u/InvestigatorUpper350

My private accommodation for college is asking for the first instalment for the month of September-October, which is over a grand. We were meant to pay it on the 4th of August, but were trying to hold out because we also applied for Trinity Halls on campus accommodation. I just got an email two days ago saying they will terminate the contract if we don’t pay the first instalment.

I know Trinity Halls prioritise the first years, but it’s not guaranteed I’ll get it with the lottery system. However Halls is €2,400 cheaper than my private one. Should I wait it out and see if I get the spot for the Trinity accommodation, or just pay for the private one?

If I pay the private one I won’t be able to refund it if I get the trinity halls one, I can only get a refund if I don’t get enough points to go to Trinity.

My private accommodation is asking for the first instalment for the month of September-October, which is over a grand. We were meant to pay it on the 4th of August, but were trying to hold out because we also applied for Trinity Halls. I just got an email two days ago saying they will terminate the contract if we don’t pay the first instalment.

I know Trinity Halls prioritise the first years, but it’s not guaranteed I’ll get it with the lottery system. However Halls is €2,400 cheaper than my private one. Should I wait it out and see if I get the spot for the Trinity accommodation, or just pay for the private one?

If I pay the private one I won’t be able to refund it if I get the trinity halls one, I can only get a refund if I don’t get enough points to go to Trinity.

I see a lot of people saying weight loss is all about the food and less about the workout, and I honestly agree. I finish work at around 3pm everyday and have 14,000 steps done by then just from running around at work all day. The problem is that I basically eat it all every single day in junk food. It’s making work harder on my body too.

By the time I get home the bottom of my feet hurt a lot, and I can’t even think about going for a walk, but feel guilty for not exercising. Do those steps count as exercise even though they weren’t done in a way where I’m consciously exercising? And how do you guys with active jobs actually go to the gym? It’s exhausting.

Also any tips on how to not be genuinely ravenous after work, especially doing that much activity?

Genuinely thought I was a lesbian, but one week in Croatia changed that. But specifically the men that work as waiters in restaurants and security guards at the clubs. Why are they all so muscular and tall… all the waiters or uber drivers should be models

And they are all bald or have buzzcuts I felt like I was in heaven when I saw the club staff. Will never forget the one security guard I talked to in the club, he was married though so it didn’t go far after I found that out but he had the nicest smile as well.

I got hit on a lot more than I would back home, and all the men were really polite as well and would leave me alone if I said I wasn’t interested. I know they know I’m a foreigner so they’re just flirting for fun but still I found heave on earth. All the men are just so masculine and so serious. Even the airport staff were hot.

Croatia you will be missed. Will now be visiting every other country in the Balkan’s for the amazing tourism of course.

Genuinely thought I was a lesbian, but one week in Croatia changed that. But specifically the men that work as waiters in restaurants and security guards at the clubs. Why are they all so muscular and tall… all the waiters or uber drivers should be models

And they are all bald or have buzzcuts I felt like I was in heaven when I saw the club staff. Will never forget the one security guard I talked to in Central, he was married though so it didn’t go far after I found that out but he had the nicest smile as well.

I got hit on a lot more than I would back home, and all the men were really polite as well and would leave me alone if I said I wasn’t interested. I know they know I’m a foreigner so they’re just flirting for fun but still I found heave on earth. All the men are just so masculine and so serious. Even the airport staff were hot.

Croatia you will be missed.

^(if they dont have the one I put as my preference available does that mean I wont get offered any accomodation? I should have put down three alternative options for each preference but I did it in a rush.)

Just finished the leaving cert today and everyone and their moms are just drunk. I hate drinking because it does absolutely nothing for me, it’s expensive, tastes like shit, and I have NEVER gotten drunk in my life. I think I did once for about ten minutes and I felt so sleepy. Like I kept moaning about how I wanted to sleep, and I got really drowsy. So I’m not a fun drunk at all.

