UCD Accomodation Thread - All Queries Here

antSionnach

peachypants wrote:

Spoken like a true accountant. :rolleyes:

... peachypants does arts by any chance???:D This is the real world. Not the socialist soviet republic of Belgrove.

Pythia's point is valid, if UCD is willing to give accomodation to Dubliners, you cant balme people for taking it. Its all very well to take the moral high ground and huff about it, but you know where the moral high ground gets you? living with your parents til youre 65 and making daisy chains to send to george bush in your universal message of peace and love.

If you really want to move out, start looking now for rented accommodation nearby, and don't expect the college to grant you a place without any effort on your own part. It'll probably be cheaper too!

And country people cant do this???

Look guys, you keep talking about this as if there are uneducated country morons from ballygobackwards up in the big s(h)moke looking for a shack. These are groups of bright, healthy young people who have just as much ability to search out good property deals in the UCD suburbs as anyone else.

It doesnt take a genius or a dublin address to use a map, a mobile and the evening herald. Especially if these people are 2nd/ 3rd/4th/ 5th yr + of college in which case they definitely know the area well and do not 'need' to have campus.

The only people whom I know of that had still not organised accomodation more than 1 or 2 weeks into college were extremely disorganised people who had been inter-railing or dossing in the weeks prior to coming back and their delay in getting accomodation sorted was coming from their own laid back attitude, not that theres anything wrong with that, Im just saying, its not a normal thing to occur. Most people who make an effort get reasonable accomodation. And Res isnt exactly the 4 seasons btw



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Pythia

humbert wrote:

I really don't understand why you wont just admit that you would be happy to get on campus accommodation by whatever means possible at the expense of someone who deserves it more. In truth it wouldn't be very nice but it's not like you'd be stealing from old ladies or dealing drugs, it's the need to make feeble excuses that irks me.

Care to explain the whatever means possible? Because that sounds very much like some kind of insult.
If 'whatever means possible' means applying like everyone else, or applying in October then yeah... But otherwise I'd take that back, thanks.

mloc

i live literally next door to belfield but if i got campus accomodation offered id still take it.

would I feel guilty? no. I'd laugh.

Het-Field

mloc wrote:

i live literally next door to belfield but if i got campus accomodation offered id still take it.

would I feel guilty? no. I'd laugh.

Well if that is the case, in the words of Patch Adams, you are a "pompus arrogant prick"

Riamfada

you people are all insane.


Can I just ask why is on campus accomodation preferable to a shared house or small apartment in Clonskeagh or Stillorgan?

Man I wish I could afford to move out but I obviously just dont work as hard as you people (or your parents )


Ps: Irish speakers getting a certain number of rooms makes me sick. How does hearing your neighbours "doing the horizontal tango As Gaeilge" improve MY irish?

Oh Seá Seá Seá , Tá mé HECTORE agus ta massive erection is agam.go

elmyra

Hehehe, was it Hector or Ed Byrne or what comedian had that routine on sex as gaelige?

Somethin like...go tapa, go tapa, go tapa. Taim ag teacht, i do bheal. :eek

OT: Grimey on campus is preferable cos it's a 9 month lease, somethin' that's pretty hard to secure elsewhere.

Riamfada

elmyra wrote:

OT: Grimey on campus is preferable cos it's a 9 month lease, somethin' that's pretty hard to secure elsewhere.

well that does make alot of sense. well why dont you just stay in dublin for the other three months of the year. Im regularly baffled as to why people would ever want to go back to the dump which is all outside the pale anyway.

Rule Brittania!

elmyra

Dublin is great, but if you want to save during the summer for the academic year ahead, living at home means you can reduce your spending far more than if you are stuck paying an extra three months of rent. It's grand if you're from Dublin cos the 'rents house is a 24/7 free food/leccy/telly love in but otherwise it's nice to get home for a while and not have to have the worry of bills. Hence, big up the intangible 9 month lease...

irlrobins

And many people travel during the summer (j1, interrailing,etc). Some also have to work as part of their course and their work place might not be in Dublin.

panda100

Scraggs wrote:

Its open to everyone who has a decent fluency in Irish and is active in promoting the Irish language on-campus



Anyway OT, I've been told that the chances of me getting on-campus accom this year are slim to none despite having a 2hr+ commute from Carlow... I even suggested [similar to Pythia] that I could move in October should a place become available as I'll only be in college for the first week in Sept. due to medical reasons anyway but they said its not guaranteed and I'd be better off finding a place elsewhere.

Scraggs you should apply fo one of the irish houses.you'ld definatly get it!!

Samos

antSionnach wrote:

And country people cant do this???

Look guys, you keep talking about this as if there are uneducated country morons from ballygobackwards up in the big s(h)moke looking for a shack. These are groups of bright, healthy young people who have just as much ability to search out good property deals in the UCD suburbs as anyone else.

It doesnt take a genius or a dublin address to use a map, a mobile and the evening herald. Especially if these people are 2nd/ 3rd/4th/ 5th yr + of college in which case they definitely know the area well and do not 'need' to have campus.

