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Official bitch about daily life in UL

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,799 ✭✭✭onethreefive


    Not too big of a gap between my last two exams but the rest of its grand :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭iLaura


    ricimaki wrote: »
    I've an exam on Thursday the 8th of May, and on Friday the 8th of May. (That's not a typo)

    My boyfriends timetable had a typo in it too. Its only the provisional timetable anyways


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,799 ✭✭✭onethreefive


    Is there anywhere in UL that I can get a proper dinner reasonably cheap? Looks like I'm not going to have a chance to get back to my house until tonight..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    Is there anywhere in UL that I can get a proper dinner reasonably cheap? Looks like I'm not going to have a chance to get back to my house until tonight..

    Scholars

    Damn clouds! Go away!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,799 ✭✭✭onethreefive


    sup_dude wrote: »
    Scholars

    Damn clouds! Go away!

    How much does it cost there do you know? And do you know when they close?

    I was looking at the hourly weather this morning and its supposed to get sunny later :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    How much does it cost there do you know? And do you know when they close?

    I was looking at the hourly weather this morning and its supposed to get sunny later :D

    It's about seven euro for a decent sized plate of food and I think dinner stops at around 4/5

    But the eclipse is already gone :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,553 ✭✭✭✭Copper_pipe


    I'm more of a paddocks fan!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,799 ✭✭✭onethreefive


    I'm more of a paddocks fan!

    How much in there? :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Aragneer


    5th of May for one exam and 15th for the other, nice! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    I'm more of a paddocks fan!

    It's touch and go in there though for portion sizes. You can get an okay size dinner, or a kids size dinner :L it's 5.25 for most dinners in there but you've to buy your own drink


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Aragneer wrote: »
    5th of May for one exam and 15th for the other, nice! :)

    I'm the 6th and the 13th. Pain in the face. One's worth 30%, other's worth 50%. Would've much preferred to just get them both done in the first week rather than drag it out.
    Last ever exams in UL. :')


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    Last ever exams in UL. :')

    I hope :D

    Our FYP submission is due Week 10, presentations are Week 13 as well as 6 assignments. That leaves just about zero time to study which is fine for two of the modules. The other two though....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    sup_dude wrote: »
    I hope :D

    Our FYP submission is due Week 10, presentations are Week 13 as well as 6 assignments. That leaves just about zero time to study which is fine for two of the modules. The other two though....

    Well I'm probably going to fail my FYP, but I'm determined to ace the two exams so that when I repeat I'll only have to repeat the FYP! :P


  • Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭Midkemia


    sup_dude wrote: »
    It's touch and go in there though for portion sizes. You can get an okay size dinner, or a kids size dinner :L it's 5.25 for most dinners in there but you've to buy your own drink

    There's free water in the paddocks. Chicken wrapped in bacon two spuds chips veg and gravy for 5.90 does be good :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭iLaura


    Midkemia wrote: »
    There's free water in the paddocks. Chicken wrapped in bacon two spuds chips veg and gravy for 5.90 does be good :P

    Free water in all the restaurants on campus :P Stables do a daily €5 deal where you can get 1 of 4-5 dishes for only a fiver


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    iLaura wrote: »
    Free water in all the restaurants on campus :P Stables do a daily €5 deal where you can get 1 of 4-5 dishes for only a fiver

    As long as you don't get the pasta dishes. I've seen toddlers eat more and still be hungry :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭iLaura


    sup_dude wrote: »
    As long as you don't get the pasta dishes. I've seen toddlers eat more and still be hungry :pac:

    You can get chips and stuff with the pasta and it's still a fiver :P or maybe thats just cause the staff know me...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    9" pizza, chips/wedges and a drink for 7 quid in Dromroe. Lovely job. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 307 ✭✭North of 32


    1KG potatoes €1
    2xCarrot 2xParsnips €0.50
    Pork medallions 400grams(ish) €2

    €3.50 to feed 4 people: beat that.

    Although granted it was Supervalu and not on campus. Still though, that's impressive frugality by any measure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    1KG potatoes €1
    2xCarrot 2xParsnips €0.50
    Pork medallions 400grams(ish) €2

    €3.50 to feed 4 people: beat that.

    Although granted it was Supervalu and not on campus. Still though, that's impressive frugality by any measure.