I really hate going to pubs and I hate when people smoke around me. I feel kind of lame because that’s literally what all my friends do every time they go out and obviously I don’t want to get left out so I go, but everyone just drinks, smokes, throws up and that’s their idea of a great night.

I feel so bad because I also hate asking my parents to stay up late and have to collect me from the city because I live in the countryside, so I usually just leave at around 10pm when most people are getting started lol. I just don’t like feeling tired and like I wasted the next morning.

I’m worried when I go to college I will have no friends. I’m hoping to go to Dublin and I’d say the drinking culture is just even worse over there. I don’t want to be left out but I also really don’t like those kind of functions and get bored after about 2 hours. But I also don’t want to just spend my summer working and going on my phone.

My teacher said 18 minutes per 40 marker essay but I genuinely struggle to write a two page essay in 18 minutes, especially when in the exam you’ll have to read the question first and you barely have time to think.

Also is it the same booklet we used for English and Irish? That would be really helpful because those are a little smaller than A4 pages.

I know a lot of posts on here have been negative and I hate to add to that but I am genuinely fried. My brain is honestly exhausted. I have economic tmr, and have studied about 2 hours in the last three days, have been doing around 5 hours everyday since the lc started.

I have done a total of 558 hours of study since September. My course is 570 points and I got 542 in the mocks. I am actually so tired, and I still have religion on the 23rd which is just a huge course.

I feel really guilty because I feel like I don’t even deserve to get 570 points with how much I’ve been burned out in the past week, I feel so lazy. I’ve told everyone I want to go to college in Dublin and if I don’t get the course I’ll be so embarrassed. But I also feel like I’m not working hard enough, and my parents will also be so dissappointed if they knew I’ve just been in bed the past three days, especially since they were encouraging me to put in the work to get a h1 in economics.

Also my diet hasn’t been great so that’s really affecting my mood. I’ve deleted tiktok and Instagram but feel a bit dead inside, even when I go for a walk I absolutely hate it. I just feel so exhausted. I just want to rot in bed all day honestly.

I also feel like I look horrible, I’ve gained a lot of weight since the start of the year, my hair is always doing its own thing, I probably haven’t worn anything but my uniform, pyjamas, and a hoodie and sweatpants in over a month. Everything except scrolling on my phone feels strenuous.

I feel like this is something that won’t go away even when the lc is done, especially because I will have nothing to do with my time except work once it’s done. Has anyone else ever felt like this or is feeling like this?

I am only sexually attracted to men and could never see myself with a man long term.

I am sexually and romantically attracted to women and I am most comfortable being in long term relationships with them.

But I don’t do one night stands, and won’t sleep with anyone I’m not in a relationship with just because of personal preference. So I probably will never do anything with a man.

Am I still bisexual? How do other homoromantic bisexuals experience this? I know I’m not a lesbian if I’m sexually attracted to men but I feel a bit conflicted.

I know monopolistic and perfect competition are predicted this year, but oligopoly was the one everyone was banking on last year and it was only a short question, and monopoly was the long.

Does that mean it could come up this year? Which are ye learning? I find market structures rlly tricky it’s just a lot of memorising of things that are slightly similar but different and it’s just ugh no.

For the pre I had a little sticky note of what time I should be finished each section of the exam. It says in the guidelines you can’t bring any notes or papers into the exam with you, is that included? Has anyone done it before?

I genuinely cannot remember the timings in my head I need that paper. I’ll write it on my hand at this point.

The comparative and the poetry are easy enough to study for, GVV questions are really easy to just make up on the spot, and obviously they ask the same questions on each poet practically every year they come up, but Macbeth is genuinely so ambiguous.

I learned all my quotes, I have over 90 quotes prepared. I just am so cooked on how to structure the paragraphs because I will feel so on the spot. I literally only know power and kingship and Macduff and Banquo. If anything else comes up I’m lowkey cooked.

What are people leaning towards with Macbeth? Any last minute stud tips?

I am a woman for reference.

