Academic
DCU like most other universities is divided up into a number of schools and my course is run by
the people in The School Of Computer Applications.
I'm currently in the third year of a four year Computer Applications degree course. The CA course has been rated as the top software course in the State, and certainly the employment rates are good - but IMHO, it's impossible to tell the quality of a degree w/o talking to the people with actual knowledge of it. The consensus amongst my friends seems to be that a couple of years ago our Computer Applications course wass seen as (one of) the best in the country, but that it may not be so any longer, due to overcrowding problems, and what soom see as an outdated syllabus.
Extra-curricular
My activities in this category, can be largely seperated into two areas;
- I'm currently a member of Union Council for my CA2 class, an enjoyable but thankless task,
and I've included some information on the much-maligned DCU Student Union on another webpage.
- Clubs and Societies.
In first year I joined a multiplicity of new clubs and socs, and got little /
nothing out of most of them. It's long been my opinion that freshers should be informed of the state of
the various Clubs and Socs before they have to join, because o/w they're just being ripped off.
Anyway, this year I restricted myself to the two best socs in DCU -
- The DCU Comedy Society. I was the Secretary of the ComSoc last year, but she's now under new management. If you want to contact the current committee their details are on the ComSoc Webpage.
- I'm also a member of Redbrick, the DCU Networking Society. On the DCUNS System, my username is Melmoth, which surprise surprise is why these pages are refered to as Melmoth's. There are also some interesting usage statistics available.