What bugs you about UCD?

Pythia

delta_bravo wrote:

Well perhaps you could justify it?

I already did in another post.

cast_iron

Thankfully, I doubt the Bursar would entertain such a ridiculous notion.

Blush_01

Pythia: Cheaper options - walk, take the bus or get a taxi (if you don't drive, that is). Many exams already take place on campus anyway. Although I don't drive, I can still see how a multi-story carpark would trump a multi-story exam centre in importance. Repeatedly. It might be more convenient for you to not have to travel to the exam centre, but there are people who have a hefty dart journey before they get the bus to UCD, and it's far more convenient for them to just have to get the dart. Besides, something designed as an exam centre, unless it was modelled on the bleakness of the RDS, would be almost pointless for events on campus. Also, the traffic onto campus would be multiplied in the event of the exam centre being used for anything. Now, if a carpark were to be built with a large multi-purpose room on top which could accommodate some exams, that might make sense, but a centre solely for exams because some people are lazy - there's no justification for that.

Sangre: teehee.

delta_bravo

Blush_01 wrote:

Pythia: Cheaper options - walk, take the bus or get a taxi (if you don't drive, that is). Many exams already take place on campus anyway. Although I don't drive, I can still see how a multi-story carpark would trump a multi-story exam centre in importance. Repeatedly. It might be more convenient for you to not have to travel to the exam centre, but there are people who have a hefty dart journey before they get the bus to UCD, and it's far more convenient for them to just have to get the dart. Besides, something designed as an exam centre, unless it was modelled on the bleakness of the RDS, would be almost pointless for events on campus. Also, the traffic onto campus would be multiplied in the event of the exam centre being used for anything. Now, if a carpark were to be built with a large multi-purpose room on top which could accommodate some exams, that might make sense, but a centre solely for exams because some people are lazy - there's no justification for that.

here,here!

fish-head

Why would I let it bug me when I only spend about 16 hours in there a week?

Pah!

Pythia

Well I still think I'm right, but there's no point in continuing on this debate as people are closed minded.

Sangre

Rofl. Yeah, thats why people are disagreeing with you.

dajaffa

Ok just so everyone knows, there's a massive development plan underway for UCD which should be completed in around 10 years. Part of it is to build 4 (I think) multi-story car parks, all located near entrances. The idea is that the body of the campus would be a car fee zone, with the possibility of a shuttle bus operating going around campus. Other parts of the plan are a huge revamp of the Arts + Science blocks, a hotel, a cinema, a supermarket, the athletics track being moved to another part of campus, "rape lane" being upgraded to a proper entrance among many other things.

A purpose built centre for exams would most likely be a white-elephant as it would have to be huge to accommodate the Christmas and summer exams, and hence would be extremely underused for the rest of the year. What I would like to see is better use of on campus spaces for exams such as the science lobbies (which was were science students sat the most part of their exams back in the day) and examine the possibility of using O'Reilly Hall to eliminate weekend exams and those 6pm exams that students are having to sit in recent times.

Vorsprung

dajaffa wrote:

Ok just so everyone knows, there's a massive development plan underway for UCD which should be completed in around 10 years. Part of it is to build 4 (I think) multi-story car parks, all located near entrances. The idea is that the body of the campus would be a car fee zone, with the possibility of a shuttle bus operating going around campus. Other parts of the plan are a huge revamp of the Arts + Science blocks, a hotel, a cinema, a supermarket, the athletics track being moved to another part of campus, "rape lane" being upgraded to a proper entrance among many other things.

Can't argue with most of that, would go far to making the place a bit livelier.

Garret

10 years? whats that in UCD time?

dajaffa

Garret wrote:

10 years? whats that in UCD time?

Only a century or two

It' supposed to be done for 2015, so lets say somewhere from 2018-2023...

