Freshers Week????

Yazamalainia · 06-09-2007 09:13PM #1

hey,

Could someone maybe tell me what happens during freshers week besides all of the academic based stuff, i can't find it anywhere!!

thanks (woo trinity)

dan719 · 06-09-2007 09:25PM

Societies compete for your membership and everyone gets roaring drunk.

After that everyone gets roaring drunk again.

And again.

And again.

You get the idea.

Yazamalainia · 06-09-2007 09:35PM

well i'd expect nothing less!!
but i mean any specific events, or are we all gona drink out of a trough on front of the campanile?? although either sounds tempting...

ion c · 06-09-2007 09:40PM

as dan said its all about drinking and giving your money to societies! there are generally events run every night, in the evening things like gigs, comedy etc and at night you've got big parties by both ents and the big socs like the hist, phil and dubes (not the shoes! although might as well be! haha!

). You'll get a weekplanner in your intropack to trinity with all the events in it.
Hope this helps! make sure you join the paintball soc! they are a great bunch of guys!

Thirdfox · 06-09-2007 09:44PM

when is it actually? (returning senior freshman back from a year off books)...

dan719 · 06-09-2007 09:45PM

ion c wrote:

as dan said its all about drinking and giving your money to societies! there are generally events run every night, in the evening things like gigs, comedy etc and at night you've got big parties by both ents and the big socs like the hist, phil and dubes (not the shoes! although might as well be! haha! ). You'll get a weekplanner in your intropack to trinity with all the events in it.
Hope this helps! make sure you join the paintball soc! they are a great bunch of guys!

I do love that the Dublin university business and economic society call themselves the dubes- they really do ask for abuse sometimes. I do however like the shoes though!:D

sd123 · 06-09-2007 10:09PM

Thirdfox wrote:

when is it actually? (returning senior freshman back from a year off books)...

ye, can someone tell me when it starts plz :cool:

Kurtosis · 06-09-2007 10:22PM

October 1st

the flananator · 06-09-2007 10:26PM

Where does evryone drink? The student bar?

Nehpets · 07-09-2007 01:00AM

This drinking sounds good!

sd123 · 07-09-2007 01:19AM

Nehpets wrote:

This drinking sounds good!

seconded.... twice

Nehpets · 07-09-2007 01:53AM

I'll third it aswell

paperclip · 07-09-2007 03:30AM

Did you get the Fresher's Week pack yet?

Just curious- what's the front cover of the Publications Pamphlet like?

the flananator · 07-09-2007 12:08PM

Just to reitterate...Where does everyone drink? On campus?

xeduCat · 07-09-2007 12:45PM

There are 15,000 students here (including postgrad, part-time etc). We do not all drink in the same place. In fact, there is just one bar inside the campus*, the Pavilion ("Pav") which is small (the indoors) and popular with some people, but by no means is the central gathering place for students (except on warm days when people drink outdoors, but still you're talking about a subset). Trinity is very different in that regard to other campuses (both urban and rural) where the only bar is the on-campus bar and others are 30 mins walk away.

Do be assured, though, that if alcohol is your medicine, it is prescribed in hundreds of city centre bars within five minutes walk.

* there is another establishment, the Lincoln Inn which is on Trinity land but operated by a tenant, with access from the street only. As it's only just re-opening, it's hard to tell whether it will be quite studenty - I doubt it and they are not marketing it as such that I can see.

Ron DMC · 07-09-2007 01:29PM

xeduCat wrote:

* there is another establishment, the Lincoln Inn which is on Trinity land but operated by a tenant, with access from the street only. As it's only just re-opening, it's hard to tell whether it will be quite studenty - I doubt it and they are not marketing it as such that I can see.

Certainly not very studenty at all.
It's all plush and fancy and stuff, and the prices aren't even anywhere close to being reasonable. Pricewise think more along the lines of Café en Seine than Buttery.

xeduCat · 07-09-2007 02:00PM

Well yes. Just look at the owners: http://www.thomasreadgroup.com/

In their defence they just entered into the rental agreement with Trinity under normal business conditions, there wasn't any stipulation about price or market or anything - in this case TCD is just the landlord collecting the rent and it's up to the TRG to make their money the way they want to. (FWIW I wouldn't have done it this way but it was agreed even at tender stage to do it as a straightforward commercial arrangement).

Nehpets · 07-09-2007 03:07PM

Does the Pav have student friendly prices?

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI · 07-09-2007 03:17PM

Yep

I was never one for the super cheap beer, but they have some super ridiculous deal on cans of Bavaria, don't know what it is.

ApeXaviour · 07-09-2007 05:18PM

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI wrote:

but they have some super ridiculous deal on cans of Bavaria, don't know what it is.

4 for €8 last time I checked. Hardly a super deal, but good enough considering it's 500mls of half decent (as decent as any international brand lager gets tbh) beer purchased in a licensed drinking establishment.

M450 · 07-09-2007 11:37PM

Dont you worry... bavaria will become your primary choice in drink soon enough... give it a week or 2 and you'll be ditchin the millers and heinekens for it!!

I live on it!

Has any1 sampled the new mega packs? 8 for €9... deadly deal! I jus spotted it last week

Borneo Fnctn · 08-09-2007 12:07AM

M450 wrote:

Has any1 sampled the new mega packs? 8 for €9... deadly deal! I jus spotted it last week

YES! It tastes... the same as always.

Nehpets · 08-09-2007 12:45AM

Do we get free stuff at freshers' week?

08-09-2007 12:51AM

Bucketloads of it. With the possibility of free booze.

Nehpets · 08-09-2007 12:53AM

Deadly.

M450 · 09-09-2007 11:07PM

Remember last freshers week they clamped down on drinking on campus with the societies... dont know what the rule actually was... but it was a pile of piss altogether!!

scengi · 10-09-2007 11:41PM

M450 wrote:

Remember last freshers week they clamped down on drinking on campus with the societies... dont know what the rule actually was... but it was a pile of piss altogether!!

Alcohol cannot be available to students(from societies) before 6pm any day. also kegs are banned completely. possibility of a bar in the marquee that will be set up in fellows square during freshers week though....

shay_562 · 11-09-2007 12:07AM

also kegs are banned completely

Really? Was that in place last year, or is it new this year? 'Cause if the former, it's not enforced too strictly (gave out beers from a keg at least three nights during FW last year), and if the latter, where did you hear about it?

Chardee MacDennis · 11-09-2007 01:41AM

why are kegs banned? is there a specific reasoning behind this?

i know you cant have kegs in some places round college due to damaging floors while moving them.

Pugwash · 11-09-2007 02:50AM

double post oopsy

Pugwash · 11-09-2007 02:56AM

Regarding kegs: it's in the college alcohol policy, which, strictly speaking is pretty much a guideline for the lack of attempt at enforcement that's used.

It basically says no kegs on what one could only presume is the basis that a college reception with a keg could be seen as a "kegger" a la american teen films.

bit ridiculous considering the fact that any society large enough to get kegs would hardly let someone do a kegstand or whatever if there's a room of 100 or more people at a reception.

And if the JD thinks that it would or even could happen, she and the rest of the panel who compiled the policy, are completely out of touch.

policy's on the web somewhere.

also, no one, be they club/soc,etc can have a reception before 6 anytime during the year. I'm not sure if that is in the policy itself but afaik, if you seek permission for one pre six you'll get shot down.

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