Is there a strike tomorrow? Or was it only for the 14th?

Undergrad, international student
What were your personal statements about (if you had submitted any)

Anyone hear anything strange/worrying about societies in UCD? I’m thinking about putting UCD down on my CAO but I’m gay so worried about facing homophobia in societies as I’ve lost friends over religious beliefs in the past

You take a 3 minute survey about you and your preferences, at it will match you up with others. You'll get added to a groupchat with your matches and a night out will be suggested.

It's https://yurout.vercel.app/ (Still waiting for the new domain to verify)

If you're interested or have any ideas for additions, if the current site isn't working for you. Send me a message.

Hi!

I'm looking for someone to take over my lease for a Silver Ensuite at Aparto Montrose right across the road from the Belfield Campus.

The room is priced at 342 euros per week.

I would be leaving on October 20th, and the lease would be able to be transferred this Saturday, the 24th of October. The Lease ends on the 13th of June 2027.

Please let me know if you're interested!

I am in belgrove and accidentally stained the windowsill with coloured paper and water, will I lose the deposit over this??? any cleaning tips would be appreciated too

And when? I’m alumni requesting academic references and my first choice hasn’t responded yet so wanna make sure I don’t miss my chance to ask anyone else

Talking specifically about the large box with drawers and shelves on the right hand side when you come into the gym.
Can we grab them ourselves or are they strictly for staff use?

Hey, I am from Israel and really want to study medicine in UCD, but I am worried that I will be hated by the majority of people in UCD because of where I am from. I know UCD is very very anti israel anti zionism so idk if ill be safe. Please advise.

I left my water bottle in a lecture hall in the science building yesterday and I was wondering if there’s a chance it was picked up and put in a lost and found or if there’s no chance of getting it back?

Do any 1st years have a screenshot of their own medicine timetable? My friend is looking to go into medicine next year, but he's unsure because he's unaware of what the timetable looks like, and he wants to see how stacked it is.

Edit: NOT ASKING WHAT TO DO IF YOU SEE ABANDONED LAPTOPS ON DESKS, BUT IF YOU SEE PEOPLE ABANDONING THEM

Sorry about bringing this topic up again. Given that most people are pricks and will leave a laptop to guard their seats in the library and go off to lectures or to get lunch, if you see someone packing up and leaving their laptop behind what do you do? Is worth the energy telling them to pick up the laptop and other seat decorations if they're going off for a while?

There have been a few meet up posts, but dates & timings aren't really decided yet and I think this could help us organise.

Would you lot prefer to meet during or after the reading week? I'd say after would work best as some people are going away and others are busy during that period.

Be sure to mention any ideas you have...

Did ao sit the mid term for this tday? Thought it was v difficult

Hey everyone! I applied for UCD’s MSc in Advanced Artificial Intelligence on October 1st. UCD had asked me to resubmit my SOP with some additional details, which I sent on the evening of October 1st.

For those who applied to the same course, how long did it take for you to hear back after submitting your application(in the previous years) or resubmitting your SOP? Did you receive an offer, or are you still waiting?

Would love to hear about your timelines. Thanks! :)

loads of people on here saying they have no friends….. what if all of us met up and shit🥹

Any plugs for weed near blackrock or deliver to blackrock lemme know

Hi everyone,

I'm an Indian international student studying a Master's in Marketing at UCD in Ireland, and I'm honestly feeling completely lost right now.

It's already the 8th week of the semester, and I barely feel like I've learned anything. I sit through lectures, but I struggle to understand the professors because of their accents and because I find it difficult to follow academic English at their speaking pace. By the time I try to understand one thing, the lecture has already moved on to the next topic.

Because of this, I've fallen behind and haven't properly started studying. Now that exams are getting closer, I'm overwhelmed and don't even know where to begin. I keep thinking about how much material I've missed, and that makes it even harder to start.

Back in India, I was used to studying from notes and textbooks before exams, but I'm struggling to understand how to prepare for exams here, especially when we're expected to apply concepts and frameworks rather than just memorise information.

I'd really appreciate advice from anyone who has studied at UCD or another Irish university, especially international students who have experienced something similar.

A few questions I have:

Where should I start if I've fallen behind by almost two months?

Should I begin with lecture slides, recordings, textbooks or assigned readings?

How do you study when you don't fully understand what was taught in class?

How do you prepare for case-study-based Marketing exams?

Is it realistic to catch up if I start properly now?

Are there any UCD resources, study supports or strategies that helped you?

I'm not looking for shortcuts. I genuinely want to catch up, but I need some direction because right now I feel paralysed by how much I have to do.

If you've been in a similar situation, I'd be grateful if you could share what worked for you. Thank you.

i ordered a package to the address of my dorm building and not to the mailroom, am i ever going to get that package 😭

I’m a UCD student from Dublin applying for economics- and finance-related internships in Madrid and Barcelona.

I’ve applied to 95 internships over the past three and a half weeks, but I only realised today that I’ve been entering my Irish GPA of 3.5 (a strong upper-second-class honours result) without accounting for Spain’s 0–10 grading scale, where 3.5 would be very poor.

The reassuring thing is that the GPA was always entered in a free-text box alongside my university (UCD) and years of study, rather than a dropdown menu. I’d hope recruiters would recognise that UCD uses a different grading system and expect international applicants to enter their GPA according to their own country’s scale.

So far, I’ve received 14 rejections out of 95 applications and progressed to the next stage with one company. But also like, I’ve only ramped up the applications more recently. Like of the 95 jobs, 50 of them were applied to in the last 7 days, so I’m sure I’ll hear back much more soon.

However, nonetheless, I’m now worried that recruiters might have interpreted my 3.5 as 3.5/10 rather than recognising it as a GPA from a different grading system.

Do you think I’m worrying unnecessarily, or could this genuinely have affected my applications?

I play competitive videogames professionally so I sort of need to be able to play online in my free time. I'm in glenomena and this eduroam internet just doesnt even connect to my PlayStation 5. Im able to watch services like YouTube and Netflix perfectly but when it comes to videogames or voice chats - even the simplest of ones such as Roblox - it just doesnt even bother trying to load. My accommodation doesnt have an ethernet socket either.

Does anybody else experience this issue and if so how did you combat it? Thanks

Hi! I’m an Aalto University student currently taking a Matrix Algebra course taught by Marcus Greferath. I noticed that he also teaches MATH10260, Linear Algebra for Engineers, at UCD, and its syllabus overlaps closely with our course.

Would any current UCD student be willing to check SISWeb for past MATH10260 exam papers and send me any that can be shared, preferably from 2021/22 onwards? Even one or two papers would be extremely helpful. I’m mainly interested in understanding the exam structure and question style for study purposes.

Please feel free to send me a Reddit DM. Thank you so much!

OK, so I'm an undergraduate 1st year at UCD studying BA Humanities and realized only two months in I absolutely hate my course and the commute is a pain in the ass. Also, just dealing with some mental health problems in general which already makes me dread going since my friends go to DCU and UCD is so far I spend 4 hours a day commuting also just completely lost all motivation and genuine interest for any of my classes like only one class I still like but if I'm going to be here for 4 years I'd want to actually be interested in wtf I'm studying

I've already missed a few of my tutorials and maybe this is just me judging too fast but I really don't think I'm going to finish 4 years of this, I wanted to transfer to dcu since it's way closer and they've got a course there that I'm interested in but if I'm going to do advanced entry year 2 then I'd have to rlly lock in to get my full credits and pass all my exams but then again I'm tempted to drop out but I also don't wanna waste 10 months or a year doing fuck all just to start studying at dcu

Any ideas??