Favourite thing about Trinity

The Shol'va

Pet wrote:

And I'm not even sure where the chemistry building is.

Wait... there's a chemistry building? :P

Nietzschean

its over by the pav, great fun for getting lost in

dictatorcat

I know where the toilets are in the chemistry building........but i'm not telling

Pet

SkyLynx wrote:

its over by the pav, great fun for getting lost in

Would this be the Moyne institute? Or one of those buildings all-in-a-row (smurfit, panoz, hamilton etc) ?

ApeXaviour

It's kinda behind the pav.. there's all this bush infront of it that make it awkward to get to it.. GRRR chemistry

Pet

Ah yeah, I know it now.

I'm kinda having a "grrr" day, to all my subjects. :S

Stupid confusing, boring ****e.


Also, i just noticed that i moan a terrible amount on here. I swear, I'm not like this in real life!!

John

no, you're more of a whiner than a moaner in real life

Pet

John2 wrote:

no, you're more of a whiner than a moaner in real life

That's so unfaaaair!!!!

PinkyLou

Hey there Trinity people!!!
Doing my Leaving Cert this year and couldn't have picked harder subjects. But I'm studying loads so I can go to TRINITY next year. Been up there a few times and going again for the open day. Hope I get in next year! I only want to go there or to RCSI. Can't do Medicine in Trinity because you need two science subjects which is ****. I would love to do it there. But I hear RCSI is better at that anyway.
Just wondering what everyone thinks of Trinity overall. My friend and I are obsessed with going (Hehe - we're insane!) and are thinking of living in the student accomodation. Does anyone know anything about it???

Nietzschean

justa wondering, if u want to do medicine, which involves alot of physics/chemistry/biology why do you think the requirement for 2 sci subjects in lc is cock?

ApeXaviour

Heheh I was gonna say the same as Skylynx.. Ah feck it I will anyway: yeah medicine is conducted by scientific method and practically all of what you do is pure (like sky said) physics, biology, chemistry. So needing two scientific subjects to get into med in tcd? Maybe not so **** afterall.

Trinity overall? Kinda vague question but.. Well having never gone to any other college I cannot much compare. Good and bad lecturers like anywhere else, it has a lot of character, oddballs etc. Leading research facilities (at least in my faculty).

Student accomodation? Really depends where you get, there is Trinity Hall in rathmines, the goldsmith on pearse st and then on campus. Most on campus are old and small, dank with high ceilings etc. Except botony bay, that's pretty nice. Again you're questions are vague. Actually you're more expressing your anticipation rather than asking question. But you're not even going to go to trinity so how does that work?

Kevin_rc_ie

APex,

Not that badly articulated for some one hign on morhpine.

Pet

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

APex,

Not that badly articulated for some one hign on morhpine.

Indeed! I was much less coherent.

Infact, it's fair to say I was barely coherent at all. And insulted some nice nurses. But that's a tale for another day..

Dave Larkin

Quite simply, what is your favourite aspect of TCD? It can be anything, from the ladies to the educational standard. You decide.

Endymion

The boys, seriously the cock in trinity is greeeeeeeeeeat

Carni, b.ie_curious is having a BAD effect on you!!

UU

Carnivore wrote:

The boys, seriously the cock in trinity is greeeeeeeeeeat

Oh really? Em, are there many gay guys there? Because I'm gay and I like cock.

shay_562

Statistically speaking, at least 750.

Ah, I knew there was another thread about this. A 5 star thread from two years ago, no less

Though it does seem quite waffly looking through it.

[edit]My answer: The students

shay_562

Hee! Pre-mod Crash looking forward to getting to TCD and meeting Matt the Jap, pre-officer Myth getting snitty over the lack of college services, and the nickname "Ace_Rimmer". Archives are fun.

John

I love everything. Especially the bad stuff but especially Kev. I miss TCD.

Crash

I love the general atmosphere. being able to wander around the place and running into at least one person i genuinely like.

Endymion

shay_562 wrote:

and the nickname "Ace_Rimmer". Archives are fun.

stuff like that is the reason i can't tell donal from dathi (sp) from that other dude.

Pet

And wide-eyed-wonder-filled, slightly childish posts from myself. I'm so glad I'm not 18 anymore..

Carnivore

Carnivore wrote:

i can't tell donal from dathi (sp) from that other dude.

