Comments on: Back to School #1 http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/08/01/back-to-school-1/ Noli nothis permittere te terere Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:24:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Primal Sneeze http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/08/01/back-to-school-1/comment-page-1/#comment-991 Primal Sneeze Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:39:27 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/?p=175#comment-991 A Chainteoir - I was reading similar in the Irish Independent Careers supplement yesterday. Very interesting.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('991','Primal Sneeze'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> A Chainteoir – I was reading similar in the Irish Independent Careers supplement yesterday. Very interesting.
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]]> By: An Cainteoir Dóchais http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/08/01/back-to-school-1/comment-page-1/#comment-981 An Cainteoir Dóchais Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:15:03 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/?p=175#comment-981 By the way, I've just heard that even though your references are supposed to be in confidence and you are not to see them, you can still claim to have a look at them under the Freedom of Information Act. I think that's the first thing I'll do after registering ;-)<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('981','An Cainteoir Dóchais'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> By the way, I’ve just heard that even though your references are supposed to be in confidence and you are not to see them, you can still claim to have a look at them under the Freedom of Information Act. I think that’s the first thing I’ll do after registering ;-)
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]]> By: Primal Sneeze http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/08/01/back-to-school-1/comment-page-1/#comment-979 Primal Sneeze Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:57:37 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/?p=175#comment-979 Annie - I remember well your post about Peter and his influence on you. Losing documents is an art form with these folks. Maybe Rosie will enlighten us someday as to how it's done. You'll do great on the course and enjoy every minute of it. Being a little older and studying something you love makes a massive difference. I can guarantee that you'll work 40 times harder and won't even notice you're doing so.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('979','Primal Sneeze'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Annie – I remember well your post about Peter and his influence on you.

Losing documents is an art form with these folks. Maybe Rosie will enlighten us someday as to how it’s done.

You’ll do great on the course and enjoy every minute of it. Being a little older and studying something you love makes a massive difference. I can guarantee that you’ll work 40 times harder and won’t even notice you’re doing so.

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]]> By: Annie Rhiannon http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/08/01/back-to-school-1/comment-page-1/#comment-978 Annie Rhiannon Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:17:27 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/?p=175#comment-978 I got a reference from my old tutor Peter Prendergast, who is a renowned Welsh landsape painter. A few weeks later he died, which I was pretty sad about. UCD lost the reference, of course, and I'll never know what he wrote about me. I just got an email from him saying "I will do my best for you Annie". I'm pretty pissed off about it, especially because they said it "never arrived". It must have done because another old tutor sent one too and that "never arrived" either, so he had to do it all again. On the upside, I am very much looking forward to starting the course. It'll be great just to be with other students again. I'm going to work 20 times harder than I did on my degree. Going to make the best of it all, despite any shoddy admin.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('978','Annie Rhiannon'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> I got a reference from my old tutor Peter Prendergast, who is a renowned Welsh landsape painter. A few weeks later he died, which I was pretty sad about.

UCD lost the reference, of course, and I’ll never know what he wrote about me. I just got an email from him saying “I will do my best for you Annie”. I’m pretty pissed off about it, especially because they said it “never arrived”. It must have done because another old tutor sent one too and that “never arrived” either, so he had to do it all again.

On the upside, I am very much looking forward to starting the course. It’ll be great just to be with other students again. I’m going to work 20 times harder than I did on my degree. Going to make the best of it all, despite any shoddy admin.

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]]> By: Primal Sneeze http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/08/01/back-to-school-1/comment-page-1/#comment-976 Primal Sneeze Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:25:10 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/?p=175#comment-976 A Chainteoir - Ha! Ha! You got them with the photo. I would have been tempted to send one on the dog to see if they noticed. Best of luck with the masters. Medbh - Sorry, I mean Dr. Medbh. Yes, I know how depressing that is. I'll say more on this in <i>Back to School #3</i> (or 4. Maybe 5). Rosie - Work for them? Allah forbid I ever have to! Or should that be Onan seeing as they are all wankers? As is shown by their mugshot collection.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('976','Primal Sneeze'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> A Chainteoir – Ha! Ha! You got them with the photo. I would have been tempted to send one on the dog to see if they noticed. Best of luck with the masters.

Medbh – Sorry, I mean Dr. Medbh. Yes, I know how depressing that is. I’ll say more on this in Back to School #3 (or 4. Maybe 5).

Rosie – Work for them? Allah forbid I ever have to! Or should that be Onan seeing as they are all wankers? As is shown by their mugshot collection.

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]]> By: Rosie http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/08/01/back-to-school-1/comment-page-1/#comment-975 Rosie Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:55:09 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/?p=175#comment-975 You think applying to one of these venerable institutions is bad... Try working for them. Re the passport photos, the admissions office in <strike>DIT</strike> the venerable institution that pays for my beer collect them for their own amusement. It seems the box on our forms is for a college stamp, but being the size and shape it is, people naturally assume they need to attach a mugshot. rather than send em back, they tack them to the wall in the office, for decoration.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('975','Rosie'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> You think applying to one of these venerable institutions is bad… Try working for them.

Re the passport photos, the admissions office in DIT the venerable institution that pays for my beer collect them for their own amusement. It seems the box on our forms is for a college stamp, but being the size and shape it is, people naturally assume they need to attach a mugshot. rather than send em back, they tack them to the wall in the office, for decoration.

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]]> By: Medbh http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/08/01/back-to-school-1/comment-page-1/#comment-974 Medbh Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:36:12 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/?p=175#comment-974 Having just earned a Ph.D., I'm all too well acquainted with the endless forms and paperwork that accompanies graduate education. The best part is that I didn't get even ONE interview for a teaching post here. I slaved for 5 years and failed to get a job at the end of it. You have no idea how depressing that it.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('974','Medbh'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Having just earned a Ph.D., I’m all too well acquainted with the endless forms and paperwork that accompanies graduate education. The best part is that I didn’t get even ONE interview for a teaching post here. I slaved for 5 years and failed to get a job at the end of it. You have no idea how depressing that it.
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]]> By: An Cainteoir Dóchais http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/08/01/back-to-school-1/comment-page-1/#comment-973 An Cainteoir Dóchais Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:09:55 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/?p=175#comment-973 As a matter of fact I am going through the same experience right now. I'm starting my Master's later this year at one of your country's respectable third-level institutions, and I have to say that the amount of confusing bureaucracy you need to wade through <i>to even get to the start</i> (!) is daunting. Funny thing, the application form I had to fill in had this caption in the photo box: <b>Fix your passport photo here. The photo must not be larger than this box and of high quality.</b> I had some trouble finding a photo that wasn't of hight quality but I must have gotten it right because they did accept me.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('973','An Cainteoir Dóchais'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> As a matter of fact I am going through the same experience right now. I’m starting my Master’s later this year at one of your country’s respectable third-level institutions, and I have to say that the amount of confusing bureaucracy you need to wade through to even get to the start (!) is daunting.

Funny thing, the application form I had to fill in had this caption in the photo box: Fix your passport photo here. The photo must not be larger than this box and of high quality. I had some trouble finding a photo that wasn’t of hight quality but I must have gotten it right because they did accept me.

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