The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread

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It's okay, Bartley, it's not that bad; there are only six more months of Council meetings left.

Myth

Myth wrote: »

He uses OpenOffice too.

Heathen

Bartron Prime

Ibid wrote: »

It's okay, Bartley, it's not that bad; there are only six more months of Council meetings left.

I actually enjoy Board meetings. It's just that I'm doing an overview of the HEA RGAM and its impact on College finances. It's actually a tragedy and is just so depressing. So so depressing...

balzarywex

Can't sleep... 2S3 will eat me....

*waves goodbye to schols in maths*

What? 4 full months away?

Bartron Prime

Blazary, you should go here for a load of really useful Study Skills materials. Also, to prep for them, consider tackling previous Schol Exam Papers. They can be found here.

Also, Schols are a stressful set of exams but there are lots of ways to get through it. Perhaps one of the most effective is the simplest and therefore the silliest sounding: Eat, Sleep and Play. You need to look after yourself while studying intensely or you just won't function properly. Then you might spontaneously combust. Not fun. Seriously though, check out the Study Skills stuff then try your hand at some papers. If you want any more advice on Schols in general, e-mail me at education@tcdsu.org.

paperclip

We should have a 'schols' thread where we can all moan about it....

Off you go so!

ApeXaviour

Indeed, fire away, that thread has become somewhat of an annual tradition. It usually doesn't start 'till January, but I've no objections. It could also be a place to contain all the useful information for all those sitting it next March.

Edit: too late I already did it

Awayindahils

I've had a chest infection for the last two weeks and now i have new syptoms, and I'm drowning in work. I need to write an essay every 6 days or so up to the end of term and prepare for exams and then theres the stooopid institute kids homework to correct, and they're soo dense and there's so much of it and I'd bollick them out of it if they wrote a sentence this long.........:( Or maybe if the sentence was a bit longer.

And the dog keeps farting.

Pet

aaaaaaaaghhhh. I'm so bogged down. I've got so much catching up to do, and it's stressing me out to the max. Gaaaaaaaahh.

Also, the shower in my new place is rather crap. It's one of those attached-to-the-bath-taps ones, with pressure like a watering can; also, there's no riser, so you have to hold the shower head whilst you shower. Bah!

ApeXaviour

I'm never living in the US, I think there's something in the water here that makes you fat.

I think its more the fact that one course over there is equivalent to three over here plus eating a tin of lard while also drinking what remains in the pan after you fry breakfast.

paperclip

Not to mention the forks are covered with sugar and every substance is gilded in tempting, tempting chocolate.
Try the Butterfingers though, they're good.

Edwardius

ApeXaviour wrote: »

I'm never living in the US, I think there's something in the water here that makes you fat.

Probably animal hormones of some description.

Tricity Bendix

ApeXaviour wrote: »

I'm never living in the US, I think there's something in the water here that makes you fat.

I think it's more likely to be something in the food.

shay_562

Deleted User wrote:

I think its more the fact that one course over there is equivalent to three over here

Word - spent two weeks in Florida this summer, rarely ate more than one meal a day. There's just so much food!

Edit: Topic, think I've caught whatever's going around. Spent day in bed feeling nauseous, which isn't helped by having builders in at the moment and drills going near-constantly from 8-4. Bleeeeech.

shay_562

shay_562 wrote: »

Word - spent two weeks in Florida this summer, rarely ate more than one meal a day. There's just so much food!

Edit: Topic, think I've caught whatever's going around. Spent day in bed feeling nauseous, which isn't helped by having builders in at the moment and drills going near-constantly from 8-4. Bleeeeech.

I had something like that recently, its annoying but it passes.

europerson

I was brought to Copperface Jack's tonight. I'm not one for cursing, but, seriously, WTF?

ApeXaviour

Haha, you and coppers, I have difficulty picturing it.

:mad: This is bad:



Trust me...

paperclip

I have a chest infection.....still, no choice but to go to today's lab.
I'm feelign decidedly meh. I want to go home to mayo and have chicken soup.

Awayindahils

europerson wrote: »

I was brought to Copperface Jack's tonight. I'm not one for cursing, but, seriously, WTF?

Eye opener?

europerson

europerson wrote: »

I was brought to Copperface Jack's tonight. I'm not one for cursing, but, seriously, WTF?

Get yourself checked.

For some reason, the SA1s in PWC all loved the place...

europerson

ApeXaviour wrote: »

Haha, you and coppers, I have difficulty picturing it.

I have difficulty visualising how and why it happened.

Awayindahils wrote: »

Eye opener?

Eyes aren't really necessary, it seemed: touchy-feely seems to be the way to go in it. Example: "Oh you feel like a man/woman: oh, it feels like we're against a wall" <Appropriate period of time later> <Eyes open> <Run away> (That's not a personal experience, by the way.)

Deleted User wrote: »

Get yourself checked.

Don't worry: you're safe. We sleep in different rooms, remember?

For some reason, the SA1s in PWC all loved the place...

After a challenging day in PWC, there's nothing like relaxing easiness...?

Crash

The Telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world,
And Mother feels so shocked,
Father's world is rocked,
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl
Sweet 16 ain't that peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat,
They can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reasons do you need


In short, I don't really like mondays :P

çrash_000

çrash_000 wrote: »

The Telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world,
And Mother feels so shocked,
Father's world is rocked,
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl
Sweet 16 ain't that peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat,
They can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reasons do you need


In short, I don't really like mondays :P

Hah! Sent the same in an e-mail to friends on mine today. Plus this:

Alan Partridge: 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'. What a great song. It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn't it? You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think "Sunday, bloody Sunday!".
Aidan Walsh: I really hate to do this to you, Alan, but it's actually a song about...
Paul Tool: Yeah, bloody Sunday is actually about a massacre in Derry in 1972.
Alan Partridge: A massacre? Ugh. I'm not playing that again.

europerson

I've just done an online aptitude test that was hellish. It involved for the most part rotations of the letter R.

ApeXaviour

Axial or azimuthal? Was it trying to get you to type in Cyrillic maybe?

europerson

ApeXaviour wrote: »

Axial or azimuthal?

Both.

Was it trying to get you to type in Cyrillic maybe?

That might have been easier.

Crash

Final year is a ****ing pain in the arse. hate it. HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT.