Trinity...the A to Zed or Zee

Ron DMC

Degsy wrote: »

G is for God..as in "Oh My God" which usually precedes anything spoken by certain female students.

I'm leaping ahead here but..

L is for Like..as in "I was like..".."it was like"."I like,went to like,a lecture?,like" or "I was sooo like,embarassed,like?".
Againe this padding has taken the place of coherent conversation in many areas around college.The US show Laguna Beach may or may not be responsible..

I'm seeing a trend in your posts

Cantab.

Hey! No more skipping, right?

H is for Heggo, our beloved Provost (complete with DSc gown)



http://tinyurl.com/2j59f5

^^^ Some interesting views. I'm not sure I'm 100% in agreement with him, but he gives an interesting speech.

I'll leave
- I
- J
- K

for someone else

shay_562

I is for ISS (Information Systems Services), sometimes infuriatingly referred to as "ISS Services", presumably by the same people who refer to ATM Machines. Alterately incredibly helpful and the most useless people on the planet, depending on what day it is and how much cleavage you're showing.

I is also for I'm going to kill Ronny. *shakes fist menacingly while waiting for the next "F"*

Randomness

b.ie polar wrote: »

I is for isservices. Well done guys on Beckett 2. I love you for it.

shay_562 wrote: »

I is for ISS (Information Systems Services), sometimes infuriatingly referred to as "ISS Services", presumably by the same people who refer to ATM Machines. Alterately incredibly helpful and the most useless people on the planet, depending on what day it is and how much cleavage you're showing.

I is also for I'm going to kill Ronny. *shakes fist menacingly while waiting for the next "F"*

thoses same people also say PIN Number!!!

haha, waiting for F

Ron DMC

and AIB Bank, and UCD Dublin. God that's annoying.

Degsy

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

I'm seeing a trend in your posts

no flies on you,eh?;)

Bartron Prime

F is for Faculties. Three of them have we. All with male Deans. So, like Three Wise Men but I refuse to accept Dr. Hegarty as the Baby Jesus in this story. Herod maybe?

Ron DMC

Randomness wrote:

haha, waiting for F

Bartron Prime wrote: »

F is for Faculties. Three of them have we. All with male Deans. So, like Three Wise Men but I refuse to accept Dr. Hegarty as the Baby Jesus in this story. Herod maybe?

F is not the next letter. Not for a good while yet anyway. I just did F. Stop ruining things, ruiner. We were having fun 'til you got here.

And now J. J is for jstore. I've only heard stories about this and have no idea what exactly it is.

[WRONG]From legend, rumour and hearsay I believe it to be some method of handing in assignments/essays online that people in some TSM courses use. It seems that it is confusing and hard to use but I don't know because I've never handed in any essays/did a course that used 'jstore'.[/WRONG]

See below posts by shay and xeducat, it's some kind of academic archive.

shay_562

Not sure if you're joking, but www.jstor.org, online database of journal articles to which TCD has a subscription. Incredibly useful for reading lists/last minute 'references' for essays.

K is for Kayaks. Can't find any pictures of it, but there's a great big shed full of them (presumably DUKC's) next to the rugby pitch.

xeduCat

Is it a cousin of JSTOR, which the lovely library subscribes to?

Awayindahils

L is for Lost Property. There is the most amazing collection of lost usb sticks in the arts block. Loads and loads of them.

Ron DMC

Like I said, never used it, I obviously got very confused and didn't realise what it was about. All I knew was my friend needed to use it from home so I had to set them on the college proxy to access it.

Tricity Bendix

M is for Mature Students. People who ask annoying and blindingly irrelevent questions in lectures (nobody cares about what you have to say), yet are actually great craic once you get talking to them.

Jim_Are_Great

O is, quite obviously, for Oscar Wilde, one of our more famous graduates, and yet one after whom no notable object is named. Really, though - Hamilton, Goldsmith, Lecky, Burke; everyone gets something named after them. Oh, except that one guy who happened to be one of the greatest writers of all time. George Salmon gets a statue in Front Square. I would never even have heard of George Salmon were it not for that statue. Crazy.

Edit: Sorry about the skipping of N. My knowledge of the alphabet just ain't what it used to be.

P is for parking, of which there is none.

Randomness

Q is for Quality Unit

"The Quality Office endeavours to promote and facilitate continuous quality improvement activities across academic departments within College".

whaaa?

Bartron Prime

The Quality Office is responsible for ensuring that we comply with the Quality Assurance legislation (Section 35 of the Universities Act 1997). Essentially this means that we are required to assess the performance of the 'academic units' (i.e. Schools) in College and their performance under areas such as strategic planning, strategic management, undergraduate education, postgraduate education, staffing, retention, systems, governance etc. It's done by rota on a pre-determined cycle so all the Schools are quality reviewed in about 7 years. The role of the Quality Office is to oversee the process, co-ordinate between the School and the external examiners and to ensure that best practice is followed.

Oh! They also liase with the Bologna Desk to ensure that Bologna is being implemented and any issues are caught as part of the quality review. Well, they do much more than that but that's a brief synopsis. Yay!

Anyway, R is for Registrar, the lovely, wonderful, lutheran and incredibly Germanic Jeurgen Barkhoff.

If that's been done then R is for Restructring.

xebec

S is for the Sports Centre part of the north-east corner development. Looks fancy from the outside, less nice from the inside. We're all members.

ilovemybrick

T is for T:FM

The country's only totally student run radio station and without question the very best radio station on campus.

