Your College?

Rozabeez

Applied Social Care in LIT. History, Politics, Sociology and Social Studies in UL. That be the 4th choice. Perhaps I'll see you drunkenly wandering around Limerick City next year.

cson

oh i have that history course down 3/4 as well, you'll either see me in the gym or arguing with the student pub barman > "i think you've had enough brandy for one night sir"

Sent off my campus accommodation thing today, Kilmurry here I come!

Rozabeez

I'm going to have to wait and see if I get TCD before I apply for accomodation. Then I'm gonna live on the streets 'til I get somewhere. Me and my box.

cson

Yep the accommodation thing is a fecker. My (prospective!) campus house is right beside the sports arena, yay.

You can bum it in our house if your coming to UL, the heating isn't great in most boxes

Haven't a Clue

My brother went to UL. Went down to the campus years ago for his graduation. Campus's lethal alright.

Limerick's just like all other cities except more publicity on it. Avoid the dodgy parts and yer fine...

cson

yeah definitely, every city has its dodgy parts no matter where you go, its just that some of limericks dodgy parts are dodgier than most!

Campus is serious all right, its massive too (well when your from where i am it is )

Haven't a Clue

Yeah. I got lost a couple of times there. Found the games room no bother though and chose to cut my losses for the day and spend it in there...

cson

Are you hoping to go to UL?

Nah, the gym and sports arena will be the best, rubbing shoulders (well not literally!) with the likes of Paul O'Connell and O'Gara and Stringer, oh and David Wallace, he was class today

Haven't a Clue

Nah. I'm going to DCU. Which has class sporting facilities too. I'll be rubbing shoulders with Conor Mortimer and Stephen Cluxton.

Rozabeez

I'd still love to do that course in UL but I'm kinda afraid I'll end up hating it/not getting anything out of it after the negative feedback.

Burning Eclipse

Ibid wrote:

Overall, and in my designated field, Trinity is the best in the country academically. In certain areas, by all accounts, we're fairly crap. If you're into food science/development/hygiene don't go to Trinity. If you're interested in any of Physics, Law, Neuroscience, Globalisation, Immunology, and a host of other things that we kick ass in, we are the best in Ireland and rival anyone in (at least) Europe.

It's interesting how your post portrays your attitude to academic life outside Trinity. You use lowercase letters and /’s to devalue and belittle the courses Trinity doesn’t excel at, yet use capitals and commas to form a list of your strengths.

I also think it naïve to say you rival anyone in (at least) Europe in those fields. Cambridge, Oxford, LSE, Imperial College…. I could go on, and all of those institutes rank higher than Trinity on the lists you referred to earlier, World University Rankings and the Times Higher Education Supplement leagues IIRC.

cson

Do you know someone in the course (HPSS) rozabeez? Cos i'd take an awful lot of that criticism with a pinch of salt, i think i said it already but everyone will think that their uni is the best (i prob will too). You should probably go for what you want yourself more than anything.

Oh and at the risk of sounding very uppity etc, can we leave the whole trinity thing behind us! Jesus i thought we'd seen the last of it...... :rolleyes:

Pure Cork

I think it's ridiculous paying any attention to league tables. If they reflected the truth then how could you explain that CIT for example consistently win prestigious international competitions, beating the likes of Imperial and Cambridge etc.? I have no doubt that TCD excels in some areas, and I'm certain the same can be said for UCD, UL, etc.

Time Magazine

Burning Eclipse wrote:

It's interesting how your post portrays your attitude to academic life outside Trinity. You use lowercase letters and /’s to devalue and belittle the courses Trinity doesn’t excel at, yet use capitals and commas to form a list of your strengths.

What's more interesting, and here's a point for potential Trinity students to learn soon, is that no matter what you say people will pick it up the wrong way.

I mentioned specific courses/degree programs in Trinity, thus the capitalisation. If you'd rather I'd said "f you're interested in any of the Bachelor of Arts in Physics degree program, or would like to obtain the L.L.B. (Law)...", then I sincerely apologise for my colloquialisms. However something tells me I'd be called a snob had I said as much.

I also think it naïve to say you rival anyone in (at least) Europe in those fields. Cambridge, Oxford, LSE, Imperial College…. I could go on, and all of those institutes rank higher than Trinity on the lists you referred to earlier, World University Rankings and the Times Higher Education Supplement leagues IIRC.