    Ah here, who has time to walk to Supervalu, buy that stuff, walk home, unpack it all, prepare it all, cook it, serve it, eat it, clean up.. ugh, I'm out of breath just typing this! :P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭Chris Martin


    Love it :P
    Like posting ingredients for a soup... :P
    Cost: 19c per serving
    Prep time: 30 mins
    Cooking time: 18 hours ( sit overnight) :P
    Also decent deal by groody, 4 seasons pizza place, small pizza and drink, 5e
    16 inch for 10
    Chinese near it also has student deals and a subway next to Chinese,
    Admittedly, all off campus, was a regular at Chinese last year though, loved their curry :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭deaddonkey15


    What are the student deals at the Chinese place?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭VanishingActs


    €6 for chicken curry/sweet and sour/beef curry/chilli chicken with rice and a drink.

    I may have gotten the curry tonight. :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭deaddonkey15


    Not too bad. Is the food good?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭VanishingActs


    I've gone about three times now and been happy with it. I like it a lot more than the place near Spar.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭deaddonkey15


    Might give it a go sometime so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Hope the coming examinations don't turn out like this :D

    http://m.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31998343


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭Precious flower


    Nope. No I've no clue what I want to do after I finish college and I'm getting so stressed over it. I don't think I'll do a masters, I'm certainly not doing one next year. But that means I have to get a job and if I've no idea what I want to do it'll mean a fairly "menial" (in inverted commas because I know that word is insulting and it's not intended to infer that but you understand what I mean).

    Fours years of college and I've nothing to show for it and I don't want to stay here either (at home and Ireland). I've lived at home for four years during college and I can't see myself living a fifth (though I probably will). Feel I want to live away from Ireland. I just feel tired of it....feel my life is a right mess at the moment! Sorry for the rant, just final year worries. Should have chosen a more stable degree than English & history...:/


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭deaddonkey15


    Why not teach English abroad for a year or two?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭The Little Fella


    Nope. No I've no clue what I want to do after I finish college and I'm getting so stressed over it. I don't think I'll do a masters, I'm certainly not doing one next year. But that means I have to get a job and if I've no idea what I want to do it'll mean a fairly "menial" (in inverted commas because I know that word is insulting and it's not intended to infer that but you understand what I mean).

    Fours years of college and I've nothing to show for it and I don't want to stay here either (at home and Ireland). I've lived at home for four years during college and I can't see myself living a fifth (though I probably will). Feel I want to live away from Ireland. I just feel tired of it....feel my life is a right mess at the moment! Sorry for the rant, just final year worries. Should have chosen a more stable degree than English & history...:/

    Don't necessarily have to stay and do a masters. I'm an accountant and more and more of the people coming in to the office are people that have converted to it by doing diplomas following an undergrad in a different area and they can't get jobs in that area. Don't feel limited by what you did as an undergrad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭Chris Martin


    If you're thinking about travelling abroad and working while deciding how to progress with degree; I would definitely suggest teaching English abroad.
    Did it for Co-Op and the demand is immense in European countries.
    Just need to do a TEFL course, depending where you're going, some require you to do 150 hour one, others accept internet course.
    If you go through UL, they can set you up with a company abroad. When I went on CoOp, there were 4 other students who graduated from UL that year who were there just working as a gap year and travelling.
    Something I might do when I finish as well. Plus I'd like to learn a language.
    I went over without a language but you'd be able to pick it up fast enough over there, certainly not a necessity.
    It's tiring work but definitely worth it, especially if you want to admire surroundings as well. Definitely don't discount it; and if you want to get into teaching, great stepping stone and experience.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,470 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    Nope. No I've no clue what I want to do after I finish college and I'm getting so stressed over it. I don't think I'll do a masters, I'm certainly not doing one next year. But that means I have to get a job and if I've no idea what I want to do it'll mean a fairly "menial" (in inverted commas because I know that word is insulting and it's not intended to infer that but you understand what I mean).

    Fours years of college and I've nothing to show for it and I don't want to stay here either (at home and Ireland). I've lived at home for four years during college and I can't see myself living a fifth (though I probably will). Feel I want to live away from Ireland. I just feel tired of it....feel my life is a right mess at the moment! Sorry for the rant, just final year worries. Should have chosen a more stable degree than English & history...:/

    Tbh everyone is the same really. I finished last year and I still think the same as you. Am heading abroad soon enough. Getting into jobs in anyway related to the degree and experience picked up along the way is very difficult. I'd say the majority of people I went to college with and those I know from other courses are teaching English abroad or the like. I wouldn't be worrying about doing a Masters or worrying about careers just yet, there's a few more years to be young :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Why are those arseholes racing along the Groody road? The gardai should get their finger out.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,461 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    Can't understand them using that road of all roads, with all the roundabouts. There's a motorway 1km away.

