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Your summer goals.

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  • 12-05-2006 12:04am
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    Registered Users Posts: 12,169 ✭✭✭✭


    So I decided to come into today and treat the ladies to a bit of skin. So I decided to kick back in a summer buzz and lash on some totally awesome tasteful, low-key hawaiin board shorts. Needless to say I got more wolf whistles then usual. Well, the weather and my apparel got me thinking of this summer and what I want to do.So what does everyone plan to get done before they're back in college in September? What have you put off until the exams are over?

    Myself?

    -Shift a stone of fat thats clung ungraciously to my body since America and didn't go away in final year. Time to trade the keg back in for the reliable 6 pack.

    -If I join a gym replace that fat weight with muscles weight

    -Complete at least 5 of the FE1s at the end of the summer

    -Pay off my credit card thats being annoying me since september

    -Start making a weekly wage off poker winnings


    Not so much a goal but I've been toying with the idea to trying to submit some joke articles to the Trinners newspaper if they do that sort of thing. But thats more of a post summer thing. 'Trinity through the eyes of a UCD student' or something.

    'Have you ever noticed how Trinity people walk like this....'


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Haven't given it much thought yet, but on my mind now...

    1. start working out again
    2. get a job!!!
    3. go on holidays... hopefully inter-railling! just gotta coerce someone into goin
    4. start playin football (probably astro) regularly


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭Seraphina


    get to the gym more, been totally crapping out recently with finals.
    squat at least half my weight and deadlift my entire weight or more by the end of the summer.

    make some kind of plan/think about what i want from my life and what i want from a job

    get a part time job for the summer to pay for travels

    go travelling


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    -get fit again, I haven't cycled in a while, so I'm feeling unhealthy.

    -(nerdy stuff) earn enough for a PS3 and Wii for when they are released around November.

    -(even nerdier stuff) get broadband, set up my OpenBSD machine as a router/server, have my network set up properly, and host my own website for no reason in particular.

    -sleep


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 738 ✭✭✭TheVan


    My summer goals are:
    • Do some work on a top-secret project you may see the fruits of come September
    • Work for a month (not a goal but more a reality)
    • Travel, possibly to the USA, probably interrailing....anyone wanna come?
    • Lose a few of those pounds (a good few!)
    • Get fit enough that I can do some sustained running....no awful gyms though, just down to the local GAA pitch for a run!

    Should be enough to keep me busy!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭Waltons


    Get a part time job to pay for, well, anything.

    Apparently some of the guys are gonna try make a simple game, so I'll give my (mediocre) programming skills to that

    Improve my drumming skills


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    • Find out whether I like being a tax consultant
    • Go on more walks
    • Lose a stone
    • Learn to drive
    • Move out
    • Go to Roscommon
    • Do a lot of work for my society, to make it great next year
    • Canvass more


  • Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    My summer goals:
    -Work. A lot. I'm gonna have 2 jobs (internship and GAME) - I need to earn enough to pay my fees and start my Macbook Pro fund.
    -Join the gym again - need to lose about 2 stone.
    -Play quite a lot of games
    -Get lots of new clothes
    -Finally do my own website
    -Finally go down to Cork to visit my friend


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭Umaro


    -tan
    -gym
    -blond highlights
    -pink polo neck
    -i made the last 2 up
    -oxegen
    -benidorm for a week
    -job
    -parachute jumps


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭tribulus


    -back to gym, reach 200lbs
    -get a job in a lab, interview tomorrow!
    -make a specified amount from poker also
    -get out of Ireland for a coouple of weeks


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    -Get a job other than the one I have (although I might keep it too)
    -Move a) somewhere else close to college if I get the MA
    b) home if I prove too thick for the UCD ME MA
    -Save money
    -Have a few decent nights out with the gang
    -Mayhap visit friends around Europe in all their glorious scatteredness
    -Spend plenty of time with Dad


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭singingstranger


    -sort out my accommodation for my year in Germany
    -try and save quite a bit of my wages for said year
    -finish my movie script
    -pass my driving test
    -finally learn how to cook (pasta doesn't count any more)

    That's about it really.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭elmyra



    -finally learn how to cook (pasta doesn't count any more)

    That's about it really.

    /me offers lessons.


    My goals I guess are-

    -actually read english novels during summer as i'm supposed to
    -get a job and have money
    -pass driving test (Fat bloody chance)
    -save enough to go to London and Istanbul and Edinburgh (can't imagine how this will work out....)
    -catch up on the big stack of novels that have accumulated over the year while i've been bumming around
    -submit more writing to people and stuff
    -learn how to cycle now my knee's betterish (anybody laughs and they get it!!)

    and of course..

    try to take over the world!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 45,594 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    My goals:


    - Join my local gym and maybe start swimming in order to shift this pot belly that I've developed in recent months.

    - To drink a lot (thus negating the above goal but meh) and watch the English media tear apart their players as usual in the World Cup.

    - Work - I need the moolah, particularly if I have to repeat.

    - Take driving lessons

    - Socialise more - and celebrate turning 20

    - Go to the beach - I haven't been there in years

    - Try to avoid watching Big Brother


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Going to be an increase in gym memberships by the look of things.