I was implying that those who live in close proximity to UCD (i.e. Dubliners) have many distinct advantages over 'country folk' when looking for alternative accommodation from the family home: they are more familiar with the surrounding area, what prices and standards are reasonable for the area, and if they fail to find something suitable they can simply return to the family home without enduring the hassle of an inter-county commute. They should not take advantage of this privilege.

And native Dubliners, in your own words, "definitely know the area well and do not 'need' to have campus", just like the non-first-years who do not hail from Dublin. I certainly think that you, Pythia and the other city-dwellers here fit this description, and ought not to consider applying for on-campus accommodation in the interests of fairness.

From my own experience, I would not encourage anyone, other than first years and foreign students to apply for and accept on-campus residences. Everybody else can do much better and find rented accommodation, and bargain their landlord down to a better price. That's what I and my housemates did, and now I'm paying only €60 per week for a house in trhe centre of Donnybrook, and the bills rarely amount to more than €20 per month. If it's a twelve month contract it gives you the flexibility to work in Dublin or at home, and you could even sublet it for the summer (on the sly!) and you'd have an almost guaranteed place for the next academic year, thus ensuring more stability and less hassle come September.

singingstranger

Question: Pythia, if you and your boyfriend were both to apply in October for Roebuck, and you were given a place and he wasn't, would you still rue the system or just consider it the luck of the draw?

Pythia

singingstranger wrote:

Question: Pythia, if you and your boyfriend were both to apply in October for Roebuck, and you were given a place and he wasn't, would you still rue the system or just consider it the luck of the draw?

Luck of the draw. I'd feel bad for him, but blame the accomm office, not me.

Chakar

Come on people lets be more laissez faire its mostly up to the accomodation office.Of course there's people cheating the system giving addresses of relatives out in the country, you get that alright but its not fool-proof and nobody is claiming it is.

Goodluck2me

dajaffa wrote:

There are plans in the pipeline for a bus that would link UCD to dundrum, which could service milltown.

how do you possibly find that out? how can you know that like?

irlrobins

was in the development plan they released a few weeks ago. Nothing concrete, just something they'd put pressure on gov. and Dublin Bus to provide.

Goodluck2me

irlrobins wrote:

was in the development plan they released a few weeks ago. Nothing concrete, just something they'd put pressure on gov. and Dublin Bus to provide.

thanks, i wasnt being sarky its just amazin the nuggets of inforanmtion boards provides!

InFront

Indeed, boardies should be melted down together and fused to form one ginormous brain. Like that chewing gum thing in The Turtles.

Stepherunie

Brain? Yeah he was cool, although shredder wasn't that hot as a sidekick.

I'm not sure if it would be wise to realise such a monster on the general public, we may just make people explode.

panda100

Stepherunie wrote:

Brain? Yeah he was cool, although shredder wasn't that hot as a sidekick.

I'm not sure if it would be wise to realise such a monster on the general public, we may just make people explode.

No wonder we all ended up like we did considering we grew up watching four giant turtles fighting a brain floating in a jam jar...

singingstranger

Not to go off-topic, but people, people! The guy's name was Krang. Tsk.

And he's even got a Wiki...

nursebetty

There is a bus going from where i live in kildare 2 ucd every morning and evening but i still have moved to dublin. commuting isn't easy when ur trying 2study, sitting in traffic can tire u out 2. Thats y i'm willing to pay to live up here but since i could commute then i dont think i should get campus in a million years. as long as theres such a shortage of it should only be for people from over three hours away or somethin.

InFront

nursebetty wrote:

There is a bus going from where i live in kildare 2 ucd every morning and evening but i still have moved to dublin. commuting isn't easy when ur trying 2study, sitting in traffic can tire u out 2. Thats y i'm willing to pay to live up here but since i could commute then i dont think i should get campus in a million years. as long as theres such a shortage of it should only be for people from over three hours away or somethin.

its not that much in demand though. most people who dont get it would still be living in the dublin suburbs. its not 'campus or nothing'.

Im quite undecided on this btw. Its not that I would apply for campus, or have, but I am moving out of home atm and living with friends (all Dublin) and there are a lot of properties available. The only reason we havent been on viewings yet is we havent been able to get together all at once so far. Most of the places we're seeing on Daft seem fine tbh.

Admittedly theres something a bit weird about a D4/D14/D6 person getting campus tbh, but thats probably just because people find it weird that wed move out of home to still be living so closeby.

fruitmonster

Does the accomodation office in the Student Centre provide a list of houses for rent? I'm looking on daft at the moment and finding not very much that's reasonably priced. Has anyone been looking at the noticeboard in the Student centre, is there much on that yet?

Chakar

There's a good few up on the noticeboard and on the database the phone number is 01 716 3117 and mobile 087 753 6486.The officer's name is Shaun.

nando

Anyone have any idea when Glenomena are likely to return deposits to residents who left at the end of the 2005/2006 term? I have emailed them but in true glenomena style (ie poor customer care/general rudeness) they have not bothered to reply.

Thanks!

singingstranger

If it's anything like the Merville ones you should expect them soon, within another week or so. I'd phone up after that...

18AD

Could anyone recommend anywhere to look for this?

I've rang the accommodation office and have been looking at the billboards around UCD, which will hopefully become advertised on more closer to September.

irlrobins

daft.ie is worth a look. Also contact the SU Accom Officer

singingstranger

Thread merge tbh.