Traveller secures Degree from Trinity

Wanderer2010 · 29-12-2014 05:49PM

Dan_Solo wrote: »

So tell us then why anybody with the points can't go to TCD then.
Is there a secret cash bidding round for places?

I never said anybody with the points cant go to TCD did I?

I said the place is still sadly crammed full with snobby students who amazingly still think that if you dont have a rich mammy or daddy you are nothing. Sad (in fact very sad) but true.

alistair spuds · 29-12-2014 05:49PM

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Im delighted for her, hope she had great luck in the future. I imagine it would have been harder for her to fit in as Trinity is still full of the stuck-up little sons and daughters of the local solicitors, accountants etc and as such have zero experience whatsoever of struggle or budget and a lot of the little darlings have the manners of a bulldog.

In other words, people who worked hard and got the points like she did.

PizzamanIRL · 29-12-2014 05:49PM

Her brother is a lucky man.

Dan_Solo · 29-12-2014 05:50PM

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

I never said anybody with the points cant go to TCD did I?

I said the place is still sadly crammed full with snobby students who amazingly still think that if you dont have a rich mammy or daddy you are nothing. Sad (in fact very sad) but true.

You're making zero sense.
So anybody with the points can go to TCD but it is instead full of rich kids who are only there because they have connections?

pablo128 · 29-12-2014 05:53PM

PLL wrote: »

I think the point is that she went to trinity, getting a degree from Trinity is different to getting one from Tralee IT, where a lot of travellers are educated.

Many people try to get in to Trinity and fail. The fact that she has applied herself to her studies so well and earned a place there against the norms of her community, mean she deserves recognition for it.

A childhood friend of mine from North Clondalkin, a disadvantaged area, graduated from Trinity almost 20 years ago. He didn't make the papers. Maybe he wasn't good looking enough at the time. Or maybe he wasn't a traveller, or black, or in a wheelchair.

Fair play to anyone who gets in and graduates from that College. I don't understand how it makes the papers though.

Aglomerado · 29-12-2014 05:53PM

Good luck to her. May she be a good role model!

My name is URL · 29-12-2014 05:54PM

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

I never said anybody with the points cant go to TCD did I?

I said the place is still sadly crammed full with snobby students who amazingly still think that if you dont have a rich mammy or daddy you are nothing. Sad (in fact very sad) but true.

There are plenty of snobs and dickheads like that in every university. There may be slightly more in Trinity, it being the top rated uni in the state, but it's nowhere near the level you're making out, ie 'crammed full'

It's not Eton ffs!

CiDeRmAn · 29-12-2014 05:56PM

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Her brother is a lucky man.

I really shouldn't have laughed and yet I did.
I'm sorry

PizzamanIRL · 29-12-2014 05:59PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I really shouldn't have laughed and yet I did.
I'm sorry

I know, what a sick joke.

CiDeRmAn · 29-12-2014 05:59PM

She broke the typical bounds placed there by a culture that has different priorities.
And, I suspect, she reflects an ever more inclusive education system where there will be nothing surprising or worthy of note when anyone one of any background attends one of the top colleges in the state and does well.

Nothing wrong with the IT colleges either, just to say.

eviltwin · 29-12-2014 06:00PM

pablo128 wrote: »

A childhood friend of mine from North Clondalkin, a disadvantaged area, graduated from Trinity almost 20 years ago. He didn't make the papers. Maybe he wasn't good looking enough at the time. Or maybe he wasn't a traveller, or black, or in a wheelchair.

Fair play to anyone who gets in and graduates from that College. I don't understand how it makes the papers though.

Because it's so rare I suppose. She's a good looking young woman. The norm would be that she left school without a leaving cert and got married. Educated women aren't attractive in the travelling community. I'd say her and her family got a lot of stick over it. Peer pressure to do the traditional thing would have stopped many a traveller staying in school, good for her for sticking to her guns.

MagicMarker · 29-12-2014 06:02PM

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Im delighted for her, hope she had great luck in the future. I imagine it would have been harder for her to fit in as Trinity is still full of the stuck-up little sons and daughters of the local solicitors, accountants etc and as such have zero experience whatsoever of struggle or budget and a lot of the little darlings have the manners of a bulldog. I say fair play to her for coming through such a (still) stuck-up institution.

It's Trinity College, not ****ing Harvard.

alistair spuds · 29-12-2014 06:03PM

eviltwin wrote: »

Because it's so rare I suppose. She's a good looking young woman. The norm would be that she left school without a leaving cert and got married. Educated women aren't attractive in the travelling community. I'd say her and her family got a lot of stick over it. Peer pressure to do the traditional thing would have stopped many a traveller staying in school, good for her for sticking to her guns.

well at least you are pro travelling community, and not at all bigoted about them, that's the main thing.

alistair spuds · 29-12-2014 06:07PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

She broke the typical bounds placed there by a culture that has different priorities.
And, I suspect, she reflects an ever more inclusive education system where there will be nothing surprising or worthy of note when anyone one of any background attends one of the top colleges in the state and does well.

Nothing wrong with the IT colleges either, just to say.

What on earth has this got to do with IT's ?

Is a traveller that goes to trinity of more value than one that goes to DIT ?

eviltwin · 29-12-2014 06:09PM

alistair spuds wrote: »

well at least you are pro travelling community, and not at all bigoted about them, that's the main thing.

Wtf do you mean by that?

um7y1h83ge06nx · 29-12-2014 06:09PM

The most pertinent question is would you?

Tugboats · 29-12-2014 06:11PM

Lilian Shy Truck wrote: »

The most pertinent question is would you?

Yes but I wouldn't go back to her place

alistair spuds · 29-12-2014 06:12PM

eviltwin wrote: »

Wtf do you mean by that?

I doubt she has to resort to bad language either, and therefore has more decorum than you.

Dan_Solo · 29-12-2014 06:14PM

Was wondering for a microsecond how the headline says she got a degree and the text says she got a diploma. The Indespondent, of course.

humanji · 29-12-2014 06:15PM

MOD: I can't imagine this train wreck ever improving. Locked.

Traveller secures Degree from Trinity

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