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I hate UCD!

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    #32
    Chet T16
    Registered Users Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭Chet T16


    delta_bravo wrote: »
    Despite it being one of the newest buildings, Quinn I feel is awful; completely characterless and sterile.

    Newstead is terrible altough i do love the timewarp door down by the lift
    LauraLuck wrote: »
    Ive just started UCD and so far im liking the campus.Its great on sunny days by the lake.
    And also where is this secret lake ive been hearing about? i wasnt sure if someone was just messing with me asking me if ive found the secret lake yet.
    :)

    Secret lake is easy to find, its kept outdoors


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    #33
    dr gonzo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭dr gonzo


    Love it or leave it OP


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    #34
    muffinz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 487 ✭✭muffinz


    what i hate the most is travelling to and from the place every morning! And that the accomodation on campus is so bleedin' expensive! And that everything is 18's over :( Oh and how certain lecturers always blab on about how we need to use blackboard ALL THE TIME if we want to pass the module, and then never post lecture notes or anything up there!!!

    OH and those people handing out leaflets for crunch fitness! F*CK OFF I dont want to join it!!!

    What I like about it: deadly teachers, sound people, and seeing my archaeology teacher being proposed to:pac:


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    #35
    pljudge321
    Registered Users Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭pljudge321


    LUPE wrote: »
    I wouldn't agree. Obviously there's no need to talk about the facilities, but the place has an aura rarely found elsewhere in UCD.
    Character doesn't necessarily come from history or quaintness or peculiarity, and for what it is, a business school, it has exactly the right character in terms of the general sense of ambition and empowerment about the place (even if sometimes it is poserism). Two things which certainly stand out from the general drudgy atmosphere found in many other parts of UCD.

    Ive been in Quinn, its a soulless dump.


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    #36
    LUPE
    Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭LUPE


    pljudge321 wrote: »
    Ive been in Quinn, its a soulless dump.

    My, what a convincing and persuasive point. I especially like the bit where you elaborated on your opinion.


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    #37
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    pljudge321 wrote: »
    Ive been in Quinn, its a soulless dump.

    The "Dunnes Stores Lecture Theatre" in there always makes me laugh.


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    #38
    nbrady20009
    Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭nbrady20009


    Grimes wrote: »
    Any relation to the"Gamesoc is Gay lad"? Your combined level of eloquence would indicate so alternatively "free fees" really lets anyone into college. :p


    Lol I'll take that with a pinch of salt. And no, but I have to meet this lad:D


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    #39
    hatful
    Closed Accounts Posts: 346 ✭✭hatful


    The buildings are nicely lit up at night. It's open plan, easy to cycle around. There are alot of grassy areas to sit out in the summer. TBH op buy a laptop and worry about more pressing matters such as what your course is like and getting to know the people in your lectures.


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    #40
    ya-ba-da-ba-doo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭ya-ba-da-ba-doo


    i like ucd...


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    #41
    karpo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭karpo


    RandomName2 wrote: »
    70s layout = Arts Bloc, lake, Admin, Ag-Sci, some of Science, and Library (technically).

    That ain't the whole campus mate - and even then if you aren't aware of the huge revamp of Arts and Science then you must be blind.

    And why are the women in the library giving out to you :confused: daily??? :confused::confused:

    You can't study on the computers downstairs anymore. They're only SUAS. And the Dramasoc guys aren't that loud (and if you're afraid of them stay out of the basement and by god don't go near their breeding ground in the tunnels!!! :eek:)

    And I personally like the smell of the Arts block in the morning.

    It smells like... victory

    You are taking this thread way too seriously mate.


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    #42
    karpo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭karpo


    Breezer wrote: »
    People who whinge about everything. If you hate the place that much, leave.

    I actually love my course just hate UCD. So moving colleges would mean extra time and expense. Moaning is cheaper.


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    #43
    louise-x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭louise-x


    I hated UCD too, and I did leave.... best decision of my life! (so far)


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    #44
    karpo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭karpo


    hatful wrote: »
    The buildings are nicely lit up at night. It's open plan, easy to cycle around. There are alot of grassy areas to sit out in the summer. TBH op buy a laptop and worry about more pressing matters such as what your course is like and getting to know the people in your lectures.

    Your points lead me onto a few more hates.I own a laptop but have to down grade to UCD computers when there are no seats available in the library near plug sockets. My course is wonderful, I've had four years to get to know it.


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    #45
    HavingCrack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    louise-x wrote: »
    I hated UCD too, and I did leave.... best decision of my life! (so far)

    So you left UCD to go to Clane :confused:

    Only joking in case you get all offended :pac:


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    #46
    mossychica
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭mossychica


    get away from it all and go to the cafe in the sports centre.


