Last year, around this very time, a discovery was made by a friend of mine that I was sure would put an end to my hours of procrastination, and change the way I studied forever. It was called “Cold Turkey” and at the time, it was the most ingenious thing I had ever heard of. Cold Turkey is an app that blocks social media websites on your computer for a set amount of time. Since this original discovery, several other variations of such a programme have become available like SelfControl [...]
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The uncomfortably candid diary of a post-surgery patient
Six months ago I was waking up in Cappagh Hospital on Dublin’s north side. Disorientated, in pain and a little unsure as to what exactly had happened, I was whimpering because my brain couldn’t process thoughts to words. The injury, in journalistic terms, was a non-event. I like to tell girls in bars that I was trying to save a puppy who had wandered out onto a busy road, or that I was wrestling bears in Alaska like a beast. The truth is a small chap fell on my knee, [...]
Studenty Sunday: Book-Learnin’ Edition
Every week Roisin Peddle takes a look at the stories that made the headlines here at Studenty.me this week… We put on our mortar-boards here at Studenty Towers this week, which means only one thing… It’s coming towards the end of another academic year and all that much nearer exams. Here are ten to make you laugh and think this Sunday. 1. Speaking of exams, they can’t be avoided. (Unless you’re an Arts student, boom boom). Jane Kearns arms you with the A to Z of exams. 2. Ever get [...]
Future of USI fee campaign questioned
The Union of Students in Ireland recently held its annual congress in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway from the 2nd to the 5th of April. Congress, where delegates elect the next year’s national officer board and debate on motions and policy for the upcoming three years, is the main decision-making event of the USI’s calendar year. One of the most contentious debates of the Congress was on the proposed preferendum to change the USI’s stance on third level education.
Ireland’s drinking culture: Time for a change?
Yesterday was Good Friday, one of the two days of the year that the pubs in Ireland are shut. Regardless of the fact that you can drink the other 363 days of the year, some see this as an absolute disaster. I watched a TV3 news report on all the places where you can still get a drink- trains, boats with passenger licences. Do we really need to find loopholes? Can we not go one day without buying drink? On Thursday outside the coroner’s court in Cork, two heartbroken parents [...]
How to Survive:The Babysitters Club
There comes a time in every youngen’s life, when a friend will have that bit too much on a night out. It’s all fun and games at pre-drinks when everything seems fine. Things seem different two hours later however, when you find yourself wading through a river of piss to rescue your friend from a toilet-bed with an ironic Drink Aware stamp on your hand. There are many types of drunk friend – angry, emotional, violet, sick – sometimes all rolled into one. It takes great courage and loyalty to mind an overly [...]
How to Survive: The Friend Zone
The official definition of a friend is “a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard”. It is also slang for menstruation, as in when you have it, you’re not pregnant i.e. a friend. Sounds great right? But urbandictionary.com provides a meaning which sums up friendship if personal regard isn’t really all you have in mind, or if you aren’t a womb. – A friend is “one who you never sleep with. EVER”. The zone, as described by Ryan Reynolds in that movie of his, is a place [...]
How to Survive: The Virgin Diaries
They are out there folks – student virgins – shneakier than a shlippery shnake, fooling you that they are indeed just like everyone else. Nosexosaurus is a humble creature, often found roaming the computer labs or grazing in those interactive internet cafes one can play games in. In today’s world, the species is nearing extinction as Bebo stunnahs cause an increase in underage sex. Some of these v-people are who they are due to circumstance – never got the chance, “wasn’t ready”. Some people see it as a sin of some sort and resort to [...]
How to Survive: The Day the Students Stood Still
And so you did it, put your brain into overdrive, stopped playing Skyrim and crammed all night until your eyes bled (or near enough anyway). You made your way to the exam hall, bleary-eyed, to be greeted by a generously supplied Nutri-Grain bar (the source of DCU students’ brain power). After paper-clipping a fiver and a photo of your naked self to your booklet, the games began. After a ridiculously long month off, the time has arrived and a result hath come. Two situations will undoubtedly arise tomorrow – either 1) you’ll be [...]
Renewed appeal for missing DCU student, Paul Bunbury
Whitehall Garda Station are re-appealing to the public for information regarding missing DCU student, Paul Bunbury. Paul was last seen in the vicinity of the O2 arena at 18:20pm on the 2nd February. He has long brown hair, brown eyes, is of thin build and is 5′ 10″ in height. He was last spotted wearing a grey jacket, blue jeans and a blue t- shirt. Family and friends are appealing to anyone who may know of Paul’s whereabouts or have any information regarding his movement since he was last seen, to contact Whitehall [...]
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