Having sex with men is not for me at all. I can kiss and cuddle, but that’s about as far as I can go before I get numb and bored.

With women I feel the complete opposite. I am both sexually and romantically attracted to women. This is TMI and a bit embarassing to admit, but often times when I’m sexually attracted to a woman, I often imagine her getting fucked by a man. I have no idea what that means and it’s concerning me I feel like it’s almost creepy and misogynistic.

I also only like to watch straight porn and don’t really like lesbian porn at all, not even the home made ones between proper couples. But in real life I genuinely have no desire whenever I have sex with men.

But strangely I can also see myself falling in love with a man and being in a relationship with one romantically only and never sexually. I thought I was asexual for a while. Is there even any men who would date me if they weren’t asexual themselves? Think it’s hard to find that nowadays.

Is this valid? I feel like I’m just making up labels at this point lol

I just got into my first relationship with a woman around last week, but why has it been the best week of my entire life? I don’t even think it’s been a week, but I’ve never experienced this with a man.

She asked me out with flowers at the local park, and I mentioned in my previous post that there was swans there and everything and it was just so romantic. She is also really into fashion and will make sure we’re always wearing coordinated outfits when together. We’ve been on three dates so far and she loves making sure we’re wearing flattering colours and complimentary outfits. She’ll always adjust my necklace or straighten a crinkle in my dress absentmindedly and it gives me butterflies all the time.

She loves to straighten my hair for me, and always insists that she should do it because she knows I always rush it. She also put her hand on my lower back when guiding me through busy crowds. She’s so efficient and also so clean. I genuinely don’t know what I was doing dating men.

On our second date she did that thing where she brushed her ankle up against my calf under the table and acted like she wasn’t making me clinically insane. We went on a picnic yesterday and she wore the most beautiful yellow sundress. She’s a pretty serious person, but when she’s relaxed, she’s so beautiful. I love making her laugh, it honestly feels like a reward. She seemed so carefree and loose and it made me like her even more. Everytime she pushed her sunglasses up into her hair my heart actually skipped a beat. Everything about her is perfect.

Just wanted to share that I’m in gay heaven.

I just had the gayest weekend of my life. There’s a girl I’ve been “friends” with for about a year and a half now, and last week she invited me to a music festival for my birthday. I’ve had a crush on her for a long time and we were always flirting with each other but like in an extremely subtle way.

I wasn’t sure if she also liked girls or not, because I always saw lot of guys try to ask her out etc. turns out she’s a lesbian! 😅

We were at a cafe when she told me she bought the tickets and even booked a hotel room for us near by. I told her “this is so couple coded” as a joke, and she literally goes “good thing we’re just friends then.” And she was like smiling into her coffee when she said it, it actually drove me insane bc it was just so hot.

Anyway long story short we kissed on the second night in the hotel pool/spa thing and then I was worried it would get really awkward after that because we sort of just went to bed when we got back to the room. But yesterday she asked me out at the local park with flowers and all, it was so romantic, there were swans there and everything! ofc I said yes but I’m also so nervous.

I’m not out to anyone yet. I’ve literally told all my friends and family I’m straight, and am only out to my closest friend. I’m so worried no one will accept me, and that my family will be so disappointed in me. I know a time will come where I’ll have to tell them, and I dont want her to be a labelled as a “friend,” to my family because it’s not fair to her either.

I know I want this, but I’m also embarassed in a way? Not of us but just of the fact everyone kinda knows I’m bi, but I had to strictly convince them I’m straight. I’m not scared of strangers seeing us in public, I just know my family will have a visceral reaction. My mom is really homophobic and has always told me “I’m your mother, and I would accept you if you were gay, but I raised you and I know you’re not.” She’s also really catholic which just doesn’t help, and also told me that she’d be disappointed if I married a woman…

I’m also a POC, and that just make things worse because my community would never accept me I’d be ridiculed by literally everyone. I know I dont need to post it on social media, it can be private but not a secret, but Im so worried people will find out and destroy what I’ve been wanting by for years.