I don’t need to speak to counseling, I need accommodation. I need to not be sleeping on the floor of my friends room. Stop telling us all to speak to counseling. This is not on us, this is on you accepting students with nowhere to house them in Galway. This is on you.
Heard two girls in bialann today debating whether to get a bus home to Donegal or buy a tent to find somewhere to camp for tonight.
Seriously? Galway is NOT a safe place for two girls to be sleeping rough. How is a bigger deal not being made about this?
I’ve been to college everyday this year but I also do watch the online lectures when I’m studying because it’s really handy to be able to hear the lecturer explain something again, especially because my course is all maths. We’re not lazy for wanting to keep recorded lectures
sat beside this guy in the library today.... he had headphones on, was doing a mock exam (I think) and crying at the same time, his copy was literally wet with tears. god bless science students
I have nowhere to live. I can’t attend lectures traveling from Cork everyday. The only help offered by the student advisor was to talk to someone in counseling. They’re acting like I have mental health issues. I have NUIG issues. They’re fucking up my life. Just do online lecture
Lads it’s so close to Summer just imagine yourself in the garden with your best mates, sipping a pint, all exams done , listening to tunes. Push hard through all these exams and assignments and it will be so worth it. We can do this!!
university is still hugely classist and even though they dont explicitly turn away working class students any more they dont adapt to the fact that these students need to work to survive, the upper class dont have this issue
We’re an all-guys house and for whatever reason it’s become a thing to cuddle on the couch while watching TV. Yes it’s unusual, but it has totally done wonders to my well-being. Fuck stereotypes.
Nearly time for another round of “Can’t wait for this semester. Gonna get right on top of everything from day one and get first honours in every module. There is no conceivable way for me to end up having a nervous breakdown in the middle of November.”
What Galway is really missing isn't more housing, or cheaper student fees. It's a gay spar. I feel like a gay spar in the city would solve a lot of the city's problems
Unless you think it's possible to build thousands of new apartments over the weekend recorded lectures would help much more with accommodation right now.
I'm the girl in the red yoga pants, genuinely. It would be appreciated if you didn't perceive me. I don't want to be commented about. I just wanna study.
Absolute disgrace that an NUIG lecturer would use Ashling Murphy as a hypothetical scenario when discussing provocation. For anyone wondering, provocation is basically where someone is murdered because they provoked their murderer. Lecturer should be ashamed. Disgusting.
Petition for them to make sult like a wetherspoons where u order from an app to your table, cos fuck me you’d be waiting at the bar a year and a half for a pint
Re: masks "I can go to a pub without one, why not a lecture?" It's because immunocompromised people can choose not to go to the pub, but not going to college will harm their education. It's a consideration for other people, not for yourself. That's the idea at least.
People I know who used online classes: couldn't get accommodation, have autism adhd, grieving friend who killed themselves, covid, mental illness, chronic illness, short term physical illness etc. It helps so many why ru so bitter
They should have one of those signs outside the reading room like they do for carparks to show how many spaces are left to save people walking up and down the aisles all the time
We should boycott any organised “welcome back” and orientation events and instead protest about lack of accommodation, refusal to provide recorded lectures and the overall disregard for student welfare & especially students who don’t have bottomless pit of funds to study at NUIG
Can someone with some power please get the big tent/marquee back beside the arts millennium building. In the winter it’s the only place you can actually get a seat that isn’t wet. Somebody please make this happen 😭🙏🏼
Not fair to blame students in the thick of exams for not being able to attend a protest, perfectly understandable. Also not fair to make fun of those who could go for standing up for accessibility. No need for nastiness
the college needs to do something re online learning, I have until next week to find a room or else i have to drop out all together as its too expensive to defer. Commuting is not an option as I’m too far away. I hontestly dont know what I’m to do
congratulations on making it through exams everyone! I hope all the people whose mental health has been badly impacted get some relief and that the summer allows you time to recover <3
We should have like a Wolf of Wall Street day in the top floor of the library where everyone wears suits, gets pissed drunk and a load of Stripers come up.
Clicking “stay logged in - do not show this message again” each time logging into blackboard… and NEVER staying logged in and the message showing EVERY SINGLE TIME.
If NUIG want more students coming to lectures why don’t they improve the parking facilities for students. I swear 90% if the reason why I don’t come in is because it takes so long to get into the college
So I was in bed with my girl and it was getting raunchy and I took of her shirt and her skin was like super yellow and misshapen and metal and oh fuck, it’s the big yellow thing again.
Lectures finishing at 7pm in Winter where it’s getting dark early shows minimal regard for students, particularly, females who have to walk home or wait for buses. We’re nothing more than fees to this college
To those complaining about lack of facilities available in the evenings: Before Covid, Smokeys didn't close until 9pm and it was a great place to meet friends, take study breaks, and get some food. Services never resumed despite UG's increasing profits.
Mam: “Are you studying? What do you mean you don’t know how you’ll get on? Aren’t you in the library all the time? Ah for Christ sake sure what are you at down there at all if you’re going to fail. Don’t tell your father that he’ll lose it”.
Dad: “you’ll be grand. Bye now”
If they can’t sort accommodation and they won’t get us recorded lectures back they can shove their UDL and wellness programs. No more fake empathy from students services.
what if you wanted to study but the library said: WOOP 🚨WOOP 🚨WOOP 🚨WOOP 🚨WOOP 🚨WOOP 🚨MAY I HAVE 🙈YOUR ATTENTION 👉PLEASE 😍MAY I HAVE 🙏YOUR ATTENTION 😜PLEASE 👹
Airbnb needs to be banned. People are sleeping in their cars and deferring their courses due to lack of accommodation but somehow there’s 300+ properties listed on the site????