Anyway here's some linkys:

http://www.ucd.ie/news/jun06/062006_campus_dev.htm

http://www.ucd.ie/news/july06/072106_campus_dev2.htm

seraphimvc

Sangre wrote:

Don't you have a car?

Anyway if you don't walk to the RDS from UCD you're a lazy bastard.

ohmy,as a mod,something like tat out from your mouth???:p

just make this clear,UCD students are obviously not all live near UCD + most of them dont have a car(if tats the case,how big the carpark u need for appr. 25000 cars?),many of them live 20mins/30mins walk/dart/bus from home to UCD,which,means,some of them(at least more than 1/5 of the total of the UCD students?) may take more time to RDS...

especially when you are going to do your test...are u willing to waste tat much energy + time to get to the exam center??:D

u r great,sangre,as a student,you are such a model:D

Umaro

Why do teenage girls post like they're retarded? One of life's mysteries.

gubbie

Please please stop with the "u r" and all the text language. I thought there was some sort of ban against it

And secondly many students do go into UCD before an exam or go back to UCD after an exam to study. Not walking really is just lazy

panda100

dajaffa wrote:

. Other parts of the plan are a huge revamp of the Arts + Science blocks, a hotel, a.

I wonder if they'll rent by the hour........or 5minutes in Sangres case........

pFd

One of the things that annoys me most about ucd is the separation between the students of the different "colleges" in ucd. we all go to the same college yet in general we kinda dislike each other. eg science vs arts as the classic example. i wish ucd would try to make the college more united. there should be a central meeting place for all students to meet and congragate. the lake would be and ideal spot for this as its central to almot all the colleges.
During my 1 and a half years in ucd i have yet to speak to a business student. im in science so we never really have the chance to intermingle without being drunk and loud in the bar!
UCD is a very divided college. Hate it for that.

Red Alert

that's true actually. the only biz people i ever met were those who were in my year in school. other than that i've only met two people from B+L, one whom i worked in the same shop as and the other is a friend of a friend.

Garret

well if you join societies and clubs you can meet us business kids

we're not scary i promise;)

cast_iron

Sounds like a load of nonsense.

Give some practical ideas then...

Het-Field

I really hate the hack culture that exists around UCD. People doing something productive with their time, it makes me sick.

Down with hacks !!

Stabshauptmann

You might have met business studesnts and not known it, we're not all part of the Ross O Caroll Kelly steriotype.

Pythia

Het-Field wrote:

People doing something productive with their time, it makes me sick.

Yeah, let's just get drunk. Woot!

seraphimvc

pFd wrote:

One of the things that annoys me most about ucd is the separation between the students of the different "colleges" in ucd. we all go to the same college yet in general we kinda dislike each other. eg science vs arts as the classic example. i wish ucd would try to make the college more united. there should be a central meeting place for all students to meet and congragate. the lake would be and ideal spot for this as its central to almot all the colleges.
During my 1 and a half years in ucd i have yet to speak to a business student. im in science so we never really have the chance to intermingle without being drunk and loud in the bar!
UCD is a very divided college. Hate it for that.

never think of that ,but that seems true...

and this makes me hope i can attend my societies more frequently~:p

Raphael

pFd wrote:

One of the things that annoys me most about ucd is the separation between the students of the different "colleges" in ucd. we all go to the same college yet in general we kinda dislike each other. eg science vs arts as the classic example. i wish ucd would try to make the college more united. there should be a central meeting place for all students to meet and congragate. the lake would be and ideal spot for this as its central to almot all the colleges.
During my 1 and a half years in ucd i have yet to speak to a business student. im in science so we never really have the chance to intermingle without being drunk and loud in the bar!
UCD is a very divided college. Hate it for that.