I tried to ask him to change his name to Dob, but he wouldn't budge.

meehawl

ApeXaviour wrote: »

Country's 'premier' university (good for ol Pgrad abroad)

I went to Trinity. I just did several years of pgrad in New York City (NYU) and am now doing MD in UC (California). Trinity is very slightly known among a few academics on the east coast of the US (mostly those who studied or lectured there) but is unknown on the west coast. As a brand it's just not strong, People have heard of Oxford, Cambridge, Sorbonne, etc. Trinity (Dublin), not really.

DirtyLemons

UCD is just oompa lumpas with the famine. DIT is trinity with out a campus, and NUI...ever heard the nickname 'Gaynooth?' theres a reason for that. trinity deserves to be esteemed. piss off plebs

but seriously, college.

wen i was doin the lc i pictured college as house partys and starting fights with heroin addicts and things of the such, but all it does is rain and i dno wat society to get into. neeed a general partyn soc instead of sports nights in purty kitchen with **** turnouts

students@graz

I'm am Austrian student studying translation in Graz. Since one of my foreign languages is English and our current topic is college/university education, I have to do a project on trinity college together with 3 mates.
It would be really nice if somebody could answer some questions for our projects success' sake!
1. What does make trinity college better than other schools? Why is it special? Characteristics? Traditions?
2. Is it hard to get in? How high are tuition fees?
3. How is student life in Dublin? Are there many fraternities/sororities? Many student parties?
4. Where do students usually live? In halls of residence, flats or rather at home with their parents?
5. Is trinity college an 'elite' school?

It would be really nice if somebody could answer some of these questions! It's always good to have insider information!

Thanks !

DirtyLemons

students@graz wrote: »

1. What does make trinity college better than other schools? Why is it special? Characteristics? Traditions?
3. How is student life in Dublin? Are there many fraternities/sororities? Many student parties?
5. Is trinity college an 'elite' school?
!

im actually shaking with excitement on how to answer you. so im gunna do this carefully. guna go write it out nd come back to you.

students@graz

DirtyLemons wrote: »

im actually shaking with excitement on how to answer you. so im gunna do this carefully. guna go write it out nd come back to you.

thank you sooo much! you're our saviour!

xebec

I'll answer a few of your questions, but most of what you are looking for can be found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_College_Dublin or http://www.tcd.ie/

2. Define hard? In general the entrance requirements here are higher than those at other Universities in Ireland. We use a points system to gain entry based on the results of our Leaving Certificate. Tuition is free to first time Irish undergrads, and also to some others, more info on fees on the College homepage.

4. Students live in a mixture of all of those. There are about a 1000 beds in Trinity Hall which is 2 miles south of Trinity and about 700 beds on campus. Other students make their own arrangements based on their personal situation.

5. Trinity as a whole likes to see itself as being an elite University. One of the aims of the Provost is to continually improve our ranking in the THES http://www.thes.co.uk/worldrankings/ We are consistently the highest ranked Irish University, however the validity of these tables are open to criticism and not everyone agrees they are a good measure of how good a University is. From the perspective of the Irish public, Trinity would be seen as the most elite University in the country, mainly because of its history of restrictive admissions policies and also because of the high entry requirements, however many people are finally getting over that opinion - especially when they've known someone who has attended TCD.

students@graz

xebec wrote: »

I'll answer a few of your questions, but most of what you are looking for can be found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_College_Dublin or http://www.tcd.ie/

2. Define hard? In general the entrance requirements here are higher than those at other Universities in Ireland. We use a points system to gain entry based on the results of our Leaving Certificate. Tuition is free to first time Irish undergrads, and also to some others, more info on fees on the College homepage.

4. Students live in a mixture of all of those. There are about a 1000 beds in Trinity Hall which is 2 miles south of Trinity and about 700 beds on campus. Other students make their own arrangements based on their personal situation.

5. Trinity as a whole likes to see itself as being an elite University. One of the aims of the Provost is to continually improve our ranking in the THES http://www.thes.co.uk/worldrankings/ We are consistently the highest ranked Irish University, however the validity of these tables are open to criticism and not everyone agrees they are a good measure of how good a University is. From the perspective of the Irish public, Trinity would be seen as the most elite University in the country, mainly because of its history of restrictive admissions policies and also because of the high entry requirements, however many people are finally getting over that opinion - especially when they've known someone who has attended TCD.

Thank you very much!

Boston

Theres not such thing as fraternities or sororities at an Irish university.

emeraldstar

students@graz wrote: »

thank you sooo much! you're our saviour!

hee hee hee