Introduce Yourself

singloud

Names Cian, living in Belgium and am returning to Ireland after living abroad for the past 12 years(England and Belgium) I'm into punk,ska, caffeine and TV. Play bass.
I'll be moving to Galway in about 4-6 weeks. Probably gonna do History,sociology and politics and law in an Arts degree.
Sure it'll be great fun. Galway is quite a place

Conqueror

singloud wrote:

Probably gonna do History,sociology and politics in an Arts degree.

If you end up doing these for your degree, you're in for a relaxed time.

Just finished my B.A. (in History and Soc & Pol), and will hopefully be starting a Masters in September.

singloud

Nice,I'm arriving in Galway next week, looking forward to starting uni

TEH REAL CDP

Just finished 3rd Science (Undenominated), heading into 4th yr Biochemistry.

Squeeonline

Looks like i'll be going into first year biotech in a couple of weeks. Got the points i needed, 515 when i only need 315 :cool:

All i have to do now is sort out accomm.
Also i didnt see anyone else doing biotech post here. Is there a reason for that?

mise19

risaphoenix wrote:

My name's Meg, Im starting as a first year next fall at NUI Galway. Im from the US so it should be interesting.

I think I'm double majoring in Archaeology/Celtic Civilizations, but im still trying to decide on the other two areas for my first year.

i'm in 1 st year arts

thinking of doing celtic civilisations, anyone know if it's any good?

ZorbaTehZ

Doing foundation-year Medicine/Pre-med, whatever ya want to call it.

Berdien

Hi there,

1st semester International Erasmus student, originally from The Netherlands (rijksuniversiteit Groningen).
Major at home is communication, at the NUIG it's basically everything, English, History, Archaeology and Celtic Civilization
Place of residence is Corrib Village

Conqueror

mise19 wrote:

thinking of doing celtic civilisations, anyone know if it's any good?

It sucks. Boring, long-winded, repetitive.

BennyMini

I'm a third year Arts student. At the moment the place is wrecking my head. There's non stop talk of post grad's extra. I do soc&pol and psychological studies. I want to do the higher dip in Psy, just to bide my time before the enlightenment of what to do next strikes!

Enjoy your time. All though it gets stressful it is the best experience of my life.:p

leninbenjamin

hmmm been on boards for ages and never bothered to notice this place...

hi i'm a 3rd arts as well, although pretty pissed off with the place by now. my departments are mind bogglingly disorganised, getting my degree has just been a shambles at times.... think wrong papers been given in the exams, lecturers positions not being filled until a few weeks into term, delay in being assigned final year projects, **** like that...

anyway i'm probably not the only one with horror stories of the place so ill just
/rant.

Lockstep

Arts is badly organised.
Soc and Pol has people sitting on the floor and History has been double booked twice.

Twin Lance

Arts is badly organised.
Soc and Pol has people sitting on the floor and History has been double booked twice.

Heh just wait till 2nd year where they throw you into classrooms with 5 or 6 other people for the year, most of whom youve tried on in some shape or form during numerous nights out over the past few months
2nd Arts with History and Classics ftw!

the-island-man

im in 2nd elec & comp engineering, very hard and a lot of hours!:o

oneofakind32

the-island-man wrote: »

im in 2nd elec & comp engineering, very hard and a lot of hours!:o

getting home to the island must put alot of pressure on you as well steve

moomoo2007

Ive just finished arts did soc and pol and archaeology and am taking a yr out as have no idea what to do with myself how heck ru meant to know.

sekelly

3rd year BIS, On placement in Lionbridge...We build Massive bridges for lions, great craic!

Tar.Aldarion

4th year Electronic and Computer Engineering now. Soon twill all be over. Maybe PHD, who knows...

big_show

same as Tar, 'cept im going working! em.. yippee?

BrowneusMaximus

1st year excercise health and leisure.

PauricTheLodger

Hey There, First IT here.

DEmeant0r

2 more exams and I'm outta here!!!!! 4th year IT btw.

moomoo2007 wrote: »

Ive just finished arts did soc and pol and archaeology and am taking a yr out as have no idea what to do with myself how heck ru meant to know.

Maybe if ya didn't do such a useless degree ya would have a clue

Jaydock

Just finished 2nd year of law.

Bijoux

Just finished first year of Physics with Medical Physics, cant wait to go back in September! Miss Galway so much!

Takk

Bijoux wrote: »

Just finished first year of Physics with Medical Physics, cant wait to go back in September! Miss Galway so much!

Welcome!

