Schols Schols Schols, information and venting thread.

tolosenc

My course head asked me(as the only exemptee in my course) if I was going in on Monday at ten.

Now I'm racked with doubt...

JC 2K3

Why doubt? Surely that's a good sign?

tolosenc

Jimmy, you've tried to get coherent, unambiguous information regarding schols out of him, right?

JC 2K3

True....

tolosenc

The way he said it was more just out of general interest, but I'm looking for hints that may not be there. And the lack of them is making me doubtful. I dunno. Here comes the stress again!

JC 2K3

My dept are incredibly distant from the subject of schols. I wouldn't know where to go looking for hints if I desired them.

tolosenc

JC 2K3 wrote: »

My dept are incredibly distant from the subject of schols. I wouldn't know where to go looking for hints if I desired them.

Us being such a small course, we kinda know him, personally. Still hoping to be the 10th CSLL scholar ever!

Brods

Is that the done thing? asking?! seems crazily unconvoluted for trinity!

mathew

obl wrote: »

Us being such a small course, we kinda know him, personally. Still hoping to be the 10th CSLL scholar ever!

How long is ever?

Podge_irl

Brods wrote: »

Is that the done thing? asking?! seems crazily unconvoluted for trinity!

It varies wildly by department. Some departments, especially small ones, will give hints to the students (i.e. "make sure you're there on Monday"). Others won't say a word.

How long is ever?

1592?

tolosenc

The first one was in 1989, most recent in 2005.

Ron DMC

obl wrote: »

most recent in 2005.

Nope, a good few years before that.

tolosenc

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

Nope, a good few years before that.

Sheggs? Carl always refers to Claire (03) as the most recent though.

http://www.tcdlife.ie/scholars/scholar/about-list.php

Ron DMC

obl wrote: »

Sheggs? Carl always refers to Claire (03) as the most recent though.

http://www.tcdlife.ie/scholars/scholar/about-list.php

Oh yeah, makes sense. I was thinking of 05 being my SF, but it's late and only now am I realising that years cross calendar years.

tolosenc

Podge_irl wrote: »

you say an oath in latin (something about honoring the defending the educational integrity of the provost and the college or some such nonsense)

"Ego <nomum>, electus in numerum Discipulorum hujus Collegii, promitto me statutis Collegii obtemperaturum, et ea ab aliis observanda quantum in me est curaturum.
Scholastica exercitia singula, discipulis in statutis injuncta diligenter praestabo; et si cura mihi muneris alicujus obeundi in negotiis Collegii administrandis commissa fuerit, ea studiose perfungar. Collegii, et singulorum in eo studentium, praesertim Praepositi et Sociorum seniorum salutem, et dignitatem, pacem, et commodum, tuebor et procurabo. Praeposito in omnibus licitis et honestis, promptissima voluntate et studio parebo. Haec omnia supra memorata in me recipio, atque me sedulo facturum promitto ac spondeo."

Reading the stutes is awesome.

mathew

i sound like an eejit when reading in english.. This is gonna be tough.. Do they give you a copy with phonetic pronounciation? :pac:

bright

Confident much?

Matt, don't worry, last year, one of my friends showed me a copy of it with a phonetic pronunciation guide e.g; collegii = co-leg-gee

But back to my first point, I'm not too worried about that. :rolleyes:

JC 2K3

I knew JC latin would come in handy some day!

mathew

bright wrote: »

Confident much?

Matt, don't worry, last year, one of my friends showed me a copy of it with a phonetic pronunciation guide e.g; collegii = co-leg-gee

But back to my first point, I'm not too worried about that. :rolleyes:

Ah no.. dont really plan on having to read it.. But there is always that tiny little chance..
Once a phonetic version is supplied everyone that gets it should be fine...

I hope I do have to make an attempt at reading it tho.. well worth the making a fool of oneself... :P

edit: Just realised I missed my 1000 posts landmark....

Podge_irl

We had someone from the history dept come in and go through it with us for 20 minutes or so, so that was handy. You don't do it individually anyway, its all in one group so you mutter whatever you feel like really!

tolosenc

Charters say that you can say it in Latin or English. I'll do Latin if I get the chance.

tolosenc

Whay are we made to wait again?

scruttocks

any word on numbers for BESS?

Sir Ophiuchus

More generally, does anyone know how many Scholars the different faculties "get", if it's even divided up that way.

http://www.tcdlife.ie/scholars/scholar/about-list.php tells me only three people in each of Psychology and English got it last year, but I don't know if that takes TSMs into account. Hmmm.

Edit: Ohh, fascinating, it doesn't (you have to search for "Two Subject Moderatorship"). Eight TSM Scholars last year.

Edit2: Even more fascinating, there were only 71 Scholars last year, compared to this year's reported 83. This search thing is incredible!

Podge_irl

Sir Ophiuchus wrote: »

More generally, does anyone know how many Scholars the different faculties "get", if it's even divided up that way.

It's not, at least not insofar as there is no limit to how many each faculty/school get, though I think the foundation scholarships might be (there are only ever 70 foundation scholars, so only 14 or so get elected every year. I presume they're spread out via the schools, or they'd all be in science).

tolosenc

I think Sir Ophicus was asking if anyone knows the breakdown of the 83 this year by faculty.

bright

I highly doubt that will be released until Monday. Unfortunately. Though it is probably for the best not getting hopes up etc.

tolosenc

You're probably right. What I'd like to know is how may of the ~320 who sat the exams are still in the running at this stage. Among people I know, it's running at about 20%, which can't be right...

mathew

well considering 27% of the 320 apparently got it there can hardly be 20% of the 320 in the running..
Id say about 20ish from my course applied, 14 sat and 10 got exemptions..
That doenst really say much for the other courses tho

bright

bright wrote: »

I highly doubt that will be released until Monday. Unfortunately. Though it is probably for the best not getting hopes up etc.

Members of the Board should have that info already - but not student numbers, just details of how many in each course would have got it.