The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread

Pet

Not so much a rant/bitch/moan, but an oops..

I slept in til 2 today and missed 4 lectures. Even though I set 2 alarms last night and left them across the room. I think I must have gotten out of bed and turned them off, all without waking up. Goddamnit I need my 100watt cd player back, it was the only thing that could wake me up in the mornings. Gah.

John

Do Halls not provide you with a courtesy wake up call? Shameful.

Pet

No. But, I brought my snare drum out, and I'm gonna get a flatmate to play outside my door every morning. The noise and the sound of someone playing badly will be enough to get me out of bed..

Edit: and I have to go to some fire safety lecture at half 7, and if I miss it there's a fine of €70.. :eek:

John

Pet wrote:

Edit: and I have to go to some fire safety lecture at half 7, and if I miss it there's a fine of €70.. :eek:

Hate that, I've no fines for staying in bed. Except the fine feeling of being in bed.

Chick

I want my student diary.

I've been back at college 3weeks now, and I could've been writing stuff down!! :mad:

There's only so much space on my hand like...

ApeXaviour

Pet wrote:

Edit: and I have to go to some fire safety lecture at half 7, and if I miss it there's a fine of €70.. :eek:

Ysee.. there's your problem, if this was back when I was a fresher. You can be goddam sure I'd grab a couple people and stay up drinking all night and go to this thing pissed as a flute giggling and burping.

God I miss being a fresher. Feckin coursework tripling every year. For christ sake ronan man! LIVE IT UP while you can!!!

snorlax

iv been back two days my workload has increased massively, just recovering from a nine o'clock start, but went down to the buttery today as dont have lectures till after 12 tomorrow. living on starbucks coffee, wish my course was more mixed it sucks being around 36 women every day and 1 man, we never seem to have a balanced opinion on solving our pbl's/ case studies, they're always solved from an female perspective, why don't more males do our course considering it's so hands on.

John

snorlax wrote:

iv been back two days my workload has increased massively, just recovering from a nine o'clock start, but went down to the buttery today as dont have lectures till after 12 tomorrow. living on starbucks coffee, wish my course was more mixed it sucks being around 36 women every day and 1 man, we never seem to have a balanced opinion on solving our pbl's/ case studies, they're always solved from an female perspective, why don't more males do our course considering it's so hands on.

Probably because it's not really promoted in boy's schools. I had never heard of the OT course until I was in college. We were told all about medicine, engineering, business and other "manly" things. Plus I think that more women have the temperment and actually give a damn compared to men.

snorlax

You’d be surprised, we have to carry a kit with spanners etc if working in an assistive technology environment, you have to pretty good on the mechanical make up of a wheelchair and other AT, and also do a lot of science and applied science with hands on practise, it's a real pity as it's the kind of course fellas would love, we can specialise when we're finished in computer programs/ learning disabilities/ hand therapy/ neurology/ paediatrics/ geriatrics./ community work/ mental health. it is probably an unhidden jewel fo fellas in health science.

John

As I said, we weren't told anything about it. I'm sure there are plenty of guys out there who would love it. I don't know if it'd be my cup of tea but it does sound interesting.

snorlax

tcd was the only course offering it until recently so it is relatively new (in the past only about 30/ 40 students graduating every year for the whole of Ireland). Now UL offers a postgrad and UCC and UCG offer undergrad courses.
you wouldn't really hear of it unless you worked in the health/ caring profession or knew someone practising. it is still realitively new in ireland and they're is a lot of areas available to do research in (which i hope to do at some point).
recently we have being getting more coverage on the radio /tv etc, probably because we work with such a diverse amount of clients there is an awful lot of people who need our help and may have never seen us or been placed on a lengthly waiting list (most likely P3's, priority 3 clients, who can wait months to see us). one of my lectures, Bethan Collins did a series on rte recently (she's completely blind but the only OT scholar ).

they're was also a program on recently called the asylum which addressed some of the issues that we deal with, and the type of clientele we encouter in an acute and a instuitional setting.the people that we're moved out of the asylum to supported hostels would have been taught activities of daily living like cooking and stress managment/ and survival training by OT's. so we are in the privalaged position to offer people a better chance at life should they request it and should they be motivated enough to follow our intervention strategies.

John

I saw that show. It looks like a tough job.