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    #47
    RandolphEsq
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    mossychica wrote: »
    get away from it all and go to the cafe in the sports centre.

    Delicious!


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    #48
    5live
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    karpo wrote: »
    I hate everything about UCD from the morbidly depressing 70's layout to the irrationally cranky women at the library reception who gives out to me daily to the constant high pitched whaling of attention seekers coming from the drama soc room while trying to study on the computers downstairs to the morning race to get parking to the arts block that smells like hitlers moustache wiped in ****e.

    What do you hate most about UCD?
    Ah jaysus get real. You have no responsabilities, are hanging out with yuor friends all day and all night, studying a course you love and can manage to find the little cloud blocking daylight where you stand. Home is the people not the blocks in which they live. I graduated 20 years ago when there was no accomidation and a fraction of the facilities there now. As the saying goes we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars. But you could be right about the arts block:D


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    #49
    parker kent
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    karpo wrote: »
    Your points lead me onto a few more hates.I own a laptop but have to down grade to UCD computers when there are no seats available in the library near plug sockets. My course is wonderful, I've had four years to get to know it.

    Use the Health Sciences Library or the Daedulus or anywhere else with sockets. Even use the Smurfit Library. I know they main library is short of sockets as it was built in the pre-laptop era, but there a few other options open to you.


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    #50
    Breezer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭Breezer


    karpo wrote: »
    Moaning is cheaper.
    Touché :D


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    #51
    rantyface
    Registered Users Posts: 496 ✭✭rantyface


    I loved my undergrad there and I'm back doing a PhD for another 4 year plus! I think you should drop out if you don't like it, you're missing SO MUCH of your youth if you're spending it somewhere you don't like.

    I'm not mad about the buildings but I don't dwell on it because my favourite library space looks out at the mountains and my lab has a sea view with all the buildings blocked by trees. :) I like the nature preserve and the orchards. I also really liked the people. I had a small class and we were really close by the end. I've met so many nice new people doing post grad.

    I think you should consider moving to a different university. If you drop out now you won't have to pay all the fees. If you were enjoying your course you wouldn't be dwelling on the buildings anyway. Best of luck!

    The building work is pissing me off though.


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    #52
    HavingCrack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    rantyface wrote: »
    I loved my undergrad there and I'm back doing a PhD for another 4 year plus! I think you should drop out if you don't like it, you're missing SO MUCH of your youth if you're spending it somewhere you don't like.

    I'm not mad about the buildings but I don't dwell on it because my favourite library space looks out at the mountains and my lab has a sea view with all the buildings blocked by trees. :) I like the nature preserve and the orchards. I also really liked the people. I had a small class and we were really close by the end. I've met so many nice new people doing post grad.

    I think you should consider moving to a different university. If you drop out now you won't have to pay all the fees. If you were enjoying your course you wouldn't be dwelling on the buildings anyway. Best of luck!

    The building work is pissing me off though.

    The orchard is a nice secret alright! :)


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    #53
    delta_bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    Is the Orchard up near the Clonskeagh gate?


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    #54
    Fluorescence
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 8,490 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fluorescence


    Yep, pretty much.


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    #55
    unknown13
    Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭unknown13


    I love most things about UCD but the only thing I hate is the Science hub. The toilets are tiny and Theatre C's wooden benches.


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    #56
    Killer Pigeon
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    HavingCrack wrote: »
    The orchard is a nice secret alright! :)

    Holy apples, there's an orchard ... I'm been over a year in UCD and didn't know there was an orchard!!


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    #57
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    unknown13 wrote: »
    I love most things about UCD but the only thing I hate is the Science hub. The toilets are tiny and Theatre C's wooden benches.
    and F, D, E, B's wooden benches.


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    #58
    unknown13
    Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭unknown13


    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    and F, D, E, B's wooden benches.

    I am only in A and C. Couldn't imagine doing the lecture I have in A in theatre C since it is a 2 hour one.


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    #59
    Telchak
    Registered Users Posts: 888 ✭✭✭Telchak


    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    and F, D, E, B's wooden benches.

    Most uncomfortable places on earth to sit down :mad:


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    #60
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    unknown13 wrote: »
    I am only in A and C. Couldn't imagine doing the lecture I have in A in theatre C since it is a 2 hour one.

    Bring a cushion.


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    #61
    unknown13
    Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭unknown13


    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    Bring a cushion.

    What is the point. It will do nothing.


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