CIT Students’ Union Magazine Volume Fourteen, Issue 4 Merry Welcome Back! Christmas! IN THIS ISSUE: • Important Exam Info & Advice • • Dear CIT, Why am I so Miserable? • Look after yourself at Christmas • Sports & Societies News • Picture Galleries and much more... Snow Ball Thurs 6th Dec AT ECLIPSE Have you been a naughty or nice student? 16 cit SOcs Volunteer prOg 18 SpOrtS newS Contents 19 SOcietieS newS 4 SU OfficerS’ AddreSS CIT Students’ Union, 20 PrObLem pAge Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland. 5 LOOk After yOUrSeLf 21 LetterS tO the editOr Telephone: 021 433 5274 dUring chriStmAS 22 cOmpetitiOnS Email: [email protected] 7 impOrtAnt exAm infO facebook.com/CITSU Web: www.explicit.ie 8 ‘Like’ thiS tO SAve the wOrLd expliCIT Production Design & Advertising - Keith Brown 9 chriStmAS exAm tipS 11 StUdent CompetitiOnS CIT Students’ Union 12 phOtO gALLery President - Danny O’ Donovan ([email protected]) 14 deAr cit, why Am I so Vice President Education - Killian Hughes miSerAbLe? ([email protected]) Vice President Welfare - Niamh Hayes ([email protected]) Projects Officer - Richard MaCarthy ([email protected]) Communications Officer - Laura Horgan ([email protected]) Entertainments Officer - Martin Daly ([email protected]) Entertainments Manager - Your first port of call... Mick O’Mahony ([email protected]) Caretakers reception in the main building Advertising Opportunities CIT has almost 17,000 full and part-time students Tel: 432 6219 with over 1,500 staff. Why not use expliCIT to promote your business to this large audience? Copy deadlines, advertising rates and technical The Students’ Union & Chaplaincy Team will be helping you specifications are available from our website www.expliCIT.ie or upon request from the to relax before the exams… Publications Office. expliCIT magazine is published monthly by CIT Tues 11th Dec Students’ Union. The views expressed in the magazine are those of their authors and are not O’Connaills Hot Chocolate Stand, necessarily those of CIT Students’ Union. All Exam articles and pictures are the property of their Outside Library, 10am-2pm respective owners and should not be reproduced De-Stress Zone, Main Corridor, without their permission. De-stress 12-2pm including the PleaseTalk Winners of our competitions from expliCIT 3: ‘Note-To-Self Campaign’ Crossword: Weds 12th Dec Seema Bhayla, Biomed, €30 Week th De-Stress Zone, Main corridor, 12-2pm BrainTeaser: 11 - 13 Dec including free tea/coffee & massages Colm Brosnan, BS2A €50 Thurs 13th Dec De-Stress Zone, Main corridor, 12-2pm 12 3 Mitchell where we discussed some is- CIT SU Welfare Campaigns sues raised by the students. The fol- CIT SU Positive Mind & Body Week lowing items were agreed... was held a few weeks ago. The aim ’Union • A microwave unit to be placed in the of the campaign was to educate you Students’ restaurant area at the north end for about physical health and mental student use. - Done health, how the two are so closely • Pool Cues for pool table in student linked and how to look after both. Off icers common room; LendLease will co- We hope that you found the week operate with SU to hold cues at re- useful. Our next welfare campaign is ception and they can be released on Exam De-Stress Week which will run Address the production of valid student card. from 11th to 13th December. For this - Done week we will be teaming up with the • LendLease will provide a hole punch Chaplaincy Team to help you relax and stapler in library at NMCI. A during your study periods and before method of securing it will be de- the stress of exams comes on top of Hi All, vised. – Work in progress you. Watch out for the free massag- es, tea, coffee and goodies through- Welcome to the last edition of expliC- The pool table has been re-clothed out the week in our De-Stress zone IT for Semester 1. The term has flown and the students have been informed in the main corridor and O’Conaill’s and we hope you have both enjoyed that any further damage will result in Hot Chocolate Stand will be on cam- and benefited from your time here in the table being removed. pus too. For full details check out the CIT. Below are a few topics we have poster in this edition of expliCIT. been working on over the past few months. Residents Remember to look after yourself dur- We had a meeting with the Melbourne ing exam time. Don’t let your health Residents Association to discuss An- suffer because you are stressed or Bus Éireann ti-social behaviour in the Melbourne feel like you have no time to look after Upon receiving lots of complaints we road area. Not so good in the wake your body or mind. At this time it is met with Mr. Tim O’Leary the chief of “Xmas day” seeing as there was more important than ever to eat well, bus inspector at 7.45am on the 25th riot police on Melbourne Road. Not a drink lots of water, keep active and of October, to survey and analyse the good image being portrayed for CIT get lots of sleep. For some more tips 205 service to CIT. We made some students overall but we managed to check out our “How to Stay Healthy alterations to the timing/frequency to communicate effectively that these During Exam Time” in this magazine. buses serving the route and service students are a minority and it would On closing notes we would like to is now at a satisfactory level, as per not be right to tar all students with thank everyone who supported our feedback. the one brush. It was also agreed that events throughout this side of Christ- We are currently liaising with the same we would bring them in for a coffee mas and would like to wish you all the inspector to make alterations to the morning during Rag Week. Moral of best of luck in your exams. the story, be careful and respect thy 201 and the 208. Marese Berming- Happy Christmas, ham, who is responsible for improving neighbours. student retention, has cleverly placed Danny, Killian & Niamh her support with the students on this issue, which puts us in a stronger po- sition. Any major changes to these services will be well communicated to the student body in due time. IT National Maritime College C Ireland On the 6th of November we travelled to NMCI which we learned is a public/ RaG Week private partnership. We spent the day talking with the campus reps, staff and other students. It came to our at- Coming soon..! tention that the pool table and cues th st are continually getting vandalised and is a drain on Students’ Union fund- 28 - 31 Jan 2013 ing as it is almost €400 to re-cloth the table. Afterwards we met with the Managers from LendLease (private Our main charity is Arc House company), Sean Cremin and Patrick (Cork Cancer Support Volunteers) 4 Christmas Snow Ball Thurs 6 Dec MEET SANTA! 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Exams aren’t every- desk, a huge overwhelming feeling of to yourself. Try to clear your mind and thing. Although don’t get me wrong, it nervousness will more than likely start to more information will come to you. is important to try your hardest and put creep up on you. If this happens, take everything into them. But if your end re- some deep breaths to calm yourself. After: sult isn’t exactly what you were hoping Think of it this way, it’ll all be over in two • Don’ t Panic: There will come the point for, don’t worry. At least you did your to three hours. when you leave the exam hall and stress best. Here are some of the best tips I over the little things that you forgot or can give you to make sure you look af- • Stay Refreshed: Bring some water with made mistakes in. The one thing you ter yourself in the run-up of, during and you into the exam hall. Sip it regularly to should not do is open your books to after the exams. stay hydrated and on top of your game. see if you got the answers right or not.