Official bitch about daily life in UL

kerryked · 27-04-2015 10:55pm

Where abouts are the computer labs in KBS? Im not in there too often..

shano_88 · 28-04-2015 12:16am

Ya, I go to the classrooms in the Kemmy during the day. Go in around 10 and get a space no bother and still plenty of other spaces around. Then the library in the evening!

shano_88 · 28-04-2015 12:17am

kerryked wrote: »

Where abouts are the computer labs in KBS? Im not in there too often..

First floor and go right. The computer labs are on your left and classrooms on your right.

onethreefive · 28-04-2015 8:37am

Someone just left a laptop at a table and walked off at 5 past 8 and there still not here

There's people looking for seats.

kerryked · 28-04-2015 10:57am

onethreefive wrote: »

Someone just left a laptop at a table and walked off at 5 past 8 and there still not here There's people looking for seats.

That person that left is probably tucked up in bed, safe in the knowledge that their library seat is secure..makes you feel like you're actually studying if you can tell people you have a seat in the library yano :rolleyes::D

Midkemia · 28-04-2015 2:04pm

Any free seats in the library ?

Chris Martin · 28-04-2015 2:37pm

I tell you now, there's money to be made in an app to check that.
All you need is 2/3 people to check seats at maybe hourly intervals over the day.
Will also clamp down on seats being held for folk, just holding bags or being empty for hours. Should result in a more efficient library where seats are filled with people for the majority of the day. I've gone into a 'full' library more than once where over a third of seats are empty. Wasted productivity.
Plausible idea for a FYP. Could be used by computing, sociology or business students, depending on how you approach it...

You heard it here first... :P
I'll get nowhere in life if I keep giving away all my million euro ideas for free.. :P

iLaura · 28-04-2015 3:25pm

Midkemia wrote: »

Any free seats in the library ?

Yup, 2 by me on the first floor by the single desks

onethreefive · 28-04-2015 3:29pm

I think I saw a free table near the windows on level 1 about 10 minutes ago

29-04-2015 5:34pm

If I go to the library around 6 will I get a seat? Or 6:30 even?

iLaura · 29-04-2015 5:50pm

Deleted User wrote: »

If I go to the library around 6 will I get a seat? Or 6:30 even?

Yep! There's a good few free. Two of them directly across from me are and I can see another few

29-04-2015 6:19pm

iLaura wrote: »

Yep! There's a good few free. Two of them directly across from me are and I can see another few

Thanks Laura

Got a good window seat!

FionnK86 · 29-04-2015 6:48pm

Library is definitely quieter compared to last year....

Seat's easily available throughout the day, and no need to scout for about 10 minutes. I'd say the addition of the card reader gates as keeping the leaving cert's away at last. Also, there's a stapler downstairs now so halle-freakin-lullah i can staple all these exam papers together!

onethreefive · 30-04-2015 7:12am

Is there any chance of getting a seat with a plug in the library around 12?

I'm way to tired to queue and walk into the library again

iLaura · 30-04-2015 7:54am

onethreefive wrote: »

Is there any chance of getting a seat with a plug in the library around 12?

I'm way to tired to queue and walk into the library again

Almost definitely. The queue hasnt even reached the doors of the foundation building yet

onethreefive · 30-04-2015 9:28am

iLaura wrote: »

Almost definitely. The queue hasnt even reached the doors of the foundation building yet

Thank you

I thougit I was the only one who couldn't handle another early day haha

Ciano35 · 30-04-2015 12:42pm

Can the printers in the library print a3?

jamo2oo9 · 30-04-2015 12:49pm

Ciano35 wrote: »

Can the printers in the library print a3?

Yeah, just change the page size in page properties when printing.

onethreefive · 30-04-2015 3:07pm

Any free plug seats in the library?

iLaura · 30-04-2015 3:13pm

onethreefive wrote: »

Any free plug seats in the library?

None that I can see around me

onethreefive · 30-04-2015 3:17pm

iLaura wrote: »

None that I can see around me

Might go in around 5 so and stay until closing.. Hopefully there will be a few then

Midkemia · 30-04-2015 3:24pm

Yea I went in from 6-12 last night best decision ever :P

Chris Martin · 30-04-2015 3:27pm

Exactly what I do here...
Have lunch before I go and bring some odds and ends with me for later on, yesterday was 4 to 11..
In UL was 6 - close weeks coming up to exams.

I literally cannot do early mornings.
Got to the stage where I can turn off my alarm in my sleep..

iLaura · 30-04-2015 3:46pm

Why the fúck do friends sit by each other in the library? One girl beside me and her two friends across from us and all they've been doing is laughing, passing across phones, texting and then going on like, 2 hour breaks every 1.5 hours. Wrecking my head!

FionnK86 · 30-04-2015 8:57pm

Where can I get a coffee at this hour that's close to the library? (Feeling the effects of 4 days of studying Flight Vibrations)

iLaura · 30-04-2015 9:05pm

FionnK86 wrote: »

Where can I get a coffee at this hour that's close to the library? (Feeling the effects of 4 days of studying Flight Vibrations)

I think Scholars is the only place thats open this late that'll do tea and coffee still

30-04-2015 9:40pm

Girl in Spar scratched my palm with her big pink claw nails giving me back my change earlier. It bled.

And they didn't put enough cheese in my roll.
And is all that music coming from the Stables? Am I missing something? How friendless am I?

