CTYI "Back in the Day"

gigglingrat · 29-07-2005 5:56pm #1

Well then, CTYI 05 is over forever now, and as I sat and reminisced about my last three years I couldn't help but think how much has changed about the place even since I began back in '03.

Which lead me to wondering what the very first CTYI was like...and the subsiquent ones that I am far too young to remember...what has changed, for good, for bad.

Anybody?

Please don't nuke me with your spell-checking bombs, I'm far too tired to be fully literate.

Outcast · 31-07-2005 2:40pm

My first year was '02 and since then the food believe it or not has gotten better, much better range of courses, way more little people and disco's have been in the canteen

And Willie has gone from Asst. Site Director to Site director since Feargal left

Eva · 13-09-2005 9:38pm

I remember CTYI in '94. Vaguely.
Oh lordy I feel old :-)

Piste · 13-09-2005 10:45pm

94? Wow....

StupidLikeAFox · 13-09-2005 10:47pm

Were you even born then liz???

Piste · 13-09-2005 11:09pm

Very Witty Col

I was 3....

LordCran · 14-09-2005 2:56pm

Well, I have no idea, but I know someone who does *shouts*
"OH KEVIN!"
Now here's one of the few old CTYI stories I know:
My very talented brother Kevin (psy A TA 2005, if you didn't know) and my cousin Greg both went to CTYI for 3 years, '94-'97, I believe. One day, Greg dropped his hat in the (now drained) pond-thingy. Kevin has a picture of him fishing it out.
And since Kevin was back 9 years after leaving, he's the perfect "things were better in my day" person. Now where is he...

TalkISCheap · 14-09-2005 6:08pm

Biggest change for me was the movement-ification of the discos...

Manda5678 · 14-09-2005 6:15pm

TalkISCheap wrote:

Biggest change for me was the movement-ification of the discos...

Yep I disliked that change greatly! They had to do it in my nevermore year and all....I don't like it I tell you.
Discos in the hub were tradition..

LiamD · 14-09-2005 8:14pm

I remember the discos back in '02 - they were in the Hub and they used all the Hub's special lights and everything.I much preferred that to the canteen..

Outcast · 14-09-2005 8:27pm

Yeah, what's with the bullsh*t about them not being able to get the hub? They'e known for the last year at least that we'd want it. Street Spirit in the Canteen is damn scary, even Grafton Street was cleaner!

Plunky · 14-09-2005 8:30pm

Nownow, back in the DAY day, (i.e. 2000/2001) the discos were in the canteen, so REALLY, they were just going retro this year!

LiamD · 14-09-2005 8:38pm

Who cares?The Hub is better. End of.

Manda5678 · 14-09-2005 8:43pm

Outcast wrote:

Yeah, what's with the bullsh*t about them not being able to get the hub? They'e known for the last year at least that we'd want it. Street Spirit in the Canteen is damn scary, even Grafton Street was cleaner!

I would have thought that after we had to have two canteen discos last year (and known how unpopular they were) that they would have done their best to get the hub for this year. If they couldn't get the hub on Saturday couldn't we have had a disco on Friday in the hub?

Yeah I agree with you there Niamh street spirit in the canteen was scary. I mean the food they serve you is scary enough whens its on a plate but when there was possible (and most likely) remains of it on the floor where we were lying..that is damn scary

Scarinae · 14-09-2005 8:43pm

And I think I heard from the super-duper aul' wans a few years ago that the discos used to be in the library, as in pre-2000, but I may have dreamed it. Can any aul' wans please come out of the woodwork and confirm/deny this?

Manda5678 · 14-09-2005 8:48pm

The library?!? well in that case i may nver complain about the canteen again..tho the library may have been cleaner..

Scarinae · 14-09-2005 9:02pm

The old library, that is. Or maybe it was the meals that were in the library, because there was no canteen... But really, I probably just dreamed it!

Outcast · 14-09-2005 9:07pm

The new library won't let us study in there let alone have a disco

claire h · 14-09-2005 9:18pm

I can confirm that in 1999 the old library was where meals and discos were. Don't know about before that though.

See, you weren't dreaming.

Manda5678 · 14-09-2005 10:21pm

claire h wrote:

I can confirm that in 1999 the old library was where meals and discos were. Don't know about before that though.

See, you weren't dreaming.

i cant imagine that..

Chris IS Cool · 14-09-2005 10:35pm

Really makes it sound much more like nerdcamp, having discos in a library, doesn't it? ... but it's strangely appealing... discos in the library... especially if it used all the library... with all the different levels and racks of books and stuff... and groovy disco lights.... and really loud music.... good vibes... *slaps some sense into self*

Raphael · 14-09-2005 10:41pm

I remember the library food from the minis.

Scarinae · 14-09-2005 11:58pm

claire h wrote:

I can confirm that in 1999 the old library was where meals and discos were. Don't know about before that though.

See, you weren't dreaming.

Yay, I wasn't dreaming! It just sounded so improbable and ridiculous, and I couldn't remember where I'd got the idea from, so I thought I might have made it up. But um, yeah, having a CTYI disco in a library seems like a bad idea to me because it gives me visions of bookshelves toppling over and knocking others over in a kind of domino effect, scattering books everywhere and crushing screaming teenagers.... But I've never been inside the old library, so in fact I have no idea where this idea comes from either. Oh dear.

Eva · 15-09-2005 2:24pm

Way back in the day, the discos were always in the canteen. (Which back then, was orange and brown... Ah, good times) DCU started renovating the place in 99, turning it into the exciting and ultramodern food hall it is today. CTYI had nowhere to have dinner or discos though, so they moved everything into the old library area. Not the main one, it's the glass room that's to your left when you're walking from the canteen to res.
Is the fountain back on yet in DCU by the way? We used to push RAs in there on the last day. Though I'm sure that can't be the only reason they emptied it.

CONOR!!! f... · 15-09-2005 6:36pm

hmm..the library stopped letting ctyi study there in my 1st year. '03. and i can tell you why. the command prompt. dont use it. aoife and i...and liam...jackass were sending messages on the command prompt. the college students complained. end of library study. very sorry. and yeah my 1st year had discos in the hub too. the upside to the canteen is theres not as much room. in the hub there was WAY too much space. still. hub=better.

Outcast · 15-09-2005 6:51pm

What class was that?

CONOR!!! f... · 15-09-2005 7:09pm

class? legal studies session 2 2003.

Undergod · 15-09-2005 7:34pm

The second ever CTYI, a certain female sibling of mine went that year, shared a room with Sarah MacElwee, (Psychology tutor in 03+04), food was in canteen as were discos. Beat that for a memory.

I just know someone will beat that for a memory.

TalkISCheap · 16-09-2005 8:13pm

I was in the minis the year before they started renovating - memories of the old layout are tres blurred. I remember the meals in the old library when they used let the minis stay res. Then they got sense! (or ran out of space...)

Crash · 16-09-2005 8:57pm

oi! i fecking sweeped that floor! and cleaned tables at one point - it was damn clean i'll have you know.

but anyhow - yeah my disco days were always in the hub.

and for the record, they have tried their best to get the hub.

Outcast · 16-09-2005 9:03pm

Yeah, to give credit where credit is due the Ra's tryed pretty damn hard to sort something. And putting the tables back on the last night with people crying their eyes out was a classic moment

CTYI "Back in the Day"

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