Outsiders at Freshers Week

duffermad · 31-08-2005 12:13am #1

One of my best friends is the only one of our group of about 10 friends not going to UCD. He's going to trinners and doesn't start for a while. Would it be easy for him to hang around with us a lot in freshers week...i mean are most activities based around the student bar and would he find it hard to get in (no Student card) or is it a free-for-all??

And i know about not being cliquey and making new friends etc. but i want to know anyway

Thanks

irlrobins · 31-08-2005 12:15am

well the only place where u might get hassle is the student bar. But i reckon you could blag ur way in. Having valid ID would def help..

zap · 31-08-2005 5:28am

just bring age card and say u lost ur stu card already

pigeonbutler · 31-08-2005 2:30pm

Can just imagine the boys on the door, muttering "Feckin eejit" as they let him in with that excuse.

Lisapeep · 31-08-2005 11:57pm

For the whole month of September, outsiders can say "I haven't gotten my student card yet!" at the door to the student bar. Lots of actual UCD students don't actually get their card for ages so they usually accept that as an excuse. Apart from that, your friend will be able to hang around with you everywhere else and go to the Fresher's Ball and other events etc.

Blush_01 · 01-09-2005 4:02pm

You may even corrupt his young mind with the ways of the concrete!

You can get away with almost anything on freshers week.

reb_f · 07-09-2005 5:03pm

As a 1st startin UCD, wot exactly is d story with freshers week? I no der is a freshers ball and u join all d societies, wot else is goin on???

Jonny Arson · 07-09-2005 6:03pm

reb_f wrote:

As a 1st startin UCD, wot exactly is d story with freshers week? I no der is a freshers ball and u join all d societies, wot else is goin on???

From what I remember last year not much else. Some drinking games in the bar and maybe the iron stomach but apart from them thats it really. IMO Freshers week last year was a HUGE letdown and is a completely overrated week.

SU, SU......... rag week please!

ferdi · 07-09-2005 6:10pm

duffermad wrote:

is it a free-for-all??

yes.

however it is also crap.

get **** faced, its the only way.

arbeitsscheuer · 07-09-2005 7:17pm

ferdi wrote:

get **** faced, its the only way.

This advice also applies to the rest of the academic year btw.

Honours, Pass, or Fail, I intend to get hammered.

Dinxminx · 09-09-2005 4:40pm

Sorry for sounding naive but.... what's rag week?

arbeitsscheuer · 09-09-2005 7:00pm

Raise A Grand week.

A lot of stuff put on for special causes or something.

AFAIK we didn't actually have one last year...

Blush_01 · 09-09-2005 9:50pm

That's because UCD doesn't. Instead we have faculty days, which are usually held on thursdays in February (in Arts and Science anyway). Last year we experiemnted with October. Experiment = failure. Therefore, no more October Arts Days. That was a wasted summer and really crap weather.

Science traditionally raises the most money and gets huge participation from it's students. Some cynical people attribute this to the tactics in the Science Day rulebook of holding an "obligatory exam preparation" lecture at lunch-time for freshers, where they get herded into a lecture theatre, shown pictures of dying children and then are told they can sign up to help on their way out. I guess it's because of the Jock Walk. I mean, cynicism is SO last year.

Arts students are mainly too lazy to get involved. Although, despite the dire weather, the majority of our bucket collectors turned up this year. *round of applause for them*. Then Arts Day gets slated as being ****, because it didn't come to students, in their homes. Figures, huh?

arbeitsscheuer · 09-09-2005 9:56pm

Blush_01 wrote:

That's because UCD doesn't.

Only since we were in first yr darlin. 2002/2003 saw UCD having its last RAG week, in February I think it was.

Gettin' rid of it was a BIG mistake. Faculty Days?
Don't make me laugh.

jellie · 09-09-2005 9:59pm

Blush_01 wrote:

That's because UCD doesn't. Instead we have faculty days, which are usually held on thursdays in February (in Arts and Science anyway).

science day is usually good fun

aww no more science day for me

Blush_01 · 09-09-2005 10:31pm

Ooh, can we blame Sherry and Cashman? Can they be the scapegoats? PWEEEEZE?

MagicBusDriver · 11-09-2005 3:56pm

When I was in first year a friend of mine from Trinity went to loads of things all year, you just need any sort of proper ID and pretent you're in UCD.
Sure most of last year I had no student card and it was never a problem.

Anto Kelly (new SU ents officer) has loads of stuff lined up for this year, live music, comedy etc. Also check out the Fresher's Festival this year, looks like fun.

The societies to check out this year (imo) are B&L (good line up of events), EngSoc (EngBall and the screwBall are always good!)& RetroSoc (Dance off!!).. and of course C&E, L&H etc for a €2 lunch during fresher's week!!

Slippers · 11-09-2005 4:29pm

Faculty days...

Will there be college days now that there are no more faculties?

http://www.ucd.ie/colleges.htm

Liesia · 12-09-2005 9:57am

You can get your friend into the student bar as each student is allowed a guest anyway. To do this you must give the door men your student i.d as security that your friend isn't going to cause trouble and they give it back when you leave as long as your friend hasn't been causing hassle (i.e. fighting is about all)

And its not us (old) Art students fault Arts day is always explained to us as a day off!!!!!

Outsiders at Freshers Week

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