The College View’s brand new section! These pieces are completely comical, and do not reflect the views of the paper.
Every friend group has at least one. You know the kind of guy. You have been up since 6:00 AM, busting your balls for your minimum wage job or apprenticeship. Yet this guy was up Read more…
We’ve all been there, right? Saturday night, the tunes are blaring, the vibes are immaculate, and the drink is hitting you in all the right places; you have a good buzz going. You look at Read more…
The Initial Panic Your exams are next week. Your assignments are due tomorrow. They aren’t, but with the large quantity of panic attacks you’ve had entering Week 11, they may as well be. Let’s be Read more…
As I sit here on the beach in 32 degrees heat, in the middle of January, suckling away on a strawberry flavoured Calippo writing this, I can’t help but wonder what life would be like Read more…
Toilets and Tenderness A bathroom has the ability to make or break your day. The impact a decent toilet canhave on your confidence, morale, and work ethic cannot be overstated. Fortunately, DCU’sGlasnevin Campus has one Read more…
Catherine Connolly – A plate of fish fingers and chips eaten rather quickly, so that she can get back outside to the 5-a-side. Over dinner, she excitedly expressed how—with her new trainers—she was basically “unbeatable” Read more…
Ahh Erasmus, the right of passage for free spirited students to fully engage themselves in a totally new culture outside the confines of their local pub. From Alicante to Rome, Canada or the US of Read more…
A new policy, announced today by Taoiseach Micheál Martin, states that the Irish Government will attempt to solve the housing crisis through a new four step plan, known as ‘NOWT.’ The new process, NOWT, which Read more…
Are the people in your life stupid? Do they ‘not really care about politics because it’s all toocomplicated anyway’? Well tell ‘em to make like a bakery truck and haul buns…. to theGaiety theatre! Soon Read more…
We can all agree that studying in college is important. But giving yourself that break from the books is equally important. To be able to go out and socialise, doing the things that you love Read more…
Ahh, reality checks. We’ve all experienced them. It’s like they exist so our heads don’t get too big. Or God forbid, we actually take a second (or two) to enjoy ourselves; life has a way Read more…
As we’ve entered a new semester, many of us have tried to start fresh. As well as this, many of us have already failed or given up on locking in. Each semester countless students try Read more…
The UK has been dethroned from its special relationship. With Trump’s America single and not quite ready to mingle (#isolationism), could Martin’s Ireland find love in a hopeless place? Harry and Meghan, Gnomeo and Juliet, Read more…
It has become part of the college student aesthetic to go for a coffee every day. But, being an unemployed college student, it has become clear that coffee is just way too expensive. Let’s not Read more…
Data centres are repopulating across Ireland at a higher rate than the humans whose data they collect. How on Earth will we quench their immense thirst? By the middle of 2024, there were 82 data Read more…
Whether you’re a born-and-bred GAA-head or a frisbee fanatic, with 31 sports to choose from there’s something here for you in DCU. From rugby to rock climbing, a chance to represent that DCU badge is Read more…
The 22nd of January was a day for the history books as our newest Dáil sat for a mere half-hour (being generous) and, for the first time in over one hundred years, failed to elect Read more…
Don’t you just love it? When the time to lock in and study till midnight in the library comes around. Then you feel your phone buzz, a text from THAT friend. Do you dare open Read more…
Get ready for the ultimate, most degenerate, most impure day of the year…COLLEGE CHRISTMAS! The days are ticking down and tickets are flying out, so strap in and get ready for a day to not Read more…
On the 14th November, Taoiseach Simon Harris showcased his ‘new energy’ on our very own DCU Glasnevin Campus, and arrived with a solid proposition for student housing. Harris – former Minister for Higher Education and Read more…
We have all heard the saying: ‘A cat always lands on its feet’, but is this true? And why? Well, with this I solve the questions physicians of all decades could not, why do cats Read more…
So we all know birds. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the little jerks are everywhere you look in this city. Always watching, always on the lookout. The real question is, watching out for what? I Read more…
The question has plagued me for years now, and I’ve come to realise that the only solution is a truly logical and analytical approach. So I’ve got a list of aspects I’ve written up with Read more…
After years of domination at the top of DCU’s Clubs and Societies leaderboard, it has officially been confirmed that the Media Production Society has fallen off. In this article, I endeavour to discuss the myriad Read more…
From Chemistry to Computing, there are so many courses on offer here at DCU, all with varying levels of sexiness. Though very subjective, the facts are the facts- Communications takes the cake as the sexiest Read more…