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    #1352
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    --amadeus-- wrote: »
    You modern students work too hard...
    If by "too hard" you mean "harder than you did"... :pac::p


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    #1353
    metamorphosis
    Registered Users Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    --amadeus-- wrote: »
    You modern students work too hard...



    Well ... in my defense i do do a weekend course also on friday nights and all day saturday that i love and do go to. Cannot say i love my degree though. oh well. Oh and i did go to my other classes ... most of them.:D


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    #1354
    --amadeus--
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,096 ✭✭✭--amadeus--


    I worked bloody hard! Pints don't drink themselves you know...

    What was the weekend course ULS?


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    #1355
    metamorphosis
    Registered Users Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    --amadeus-- wrote: »
    I worked bloody hard! Pints don't drink themselves you know...

    What was the weekend course ULS?

    Im doing exercise and fitness instruction weekends.

    On another note i can't wait to have a bottle of absinthe on saturday to celebrate finishing my last set of autumn exams.


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    #1356
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,524 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    ULstudent wrote: »
    On another note i can't wait to have a pint on saturday to celebrate finishing my last set of autumn exams.
    Things have really changed since i was a student!


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    #1357
    --amadeus--
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,096 ✭✭✭--amadeus--


    Krusty_Clown wrote: »
    Things have really changed since i was a student!

    v0_master.jpg


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    #1358
    Munster_Gal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Munster_Gal


    --amadeus-- wrote: »
    v0_master.jpg

    LOL


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    #1359
    metamorphosis
    Registered Users Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    Krusty_Clown wrote: »
    Things have really changed since i was a student!
    I fixed my post for ya. Might as well be honest.


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    #1360
    Rineanna
    Registered Users Posts: 1,614 ✭✭✭Rineanna


    ULstudent wrote: »
    That's fairly random. I would have more of an opinion on the class if i went to it more. I went twice to be honest. The first class and cap ... and i could never bring myself to go back. 2.5 hours, break or no break, is not fun on a monday afternoon!

    Ha! It was pretty testing at times to (a) stay awake, and (b) not gnaw your arm off with hunger. I started bringing packed lunches to it from about week 6on. You'd nearly need a picnic basket to feed yourself through it...

    ULstudent wrote:
    The exam was grand wasn't it? It never really changes though. Good old CAP, tourism and infrastructre! I find economics a hell of a lot easier these days compared to horrible MCQ exams in 1st year.

    Agreed. I did the same except Industrial policy instead of CAP. Lots of people giving out about the Luxembourg agreement, or so I hear. Week and a half until my final exam, with the Euro XC in the middle to break it up!


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    #1361
    misty floyd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭misty floyd


    Came across this thread over at After Hours: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055750426

    Its Photo's that shook the world. Some are hard to look at but some pretty amazing stuff.

    Warning, I spent over an hour last night going through only half of them. Well worth it.


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    #1362
    hunnymonster
    Registered Users Posts: 5,365 ✭✭✭hunnymonster


    The one with the starving child (and vulture in the back) makes me cry every time I see it. I know that despite winning a pulitizer for it, Kevin Carter was heavily criticised for taking it.


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    #1363
    misty floyd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭misty floyd


    Yes thats unreal. Things like that make you appreciate what you have. Did you see the series of photos of a boy dying with cancer. It shows his mother caring for him. Can't stop thinking about that.

    I did see a photo of Ben Johnson winning the 100m Olympic gold with his hand in the air. It shows Carl Lewis looking over at him with a look of "cheat". It would take me ages to find it but I thought it was a good pic.


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    #1364
    metamorphosis
    Registered Users Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    Some phenominal photos there. Makes you stop and think.


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    #1365
    MCOS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭MCOS


    Boooooorrred, to-do list in front of me. A logical order of things to make the day fly and yet... ZERO motivation or concentration for anything :cool:

    And I'm on a rest day from training......


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    #1366
    stmochtas
    Registered Users Posts: 972 ✭✭✭stmochtas


    misty floyd wrote: »
    Yes thats unreal. Things like that make you appreciate what you have. Did you see the series of photos of a boy dying with cancer. It shows his mother caring for him. Can't stop thinking about that.