I'm a science student, but I spend most of my time at the blob in arts. Most of my college friends are through Gamesoc, which has a business student on it's committee. (Hi Phil!)

princess-sprkle

the fact they've cancelled a course i'm doing the week before i go back, and the other ones are full.
more queueing in the program office, woez

pFd

princess-sprkle wrote:

the fact they've cancelled a course i'm doing the week before i go back, and the other ones are full.
more queueing in the program office, woez

oh, thats ****ty. what are they at, idiots!

gubbie

They moved my elective to a Wednesday meaning that I know have 8 hours, 9 o clock til 8 every wednesday... and I was planning on using that elective as a reason to skip council

Chakar

Pythia wrote:

Yeah, let's just get drunk. Woot!

Amen

Pythia

gubbie wrote:

They moved my elective to a Wednesday meaning that I know have 8 hours, 9 o clock til 8 every wednesday... and I was planning on using that elective as a reason to skip council

I have 8 hours a week (plus 3 tutorials).
Ooh, that sucks for you guys!

pFd

just calculated the amount of hours i have this semester roughly 26 hrs/wk.
Science is a much tougher course than arts and thats it.....jealous. So many hours in science but i prefer it that way. I'd hate to have all them essays to do.

I really dont like dont like my timetable this year. im in a 9 on a wednesday then nothing til 3 (a lab). AND im in at 9 on friday's!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

AND i have 8 hours on a thursday. Does it get any better

Is 2nd year the worst for science students.I hope so cos this is ****

mloc

pFd wrote:

Is 2nd year the worst for science students.I hope so cos this is ****

Not if you're doing pharm, biochem, physiology or chemistry. It only gets worse, I'm afraid. 4th year is 9-5 pretty much everyday, and often you're in later than 5. And that's without a minute of study, and you'll be doing plenty of that too, straight from september.

Blush_01

pFd wrote:

just calculated the amount of hours i have this semester roughly 26 hrs/wk.
Science is a much tougher course than arts and thats it.....jealous. So many hours in science but i prefer it that way. I'd hate to have all them essays to do.

I really dont like dont like my timetable this year. im in a 9 on a wednesday then nothing til 3 (a lab). AND im in at 9 on friday's!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

AND i have 8 hours on a thursday. Does it get any better

Is 2nd year the worst for science students.I hope so cos this is ****

Pythia's not an Arts student.

Phosphorus

pFd wrote:

just calculated the amount of hours i have this semester roughly 26 hrs/wk.
Science is a much tougher course than arts and thats it.....jealous. So many hours in science but i prefer it that way. I'd hate to have all them essays to do.

If you say so;) I am in arts and I had roughly 25 hrs/wk last semester:eek:

Sangre

All those hours and still only an Arts degree. Tragic.

Its like spending €60,000 on a new car only to later realise its a skoda.

pFd

wait, lets not start this arts/science thing again, my bad! sorry....:o

Pythia

I do four modules at two classes each, and have tutorials in three of them. So that's 11 hours in total.
I'm an Economics and Finance student.
We only do ten modules in total for some reason (six last term).

rainbow kirby

Going back tomorrow, don't know my timetable.. bah.
Plenty of little things that bug me about UCD, and the little bugs really start to add up by the time you get to your 5th year here. /sigh

Waltons

Damn it! Apparently this year has a say in whether or not I'll be eligable for 4th year, and one of the modules I've picked may not be ok in the grand scheme.

Brilliant.

At least the timetable's not bad.

stolenwine

Where do it start!?

The campus looks like a failed future-scape the likes of which Philip K. Dick would be proud of. It also reminds me of pictures I saw of communist china under Mao. Administration, administration and administration. Fees are going up by about 25% next year as they've found out they overspent.....on what? Coffee is overpriced. The number 17 bus doesn't seem to want to go there. Business studies have a shiny new centre where as my department which is an off shoot of social- science has lecture rooms akin to a lavatory.

The library has no budget to speak of, you have to get a letter from them so you can go to Trinity to find the material you want. The library is badly built with low ceilings so the acoustics are terrible and I can hear what Sorcha and Devlin who are sitting 10 rows away are doing for their weekend.

Ahhh that feels better...... thank you.