So would you like to work as an occupational therapist or would like to do research if the opportunity arose?

snorlax

both at some stage. learning through practise and then applying what i learn to improve the quality of patient care in OT settings, through better assessments, feedback, and improved interventions.

i'm not really a fan of the library so i want to learn a smuch as i can through practise and theory before making use of it through research. Knowledge is useless unless you can apply it.
OT is very rewarding and you get desentised to people's problems after a certain time.
Carers and nurses often have it worse and they are working in close contact with patients nine to five and often get too attached and feel their ups and downs as if they we're they're own. i'm no saint, neither is anyone in my year we're just people who want to help those who can't help themselves via pratical means. you really get what you put into it and it's alot more rewarding then typing on a computer screen/ totting up someone's accounts. at least for me anyhow.

Pet

Ysee.. there's your problem, if this was back when I was a fresher. You can be goddam sure I'd grab a couple people and stay up drinking all night and go to this thing pissed as a flute giggling and burping.

Nononono. It was at 7:30 PM. Me? get up at 7am? Are you kidding!?

Agent Smith

i am so pissed off right now.....

arbeitsscheuer

agent smith wrote:

i am so pissed off right now.....

HEY! This is the ANTI-moan thread... You leave that bad karma at that door, man, cos it ain't welcome here

P.S. Yeah, I'm vaguely annoyed too. Must be college. F**king hate it, everyone else loves it. Bast*rds.

Agent Smith

ehh. i ment the soccer

arbeitsscheuer

agent smith wrote:

ehh. i ment the soccer

Oh YEAH!

Which reminds me, given that this is the anti-moan thread...

F**K YEAH: ENGLAND topped their Group and Qualify!
We ROCK!

Germany here we come (again)

Jonny Arson

SebtheBum wrote:

Oh YEAH!

Which reminds me, given that this is the anti-moan thread...

F**K YEAH: ENGLAND topped their Group and Qualify!
We ROCK!

Germany here we come (again)

Er.... this is the rant/bitch/moan/be a c*nt thread! :rolleyes:

''Oh Brian Kerr is a w*nker, he wears a w*nkers hat, when Jayo went to Poland he didn't fancy that, he played that English b*stard but Clinton couldn't score, he's just a Pats knacker... f**k off to Inchicore!''

I hate Kerr. :mad:

Crash

eh, in fairness, if kilbane could actually kick a ball we might be better off...

snorlax

we have a great keeper but shoody strikers

John

Personally I think it's the fans' fault.

Jonny Arson

G*ry D**rty.... :mad: If he can play for Ireland we all can!

arbeitsscheuer

John O'Shea was sh*t as well, tbh.
Actually, our whole team is pretty rubbish, if ya think about it...

cuckoo

the rain.

so very wet.

snorlax

library in James closes at 5pm and my lectures finish at 4. it's ridiculous how can i get enough time to study and do research in an hour? and it only opens for like 3hours on saturday, not very good if you need constant access to journals articles and restricted lending books.

Agent Smith

hmmm,

damm the rain was NASTY today.....

John

snorlax wrote:

library in James closes at 5pm and my lectures finish at 4. it's ridiculous how can i get enough time to study and do research in an hour? and it only opens for like 3hours on saturday, not very good if you need constant access to journals articles and restricted lending books.

Sounds like you need Dónal.

Agent Smith

"here he comes, here comes eduMyth, he's the sabat with wheels...."


to the tune of speedracer...

Pet

the rain.

so very wet.

damm the rain was NASTY today.....

Oh look, it's the return of the Sugar People.

Goddamnit, the rain isn't going to cause you to melt like the wicked witch of the ****ing west, get over it. Thanks to people like you, I've had a superfun day today, being run into by people sprinting to get out of the glorified drizzle, and listening to people complain about how bad it is. And then there are the Umbrella People.

The Umbrella People walk around Dublin, oblivious to the fact that there are actually OTHER PEOPLE walking on the same footpath as them. They waltz along, pushing the umbrella-less folk out of their way and blinding anyone who dares to stand their ground with their titanium-tipped umbrella spokes.

It's Ireland. It rains here, quite a lot actually. It doesn't kill or maim you, it just makes you a bit wet. It cleans the streets of all the puke, ****, dirt and whatever it is that makes Dublin such a filthy hole. It waters the plants and crops. Maybe it will make your hair go poofy, or your makeup run down your face, but if you're worried about the above happening, then you're probably an Arts student anyways, and we all know what a waste of space they are.