Degsy

Deleted User wrote: »

P is for parking, of which there is none.

P is also for permit for parking,for which there is a wait of up to 500 people!

claire h

Jim_Are_Great wrote: »

O is, quite obviously, for Oscar Wilde, one of our more famous graduates, and yet one after whom no notable object is named.

*cough* ----> http://www.tcd.ie/OWC/

BenGunn

Q is for Queers, who comprise 83% of the male population of Trinity.

paperclip

R
is for Rain, which make the slippery cobblestones of our fair square nigh unnavigable!

then....

S
is for Schols, the academic masochism which is replicated nowhere else in the country.

Marshy

BenGunn wrote: »

Q is for Queers, who comprise 83% of the male population of Trinity.

Are you sure that figure is accurate? Thought it would be higher...

dan719

Marshy wrote: »

Are you sure that figure is accurate? Thought it would be higher...

LOLOLOLOLOLOL Eoin....oh how did your tests go after?

Randomness

last time i did my alphabet it didnt go...

...LMOPQRSTPQRS... lol

ok i think we are supposed to be on U but have fast forwarded to T but curiosly haven't covered V to Q!! hmmm this could be the makings of a puzzle!!!

haha, ok let me see T...is for Tara St....one of the two train stations at close proximity to college

europerson

U is for the University Council, the body which "shall superintend and regulate the academic business of the University" (1966 Consolidated Statutes).

Jonathan

V is for Vacant. Which the college is at the moment.


I missed this thread. Decided to dig it up again :pac:

shay_562

W is for Westland Row at the East End of college, whose useful occupants include a Dart station and a Centra that is handy for both chicken fillet rolls and Pav naggins.

It's also for Work, the annoying thing that takes place between college years.

Tricity Bendix

shay_562 wrote: »

It's also for Work, the annoying thing that takes place between college years.

I have a distinct memory of traversing Europe and America between college years. But then I did have a fabulously high-paying, low-energy, piss-easy job during term time with which to fund my jet-setting lifestyle.

Degsy

jmccrohan wrote: »

V is for Vacant. Which the college is at the moment :pac:

It is in me hole.There's more americans,spaniards and assorted asiatics milling around now than you'll ever see during term-time.
The buttery sounds like the tower of babel at lunchtime.

Randomness

Bump - for the greater good!

Continuing this on and given that it had reached X, everyone's favourite letter, I have researched this in great detail (googled "words begining with x") and have found one suitable to the Trinty A to Z thread, therefore I feel oblidged to continue it.

X is for Xenagogue, a guide of strangers. In Trinity, the people who wander around talking about campus and get paid while tourist oooo and aaghh and our lovely campus. Speaking of tourists, the place seems extra thronged lately.

Jonathan

Y is for YUSSS

cause this thread got bumped :pac:

GlasnevinRed

Z is for Zoology Dept.

Couldn't think of anything else.

mardybumbum

A is for the anatomy museum. A very freaky place indeed.

Randomness

B is for Bernard Dunne, he went to Trinity don't ya know.

Jonathan

C for Crap.


Which is what i think of certain announcements made today.

Agent Smith

D is for the Death Star which is Located Outside the Usher libary

shay_562

E is for Event That Must Not Be Named. About which I may or may not be in total ****ing agreement with jmcrohan (assuming we're thinking of the same announcement, that is)

JC 2K3

F is for Fúcking hell, I agree, what a shambles.

Time Magazine

G is for Give us the Gossip, via PM if necessary.

Also for Graduates like me.

Jonathan

G for God.


There is one.


Non mcd event mods... :P




EDIT: too slow.... meh..

Scarinae

H is for the Health Centre

The waiting list for this service is so long that generally people are better before their appointment arrives. However, it is free, meaning that you save €50 or so if you need a medical cert for something. Of course there are the emergency appointments twice a day, which require you to wait for an hour or so in a stupid queue to make sure that you get a place.

They also do relatively cheap vaccinations and eye tests, and will do repeat prescriptions for cheaper than your regular GP.

The director of the Health Service is Dr. David Thomas, who is a really nice guy

starn

mardybumbum wrote: »

A is for the anatomy museum. A very freaky place indeed.

Cool, can anyone visit it. Like the geology museuem, or do you have to make a appointment


Oh and I is for institutes. Trinity has loads like the CRANN

mardybumbum

starn wrote: »

Cool, can anyone visit it. Like the geology museuem, or do you have to make a appointment


Oh and I is for institutes. Trinity has loads like the CRANN

Im afraid its only students whose course requires the study of anatomy that are allowed access.
You could always go to a bodies exhibition If your into that sort of thing.


Edit: Oh J is for the Joly theatre, where I had my very first lecture.

andrew

K is for Keep Off the feckin' grass.

Randomness

L is for Lawnmower - following on the grass theme, if which there is a carpet of it to cut on the Cricket Pitch and not so much on the Rugby Pitch. I walked past the other day and got that cut grass smell, it was sunny and then I saw some daffodils, I smiled - I rivals Wordsworth I do.:D

Slideshowbob

Cantab. wrote: »

Jeez, Michael McNamara's construction company have been kept busy these last couple of years. I wonder what institution educated his architects?

Can we file for compensation given the architectural raping we've gotten over the last ten years?

McNamara's is a construction company.

Under normal contracts in Ireland, the Architect is appointed by the client in this case TCD.

Can't blame builders for that !!

Jammyc

M is for McTurcaills, where I had my first night out with college people.

cool thread btw

Sir Ophiuchus

N is for necromancy. Thread necromancy.