Sorry, must have nodded off for a bit, there….

So, what has been happening in my life? Well I haven’t blogged anywhere in ages, for no apparent reason. New Years resolution, anyone?

A few weeks ago I headed to my only two open days; Trinity and UCD, both just a few days apart. As I’ve said before, I’m hoping to do Computer Science. If I’m honest, I was probably going to put Trinity as my first choice on the CAO anyway. The open days just sort of cemented that. I never really warmed to UCD at all; found it to be a very big campus and a bit of a concrete jungle. The guy showing us around didn’t exactly make the accomodation desirable, either. We passed by the Computer Science building and I asked if I could go in for a look, but I wasn’t allowed?! There wasn’t really anywhere to ask questions either, apart from the information stall. I don’t know, but I’ve always found those a bit useless. You queue up to speak to a lecturer, only one among possibly hundreds they will speak to, and its basically ask a question or let somebody else in. I never really have specific questions to ask about the course, I’d just like a bit of an overview. That’s why I liked UCD’s idea of there being students around during the Open Day to answer questions, but there didn;t seem to be anybody there that could talk to me about CS. I felt it was pretty much a waste of a trip to Dublin; I found out nothing new, got no insight into the CS course in UCD, and didn’t take a fancy to the campus at all.

The following Wednesday, I headed up to Trinity, hoping I’d have a better experience than UCD! Trinity was by no means small, either; took me a good while to get to grips with the place. They seemed to have a lot more lectures on the day than UCD. I downloaded a program for the day online and had all my lectures planned out! Everyone there was really nice and helpful, and the lecturers gave me their E-mails so that they could put me in contact with students in the course. There seemed to be an awful lot of interest in the course! Got a nice tour around the Computer Science building, aswell. I can see myself there! Much better experience, which was great as I needed to like Trinity! Now, just to nab that C3 in honours Maths…..

I had all my Christmas tests finished about a week before the break for Christmas, which was nice. Just waitng for results now.  Not sure if it was as productive as last year when we had the tests up until the break, though. Not that I’ll complain, I had to miss the last day of school as I was stuck in Dublin after PAUL MCCARTNEY! Gig of the year? Yes.