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The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread

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    #752
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Some departments also use OpenOffice too :P


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    #753
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    crash_000 wrote:
    Some departments also use OpenOffice too :P
    well we do, but MS office isn't that bad so i didn't think it was that much of a requirement to point out... where as IE...well...


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    #754
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,503 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    internet explorer has teh ghey.....


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    #755
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Someone else mentioned it before, you can install Firefox to your TCD userspace if you so wish...


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    #756
    Kevin_rc_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Kevin_rc_ie


    i thought downloading programs onto college computers was prohibited without permission.


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    #757
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Right now I couldn't care less.


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    #758
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,503 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    i know Firefox is in the csc offices, getting it to work is a completly diffrent cattel of fish


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    #759
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Hehe, we got caught for quake3 at one stage - til we copped if we just run it off usb keys theres no trace :D


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    #760
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,503 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    heh, i got caught for that....


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    #761
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ****ing wanker of a lecturer ****ing changed the ****ing exam format for today's ****ing exam. **** SAKE.


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    #762
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    Myth wrote:
    ****ing wanker of a lecturer ****ing changed the ****ing exam format for today's ****ing exam. **** SAKE.
    shit one


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    #763
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,503 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    nasty, i'd sue, tbh


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    #764
    Kevin_rc_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Kevin_rc_ie


    myth's all emotional and stuff. isn't that unusual?


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    #765
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Today isn't a good day Kev.


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    #766
    Kevin_rc_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Kevin_rc_ie


    Sorry Myth, I'm sure the exams will be better then you thought, if it was infact a dodgy paper, these things even themselves out.


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    #767
    snorlax
    Registered Users Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭snorlax


    but sure how could you predict something like that to happen? the only thing you can do is your best, and the lecturers cant expect anymore.
    also if the paper got changed it might drag down everyone else's grade down too resulting in an easier marking scheme to compensate for the lower class average.

    i think its standardised the number of firsts/ etc that they give for each subject in most departments in trinity.
    bear in mind also that external markers are employed by trinity to check out every single exam we do, and to ensure that the marking scheme is fair and also that the grades remain fairly standardised throughout each year of the subject.


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    #768
    Kevin_rc_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Kevin_rc_ie


    Who corrects exams? Lectureres? Lecturers from other universitys? Heaven forbid, PG students?


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    #769
    snorlax
    Registered Users Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭snorlax


    lecturers, but a certain porportion of he papers get sent to an external examiner outside of college who checks the lecturers marking scheme and has the power to alter grades should he/she feel that the lecturer has made an error in the points they awarded, they did this in leaving cert aswell to ensure fairness of marking.


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    #770
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    snorlax wrote:
    lecturers, but a certain porportion of he papers get sent to an external examiner outside of college who checks the lecturers marking scheme and has the power to alter grades should he/she feel that the lecturer has made an error in the points they awarded, they did this in leaving cert aswell to ensure fairness of marking.
    external examiners are only used for exams that count to your degree afaik....
    and they check all papers i believe...


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    #771
    snorlax
    Registered Users Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭snorlax


    i had an external examiner check my essay last year(first year) and was told by my lecturer i couldnt get the exact result of my essay and that the result on my paper was provisonal result as the papers had to be checked by an external examainer, same for a my literature review i did this year and my theories and intervnetions portfolio, and none count towards my finnal degree.
    id say they need some controls etc to protect against biasing in papers by lecturers


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    #772
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,503 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    i had chinnese for dinner today, very tasty


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    #773
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    agent smith wrote:
    i had chinnese for dinner today, very tasty

    I thought this was the moan thread...


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    #774
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    Myth wrote:
    I thought this was the moan thread...
    how about you correct his transgression and do some extra moaning so.


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    #775
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Darth Bobo wrote:
    how about you correct his transgression and do some extra moaning so.

    I thought I was moaning?


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    #776
    Pet
    Registered Users Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭Pet


    Myth wrote:
    I thought I was moaning?
    No, you were ranting, big difference. Do some more. It'll make you feel better.


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    #777
    cuckoo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,945 ✭✭✭cuckoo


    Rant, grrrrrr, rant, blah.

    want the exams to be over.

    meh.

    i actually watched 'celebrity love island', indulging in a bit of study procrastination, but i could feel my iq drop with each minute i saw.

    ick. grrrrr. blah.


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    #778
    punka
    Closed Accounts Posts: 354 ✭✭punka


    cuckoo wrote:
    i actually watched 'celebrity love island', indulging in a bit of study procrastination, but i could feel my iq drop with each minute i saw.

    i accidentally caught the end of big brother tonight. i feel all dirty now.
    almost halfway through....
    so.tired.

    also. sports hall = worst exam venue EVER. with the lights and the hotness and the hip-hop. actually there was no hip-hop. but if there was, i bet it would have been 50 cent. or d12. damn kids with their hip-hop.


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    #779
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    I have a pain in my tummy


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    #780
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    cuckoo wrote:
    i actually watched 'celebrity love island', indulging in a bit of study procrastination, but i could feel my iq drop with each minute i saw.

    ew. you've lost cool points. jeez and to think i let you chat me up in the gingerman :/


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    #781
    cuckoo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,945 ✭✭✭cuckoo


    crash_000 wrote:
    ew. you've lost cool points. jeez and to think i let you chat me up in the gingerman :/

    Desperate times, desperate measures...please take into consideration the fact that i only have 4 channels. if i had sky news i'd be procrastinating in front of it now, while kidding myself that i'm 'showing an interest in world affairs'. instead i'm messing around on boards.ie - oh, dear.

    Ugh, i have my first exam tommorrow and i just don't care any more. of course, 5 minutes into the paper i'll care lots, but right now i'm sulking around my flat, still unable to move my neck properly and wishing the prescription painkillers were of the morphine family so i'd least i'd be happy. drugged and deluded, but pain free and happy.

    edited to add: crash, if i had been chatting you up you'd have known about it; the increasing feeling of fear, followed by the 'hey, why have i been seperated from my friends' realisation, followed by the 'hmmm, this is like those lions stalking the wilderbeasts on National Geographic' realisation, then the 'maybe i'm going to die' flash of insight - which is followed shortly afterwards by the 'hey, at least i'm gonna die happy' thoughts.


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