Trinity The Best???

jesabella_1

hey ppl!! o.k i need a bit of advice, im a 6th year and ive alredy sent away my cao with trinity 1st choice! but i just wanna know if its all its cracked up to be??? like how is it 4 goin out? i wanna do social science so if anyone is doing that let me know how its goin plllllz!!

Evilution

jesabella_1 wrote:

hey ppl!!

Hello there.

jesabella_1 wrote:

but i just wanna know if its all its cracked up to be???

Depends on what your expectations are really. Its certainly dropped its elitest reputation over the last year or two, if you ask me. Doesn't detract from the place in the slightest. Its all its cracked up to be for me anyway.

jesabella_1 wrote:

like how is it 4 goin out?

Fab! Class sizes are usually small so making friends is no biggie. Lots of clubs ans societies too.

jesabella_1 wrote:

i wanna do social science so if anyone is doing that let me know how its goin plllllz!!

Whats the course code? Is it social science on its own you're doing?

ApeXaviour

For me the best things about tcd is it's location and it's physics degree's reputation. Having never attended another university it's hard to compare about social live's etc, though I will say these have been some of my best years. I hear DCU is good craic also. It was also voted one of the best unis in the country there recently. I've friends who go to maynooth, I wouldn't recommend it.

MagicBusDriver

UCD is cool. Not sure about Trinity. I would avoid DCU, Maynooth, DIT.

ApeXaviour

"Belfield IT" is a factory

nuff sed


EDIT: actually not enuff sed, DCU beat UCD by two places in the irish third-level rankings last year. So no.. I wouldn't avoid it

Evilution

ApeXaviour wrote:

"Belfield IT" ...

...AKA suburban polytechnic of Dublin south

Rew

Go where the best course is and forget everything else. Your social life is what you make it not what the college makes it. Every college has its downside or issues.

Evilution

Rew wrote:

Every college has its downside or issue.

Man, if you used this forum as a reflection of TCD as a whole, you'd think it was the Jerry Springer institute of fukkedupdom.

combs

What's Social Science, anyway? I'd advise instinctively against taking anything with Science in the title.

Kevin_rc_ie

any body who says that one university is empirically better than the other is speaking thru their aerse.

It depends very much on what type of person you are , will be (unless you've a crystall ball this is difficult to determine) and specifically what course you are doing and what you want to do with it.

If you are under the the impression Irish employers say things like " Well this girl has a social science degree from Trinity so she's a better candidate then this girl from UCD", you are mistaken.

Reasons for choosing colleges/universities in my opinion,

Course Specifics
Location
Athmosphere of classes
Culture of Whole College
Non academic facilities.

Evilution

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

Reasons for choosing colleges/universities in my opinion...

Course Specifics - e.g. how many good looking members of the opposite sex are there in it?
Location - near the dort....I mean Dart station
Athmosphere of classes - ranges from arctic sub-zero temps in the hamilton and arts block to thermo-nuclear in the Aras an Phiarsaigh
Culture of Whole College - highly bacterial, some fungal present also.
Non academic facilities - beds for shagging in, bars for drinking in, toilets for **** in and the GMB for talking $hite in.

Rew

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

" Well this girl has a social science degree from Trinity so she's a better candidate then this girl from UCD", you are mistaken.

My brother did Marketing in DIT but his degree is from Trinity, either way it never made a diferance to him. Only thing that got him a good job was bloody hard work.

Crash

Evilution wrote:

Course Specifics - e.g. how many good looking members of the opposite sex are there in it?
Location - near the dort....I mean Dart station
Athmosphere of classes - ranges from arctic sub-zero temps in the hamilton and arts block to thermo-nuclear in the Aras an Phiarsaigh
Culture of Whole College - highly bacterial, some fungal present also.
Non academic facilities - beds for shagging in, bars for drinking in, toilets for **** in and the GMB for talking $hite in.

you forgot one thing about atmosphere of classes, mainly can you smell the HamCaf while in there.

Evilution

crash_000 wrote:

you forgot one thing about atmosphere of classes, mainly can you smell the HamCaf while in there.

Dammit, knew I forgot something.
Is there anything else we're leaving out?

