First Year

First Year Diary with Áine Fogarty

February 23, 2021 By SIN Staff

By Aine Fogarty Hello everyone and welcome back to my first-year diary! College has begun again and I hope you are all surviving. Now that we’re back and getting into the swing of things again, life is returning to normal. Well as normal as life can be during a worldwide pandemic. Trying to get back into a routine after a seven week break has been a … [Read more...] about First Year Diary with Áine Fogarty

First year diaries: goodbye and good luck

April 13, 2019 By SIN Staff

By Darren Casserly In the immortal words of Jim Morrison’s 'This is the End', the one thing I can say about this year is that it flew by. It only feels like yesterday that I was submitting my first diary just hoping that I didn’t screw it up. To be totally honest at first I regretted taking the column because I don’t live that interesting of a life, and I thought I’d … [Read more...] about First year diaries: goodbye and good luck

First year diaries: Procrastination

March 20, 2019 By SIN Staff

By Darren Casserly Another month goes by and you know what that means, another month closer to exam time. It also means that there is only a few more weeks of lectures, and for some people that is a joyous thought. No more 9 o’clock lectures where all you want is the sweet release of death. I know I’m being a little hyperbolic there but, you have to exaggerate if you want to … [Read more...] about First year diaries: Procrastination

First year diaries: can you complain too much?

February 27, 2019 By SIN Staff

By Darren Casserly If you’re reading this, it means you’ve survived unofficial RAG Week, and for that I applaud you. Even compared to previous years, it was like someone let the patients of an insane asylum out onto the streets of Galway for a week and let them run wild. I mean, if you’re drunk before noon life is either really good, or really bad, or it's RAG Week, so … [Read more...] about First year diaries: can you complain too much?

First year diaries: spring cleaning

February 14, 2019 By SIN Staff

By Darren Casserly Now that we’re in midway through the semester the workload is increasing again. I really missed not having four assignments due in a week. I could have done with a couple more months of no assignments, but what’s the point of being in college if we’re not here to learn. On a completely different, but at the same time, similar topic, (unofficial) RAG … [Read more...] about First year diaries: spring cleaning