote: »
    Same :)

    Me too :) :pac: :D;)


  • #928
    kb98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭kb98


    coolerboy wrote: »
    Me too :) :pac: :D;)

    Me three


  • #929
    Beca19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭Beca19


    Hahahah let's hope it works out for all of us then.. :)


  • #930
    kb98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭kb98


    Beca19 wrote: »
    Hahahah let's hope it works out for all of us then.. :)

    Hopefully


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  • #931
    coolerboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭coolerboy


    kb98 wrote: »
    Me three

    Haha


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