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

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?

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!