I’m from India so I get told quite often: “You must really enjoy winter considering you live in a tropical country,” and frankly, I do not. I count the days till I can step out without taking 10 minutes to …
Student Living
Yes or No: Trinity 12 weeks semesters
Emma Coyle explores the advantages and disadvantages that come with the condensed semester
The 12-week semester – it can be hard to find a student that will advocate for more time spent inside the classroom. All the stresses and woes of college life – assignments, exams, stuffy lecture halls – crammed into short …
Casual Instagram and the “perfect” college experience
Caitlin Parnell discusses the façade of the casual Instagram post
You have a painstaking ten minutes in between classes, your friends are elsewhere, you find yourself a seat outside the lecture hall, and before your brain can even consciously command it, your hand involuntarily reaches into your pocket, and all …
Final Year Blues: Making the Most of our Final Semester
Rhiannon Ní Chinnéide reflects on the ups and downs of the class of 2024
As we approach the mid-way point of the semester, the end is in sight for final year students. Only a few short weeks (and a frightening amount of work) stand between us and graduation. Endings like this bring about a …
Love on Campus
Kasia Holowka explores finding love on Trinity’s campus
Is finding love on campus possible? For us students, with our hectic schedules and with the online dating epidemic, it might seem out of the question. But, I think Trinity has a campus which is very easy to romanticise. Was …
Imposter Syndrome: the “unknown phenomenon” to Trinity Students
Laila Banerjee discourages you from reading this article because surely it’s unrelatable…. Right?
Now that I’ve roped you into reading this, (because everyone loves doing the opposite of what they’re told) I’ll have to make sure you enjoy this piece or at least relate to it slightly. I have honestly never been very …
This year’s Senior Sophister companion
Zaynab Zaher explores the complex college experience and nostalgia of this year’s SS students
With the end of our time at Trinity approaching, many Senior Sophister students find ourselves struggling with varying emotions. From anxiety over the unknown, to excitement over new things to come, being conflicted is part of the package deal for …
Na leideanna rúnda chun airgead a shábháil mar mhac léinn
Cabhraigh do sparán le bealaí éagsúla a chuireann Tara ní Bhroin ós ár gcómhair
Is minic a bhíonn ábhair airgid ar intinne na mic léinn agus muid inár gcónaí i gcathair le costas marachtála iomarcach agus na praghasanna ag ardú gan stad. Inniu, chuaigh mé chun bronntanas de seaclóid te a cheannach dom féín …
The economic horrors persist, but so do I
Minimum wage, dry January and Ibec: Sarah Shortall discusses the challenges students face at the beginning of a new term
There are certain sayings associated with people from Cavan: “He would peel an orange in his pocket.”; “she eats the dinner out of a drawer.”; “he still has the Confirmation money in the bank.” The closest I’ve ever been to …
I love Dublin but it doesn’t love me back
Maïlé Monteiro reflects on how her perspectives of Dublin have changed over her time at Trinity
I have a very vivid memory of my arrival in Dublin. I had taken a late-night flight from Nice, France, and hopped straight into a taxi which took me through the city. I remember driving down a lifeless O’Connell Street, …