DCU roll-call

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In a concept which I blatantly stole from the UCD forum - I thought it would be a good idea if everyone from DCU declared what they'd be studying this year, so we can see who's here and what they're studying...

I'll get things started:
Journalism - 1st year

lizanne83

I'm just so bored in work (smart telecom broadband!!) that i'll submit anything on boards here!
I'm now 3rd Year multimedia. Just got a great Intra offer yesterday for this year, weheyy!
Lizanne. Ps: Did you only get your offer for journalism in DCU yesterday? Ahh well done!

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lizanne83 wrote:

I'm just so bored in work (smart telecom broadband!!) that i'll submit anything on boards here!
I'm now 3rd Year multimedia. Just got a great Intra offer yesterday for this year, weheyy!
Lizanne. Ps: Did you only get your offer for journalism in DCU yesterday? Ahh well done!

(Yeah - awww thanks I'm all new!)

Hah, long day eh? It's raining here, so I can't get out either -_-... can't wait for September though, it should be soooooo much better than 6th year

Tyrrial

good idea

Computer Applications, Software Engineering - 4th Year (of doom)

StickyMcGinty

CA, Software Engineering baby, 2nd year (also year of doom )

and noel - you dont know how easy that degree is... 9 hours a week in first year last time i checked

dregin

Computer Applications, Software Engineering - 4th Year (of doom)

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VinnyL wrote:

CA, Software Engineering baby, 2nd year (also year of doom )

and noel - you dont know how easy that degree is... 9 hours a week in first year last time i checked

Haha, oh well, I'll struggle by somehow !

(Perhaps the murder she wrote society will absorb some more hours per week eh?)

Danger_Dave

This Should Sticky imo and mabye some more info. Anyway

Hopefully going into 3rd year Nursing. { Waits for Drunkenfools Sarcastic comment}

9 hours !!! damn i picked the wrong course

sionnach

dregin wrote:

Computer Applications, Software Engineering - 4th Year (of doom)

ZOMG, oldie.

[Jesjes btw, upstairs and too lazy to go downstairs]

BizzyC

Also 4th Year Software engineering.

Jeez, DCU are really letting me fall through the cracks with my 20% attendance record to lectures....

Snapper1

Heading into 4th year Business Studies myself. 3 weeks til I'm finished Intra, oh the joy of it all!

StickyMcGinty

NoelRock wrote:

Perhaps the murder she wrote society will absorb some more hours per week eh?

the bar will sort out them free hours for ye.... it was more than willing to oblige for me last year

spockety

Um, if this was the year 2000, I'd be going into 4th year of CA..

J.

Ferror

Well hopefully i'll be going into 2nd year Computer Applications, (information systems)

Crucifix

Applied Physics - Second year

johnjo76

Computer applications, first year

sillisome fiend

Computer Applications-1st year

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Lots of Computer Apps folks here good stuff!

Cina

Computer Applications also. First Year!

dar83

They're taking over....

I think it does show the type of person that does that course though really, doesn't it?!

Anyway, hopefully 4th year DME.

Rhyme

God willing...

Computer Apps 2nd year (IS)

steveland?

Hopefully 3rd year DME, exams pending

camroc

Also CA 1st year, a bit worried about all these years (of doom) ahead!

rugbug86

second year of undecided...! don't know if i'm doing biotechnology or applied physics yet! but second year, eventually, yeay!

sillisome fiend

camroc wrote:

Also CA 1st year, a bit worried about all these years (of doom) ahead!

It can't be that bad

StickyMcGinty

its seriously hard is CA in first year, over 110 gonna from our class already i think!

dont think your in for an easy ride, and you'll just love ray walshe

Joe5ie

CA first year - cant be that bad...

Tyrrial

Joe5ie wrote:

CA first year - cant be that bad...

well it has 53% less doom then the other years.. so i guess you could say it's not AS bad.. just wait for 3rd year.. i liked that one the MOST

Suaimhneach

Second year *hopefully* FIONTAR.

[Computers and Business, with Applied Irish as a minor, all taught through Irish]

eyebrows

4th yeah CASE

every year in CA so far was a piece of piss (especially 1st). There's such a high drop out rate in first year, not because it's hard, but because loads of people think its shít(jsut doesn't suit alot of people).

I dont even reconise half of the people in my class cos I've been there so little(go in the first two weeks of each semester then decide fúck this shít, I'll stay at home and watch some yu-gi-oh instead) and I only ever failed one subject(ended up getting compensated anyway).

StickyMcGinty

no chance eyebrows, you gotta start workin at some stage!

high drop out rate cause so many think "ah 300 points easy peasy" and then they meet ray walshe. couldnt believe how many dropped out this year!

CuLT

2nd year CAIS, Dave Donellan willing...

Actually, I must pop off for another repeat in about ten minutes ;D

canker

1st year CA :cool:

28064212

4th Year Computer Applications (Software Engineering). And CA is pretty easy.

VinnyL wrote:

no chance eyebrows, you gotta start workin at some stage!