Sporting facilities - rugger buggers mauling each other in the cold at 7pm in the evening.
Dining facilities - meals on wheels, of a kind, in the same way roadkill is.
Outstanding lecturer/pupil relationships - "hello sir, can you help me with something?" "no, fukk off and talk to your tutor, you fresher bollix".
Ease of access - yes, after crossing 3 of the arguably busiest roads in dublin.
World class library facilities - replete with the smell and sound of our D4 friends throughout.

Kevin_rc_ie

Ease of access - yes, after crossing 3 of the arguably busiest roads in dublin.

Hit the nail on the head there 'ution. i really hate actually coming into college from my bus stop. I think if I came in to college every day for the next 2 years, i think there is a significant chance i will be hit. that's why i limit by entry to college. for my health's sake. i do love the central location of trinity. it's like a little oasis of solitude in a big dirty hole of a town.

Plunky

I'm one of the few who've experienced BOTH as an undergrad. In one year. I can safely and informedly say that trinity is SO much better! classes are smaller, lecturers/tutors/TAs/staff in general are SO much nicer. And city centre campus? perfect!

Evilution

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

I think if I came in to college every day for the next 2 years, i think there is a significant chance i will be hit

Yeah, probably by one of those loop'ers that drive those newspaper-carrying motorcycles. I've had a few close calls with them boys. And people who ride their mopeds around the campus at high speed too, in the morning, on wet slippy flagstones...

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

i do love the central location of trinity. it's like a little oasis of solitude in a big dirty hole of a town.

Yeah, totally. Yanno whats best - when you walk through the main arch in the morning and all the noise from the city just quells and dies away. Fukkin' poetry, that

Kevin_rc_ie

what you've been in one college for a few months/weeks and then swapped to trinity and now you're an expert? good for you.

Plunky

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

what you've been in one college for a few months/weeks and then swapped to trinity and now you're an expert? good for you.

Who said anything about expert? All i know is that the Trinity staff were SO helpful to me whereas in UCD everyone had just been very "it's not my job now fúck off and I won't tell you who's job it is". And also, the students are much friendlier, and there's little to none anonymity - more than can be said for oul' BIT

Evilution

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

what you've been in one college for a few months/weeks and then swapped to trinity and now you're an expert? good for you.

Dude, I was in Carlow IT for 2 years. In my 3rd year in TCD (as you bloody well know). Never said I was an expert!

Evilution

Plunky wrote:

in UCD everyone had just been very "it's not my job now fúck off and I won't tell you who's job it is"

I think they call this 'preparing you for the real world'

Kevin_rc_ie

Evilution, my previous post was in regard to plunky not you. Sorry Plunky i didn't mean to sound so antagonistic earlier but ... ah doesn't matter

Plunky

No worries, i didn't take offense, was just trying to clarify my position!

Evilution

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

...antagonistic..

There's that word again

ApeXaviour

Want me to get the thesaurus out?

Kevin_rc_ie

lol did u get my subtle implication there evil.

Evilution

ApeXaviour wrote:

Want me to get the thesaurus out?

Nah, you probably need it to sit on to see the PC screen, child.

Evilution

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

lol did u get my subtle implication there evil.

No. Was it subliminal?

Pet

it's like a little oasis of solitude in a big dirty hole of a town.

LOL, my thoughts exactly. Nothing like the peace and quiet of walking through campus on a Monday morning when there's traffic and pollution and scummers and D4 muppet businesspeople out on the streets.

Evilution

Pet wrote:

when there's traffic and pollution and scummers and D4 muppet businesspeople out on the streets.

You can find some of the above on the campus too, if you look hard enough.
Traffic along the GMB - its like a motorway during graduation week
Pollution in the buttery food.
Scummers traipsing around the arts block looking for things to steal.
And businesspeople in the buttery getting cheap coffee.

Pet

Evilution wrote:

You can find some of the above on the campus too, if you look hard enough.
Traffic along the GMB - its like a motorway during graduation week
Pollution in the buttery food.
Scummers traipsing around the arts block looking for things to steal.
And businesspeople in the buttery getting cheap coffee.

Heh, never thought of it that way. I'm going to selectively forget that, so I can continue to make Trinity my little bubble.