The Excuses
- texting all your pals in your group to see who will be going in or not. All it would take is for one of them to say no and that was it , decision made no college today!
- one drop of rain is all it takes to fall in love with your bed.
- you look at your phone and it’s already 8:56am , there’s no point in going now as you already know you won’t get a space and your freshly straightened hair is not worth getting frizzy in the walk from Lismore and even if you did make the trek in, you are faced with Mount Kilimanjaro (the stairs) in the T&L building, which legs simply cannot take due to all the dancing the night before.
- when your lecturer only ever reads off the slides in class and you convince yourself it’s the same to stay at home and read it off Moodle , but yet this little home reading never really ends up happening.
The Famous Luke Wadding Library
Of course, as soon as you go to swipe your card, up comes the red lights on the scanner, which perfectly matches your face colour. As you turn to see the que behind you, lone behold there stands the most handsome boy in all of W.I.T and he’s glaring back at you in disgust. You can’t help but shove your card back into your wallet as fast as possible and let everyone skip ahead of you before the coast is clear for you to then go to porter for some assistance.
Now, in you pop after that whole ordeal and head towards the group study area (where you’re allowed to talk nonstop). After finding a good study spot, unpack the bags, it is now time for a quick coffee break as a reward for making it this far. After getting your coffee, you meet everyone know you along the way back to your seat, where you arrive back 40 minutes later. Now it’s time to attempt connecting to the Wi-Fi.
After several failed attempts, you resort to using your precious hotspot which you were saving for later to watch ‘Peaky Blinders’ but look at the end of the day you came here to be productive. It is now time to do at least a half hour work before the next coffee break.
After a long stressful 356 words including references it is now time to vacate the premises and you are fully entitled to go home and watch that episode, proud as punch, as you can happily say you went to the library for the day.
Food situations
The magic of WITMAS
It’s the night before WITMAS and all through Templars Hall there was a feast for all. The fridges looked like an off licence, stocked to the top and our jeans are fit to pop. Everyone had friends coming from far and near to take part in the WITMAS cheer. From Masons to Craftsman and back to Templars to finish off the night. When we wake up in the morning, we know we were in for an awful fright.
Nights Out
If you are lonely and ever in need of finding friends, go nowhere else only the taxi rank where any random character will offer you a seat in their taxi and tell you their whole life story on the way home. In this moment you have officially found a friend for life that you will be going on 5 foreign holidays with and you are going to their cousins wedding next month #Besties. The sad part of this story is that you never even got their name.
The Kings and Queens of Templars Hall.
The following morning, there’s always that one house that we can all go to, to reminisce about the night before. You can be sure to beat world records with the number of people you can fit into one bed, trust me it’s a lot more than you think! I once witnessed 15 people in a single room. And don’t even mention the state of the houses the following day. Between road signs, naggins, and mattresses in gardens, you wouldn’t know what you’d come across in Templar’s Hall. But that is the absolute beauty of the place.
So now we’ve been through some of the top moments of being a student in WIT, I’m sure the list could go on for days! It is time to start all over again and head into semester two, where you promised yourself, you’d do better this term…
You go to Mr. Price, buy all the fancy notepads and colourful biros and folders you can buy, especially since it is grant day you can obviously afford all this. The sad realisation that you will face come April is that you spend most your time using these apparatuses writing down your schedule of studying and what you will do rather than the study itself. Those late nights of last-minute cramming will be cursed, and you swear come September again you shall become a new person. New Year, New Me!
Author: Laura Broderick
4th Year Recreation and Sport Management Student