    I did see a photo of Ben Johnson winning the 100m Olympic gold with his hand in the air. It shows Carl Lewis looking over at him with a look of "cheat". It would take me ages to find it but I thought it was a good pic.

    http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00048/boltspread_04_516x31_48353a.jpg

    Maybe


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    #1367
    Munster_Gal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Munster_Gal


    ALLEZ LES ROUGE

    Oh the excitement of Heineken Cup Rugby...I feel like I haven't been in Thomond Park in MONTHS!!!!!!! :eek:


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    #1368
    Bally8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭Bally8


    misty floyd wrote: »
    Came across this thread over at After Hours: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055750426

    Its Photo's that shook the world. Some are hard to look at but some pretty amazing stuff.

    Warning, I spent over an hour last night going through only half of them. Well worth it.

    I did the exact same thing last night too! I actually cried over a few of them. Cant wait to show them to my students.


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    #1369
    DustyBin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭DustyBin


    Bally8 wrote: »
    ... I actually cried over a few of them. Cant wait to show them to my students.


    That's just mean ... ;)


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    #1370
    JKF
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭JKF


    misty floyd wrote: »
    Came across this thread over at After Hours: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055750426

    Great thread.. Some really powerful ones in there.

    And yes, I will put my hands in the air and admit there was tears


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    #1371
    JKF
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭JKF


    For any of ye with kids: http://portablenorthpole.tv/home

    Did one for my nephews.. the expression on their faces was golden! :D


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    #1372
    hunnymonster
    Registered Users Posts: 5,365 ✭✭✭hunnymonster


    Saw that for my nephew. I've never seen him so excited. Guaranteed good behaviour bribe.


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    #1373
    tunguska
    Registered Users Posts: 3,545 ✭✭✭tunguska


    Best one has gotta be The Black Panthers at the 1968 Olympics. My personal favourite anyway.


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    #1374
    nerraw1111
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    hunnymonster wrote: »
    The one with the starving child (and vulture in the back) makes me cry every time I see it. I know that despite winning a pulitizer for it, Kevin Carter was heavily criticised for taking it.

    He committed suicide a few years later.


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    #1375
    hunnymonster
    Registered Users Posts: 5,365 ✭✭✭hunnymonster


    real shame. That photo has made me do a lot.



    I finally cleaned out the back of my car today. That was a long overdue job.

    ZL joined me to a new gym as a pressie (thanks babe) and I get to try it out for the first time in the morning. Feels a lot like christmas around here.


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    #1376
    metamorphosis
    Registered Users Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    Rineanna wrote: »




    Lots of people giving out about the Luxembourg agreement, or so I hear. Week and a half until my final exam, with the Euro XC in the middle to break it up!

    Luxembourg as a 60 marker was a little bit of a throw off alright but manageable. I'm now officially finished exams. FYP time soon though.:(

    Man i would HATE to have another exam.

    On another note - best of luck in the Euros.


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    #1377
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    ULstudent wrote: »
    Man i would HATE to have another exam.
    *frowns you good*

    Still got Mathematical Biology on Wednesday, and Partial Differential Equations on Friday... *cries*


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    #1378
    Munster_Gal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Munster_Gal


    I hate Monday mornings :( booooooo!


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    #1379
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Munster_Gal wrote: »
    I hate Monday mornings :( booooooo!

    No work for me. Time in lieu. :D


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    #1380
    Munster_Gal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Munster_Gal


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    No work for me. Time in lieu. :D

    Oh now! See that's just mean. I'm sitting in a freezing cold office after having to walk across freezing cold Eyre Square and sitting in Athenry train station for 20mins freezin my @ss off there as well! Monday mornings suck!!!


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    #1381
    --amadeus--
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,096 ✭✭✭--amadeus--


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Partial Differential Equations on Friday...

    I was never any good at foreign languages...

    Time off in lieu RQ? Bloody slackers in the Public Sector :D

    In other news it's a bit frosty this morning so rather than risk my baby on slippy roads I'm going to work from home for a few hours...


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