In 4th year only, assuming you want to graduate close to the top. To pass the other years (which have no effect on your final mark), a week of study (like ten hours a day, and proper study, not just looking at notes) before the exams is loads if you have any kind of aptitude for computers and a bit of enthusiasm.

The other reason for the high drop out rate is cause people are attracted to it along the lines of: "OMG!!!Computerz, I saw that movie Hackerz and I can use the Internet LOL".

Oh and Ray Walshe is great, had him as my project supervisor last year. Providing you're not pissing about in one of his lectures, he's dead sound.

steviec

4th year CASE

It's easy to pass but not so easy to get good grades. I intend to start working this year(if it actually happens remains to be seen!)

StickyMcGinty

28064212 wrote:

To pass the other years (which have no effect on your final mark), a week of study (like ten hours a day, and proper study, not just looking at notes) before the exams is loads if you have any kind of aptitude for computers and a bit of enthusiasm.

if you fail a module or are compensated in 3 out of the 4 years, you cant get an honours degree, at least thats what i've been told!!

CA is hard, but do-able, and you get a savage degree at the end of it too!!

by the way, how are all the 1st year repeats goin for you lads - Cult, Rhyme and the like?? i heard maths was sh1t hard!

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VinnyL wrote:

if you fail a module or are compensated in 3 out of the 4 years, you cant get an honours degree, at least thats what i've been told!!

There's no mention of that in the exam regulations, sounds like bollox tbh. It is true that if you fail, repeat or compensate a module in a particular year, you can't get an honours award for that year ie. if you get compensated in one subject, the highest you can get overall (for that year) is a pass. Even if you got 100% in everything else.

drunkenfool

4th year business finishing intra in a couple of days...

thinking of a sarcastic comment for danger dave

so your doing nursing so you can nurse yourself during all the danger you get up to?

that was pathetic

Ste.phen

28064212 wrote:

There's no mention of that in the exam regulations, sounds like bollox tbh. It is true that if you fail, repeat or compensate a module in a particular year, you can't get an honours award for that year ie. if you get compensated in one subject, the highest you can get overall (for that year) is a pass. Even if you got 100% in everything else.

http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/derogations.shtml

If it's CA - look at http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/ec_derogations.shtml

CA (Day and Evening)
Students are allowed up to 2 exemptions and remain eligible for honours

Danger_Dave

drunkenfool wrote:

thinking of a sarcastic comment for danger dave

so your doing nursing so you can nurse yourself during all the danger you get up to?

that was pathetic

Your right that was pathetic, Try harder. Side note finished last repeat yedi ye di ye ! time to get drunk tonite !

Creature

3rd year Chemical & Pharmaceutical sciences. Depending on repeat exam results of course...

cotillion

Hopefully going into 4th year, SE.

1st year of CA is handy. Other years most of the subjects are easy to get a pass in. I had two repeats this year, and I was a retard to even have two repeats, I reckon, and that was only two repeats in 3 years, loads of people have a few every year.

CuLT

VinnyL wrote:

if you fail a module or are compensated in 3 out of the 4 years, you cant get an honours degree, at least thats what i've been told!!

CA is hard, but do-able, and you get a savage degree at the end of it too!!

by the way, how are all the 1st year repeats goin for you lads - Cult, Rhyme and the like?? i heard maths was sh1t hard!

Yeah, I clearly failed maths, fluffed it up completely, my original summer grade will be better.

It's not that the maths is all that hard, Clancy just never taught us how to do the sort of questions that appear in the paper. My own fault really, I should have attended more tutorials and availed of the learning centre. I did pass for the leaving cert, the bump up to honours level was a bit too much for me to sail through.

StickyMcGinty

cult one of the lads said in an email that he was gonna go up to clancy and say it was unfairly hard, might be worth a go?

StupidLikeAFox

Gonna do Mechatronics-1st yr, wish me luck, i hear its a tough course

CuLT

VinnyL wrote:

cult one of the lads said in an email that he was gonna go up to clancy and say it was unfairly hard, might be worth a go?

Might indeed, if I have to leave DCU, it'll be dragged kicking and screaming

I really, really want to stay in college. I won't be repeating or doing another course, can't afford it. Do not pass Go do not collect Degree. Straight to work.

c0rk3r

2nd year Chemical & Pharmaceutical science, weather permitting of course.

poskat

ColHol wrote:

Gonna do Mechatronics-1st yr, wish me luck, i hear its a tough course

mechatronics rawks ( am now third year myself)

just make sure you go to J.D's class ( electronic fundamentals), as he is a pain in the a***.

Lantis

Languages for International Communication (Japanese) - 2nd year

What's with the long name, anyway?

charba

final year accounting and finance. dreading it, cos its gonna be awful, and cos i'll have to leave DCU after it

StickyMcGinty

charba wrote:

final year accounting and finance. dreading it, cos its gonna be awful, and cos i'll have to leave DCU after it

do a masters!

i know a load a lads in your year, they all are thinkin bout doin masters