Let’s not lie. There is nothing worse than end of year exams. The stress, the Red Bull-induced anxiety attacks, the cramming, the crying – it’s a nasty space in time. If you’re anything like yours truly, any sense of self-respect goes out the window. Showers are replaced with wet wipes, pyjamas slowly creep their way into your daywear and the only thing that gets you out of bed in the morning is a bottle of Lucozade, four Berocca and the faint hope that you might get run over by a [...]
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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 [...]
Are you ready? 24-hour live DCUTV
DCU shall take over Aer TV.ie tomorrow as they attempt to host a 24 Hour Live Broadcast, at 8pm tomorrow evening. All shows to be aired throughout the marathon have been made by DCU students and will include DCU’s own Apprentice, Babestation and The Late Late Show. Last year the 24-Hour Broadcast raised over €2000, but this year’s team are planning to at least double that figure, all in aid of Temple Street Children’s Hospital. Throughout the broadcast there will be various ways to donate via text and the internet. Spar on [...]
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 [...]
What the hell is a ‘fiscal compact’?
Nearly two weeks ago, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny announced the date for the upcoming referendum on the EU fiscal compact treaty. It’ll be May 31, a Thursday, always an inconvenient day for students. It’s fair to say that most of the talk around the referendum is like double-dutch to those of us without degrees in economics. So what exactly are we voting on next month? What is a ‘fiscal compact’? Good question. The fiscal compact is basically a name for the treaty which was signed by all EU nations apart [...]
Down and out in Sleep & Finance
I’ve noticed that people like to start self-help articles with the wonderful phrase “a wise man once said.” I’d love to do that here, but unfortunately I’m not entirely sure any wise man has ever, or would ever say anything that would serve as a conveniently appropriate introductory anecdote to this article. Despite this, I really do love that phrase, so with some minor adjustments, here it goes. A wise man may have at one point said and even if he didn’t, I’m saying it now: Don’t start messing up [...]
International students please
About 120 million years ago, as a result of those interesting tectonic plate movements we all became familiar with in first year geography, Ireland broke off from mainland Europe; our first statement of independence at all costs. Since that historic day, we have been an island. A wonderful community engaging in mild incest and generally oblivious to such things as croissants and mayonnaise until relatively recently; the Irish are a people apart. Unfortunately, this isolation is spelling bad news for our universities. The Higher Education Authority (HEA) has recently published [...]
Guide to social etiquette: Shopping
Shopping. Loved by women, hated by men, despised by Eskimos. Whether you’re one of those crazy people who compulsively buys everything they see from late night TV3 infomercials (the WonderBra was always my personal favourite), or whether you can afford to send Arts graduate students to do all of your shopping, it affects us all on a daily basis. Much like alcohol. Or being insanely lucky and winning €1 million from some Uruguayan porno site once you send your bank details. If you need some help, too bad. I don’t [...]
Canadian delegation to recruit 80,000 Irish workers
This week will see a delegation from western Canada arrive on Irish soil in an effort to recruit thousands of workers for the construction industry and related trades. It is expected that 335,000 job opportunities will develop between now and 2014. Places will open up for carpenters, electricians, welders, plumbers, heavy equipment operators and millwrights in British Canada and Alberta. This is good news for over 6,000 engineering students who will be in search of a place of work after their final year, as 2006 saw 20% of engineer graduates [...]
UCD Law Ball – Successful ad campaign goes viral
The UCD Law Society have come up with a novel, and successful way to promote their upcoming Ball. The students, with the professional help of the creators of Marryokes.com, have created a promotional video which has achieved unprecedented success. Studenty talked to Ciara Hickey-Johnson about the advertising campaign, “The video is a promo for our ball and was intended to be played before lectures and to be circulated via social media sites. We recorded it last Tuesday in the UCD Law School at Roebuck Castle, and we got some of [...]
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