    Hopefully they f*ck off and don't result in speedbumps being installed on that road. The ones on the Plassey Park Road are beyond annoying


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭jamo2oo9


    What's an organizational awareness? It's for a pre-coop skills assessment thing and I haven't got a foggiest idea of what it is..


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  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭21 Schump Street


    that you an understanding of the goals and values of a company I think


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭MajesticDonkey


    All FYP-related stuff finished thank fook :D what a relief...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    I think the stress of FYP is getting to me. I've had a nagging notion these last few days to go buy a leather jacket and cut my hair short. I can neither afford a leather jacket nor a haircut (although I've curly hair naturally so it would be a nightmare to keep it straight), nor a pair of solid boots but I'm finding it very hard to shake the feeling. Also really wanna go learn parkour and some form of martial art or Krav Maga... Is it possible to have an early stressed induced female midlife crisis? :pac: Hoping my grant doesn't come in until after my FYP is printed...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    Currently sitting on the bus I usually get home for what is the last time. It's a weird thought...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    sup_dude wrote: »
    Currently sitting on the bus I usually get home for what is the last time. It's a weird thought...

    Just repeat with me, that'll kill all those fluffy "end of an era" thoughts which will be distracting you over the next few weeks. :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    Just repeat with me, that'll kill all those fluffy "end of an era" thoughts which will be distracting you over the next few weeks. :pac:

    Oh I'll be back next year but it'll be to work and do a distance learning course. Im just planning on getting a car :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    sup_dude wrote: »
    Oh I'll be back next year but it'll be to work and do a distance learning course. Im just planning on getting a car :D

    Genuinely LOL'd, so thank you for that. :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭Midkemia


    sup_dude wrote: »
    Currently sitting on the bus I usually get home for what is the last time. It's a weird thought...

    If it's westlink I'm sure your quite happy :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    Midkemia wrote: »
    If it's westlink I'm sure your quite happy :P

    After four years... It holds a lot of memories... well not so much this year since its the only time I've gone home but first year I was home every weekend. Far better than bus eireann :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭Precious flower


    Don't necessarily have to stay and do a masters. I'm an accountant and more and more of the people coming in to the office are people that have converted to it by doing diplomas following an undergrad in a different area and they can't get jobs in that area. Don't feel limited by what you did as an undergrad.
    If you're thinking about travelling abroad and working while deciding how to progress with degree; I would definitely suggest teaching English abroad.
    Did it for Co-Op and the demand is immense in European countries.
    Just need to do a TEFL course, depending where you're going, some require you to do 150 hour one, others accept internet course.
    If you go through UL, they can set you up with a company abroad. When I went on CoOp, there were 4 other students who graduated from UL that year who were there just working as a gap year and travelling.
    Something I might do when I finish as well. Plus I'd like to learn a language.
    I went over without a language but you'd be able to pick it up fast enough over there, certainly not a necessity.
    It's tiring work but definitely worth it, especially if you want to admire surroundings as well. Definitely don't discount it; and if you want to get into teaching, great stepping stone and experience.

    Sorry for the late reply guys, thanks for that! :) After I posted, I was thinking to myself 'Why did you post that rant? You're such a whiner!' :pac: I was thinking that myself I suppose I just want to make sure I get value out of doing a TEFL course considering the money involved! :) Can't do it through UL though after I've graduated can I though? Strangely despite doing English and History we could never pick TEFL as an extra module but other english courses could. I would have never done it in fourth year anyway because I had heard that it caused unnecessary stress for people when trying to balance it and other modules in their final year. Wish I'd had the sense to do it in 1st or 2nd year but there's TEFL courses at home too, but UL might have had a reduced price for students.
    sup_dude wrote: »
    I think the stress of FYP is getting to me. I've had a nagging notion these last few days to go buy a leather jacket and cut my hair short. I can neither afford a leather jacket nor a haircut (although I've curly hair naturally so it would be a nightmare to keep it straight), nor a pair of solid boots but I'm finding it very hard to shake the feeling. Also really wanna go learn parkour and some form of martial art or Krav Maga... Is it possible to have an early stressed induced female midlife crisis? :pac: Hoping my grant doesn't come in until after my FYP is printed...