FionnK86 · 30-04-2015 10:06pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Girl in Spar scratched my palm with her big pink claw nails giving me back my change earlier. It bled.
And they didn't put enough cheese in my roll.
And is all that music coming from the Stables? Am I missing something? How friendless am I?

Yeah, there's a student accomoation party apparently...sound for the invite...

Someone farted real bad in the library and the smell of it.Some cheeky b**ch in the sitting in front of me had the cheek to give me a dirty look over it...and then she leaves....definitely was her ffs :mad::mad:

shano_88 · 01-05-2015 12:04am

FionnK86 wrote: »

Yeah, there's a student accomoation party apparently...sound for the invite...

Someone farted real bad in the library and the smell of it.Some cheeky b**ch in the sitting in front of me had the cheek to give me a dirty look over it...and then she leaves....definitely was her ffs :mad::mad:

I believe the term is. Whoever smelt it dealt it!

Ave Sodalis · 01-05-2015 12:08am

Must. Stay. Awake...

FionnK86 · 01-05-2015 12:39am

shano_88 wrote: »

I believe the term is. Whoever smelt it dealt it!

However said the rhyme did the crime

iLaura · 01-05-2015 8:36am

I decided sleeping was more important than getting up at 6.30, whats the seating arrangement like in there today?

North of 32 · 01-05-2015 8:44am

iLaura wrote: »

I decided sleeping was more important than getting up at 6.30, whats the seating arrangement like in there today?

Quite quiet - many seats available.

onethreefive · 01-05-2015 8:57am

iLaura wrote: »

I decided sleeping was more important than getting up at 6.30, whats the seating arrangement like in there today?

Loads of seats empty so far

wnolan1992 · 01-05-2015 9:16am

We should really have a "LIBRARY WATCH!" thread tbh. :pac:

North of 32 · 01-05-2015 10:16am

I hate exams. Give me 5 essays and a presentation rather than these 2 exams. I haven't done an exam since the first semester of 2nd year.

Ave Sodalis · 01-05-2015 11:43am

Anyone know Snap prices for printing and binding an FYP?

iLaura · 01-05-2015 12:03pm

FFS. We had to submit towns for our placement school last October-ish and were told we'd find out what school we were going to today. Do you think they've found a placement school for me yet? No, of course not.

phish · 01-05-2015 12:31pm

iLaura wrote: »

FFS. We had to submit towns for our placement school last October-ish and were told we'd find out what school we were going to today. Do you think they've found a placement school for me yet? No, of course not.

That's the TP office for ya! Honestly would be shocked if they managed to place everybody for once.

iLaura · 01-05-2015 12:36pm

phish wrote: »

That's the TP office for ya! Honestly would be shocked if they managed to place everybody for once.

I then went in to talk to Niamh O'Sullivan and she conveniently wasn't there. All I want to know is how far down my list they are. I don't need this added pressure right now!:mad:

wnolan1992 · 01-05-2015 1:26pm

Ah iLaura come on, you've only given them 6 full months to sort it, this is UL bureaucracy we're talking about here!

phish · 01-05-2015 1:55pm

If I was you I'd try an email to Carol Lewis, she does placements for TP as well and is much nicer than Niamh

iLaura · 01-05-2015 2:06pm

phish wrote: »

If I was you I'd try an email to Carol Lewis, she does placements for TP as well and is much nicer than Niamh

I emailed Niamh and she sent me back my list of towns and their progress on it. They've only contacted 5 towns so far, 4 of which only had one school in them. They've literally only contacted 7 schools so far. How does it take that long?!

phish · 01-05-2015 2:10pm

iLaura wrote: »

I emailed Niamh and she sent me back my list of towns and their progress on it. They've only contacted 5 towns so far, 4 of which only had one school in them. They've literally only contacted 7 schools so far. How does it take that long?!

Because they can be idiots.

I was told that they had a possible school lined up and were waiting for confirmation but that basically the science department head had already said yes. I asked them what school it was and was told a school that had shut down at least 3/4 years earlier!

Subutai · 01-05-2015 3:22pm

iLaura wrote: »

I emailed Niamh and she sent me back my list of towns and their progress on it. They've only contacted 5 towns so far, 4 of which only had one school in them. They've literally only contacted 7 schools so far. How does it take that long?!

I'd imagine that it's a combination of

1) Crap UL bureaucracy
2) Trying to contact schools who, as far as I can tell, are **** at getting back to you themselves. I've often had to email a school 2 or 3 times in a week or get a response.
3) The course in UL expanded hugely the last few years, and it's not really clear that they were super well prepared for that
4) Loads of other Universities decided to add concurrent education courses to their list and the PME became a 2 year course with much more placement; meaning that there's loads of students out in schools compared to 5 years ago.
5) The ****ing Teaching Council keep changing the requirements for School Placement, which surely causes chaos within the TP office whenever it happens.

The whole thing is a cluster****.

jamo2oo9 · 01-05-2015 4:10pm

Anyone know if Kemmy is open at weekends?

sibby · 01-05-2015 4:21pm

Ya it's open untill around four normally.

onethreefive · 01-05-2015 4:23pm

I was aiming for a B1 in one module and the more study I do for it the more I realise I'll be lucky to get a C3 :eek:

VanishingActs · 01-05-2015 5:40pm

Trust me to get sick during study week. Feeling very unprepared for my exam Wednesday. I'm just glad I got the last of my assignments out of the way last week.

onethreefive · 01-05-2015 6:04pm

I just want the exams to start already. The Leaving Cert was less stressful than these exams

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