UCD

As per my mother's request, here's a little tour of the UCD (University College Dublin) campus.  Living on campus has its ups and downs. We are a ten to fifteen minute bus ride to city centre Dublin and on campus accomodation is a five minutes walk to most academic buildings,which definitely comes in handy with the Ireland mist every morning. 

So first off, I live in Glenomena Residence Hall, which is probably half UCD students and half international students like me. Its in a sort of apartment style, where there is a common area with a living room and kitchen, and then there are six . Ps rainbows are everywhere. 

On my walk to class every day, all the academic buildings are connected with covered pathways, also very handy with the casual rain downpours at any given moment :) 

All of my classes are in Quinn, the business school on campus. The building is the spitting image of the business building at U of I, except with trees and a Starbucks in the middle atrium.

My favorite place on campus is definitely the campus lake. Its a pretty big man-made lake, kind of looking like a giant pool. The water is absolutely disgusting, so swimming in it is illegal, however there are steps leading into it on all sides, mostly just for sitting around hanging out when it gets warmer.

Aside from Quinn, another building that us international students frequent is the Global Lounge. Its around for us to mingle, watch american television, hook up our computers and watch movies on this giant screen...and also hosts several events during the week such as coffee hours and pizza eating competitions :)