We outstrip Cambridge, Oxford, LSE and Imperial College in immunology, third best in the world if I'm not mistaken. With relation to domestic reference, Trinity's L.L.B. rivals Cambridge and Oxford. With the up-and-coming CRANN centre, we'll rival anyone in the world in physics (note the lower-case). We have neuroscience machines (brain scanners, for want of a better description) that are of the highest tech available, i.e. they cannot be 'beaten'. It is a stated aim of in the Trinity College Strategic Plan to be the world's best resource on the greater issue of globalisation. I capitalised that for Trinity with relation to the small army of PhD students in the IIIS studying said topic.

Would you like to choose any of the five specific areas I named and provide evidence that we're not in or around the top ten in Europe in those fields?

Pure Cork wrote:

I think it's ridiculous paying any attention to league tables. If they reflected the truth then how could you explain that CIT for example consistently win prestigious international competitions, beating the likes of Imperial and Cambridge etc.?

CIT may specialise in something and be very, very good at it. League tables measure who's very, very good at the most of things. I assert that, overall, Trinity is a better university than UCC, but would never claim that we're better at everything.

yurmothrintites

St Pats Drumcondra! Hopefully anyway!!

Anyone know if you can get decent accomodation there? I know there is one on camus but i don't like the idea of sharing a kitchen with 69 other people!

yurmothrintites

St Pats Drumcondra! Hopefully anyway!!

Anyone know if you can get decent accomodation there? I know there is one on campus but i don't like the idea of sharing a kitchen with 69 other people!

cson

I hate to sound moderator-y and all, but lads in fairness I think its a bit petty putting other colleges/uni's down. I can accept anybody bigging up their college cos (everybody thinks their own is great :rolleyes: and i'll prob be like that myself next year).

This thread is really descending into a slightly petty argument on;
1. Trinitys real name
2. How trinity is/isn't better than everyone else

I know the thread title is loose but can we keep it someway on topic and try not to disintegrate into these slanging matches which do no one any good.

Back to the future..... so whats your prospective uni everyone?

Nehpets

cson wrote:

I hate to sound moderator-y and all, but lads in fairness I think its a bit petty putting other colleges/uni's down. I can accept anybody bigging up their college cos (everybody thinks their own is great :rolleyes: and i'll prob be like that myself next year).

This thread is really descending into a slightly petty argument on;
1. Trinitys real name
2. How trinity is/isn't better than everyone else

I know the thread title is loose but can we keep it someway on topic and try not to disintegrate into these slanging matches which do no one any good.

Back to the future..... so whats your prospective uni everyone?

Well it seems you don't want to know about Trinity but I think the information here is interesting and useful. That might just be me though Discussion of colleges is what this forum needs imo.

cson

nah its not that at all, its just that this thread has sometimes teetered on the brink of descending into a kind of 'my college is better than your college cos of a,b and c,' >> That helps absolutely no-one.

Im all for everyone talking about their colleges, knowing as much as possible about everywhere, where everyone intends going etc is a good thing

Haven't a Clue

yurmothrintites wrote:

St Pats Drumcondra! Hopefully anyway!!

Anyone know if you can get decent accomodation there? I know there is one on camus but i don't like the idea of sharing a kitchen with 69 other people!

That place is a bit of a kip. Full of Donegal ones, but still a kip. I can't really help you with the accomodation. The only ones I know who're there are staying with a sister up there...

Ibid

Ibid wrote:

It is a stated aim of in the Trinity College Strategic Plan to be the world's best resource on the greater issue of globalisation.

Ok, stop reading the strategic plan. Seriously, it says absolutely nothing bar referencing about how Trinity uses something called the scholar-teacher model (which appears to have been dreamt up one starry night) to be better then anyone in the world and in the end all it will do is rot your brain.

Moving swiftly on, if anyone wants to know anything about a course (well, some of them) in Trinity feel free to wander into the forum and ask!

Marshy

Haven't a Clue wrote:

I'll be rubbing shoulders with Conor Mortimer and Stephen Cluxton.

Conor who? Stephen what?

delta_bravo

Marshy wrote:

Conor who? Stephen what?

Gaelic footballers for Mayo and Dublin.

Plug

the dole:)

Haven't a Clue

delta_bravo wrote:

Gaelic footballers for Mayo and Dublin.

Yep. DCU won the Sigerson Cup in 2006 as well.