Category: Social
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Dating by Numbers
I met him for the first time one brutally and uncharacteristically warm day towards the beginning of April. His hair was shorter than his photo, buzzed down to his skull. He laughed when I pointed this out and abashedly admitted he thought of warning me. I didn’t tell him it…
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Drury Duty
It’s 9:45 on a Friday in early May in Ciss Maddens Drury St. It’s 24 degrees outside and 30 degrees inside behind your service station. You’re locked into a 10 hour shift which about three months ago was a cakewalk but now has you yelling out requests to bar backs…
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A Block Above the Rest
As an American from the Midwest, there was one thing which threw me during my first semester at Trinity. As a film major, with friends in English and Art History, I was immediately flung into the Arts Block. Trinity students will be no stranger to the Arts Block Stereotype.…
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Decoding Doyles
Close your eyes and imagine. It’s 10:30 PM. A damp Friday night. The once bustling Pav steps have become a sparse coalition of the most committed dregs. Amongst these poor souls, that inescapable, omnipotent question is about to come up. The next course of action, the subsequent move, the…
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Schols Ball: Behind Enemy Lines
The annual ball of Trinity’s brightest former second years took place on Friday 16th February. To summarise: it is excellent, cheap and fascinating. Joined by the boldest from St. John’s College Cambridge, and Oriel college Oxford, an attending scholar gets to traipse from pre-drinks to atrium, to hall, to atrium,…
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Pints Anyone?: The Pilgrimage to the Irish Pub
It’s no secret that drinking is intrinsic to Irish culture. How we advertise ourselves as a nation only fuels a drunken Irish stereotype, with Dublin’s Guinness Storehouse, Irish Whiskey museum and Temple Bar — a known tourist trap for foreign pub-goers — being some of the most popular destinations for…
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Trinstagram: The Rise and Fall
What is the college experience if not to bear witness to the rise and fall of niche, Trinity-based social media accounts? You might do well to consider that the college degree you claim you’re getting actually amounts to nothing if you’re not following the Instagram pages that document Trinity in…
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All or Nothing: The Elusive Goal of Perfectionism
Who hasn’t felt at the start of college, that urge to appear outgoing, fun, and clever? A deep, instinctive desire to impress which can dominate, and often ruin, this exciting part of our new student life. While not necessarily trying to reinvent ourselves, we can sometimes chase an idealised version…
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My Tryst with Dublin: an International Perspective
The social and cultural aspects of a city are crucial considerations when deciding where to spend the most significant years of your life. Before coming to Dublin, I did my research on Reddit (my most trusted source of information) about life in Ireland’s capital city. Spending more than a year…
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Worst Ways to Make Friends in First Year
Alice Matty gives advice on how to establish yourself as someone to be avoided throughout your four years in Trinity. As Trinity’s third-year (wannabe) social butterfly, people constantly ask me “How do you make and retain friends?” (truly, it’s actually me asking everyone else, but let’s conceal that for the…