Mary Immaculate
School starts tomorrow at Mary I. Apparently, we go to whatever classes we want to try and make our final choices by the end of the second week. I'm not sure what "modules" (what the classes are called here) I'm going to be trying yet, but there's a Gaelic heritage class that would be both appropriate and interesting. They have modules in English, French, Gaeilge, geography, German studies, history, Leann Duchais (Irish Heritage), math, media & communication, music, philosophy, psychology, and theology & religious studies.
It's interesting that every student in their third year who is in the liberal arts school either studies abroad or has an internship in Ireland doing work appropriate to their field.
From what I can tell, most classes are in lecture format (with a lot of people) with a smaller, 10-15 person tutorial each week. For such a small school (2,500), I was surprised to hear that lectures with more than 100 people aren't uncommon.
The campus itself isn't very big, but it's definitely going to take some getting used to. We had student guided tours on Friday at our orientation, and I got a bit turned around.
It opened in 1898 as a school for teacher education and has grown steadily in the last 10-15 years.
We met the president of the Student Union, Tommy, and it seems like they are there to genuinely try make any aspect of student life better. Basically, it's a group of upperclassmen or recent grads who get paid to work for the students.
Things I learned about campus dining:
-Cafeterias are called canteens.
-If you had chips and biscuits, more than likely you'd be having fries and cookies.
-There's a charge for condiments (and for bags, at the supermarket).
It's interesting that every student in their third year who is in the liberal arts school either studies abroad or has an internship in Ireland doing work appropriate to their field.
From what I can tell, most classes are in lecture format (with a lot of people) with a smaller, 10-15 person tutorial each week. For such a small school (2,500), I was surprised to hear that lectures with more than 100 people aren't uncommon.
The campus itself isn't very big, but it's definitely going to take some getting used to. We had student guided tours on Friday at our orientation, and I got a bit turned around.
It opened in 1898 as a school for teacher education and has grown steadily in the last 10-15 years.
We met the president of the Student Union, Tommy, and it seems like they are there to genuinely try make any aspect of student life better. Basically, it's a group of upperclassmen or recent grads who get paid to work for the students.
Things I learned about campus dining:
-Cafeterias are called canteens.
-If you had chips and biscuits, more than likely you'd be having fries and cookies.
-There's a charge for condiments (and for bags, at the supermarket).
posted by craichead at 2/06/2005 09:18:00 AM
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