Yes, September, bring it on. We shall recommence the bitter rivalry between the lowly Med. Physicists and the vastly superior Experimentalists.

Bijoux

Dynamo Kev wrote: »

Welcome!

Yes, September, bring it on. We shall recommence the bitter rivalry between the lowly Med. Physicists and the vastly superior Experimentalists.

Majority rules, there's more of us then there are of you!!!
Plus, I get to dissect a cadaver next year, you wont be doing anything as cool as that! :rolleyes:

Ah I've missed this never ending argument!

Takk

Bijoux wrote: »

Majority rules, there's more of us then there are of you!!!

Quality, not quantity

Carsinian Thau

Bijoux wrote: »

Majority rules, there's more of us then there are of you!!!
Plus, I get to dissect a cadaver next year, you wont be doing anything as cool as that!

Are there really more med physicists than experimentalists?

Btw, when you say dissect a cadaver do you mean actually dissect one (using a scalpel) or do you get to look at a dissection while it takes place?

the-island-man

Going into 3rd Electronic and Comp Eng, have to say its interesting but the hours suck ...... big time!:(

nycman

I'm going into the BCL yee haw!

Robmeister

First year Arts student here from waterford! Go on Galway!

iAmMine

First Year BIS....should be 3rd year Information Technology...disgusted!!

Caliden

Finished 3 years of civil in gmit and now doing a post grad in software design and development (in a proper college AM I RIGHT??)
Lovin it so far

ZorbaTehZ

Caliden wrote: »

(in a proper college AM I RIGHT??)

Well, I've got a bunch of apathetic, imbeciles running my course so I'm inclined to disagree.

Bijoux

Carsinian Thau wrote: »

Are there really more med physicists than experimentalists?

Btw, when you say dissect a cadaver do you mean actually dissect one (using a scalpel) or do you get to look at a dissection while it takes place?

Scalpel.


And yes, there are more of us.....:D

Shacklebolt

Robmeister wrote: »

First year Arts student here from waterford! Go on Galway!

Are you the lad whos obsessed with becoming student union president?

Asryania

I'm an MA in Writing student and like blues piano and crazy cat ladies. I think swans are evil.

cianl1

2nd Science student here

biochem, chemistry and physiology if anyone's interested

thinking of going for chemistry as the degree

two things:

yes, i am single

and yes, i am a complete gentleman :eek:

Ceartgoleor

LLB student, from Dublin

subnation

Hopefully gonna be a not so mature student this sept in NUIG. M_nus fan.

QueenOfLeon

ZorbaTehZ wrote: »

Well, I've got a bunch of apathetic, imbeciles running my course so I'm inclined to disagree.

Emm...you in medicine? Hope u dont mean the course is bad

Bijoux

cianl1 wrote: »

2nd Science student here

biochem, chemistry and physiology if anyone's interested

thinking of going for chemistry as the degree

two things:

yes, i am single

and yes, i am a complete gentleman :eek:

Ouch, biochem.....had enough of that in first year! :pac:

da_shivsta

first arts with womens studies just about to fail deferred xmas exams.... and get results for my semester 2's roll on 4pm

loveissucide

Just completed First Arts,doing History and Philosophy next year.Roll on September.

gonein20secs

JIZZLORD wrote: »

i'm 1st year experimental physics. i'm bored....

to be honest i hated exp. physics but lucky enuf for me i was doing general sci so i move away from that area...:rolleyes:

DaithiS

1st Arts....
Yup, you guessed it, I'm now an alcoholic

siobhanmcgg

Just finished second arts- english and history, more into the clubs and socs than the course most of the tym!:p

Spanglished

Just finished 2nd Arts, French and Spanish. Heading on Erasmus to Spain in Septmeber, will miss NUIG and all the banter that comes with it!

poisonated

you do french and spanish...do you have 2 erasmus years or do you get a choice between the 2 countries?

Spanglished

Well, I took up Spanish at beginner level when I started first year and had Leaving Cert French. You have a choice which country you want to go to, but you cannot split your Erasmus (i.e spend half a year in France and the other half in Spain).
So they normally recommend you to go to Spain, that said if you REALLY wanted to go to France they'd let you, no problem.

But the catch is, the French department have a regulation that you need to spend at least 10 weeks in France if you're no doing Erasmus there, so that's during your summer holidays.
The French department give you no help whatsoever in deciding what to do during those ten weeks. So another girl on my course and I decided to go to Montpellier for the summer and try to get a job, no luck so far, it seems there's a big time recession here too
Although I provisionally booked a French course here before I came, so looks like I might end up doing that! Grr, French department being so unhelpful!:mad: