Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Do we have halloween off?

Options
  • 04-09-2011 2:59pm
    #1
    Preppy
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭


    I'm a first year and according to my timetable I don't have the day off. Is this always the case?


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    Fluorescence
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 8,490 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fluorescence


    Yep, there's no official reading week in semester 1. If you're lucky your school or department will have their own reading week and you'll get the day off. Don't count on it though.


  • Options
    #3
    pljudge321
    Registered Users Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭pljudge321


    Preppy wrote: »
    I'm a first year and according to my timetable I don't have the day off. Is this always the case?

    Normally no, the place is a university, not a playschool. We have it off this year due to the Bank Holiday.


  • Options
    #4
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    pljudge321 wrote: »
    Normally no, the place is a university, not a playschool. We have it off this year due to the Bank Holiday.
    But they have no problem giving us four months off in Summer? Why couldn't they bring us back a week early and give us that week at Halloween?


  • Options
    #5
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    But they have no problem giving us four months off in Summer?

    That extra time is give to students to give them an opportunity to get work and do internships, etc.. I guess.
    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Why couldn't they bring us back a week early and give us that week at Halloween?

    As I said above. Halloween is a pagan tradition, not an official state holiday.


  • Options
    #6
    Fluorescence
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 8,490 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fluorescence


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    But they have no problem giving us four months off in Summer? Why couldn't they bring us back a week early and give us that week at Halloween?

    There's a 3rd term during the summer for postgraduate courses. They have the year mapped out the way they do so that each term is 15 weeks - 12 teaching weeks, 1 study week and 2 exam weeks. If they put in a week off for Halloween you'd either be going back a week early in September (maybe not, not sure what way Semester 3 works out) or getting less time off at Christmas. Halloween is not very important.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    What's the purpose of the 2 week break in March? I think they should make that just one week, and have the other week in semester 1 - although that would still mean having to go back a week early in September I think.


  • Options
    #8
    IrishKnight
    Registered Users Posts: 922 ✭✭✭IrishKnight


    **Timbuk2** wrote: »
    What's the purpose of the 2 week break in March?

    It is a study break used for field trips and week long labs.


  • Options
    #9
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    That extra time is give to students to give them an opportunity to get work and do internships, etc.. I guess.



    As I said above. Halloween is a pagan tradition, not an official state holiday.

    I as a Pagan will see fit and celebrate it, whether UCD deems it worthy of celebration or not.

    We should protest about it, make real change!


  • Options
    #10
    Fluorescence
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 8,490 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fluorescence


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    We should protest about it, make real change!

    You can still go out. You don't need a week off for 1 night's party.


  • Options
    #11
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    fluorescence wrote: »
    You can still go out. You don't need a week off for 1 night's party.

    The Christians get Christmas off, and that's even an official holiday. Us pagans need a week to celebrate Halloween


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    ._.
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭._.


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    The Christians get Christmas off, and that's even an official holiday. Us pagans need a week to celebrate Halloween

    You can come in over christmas then so :P


  • Options
    #13
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    ._. wrote: »
    You can come in over christmas then so :P

    God no!


  • Options
    #14
    delta_bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    **Timbuk2** wrote: »
    What's the purpose of the 2 week break in March? I think they should make that just one week, and have the other week in semester 1 - although that would still mean having to go back a week early in September I think.

    As said before its for field studies. Up until 2007 it was a 3 week break


  • Options
    #15
    IrishKnight
    Registered Users Posts: 922 ✭✭✭IrishKnight


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    The Christians get Christmas off, and that's even an official holiday. Us pagans need a week to celebrate Halloween

    If you were really a pagan you would know that the RCC set the date for Christmas as it coincided with the mid winter which pagans celebrated. Jesus was really born sometime in the summer. What's more, you forget that 1 November is the Christen holiday of All Saints day, which, while an official Christian holiday, it is not a state holiday.


  • Options
    #16
    ._.
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭._.


    IrishKnight wrote: »
    If you were really a pagan you would know that the RCC set the date for Christmas as it coincided with the mid winter which pagans celebrated. Jesus was really born sometime in the summer. What's more, you forget that 1 November is the Christen holiday of All Saints day, which, while an official Christian holiday, it is not a state holiday.
    Wow, you think this guy isn't really a Pagan? :eek:

    Mind = Blown.


  • Options
    #17
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    The Christians get Christmas off, and that's even an official holiday. Us pagans need a week to celebrate Halloween

    Well, I mean we need a couple of weeks off around December anyway because of hazardous weather conditions, so why no.


  • Options
    #18
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    IrishKnight wrote: »
    If you were really a pagan you would know that the RCC set the date for Christmas as it coincided with the mid winter which pagans celebrated. Jesus was really born sometime in the summer. What's more, you forget that 1 November is the Christen holiday of All Saints day, which, while an official Christian holiday, it is not a state holiday.

    O.k you got me, I was lying! I just want a week off for halloween... I miss mid-term :(:(
    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    Well, I mean we need a couple of weeks off around December anyway because of hazardous weather conditions, so why no.

    Well if it's this cold now, maybe we'll see hazardous weather more sooner than we expected!
    It was bloody freezing yesterday!


  • Options
    #19
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    I as a Pagan will see fit and celebrate it, whether UCD deems it worthy of celebration or not.

    We should protest about it, make real change!

    As long as there are magic mushrooms and other hallucinogenics involved, I'll support ye!


  • Options
    #20
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    As long as there are magic mushrooms and other hallucinogenics involved, I'll support ye!

    Yes yes free mushrooms and cannabis for all! And.. and...
    sacrificing of trinity students in a big circle while chanting loudly and wearing cloaks and... and rock n' roll!

    Yeah I think that should about cover it


  • Options
    #21
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    O.k you got me, I was lying! I just want a week off for halloween... I miss mid-term :(:(

    And I miss mid-afternoon naptime. Welcome to growing up.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #22
    IrishKnight
    Registered Users Posts: 922 ✭✭✭IrishKnight


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    O.k you got me, I was lying! I just want a week off for halloween... I miss mid-term :(:(

    I bet you can't wait until you get a job after uni!

    Unless you are going for teaching...


  • Options
    #23
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Yeah I'll probably become a teacher cause they get all the good holidays innit


  • Options
    #24
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    Well, I mean we need a couple of weeks off around December anyway because of hazardous weather conditions, so why no.

    Wait till your a postgrad, no time off over christmas for some of us, I spent every second day in here last winter doing cultures and keeping other students cell stocks alive.


Advertisement