Stabshauptmann

Your registraion fee will also go up thanks to the SU and the new student centre

Garret

the fact that midterms clash with gigs annoys me

last sem it was economics clashing with a gig that i cant mention

a bit of beggin to be moved to an earlier sitting meant i made it just

but now accounting clashes with a gig that i also cannot mention on march 5th

if i can swap for a tuesday ticket i think ill actually have to skip the exam:mad:

pretty*monster

The fact that I know for a fact that grade inflation is happening annoys me today. Also the fact that I can't find anyone willing to go on record and admit it.

At other times I am annoyed by a massive lack of interest in learning about the place.

I am annoyed that our college president along withother college presidents cited his "street-smart problem solving skills" as a justification for a massive pay raise. I'm sorry, it I wanted street smarts I wouldn't have bothered with university.

Having English lectures in the Science block wrecks myhead. Not least because they always run over time and I have to leg it back to arts for my next class.

I am extremely annoyed that there is only one copy of several of the core English text books in the library. This is for over a hundred students.

Yeah, the underfunding of Arts is annoying.

Other stuff too, but it would take all day.

Blush_01

pretty*monster wrote:

Having English lectures in the Science block wrecks myhead. Not least because they always run over time and I have to leg it back to arts for my next class.

Well get used to it, they're turning the Arts block into offices over the next few years, Arts lectures will be ferried around the place like the inconvenience they appear to be, in the grand scheme of "underpinning" the value of knowledge. :rolleyes:

singingstranger

Kaptain Redeye wrote:

Your registraion fee will also go up thanks to the SU and the new student centre

Eh, technically the first part would be the fault of the HEA and the second part would be the fault of the IAB and/or the student body...

Jonny Arson

Garret wrote:

but now accounting clashes with a gig that i also cannot mention on march 5th

if i can swap for a tuesday ticket i think ill actually have to skip the exam:mad:

ouch that's harsh

whats comforting is you'll have no bother selling that ticket for said gig for 2, 3 or 4 times face value

but if you're looking to give it away for nothing i'll take it thanks!

Red Alert

how exactly does grade inflation occur pretty_monster, seen as we give out less firsts than other colleges (like DCU and TCD) as reported on the Sunday Times

panda100

Blush_01 wrote:

Well get used to it, they're turning the Arts block into offices over the next few years, Arts lectures will be ferried around the place like the inconvenience they appear to be, in the grand scheme of "underpinning" the value of knowledge. :rolleyes:

That would seriously annoy me too.It is really bad how the art students are being treated at the mo.you are getting less and less and we med students are getting more and more. Our new hi tech simulated ward in health sciences is great but it must be taking away a lot of budgeting in other subjects.

griffdaddy

pretty*monster wrote:

Having English lectures in the Science block wrecks myhead. Not least because they always run over time and I have to leg it back to arts for my next class.

i agree 100%, it's ridiculous that if you have a lecture before hand that runs even slightly late you have to run down to the science block and then when you get into the theatre it's nearly impossible to get a seat because people are stretched out like their genitals are swollen or something. Then they look at you like you're really inconveniencing them if you ask them to move in. This whole problem is accentuated when you do philosophy as well, as they're both subjects that lecturers like to ramble on in, although in all fairness, they dont know where we have to go afterwards.

The 17 bus just isnt quaint or funny anymore in it's irregularity either, it's just a pain in the hole. I dont go to college if it's raining anymore as a result

Stabshauptmann

thats the exact reason I moved on campus, 17 bites ass

gubbie

pretty*monster wrote:

aving English lectures in the Science block wrecks myhead. Not least because they always run over time and I have to leg it back to arts for my next class.QUOTE]
I find it the exact opposite-I have many classes in science and arts and they've always left us with plenty of time to stroll back up to the eng block where as in arts... well lets just say I was never on time for the next lecture ever

But the clocks in the Science block are slow... the college is against you people