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Has Maynooth gone to sh*t?
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What an arsehole. Some of Maynooth's faculties are regarded as the finest in the country. Maths Dept for one and others that could be listed. Obviously has a chip on his shoulder due to not being loved by Maynooth's legions of hot women. Poor guy
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LeixlipRed wrote: »Obviously has a chip on his shoulder due to not being loved by Maynooth's legions of hot women. Poor guy
Hehe, us Maynooth ladies are hard to impress!:p0 -
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LeixlipRed wrote: »What an arsehole. Some of Maynooth's faculties are regarded as the finest in the country. Maths Dept for one and others that could be listed. Obviously has a chip on his shoulder due to not being loved by Maynooth's legions of hot women. Poor guy
+1. Tool.
Good benchmarking for performance, going by absent departments. MIT must be fairly awful by that logic.....
Also, points are close to meaningless in terms of difficulty, quality or content, and more to do with place numbers0 -
Then again, its highly likely Partybeamish was just trollin'
Very surprised to hear just how new the college actually is. My class this year is the first time they've hadd a dedicated first year history class, and at first I was like 'What took them so long?'
At this rate, the college has probably surpassed its own ten year plan!0 -
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Senior maths lecturer told me in person that the maths dept embarrassed him with the low standards.
To be honest you'll find that in any University you visit. I've had Professors at Cambridge and Harvard tell me that they think the standards in their own departments are rubbish. In at least one of those cases I later discovered that the Professor in question was quite bitter about certain aspects of his career and was nothing more than an embittered old fart who stirred as much sh*t as possible whenever possible.
You get them everywhere.
That said, the quality of some Cambridge first class honours graduates in genetics is appalling! I've had them ask me questions that I would have been embarrassed to ask in fourth year in NUIM and that's not a specialised degree like the Cambridge one supposedly is!
Also, a certain Pharmacy degree from one of Irelands 'top' Universities was considered one of the worst in Europe so in many cases you are better off not having a department than having one that is a laughing stock.0 -
Hehe, us Maynooth ladies are hard to impress!:p
Wouldn't say that now, with some of the crusty gentlemen around all one had to do was shave periodically and refrain from drooling to stand out from the crowd.
Acacia, you continue to impress, didn't know you were a Maynoothian.
Ahem. Back on topic. Maynooth's small size is both its strength and its downfall. There is, if you're willing to put in a small effort socially, a great sense of community to be found. Conversely, it can get a bit claustrophobic and monotonous if you let it.
I think the key is to do as much extra-curricular stuff as you can, join a society or two. It's up to the individual to make their time there enjoyable.
I'll probably go back to do my M.A. in September, having been to a couple of other places I appreciate it all the more.0 -
Tyler MacDurden wrote: »Wouldn't say that now, with some of the crusty gentlemen around all one had to do was shave periodically and refrain from drooling to stand out from the crowd.
Acacia, you continue to impress, didn't know you were a Maynoothian.
Aw thank you! *bows*:D
Isn't one of the best things about Maynooth the ratio of guys to girls? Isn't it something like 3 girls to every guy? That should make it first choice on the CAO. :P0 -
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LeixlipRed wrote: »Hollywood tells me that hot people definitely don't hide in libraries. You need to watch more teen dramas missy
Give me a curly ginger book loving celebrity any day!0 -
Did a year in DCU. I didn't like the course I was doing or want a career out of it, but it was still awesome. The lecturers did every little thing they could - games, puzzles, funny cartoons - to make it interesting. The computer labs weren't a joke because they hired people who knew what they were doing. And the library. Oh, the library.
There's so much that could be improved in the college, and a lot of it could be done in 24 hours with no disruption to services. Like the latest version of browsers and plugins on the PCs, letting people who bring their own laptops into the library be able to print from them - stupid stuff that's an easy fix.
See my 'Let's fix the Library' thread on moodle for further ideas
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