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Hi everyone,

I’m an incoming first-year applying to Trinity accommodation through the CAO.

On the accommodation application, I had to enter the course I intend to study, so I put TR662 – Philosophy and Sociology (Joint Honours) because that’s currently my first Trinity preference.

My question is: what happens if I don’t get that course, but I still get into Trinity through another one of my Trinity CAO choices (for example, my second or third Trinity option)?

Would my Trinity Halls application still be valid, or would I lose my place because I listed TR662? Does the accommodation application automatically update based on the course I’m actually offered, or is it linked specifically to the course I entered?
Has anyone been in this situation before?
Thanks!

i’m thinking of studying philosophy and sociology JH this year, does anyone know people who have studied this and gotten in through dare/hear, i really don’t think i will get 521 points for the course but i think i have DARE and im aiming for something like 470-480

am i the only one with trinity down as my top 6 options on my cao, i swear im seeing barely any people apply to trinity, whats happening this year? will points drop for smaller courses in trinity (I’m thinking of doing an English joint honors or studying philosophy and sociology)

if anyone else has applied, lmk, what course, i’ll see you there in september, and is anyone applying to halls?

i need advice, was with him for over a year and got broken up with yesterday! lowkey can’t study, been crying all day. is anyone willing to talk, im willing to give my phone number to chat on whatsapp bc idk what to do anymore (also he’s in the year above, 2nd year trinity student)

Hi, I’m really confused about the entry requirements for European Studies in Trinity and was hoping someone could help 😭

I don’t do French, German, Spanish etc. in school, but I am a native Lithuanian speaker and I take Lithuanian as a Leaving Cert subject, and I’m expecting a H1 in it.

On the Careers Portal page for European Studies, it says:
“H3 in French OR H4 in any other language. Two different European languages must be presented with the grades above.”

That makes it sound like French is basically required.

But on the Trinity website, it says applicants need:
“At least one European language other than English and Irish at H3 or higher.”

That would be Lithuanian for me.

Then it also says:
“If candidates are presenting two or more languages, they must present at least one of French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish…”

I’m not planning to count Irish towards my Leaving Cert points because I’ll probably only get a H5, so I’m confused whether Lithuanian alone is enough for the course or if I actually need French/another listed language. Like French/Irish

Does anyone know if Lithuanian would satisfy the language requirement for European Studies in Trinity?

Chatted to my biology teacher today, told her im doing about 3 hours of study every single day, she looked at me like she was appalled, said that you can’t get anything done in 3 hours and that it’s basically nothing. She said i should be doing at least 7 hours a day from now until the leaving cert and she told me to be realistic. felt really insecure after that so i wanted to come on here and ask if anyone is doing 7-8 hours of study because i don’t know if she’s the crazy one or if i am but is it even physically possible to do that. I can’t even seem to do more than 4 and a half hours on a sunday. Lmk

so in irish class we have been working on an essay about homelessness and our irish teacher has given our entire class notes that she’s made herself and she wants us to learn her notes and her notes only (that’s my first problem) then i gave her up my essay… this is the 3rd day she’s given us to write it, so im done, everyone has just copied the essay notes she gave out and added in their own words and whatever else. her notes are lowkey ass and i have grinds 360 so i used notes from a homelessness essay i found on grinds 360 and i still used my own teachers intro and outro/conclusion that she had given us. i give her the essay and she didn’t even read it and she’s like “stay here after class” mind you about 4 other people had handed their essays up before me and she’s didn’t say anything to them.

i stay after class, she started screaming and yelling at me for about 20 minutes. she told me how im going to fail irish and im going to fail the leaving cert because im copying answers for my irish essay from the internet, like she fully crashed out that i wasnt using her notes. and to be fair i did get a H5 in irish for the mock but like im happy, i got 452 points in total. she continues to scream. said that no college will want someone who can’t speak irish. mind you im polish and i was raised in ireland by two immigrant parents, learning english was already a struggle and i manage to still do okay at higher level irish… she told me that if i can’t speak irish i wont amount to anything. i then nearly started to tear up and i told her i dont have any hope in irish and i dont really care about it and i started to walk away when she told me to never walk away when someone’s speaking to me.

she then forces me to stay there as she continues this waffle, then she asks me if ive learnt any essays off, which im halfway into learning a technology essay for irish and i said yes ive learnt technology essay and btw i was already like 20 mins late to maths at this point and she was like “okay so your going to sit here now and write the essay out for me then if you say you know it” and im like “excuse me but i litterly have maths to go to like,???” she’s alr kept me there for so long idek why. i kinda just stood there for most of it and didn’t say anything untill she just let me go eventually. i have irish tomorrow and i genuinely don’t think i will go in to those classes anymore because what the hell.

so i’m fully aware how there is about 4 weeks untill the leaving cert and im not too stressed but sometimes it really dawns on me and i feel like ive cooked my whole life over. i always took 6th year so serious, i cried a lot when 5th year was coming to an end just over the thought of 6th year and when i started 6th year i was in my locked in era i mean i studied from the end of september to the 1st of january basically non stop, did on average 2/3 hours a day, then mocks came and tbh i barely studied for them like i mean just maybe a day or two of revision before each exam and i took each exam as it came at me pretty much, and i ended up with 452 points, i was sort of disappointed at first because ive always been very academic but i always had to put a lot of effort into exams just to get the most bare minimum result. im happy with it now, but my number 1 course is 521 points and my 2nd option is 506 and sometimes i feel like i just wont get it. i also do have DARE so that should help me out if anything. after my mocks i took a long well needed break to just recover my mental health from the mocks. did absolutely nothing for about a month. then began studying again in march and i have been since. now i havnt studied in about 5 days and i cant help but feel overwhelming guilt.
anytime i dont study i feel like im gonna fail the lc but when i do study i dont feel like im learning that much?

i’ve genuinely always been quite academic so i am genuinely not worried like i feel like i could sit the lc tomorrow and i wouldnt get less than like 400 points? but then sometimes my own mind fights itself and i think im gonna flop so bad. but also the lc is not made to make you fail. i genuinely and wholeheartedly believe this. i hate irish i didn’t study for irish, i did a fantastic oral for my mock and a fantastic listening, answered two comprehensions and walked away with a H5. without even touching poetry or stories or novel. nothing. like and i thought i was cooked. and i don’t even need to count irish because i do LCVP! i don’t know what to do but is anyone feeling what i feel and any advice you can offer me? this whole lc era makes me so ill. i just wanna go to trinity college gang and study philosophy and sociology 💔 if i fail the lc i will just become a pilot