Politics and philosophy? Surely he has about six hours of lectures a week
Pretty sure that was my parents commute to school but they had to go through the mines of Moria barefoot.
He shouldn’t expect to rent for a reasonable amount while studying what he wants, he should just do a PLC in hairdressing in his local town while living with his parents – this sub, seemingly
Ehlers-Danlos is much more than chronic fatigue, or so I understand. Depending on the type you have, your body can degenerate very quickly and you lose mobility, your joints can easily slip out of place, among other things.
This poor young lad. There’s no way that’s sustainable for the duration of his degree.
Half of ATU letterkenny go through this but on dodgy local link buses instead of Dublin bus.
Ehlers- Danos is no joke. He must be in daily chronic pain and there he is trying his best to position himself out of the social welfare system despite that pain.
On the one hand, yes it’s absolutely shite that he can’t rent in the towns or cities where he’s getting an education.
On the other hand, he’s expecting to live on €800 only – his disability. I’m not sure if he hasn’t applied for SUSI or what but you’d think he could also get that? Additionally, a bit of research before applying to a place is also required – I’d never apply to do a masters in NYC because I’d likely be unable to afford it. Ofc Dublin isn’t NYC, but we all know rent is ridiculous (although €600 ain’t the worst)
What, why is this seen as uncommon. I did this every day for my first 6 months in Maynooth. Are people only realising what we go through now? What the fuck
I don’t think this is particularly unusual. I’m in a small enough office of Ph.D. students and I know 5 of us have had similar commutes at some stage. Thankfully most could work from home the odd day, but it hurts the quality of research when you can’t discuss work with other researchers. Especially when you’re just getting started. Me and another guy managed to find somewhere closer to college after a few months searching, another dropped out and moved back to Germany, another took a studentship in Chile where she has a lovely apartment for way less money.
Commuting for 6 hours a day is a grim existence. I did it for 8 months and it was hell. I don’t know how this poor bastard did it for so long, but I have to imagine his work has taken a massive hit, he won’t have many mates from college, and he’s gonna miss out on many valuble experiences that every college student should have. If he can, he should emigrate and I’d advise anyone going into third level or grad school to strongly consider that option. I’d be out of here if I didn’t have other personal commitments tying me down.
Me too. DKIT student from Dublin. A bus to the station, two trains and a 30 mins walk EVERYDAY
Fun fact: It gets worse when you qualify and have to do the same round trip to get poorly paid and still live in your parents house.
Yep, that was all of my mates who went to UCD. Two managed to find accomodation, the third dropped out.
Have to say students today have it tougher than when I was a student back in the day. No wonder the young people want to get the hell out.
But no doubt we’ll hear people drone on in the typical Irish way that they had it harder and this generation are mollycoddled etc etc. The messed up philosophy of ‘I had it shit so you should also have it shit’.
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A lot of people here a rightfully getting downvoted to hell.
Genuinely thought that was another one of the Burkes when I saw the thumbnail.
Was wondering what UCD did to incur the rath of Mammy Burke.
Us Canucks had to walk 5 kms, in snow as deep as our waist, up hill, both ways.
All joking aside, this sucks!
And I moan that I’ve an hour each way.
I won’t lie, I don’t envy students of today. I’m only recently out of college and things got way worse. Things where bad when I started college in 2014. Can’t imagine the hell students and parents are going through to find accommodation today.
If I had to do it all again, starting off this year, I wouldnt. I would probably just do an apprenticeship to become an electrician or builder. I would say to myself that I would go to college eventually, under the hope that things would have to get better…. but realistically, I probably wouldn’t ever go to college…
I think things are only going to get way worse…
Mines going to the UK and probably end up with £60K in debt at the end of it, if she qualifys for the maintenance loan aswell as the course fee loan. If not, just £30k for the course and bank of mum and dad will have to find the extra for the cost of accommodation.
Shithole country.
Why would anyone live here
Coming from where? (Behind a pay wall, can’t read)
At this stage, there must be students camping in Belfield
The truly awful thing here is that his disability allowance is only 880 a month. Someone who’s basically unable to work is receiving less each week than someone else on jobseekers. I know we want to encourage back to work but honestly with his illness he’s almost certainly never going to be able to hold down either a manual work role or anything that needs him to sit in one place for hours a day.
Worked in clonee few years back. Had to commute from Dundalk. Seven hour commutes. Hell on earth.
I did 5 hr round-trips never complained to a newspaper xD
And just to be clear: students from Blackrock have an equal chance of getting on campus accommodation as this lad, who has an equal chance as the fella from North Donegal/Derry, who has an equal chance as the lad from Krakow.
UCD’s accommodation allocation system is ridiculous like. How someone from 4/5 hours of a commute away who’s whole capacity to do a degree is based on their ability to get accommodation is treated the same as some lad from 20 minutes up the road who just wants a room to get the ride is beyond me.
I would drop out at that point. What’s the point if you’re absolutely completely miserable.
Behind a paywall… It was a long ass time ago when I went to uni but jesus christ – did he not think about the commute before signing up? It’s not like the housing crisis popped up all of a sudden.
I’m all for a perfect utopian society where you get to live in Dublin if your doing medicine etc but lets get real – money is needed to make this college place a reality for him- just getting the place is only half the battle.
I went to a back water IT in blanch to avoid this commute having seen my sisters do it 10-15 years ago or live in shitty mouldy student digs.
