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Which University?!?

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  • 08-02-2007 5:24pm
    #1
    Burning Eclipse
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    Seems like a simple enough question... Which university do you want to go to?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055049951

    ^ Thread deals with that question, but I want to know which University you'd go to if every one had your first choice course? Let's pretend medicine in TCD is identical to medicine in UCC and UL and DCU and WIT (even if the college currently doesn't have it). Wanna do animation but wish you could do it in Galway... Heres the place to say it!

    What would shape your decisions?

    Would you choose Trinity because of prestige and being in the heart of the capital?

    Would you choose UL because of the excellent sports facilities?

    Would you choose UCC because George Boole attended? ;)

    Lookin forward to seein how this turns out.

    Where would you go if they all had your first choice? 82 votes

    TCD
    0% 0 votes
    UCD
    32% 27 votes
    UCC
    15% 13 votes
    UL
    15% 13 votes
    UCG
    9% 8 votes
    DCU
    4% 4 votes
    Maynooth
    6% 5 votes
    Queens University
    12% 10 votes
    University of Ulster
    1% 1 vote
    Other (please specify)
    1% 1 vote


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    [Deleted User]
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    If you're doing a poll you'd better include Maynooth!


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    #3
    Burning Eclipse
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    Myth wrote:
    If you're doing a poll you'd better include Maynooth!


    Worth including for the magnificent Gunn Chapel alone :)


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    fonpokno
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    i'd choose trinity just because the 15B goes from my house to trinity and then back! :D


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    md99
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    UCC, as before


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    [Deleted User]
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    fonpokno wrote:
    i'd choose trinity just because the 15B goes from my house to trinity and then back! :D

    Bah, all the 15s have been moved back to Eden Quay :(


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    tolosenc
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    Trinners. Coz it's for winners, loike.


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    Corruptedmorals
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    Ah here, why was University of Dublin changed to TCD? I wanted to see the 'what's the University of Dublin?' posts! Im going there anyway, because it does the course I want, not for it's prestige tbh. Sure I could go to maynooth, it's 5 minutes on a bus or train..but it has no courses I want..


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    [Deleted User]
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    Corruptedmorals wrote:
    Ah here, why was University of Dublin changed to TCD? I wanted to see the 'what's the University of Dublin?' posts!

    That's another thread.


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    fonpokno
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    Myth wrote:
    Bah, all the 15s have been moved back to Eden Quay :(

    yes and that makes everyone sad cos they never show up anymore... but they still pass trinity! which works for me! :D


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    Burning Eclipse
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    Corruptedmorals wrote:
    Ah here, why was University of Dublin changed to TCD? I wanted to see the 'what's the University of Dublin?' posts! Im going there anyway, because it does the course I want, not for it's prestige tbh. Sure I could go to maynooth, it's 5 minutes on a bus or train..but it has no courses I want..


    Out of interest, did you read my original post?!


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    Marshy
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    md99 wrote:
    UCC, as before
    Not aspiring to go to Irelands best no? Referring to Trinity of course. I suppose I cant expect country folk to find their way around the big city.


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    Thomas_S_Hunterson
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    Trinity of course, gorgeous period mouldings...


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    schwaaaaa
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    Trinity strteakin ahead!!!:D


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    cotwold
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    sean_keevey wrote:
    Trinity of course, gorgeous period mouldings...

    Don’t forget those cobbles, just oozing with austere grandeur that scream of superiority.


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    nick23
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    Yeah has to be UCD. Better facilities... better school....


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    delta_bravo
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    schwaaaaa wrote:
    Trinity strteakin ahead!!!:D

    Yeah. that doesnt mean these people will be there next september though


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    Rozabeez
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    To be honest I'd LOVE to go to UL, it looks like such a good college. But there were no courses for lil old me. So TCD first then LIT.


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    Attol
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    Trinity because I can get the bus from across the road from my house to Nassau Street a hell of a lot easier than to UCD even though it's technically closer. The 46A is the slowest bus in the world in the morning.

    It has some gorgeous buildings. Really has a collegey feel to it whereas UCD is a soulless concrete mess.

    The exchange programmes seem very well done and they have links to pretty much everywhere in the world which is handy since I plan to do a semester abroad.

    The business courses in TCD and UCD both seemed quite similar but TCD just has more perks.

    I want to move away from Ireland and I think Trinity is better known worldwide so would be more impressive on a CV.


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    Pure Cork
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    I'll do engineering in UCD or CIT. There's an outside chance I'd go to UL but the facilities, courses, and reputation for engineering in UCD and CIT are top class. The whole idea of prestige (particularly in relation to NUI and TCD) is absolute b*ll. Then again, CIT graduates have only gone to places like Imperial and MIT(!)


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    Corruptedmorals
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    Marshy wrote:
    Not aspiring to go to Irelands best no? Referring to Trinity of course. I suppose I cant expect country folk to find their way around the big city.


    Snobby post, much?


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    Naikon
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    Dublin Institute of Technology:)


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    #23
    delta_bravo
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    Marshy wrote:
    Not aspiring to go to Irelands best no? Referring to Trinity of course.
    As a leaving cert student what do you base this upon? Just wondering


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    Marshy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭Marshy


    Well Im just basing it on the rankings of Irish universities. http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/pdfs/irishleague.pdf


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    md99
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    delta_bravo wrote:
    As a leaving cert student what do you base this upon? Just wondering

    Haven't we dicussed this?

    Ignore, Ignore!

    Frost should have written a poem about it.


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    Haven't a Clue
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    Marshy wrote:
    Not aspiring to go to Irelands best no? Referring to Trinity of course. I suppose I cant expect country folk to find their way around the big city.
    Nor can us culchie folk expect Dubs to find their way out of the big city to exotic places like Galway or Cork. Pfft.


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    Marshy
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    Haven't a Clue wrote:
    Nor can us culchie folk expect Dubs to find their way out of the big city to exotic places like Galway or Cork. Pfft.
    Touché! I was being facetious when I made that comment by the way. I understand your sentiments but being someone who spends much of their holidays in the west of Ireland I don't consider myself one of those people.


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    Pure Cork
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    I'm sure you realise that those league tables are a load of cr*p. If you have enough sense you'd take them with a pinch of salt.


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    #29
    Marshy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭Marshy


    Pure Cork wrote:
    I'm sure you realise that those league tables are a load of cr*p. If you have enough sense you'd take them with a pinch of salt.
    I dont pay any notice of them but I was asked on what I based the fact trinity is "Irelands best".


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    #30
    Orizio
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    Marshy wrote:
    Not aspiring to go to Irelands best no? Referring to Trinity of course. I suppose I cant expect country folk to find their way around the big city.

    This is surely one of the most ignorant elitist posts I have seen on these boards.I hope your 'trying' to be amusing.

    Edit=Forget about the above.

    UCC is an excellent university md99, not a concrete jungle like so many other Irish universities.I would generally avoid living in Dublin(if you live outside of the pale) and stick to one of the smaller cities.


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    Haven't a Clue
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    Marshy wrote:
    Touché! I was being facetious when I made that comment by the way. I understand your sentiments but being someone who spends much of their holidays in the west of Ireland I don't consider myself one of those people.
    Likewise being a culchie who goes up to Dublin regularly, and has yet to get lost, I don't consider myself one of the culchies you described.


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