    YES, do it!! It's a great bit of craic. You'll really enjoy it if you get the right group of people and good, serious but fun instructors! :) I'm going to miss it so much when I leave :( kickboxing would be good too wish they'd get an instructor and club set up for that! And no, ever since turning 21 I've been having that, I don't care what people say! I use to think people you said those things were stupid and conceited until I turned 21 and felt a weird shift like I was going through a door that couldn't be opened again....:cool: :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭shano_88


    Is the library open next week?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,799 ✭✭✭onethreefive


    shano_88 wrote: »
    Is the library open next week?

    Yeah as far as I know its open until 11 like usual


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭Chris Martin


    I was thinking that myself I suppose I just want to make sure I get value out of doing a TEFL course considering the money involved! :) Can't do it through UL though after I've graduated can I though? Strangely despite doing English and History we could never pick TEFL as an extra module but other english courses could. I would have never done it in fourth year anyway because I had heard that it caused unnecessary stress for people when trying to balance it and other modules in their final year. Wish I'd had the sense to do it in 1st or 2nd year but there's TEFL courses at home too, but UL might have had a reduced price for students.

    Well it depends how invested you want to get into teaching abroad.
    Do you want to do it as an experience, a break from Ireland for a year or so or is it a long term thing? If you want to do it long term, then I would probably check out prices of the physical course. A lot of places 'don't take on' people with internet courses. That said, unknowingly you hold the most valuable tool anyone going into TEFL can have; Native English.
    They say that they need you to have done an extensive TEFL course and experience but saying you have native English is equivalent to 5 years of both. I did a '3 day' (all in all maybe about 12 hours) course through UL. Essentially a fast track course before I went on CoOp. I did this last May I think, I'd say they do it every year as people go abroad teaching English each year. There was about 5 in the class. Just went through a few presentations and that was it. There is the 2 year course but I was unable to do that because I have CoOp and Erasmus for my 3rd year. Again, I think there's a way fit it all into final year but they were talking about stress as well.. :/
    I'd say email UL and see if you can do that thing in May if you want to do it (relatively) short term. I will say this though; although I've never taught native English people English, which at the moment in my goal, I will say that teaching English as a foreign language is an awful lot different to teaching it as a subject. It's also very difficult when you don't speak their native language. The place I went on CoOp, I won't name it because it was awful, I got through UL and there were 4 people who had graduated that year who went through UL to get the job. In Seville, there is an unbelievable demand for TEFL teachers, if I was to guess I'd say there are at least 100 English academies in and around Seville and I can only imagine the same is true with the rest of Spain as a lot of Universities require a B2 level in English to graduate. I'm not sure if there's a similar story with Spain but those that I've spoken too here have very good English so I can only imagine that they're present, Venice isn't a good gauge though.
    It's a painstaking job and I'd definitely recommend taking a course in the language of the country you're going to first as you do pick it up when you're over there, but I felt I would've got an awful lot more had I known the basics beforehand. It's a great experience though, glad I chose to go abroad and will probably go back there in later years. Language barrier and I guess general lack of preparation on my part cost me a bit. I also went to an academy that had opted to shun the default method of teaching for a more 'natural approach.' Natural being, not teaching grammar. The lesson I got from it being, you don't need to know how it works, just that it works. Fell out of favour with boss for disagreeing with it and things didn't really get better.. :P
    I will probably do it again in the future as I'm dying to learn a new language.
    Also this year has kindled the traveller in me, something I didn't know I had..
    I've realised travelling isn't as expensive as I thought if you sacrifice comfort and be a little more reckless. GoGoCar I think it's called is amazing. Carpooling with other people travelling to your destination, costs a fraction of the price of train or bus. Add an 's' in the middle of hotel to get a budget bed at prices you didn't think were possible. Cheap breakfast, new cuisine, early mornings. All come naturally :P
    I've stayed places for 9e a night and I've seen cheaper. I see why backpackers do it. :P
    With good restraint, I'd say you could travel Europe for under 1,000e, a foreign notion had it been said to me a year before.
    Drifting off topic a little here..
    tl;dr: Contact UL, 3 day TEFL course in May if you're thinking of going abroad short ish term.
    Long term, look into doing a physical TEFL course and learn basics of language :P


  • Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭oseia


    Also this year has kindled the traveller in me, something I didn't know I had..

    The year abroad is a fecker for creating wanderlust (though to be fair I was already bad enough with the travel bug).

    Also, I don't even post here, so, eh, hello everyone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    oseia wrote: »

    Also, I don't even post here, so, eh, hello everyone.

    Who are you? Where do you come from? What course do you do? Are you even in UL? Where do you live? What's your dog's name? Do you own goldfish? Have you have any idea what happens when you add powered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?

    One does not simply enter UL forum...


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