It’s a problem universities need to solve but hardly all the rest of us…
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Politics and philosophy? Surely he has about six hours of lectures a week
Pretty sure that was my parents commute to school but they had to go through the mines of Moria barefoot.
He shouldn’t expect to rent for a reasonable amount while studying what he wants, he should just do a PLC in hairdressing in his local town while living with his parents – this sub, seemingly
Ehlers-Danlos is much more than chronic fatigue, or so I understand. Depending on the type you have, your body can degenerate very quickly and you lose mobility, your joints can easily slip out of place, among other things.
This poor young lad. There’s no way that’s sustainable for the duration of his degree.
Half of ATU letterkenny go through this but on dodgy local link buses instead of Dublin bus.
Ehlers- Danos is no joke. He must be in daily chronic pain and there he is trying his best to position himself out of the social welfare system despite that pain.
On the one hand, yes it’s absolutely shite that he can’t rent in the towns or cities where he’s getting an education.
On the other hand, he’s expecting to live on €800 only – his disability. I’m not sure if he hasn’t applied for SUSI or what but you’d think he could also get that? Additionally, a bit of research before applying to a place is also required – I’d never apply to do a masters in NYC because I’d likely be unable to afford it. Ofc Dublin isn’t NYC, but we all know rent is ridiculous (although €600 ain’t the worst)
What, why is this seen as uncommon. I did this every day for my first 6 months in Maynooth. Are people only realising what we go through now? What the fuck
I don’t think this is particularly unusual. I’m in a small enough office of Ph.D. students and I know 5 of us have had similar commutes at some stage. Thankfully most could work from home the odd day, but it hurts the quality of research when you can’t discuss work with other researchers. Especially when you’re just getting started. Me and another guy managed to find somewhere closer to college after a few months searching, another dropped out and moved back to Germany, another took a studentship in Chile where she has a lovely apartment for way less money.
Commuting for 6 hours a day is a grim existence. I did it for 8 months and it was hell. I don’t know how this poor bastard did it for so long, but I have to imagine his work has taken a massive hit, he won’t have many mates from college, and he’s gonna miss out on many valuble experiences that every college student should have. If he can, he should emigrate and I’d advise anyone going into third level or grad school to strongly consider that option. I’d be out of here if I didn’t have other personal commitments tying me down.
Me too. DKIT student from Dublin. A bus to the station, two trains and a 30 mins walk EVERYDAY
Fun fact: It gets worse when you qualify and have to do the same round trip to get poorly paid and still live in your parents house.
Yep, that was all of my mates who went to UCD. Two managed to find accomodation, the third dropped out.
Have to say students today have it tougher than when I was a student back in the day. No wonder the young people want to get the hell out.
But no doubt we’ll hear people drone on in the typical Irish way that they had it harder and this generation are mollycoddled etc etc. The messed up philosophy of ‘I had it shit so you should also have it shit’.
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A lot of people here a rightfully getting downvoted to hell.
Genuinely thought that was another one of the Burkes when I saw the thumbnail.
Was wondering what UCD did to incur the rath of Mammy Burke.
Us Canucks had to walk 5 kms, in snow as deep as our waist, up hill, both ways.
All joking aside, this sucks!
And I moan that I’ve an hour each way.
I won’t lie, I don’t envy students of today. I’m only recently out of college and things got way worse. Things where bad when I started college in 2014. Can’t imagine the hell students and parents are going through to find accommodation today.
If I had to do it all again, starting off this year, I wouldnt. I would probably just do an apprenticeship to become an electrician or builder. I would say to myself that I would go to college eventually, under the hope that things would have to get better…. but realistically, I probably wouldn’t ever go to college…
I think things are only going to get way worse…
Mines going to the UK and probably end up with £60K in debt at the end of it, if she qualifys for the maintenance loan aswell as the course fee loan. If not, just £30k for the course and bank of mum and dad will have to find the extra for the cost of accommodation.
Shithole country.
Why would anyone live here
Coming from where? (Behind a pay wall, can’t read)
At this stage, there must be students camping in Belfield
The truly awful thing here is that his disability allowance is only 880 a month. Someone who’s basically unable to work is receiving less each week than someone else on jobseekers. I know we want to encourage back to work but honestly with his illness he’s almost certainly never going to be able to hold down either a manual work role or anything that needs him to sit in one place for hours a day.
Worked in clonee few years back. Had to commute from Dundalk. Seven hour commutes. Hell on earth.
I did 5 hr round-trips never complained to a newspaper xD
And just to be clear: students from Blackrock have an equal chance of getting on campus accommodation as this lad, who has an equal chance as the fella from North Donegal/Derry, who has an equal chance as the lad from Krakow.
UCD’s accommodation allocation system is ridiculous like. How someone from 4/5 hours of a commute away who’s whole capacity to do a degree is based on their ability to get accommodation is treated the same as some lad from 20 minutes up the road who just wants a room to get the ride is beyond me.
I would drop out at that point. What’s the point if you’re absolutely completely miserable.
Behind a paywall… It was a long ass time ago when I went to uni but jesus christ – did he not think about the commute before signing up? It’s not like the housing crisis popped up all of a sudden.
I’m all for a perfect utopian society where you get to live in Dublin if your doing medicine etc but lets get real – money is needed to make this college place a reality for him- just getting the place is only half the battle.
I went to a back water IT in blanch to avoid this commute having seen my sisters do it 10-15 years ago or live in shitty mouldy student digs.
It’s a problem universities need to solve but hardly all the rest of us…