Before I came to college I wish I had known.....
1. Euro Coins are like gold.

2. Two meals a day is standard.

3. Spontaneous nights out become every night.

5. You will begin to nap again.

8. E-mail/bebo/facebook becomes your second language.

9. University students throw paper airplanes too.

10. You never realized so many people were smarter than you.

11. Western Europe could be wiped out by a horrible plague and you'd never know, but you can recite last weeks episode of Home and Away

13. No one is too old for video games.

14. The health service nurses are there because they couldn't make it in a real hospital. Never, ever forget that!

15. It never sucked so much to get sick.

16. Not all your food in the canteen will be edible.

17. Lectures: the later the better, (but you will still nap through them)

18. Disney movies are more than just classics.

20. Asleep by 2:30 AM is an early night.

21. Cereal makes a meal any time of the day.

22. New additions to food groups: Pizza. Vodka.

23. Cash Machines are the devils advocate.

24. Duct tape heals all wounds.

25. Keys have never been so important, yet you seem to lose them even more.

26. Showers become less important, sleep becomes more important.

27. You will eat anywhere that is a buffet.

28. You realize university is the ideal lifestyle, except for those annoying classes.

29. Procrastination is an art form.

30. Jeans may be worn as many times as the wearer desires.

31. The only time to dress up is when all your jeans are dirty.

32. You'll eat anything if its free.

33. A cancelled lecture is almost better than Christmas.

34. Looking out of the window becomes a form of entertainment.

35. You will base your day around whats on tv and not your time table.

36. Your room will only be tidy when you're meant to be working and are bored of bebo/facebook.

37. Exams/Projects will all result in you going on bebo/facebook.

38. You never care what you look like the morning after a night out, everyone feels and looks the same.

39. Once put up, Christmas decorations will never come down.....ever.

40. Two miles is not too far to walk for a party.

41. "Oh shit! How did it get so late?!" comes out of your mouth at least once a night.

42. Parents' cooking becomes something you desire, not avoid.

43. You know the number of the local Chinese off by heart and don't even need to read the menu.

44. Jaffa Cakes and Cider count as one of your “5 a day”

45. You learn how to ride your bike again.

46. Toilet roll becomes a valuable commodity.

47. You go to sleep when it's light and get up when it's dark.

48. Prank phone calls become funny again.

49. You start thinking and sounding like your friends and your
accent becomes a hybrid of Donegal, Cork, Kilkenny and Wexford.

50. Highlighters are the coolest things on earth.

51. The weekend lasts from Tuesday to Monday.

52. No matter how 'cool' you were in school, no one here cares.

53. If you got results in the leaving cert, it doesn't matter here.

54. You can know nothing and ace a test.

55. You can know everything and fail a test.

56. Most of your education is obtained outside of lectures.

57. You cross the street without looking for cars.

58. You wear your backpack on both shoulders.

59. Playing in the snow is a legitimate activity.

60. Beans can be eaten with anything.

61. Maturity actually decreases over time.

62. Road signs can substitute for wall posters.

63. Not rememberin the night before becomes a common occurence


That I could change so much and barely realize it.

That you can love a lot of people in a lot of different ways.

That every clock on campus shows a different time.

That I would go to a party the night before an exam.

That I could sleep until 8:5 and still make my 9:00 class
1. Euro Coins are like gold.

2. Two meals a day is standard.

3. Spontaneous

A........................Of
Aul.....................Old
Aul Boy..............Father
Aul Doll..............Mother
Aye...................Yes
Away on...........Leaving somewhere
Away out..........Gone to a pub and possibly a club
Bate ye..............I'm gonna kick your arse
Bother...............Hassle
Bogg'n inta........Kissing agressively
Buck..................Boy or Man
Canny................Cannot
Codd'n................Joking
Clattered.............Covered in eg: "Clattered in muck"
Cuttie...................Girl
Caddy…..............Boy
Doll......................Girl or woman
Dung....................Poor quality eg: "Heapa Dung!"
Feed....................Something to eat
Foundered...........Extremely cold
Fuck it out............Throw it away
Gan......................Goin
Gawkin................Looking/star
ing
Geht.....................an ignorant individual
Get te fuck...........Shut up
Gisa.............. ......Give me a
Gon......................Please
Gluck...................Good luck
Hanlin..................Trouble or Fight or Argument
Hay......................Have
Hard Tay Beat.....Very good
Headin..................Going somewhere
Hey?.....................What?
Hi..........................Used at the start and end of every sentence
Ignorant...............nothing to do with stupidity: a rude person
Keear...................Car
Like........................Used everywhere and anywhere we can fit it in!
Lock.......................Small amount of something
Luadar...................Eijit
Lushed..................Drunk
Mind.......................To remember
Minerl.....................A soft drink
Mon.......................Come on
Muck.....................Clay
Mutt.......................Ugly female
Naw......................No
Nuance.................Unusual
On the lash...........Out gettin pissed
Poun'.....................Euros/mo
ney eg: "a locka poun'"
Pure......................Very
Purdies.................Potatoes
Qwer....................Very Good eg: "Qwer craic"
Rare.....................Strange
Savage................Amazing
Shade..................Garage or garden Shed
Shift'n...................Kissing someone
Some Job.............Very Good
Sup.......................to sip something eg: "a sup a tay"
Spuds...................Potatoes
Tay.......................Tea
The Hills................West Donegal
The Gap................Barnesmore Region
Thon......................That
Tight......................Cruel
Tole........................Told
Way'ne..................Child
Wee........................Used everywhere and anywhere regardless of size or scale!!
What about ye........How are you
Whoor.....................A delinquent eg: "A bad whoor"
Wild/Wile.................Very
Winda(s).................Window(s)
Yer Whan...............Her over there
Yer boy...................Him over there
Yes.........................Hello
Yes Horse..............Hello to someone u like
Yoke.......................differe
nt types of ladies or an automobile
You're Some Boy!...You are a dark horse

Imagine if all major retailers started making their own condoms and keeping the same slogan........

Sainsbury Condoms - making life taste better.

Tesco Condoms - every little helps.

Nike Condoms - Just do it.

Peugeot Condoms - The ride of your life.

Galaxy Condoms - Why have rubber when you can have silk.

KFC Condoms - Finger, Licking good.

Minstrels Condoms - melt in your mouth, not in your hands.

Safeway condoms - Lightening the load.

Abbey National condoms - because life is complicated enough.

Coca Cola condoms - The real thing.

Duracell condoms - keep going and going.

Macintosh condoms - It does more, it costs less, it's that simple.

Pringles condoms - once you pop, you can't stop.

Burger king condoms - Home of the whopper

Goodyear condoms - for a longer ride go wide

FCUK condoms - no comment required.

Muller light condoms - so much pleasure, but where's the pain

Halford condoms - we go the extra mile.

On-digital condoms - plug and play!!!!

Royal mail condoms - I saw this and thought of you.

Andrex condoms - Soft, strong and very very long

Renault condoms - size really does matter!

Ronseal condoms - does exactly what is says on the tin

Ronseal quick-drying condoms - its dry and waterproof in about 30 minutes

Domestos condoms - gets right under the rim!!! (sorry!)

Heineken condoms - reaches parts that other condoms just cannot reach

Carlsburg condoms - probably the best condom in the world.

AA Condoms - for the 4th emergency service

Pepperami condoms - it's a bit of an animal

Polo condoms - the condom with the hole!!! (VERY poor seller!!!)