    My goal: Complete thesis and finally leave UCD. That is all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    irlrobins wrote:
    Complete thesis and finally leave UCD.

    hey, don't start with that crazy talk!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭dajaffa


    -pass my driving test

    Oh the whole driving thing is on my list of things to do as well. Got myself a nice boring office job lined up anyway, so that'll keep me busy


  • Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Me too with the whole driving thing... I really need to get the theory test out of the way. I've been saying for so many years that I would learn to drive..


  • Registered Users Posts: 524 ✭✭✭Exar Khun


    Win someones heart.
    Learn to drive, buy a car, drive to beach, surf.
    Get massive(not really)
    Maybe go away.
    Win someones heart.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    elmyra wrote:
    learn how to cycle now my knee's betterish

    You can borrow my stabilizers if you like?


    If all the cool kids are doing it
    • Back the the Gym
    • Lots of Road Trips while the weather is good
    • Travel somwhere
    • Play more golf
    • Get lots of new clothes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,598 ✭✭✭ferdi


    1. avoid the gym because its a money wasting scam
    2. stop eating so much crap, there by getting back in reasonable shape
    3. work
    4. make the most of it


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Assuming I pass my exams, if I don't I think I'll just shoot myself so the rest of this wont be very important!
    • Don't intend to go to a gym but do plan to purchase a good bike then cycle everywhere and anywhere, might buy weights too in the hope of not looking like something they captured at roswell.
    • Get a job, of course, hopefully not some minimum wage crap.
    • Travel somwhere, maybe Germany or Poland.
    • Play some tennis if I can convince anyone else.
    • Read about a million books I've been meaning to read for ages.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭Hanginthere


    1. Drink a lot of alcohol
    2. Record an album ( havnt found the motivation)
    3. Go to germany
    4. Mabye start cycling again
    5. buy some new guitar equipment
    6. organise a few gigs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 112 ✭✭Byrno


    - Get my provisional (have done theory test but haven't gotten my license yet!)
    - Use that provisional to take driving lessons. Won't be able to take my Driving Test but will apply anyway.
    - Hopefully get a job (prob a minimum wage one!)
    - Start playing golf again.
    - Buy a bike
    - My cousin's wedding is this summer, the first of the cousins. Should be good so!
    - Head somewhere on holidays, maybe Boston, maybe Budapest again, maybe somewhere else.

    That's about it, should be busy anyway!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭Stabshauptmann


    Well Im going to San Diego straight after my exams and wont be back till september.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭blondie83


    - Train enough to be able to attempt my first marathon in October.
    - Do the adidas race series
    - Figure out how they get the figs into the fig rolls.
    - Do an unsupported handstand
    - I guess, work more on my PhD

    - Find someone
    Whats an unsupported handstand? Sounds fun!

    Sangre I saw a tall guy walking around outside the library today in hawian shorts and a navy t-shirt, was that yourself? Anyway my list:

    1. Do project...all Summer (damn masters stealing my summer :mad: )
    2. Clean my room - actually being planning to do this for 9 months now!
    3. Learn how to drive: Have the provisional, the insurance and the parents waiting to teach me, but just haven't had time yet
    4. Get back into training, been really slacking off on it lately
    5. Take part in a few fencing competitions and actually do well!
    6. Get a part time job and save lots of money to go to Japan/pay back loan
    7. Get around to reading all the books I've been meaning to read all year
    8. Pay off credit cards (God this better be a good job!)
    9. Find a "real-world" job for after the summer...well maybe not!

    Don't care too much about the ninth one, but if I get through the first 8 I'll be well happy!


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,169 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Was briefly outside the library today in hawaiin shorts and a navy quickersilver tshirt. Although I'm not tall. Also have black hair and I'm kinda tanned. Did the guy have headphones on?

    Hmm..won't be able to achieve these goals if I don't get back to changing this criminology essay on ecological theories. It basically postulates that more knackers come out of the Northside because its a kip. Their cronic inbreeding is only a minor factor in their criminogenic personalities.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭Stepherunie


    - Start the ball rolling on stuff for my society once we get official confirmation
    - Finish Clinical Placement on the 8th of July (CUH here I come)
    - Start and finish my research project
    - GO roadtripping around Ireland
    - Party for my birthday
    - Enjoy spending time at home


  • Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,727 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    • Give up smoking (again).
    • Get rid of the beer belly.
    • Make enough money to buy my mum's car and insure it, just so I don't have to rent next year.
    • Edit: Whoa! I nearly forgot to mention the boards.ie trial - that's a major one!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    Sangre wrote:
    Was briefly outside the library today in hawaiin shorts and a navy quickersilver tshirt. Although I'm not tall. Also have black hair and I'm kinda tanned. Did the guy have headphones on?

    Aha, thought that was you outside the arts cafe alright.

    My goals:

    - get utterly hammered after my exams
    - have a ball at my sisters wedding
    - have a ball in cuba
    - get a job
    - move in with the boyfriend
    - hopefully celebrate passing my exams
    - decide what it is I want to do with my life for the next while.

    :)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭Notorious


    Pour moi:

    - Go on holidays

    - Continue to work so I can get car insurance (this'll be a toughie!)

    - Return to cycling (keep fit)

    - Do loads of work for the society

    - Improve my skill playing the guitar and the harmonica


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