{"id":3373,"date":"2015-07-17T15:29:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.difc.ie\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2018-06-12T09:13:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T09:13:32","slug":"numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.difc.ie\/numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Last classes took place today before final exams next week.<\/h2>\n<p>Congratulations to all of our students for making it this far.<\/p>\n<h3>Those of you on the IFY stream have clocked up some impressive numbers:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>100+ hours in Maths class hammering away at calculators and getting to grips with Quadratics, Vectors, Trigonometry, Matrices, Statistics.<\/li>\n<li>100+ hours listening intently to Mr Colm as he takes you through mutation, macromolecules, meiosis and mitosis (and that&#8217;s only the Ms!).<\/li>\n<li>100+ hours with Dr Lorraine, filling your heads full of\u00a0stereochemistry,\u00a0polymerisation, transition metals and organic chemistry.<\/li>\n<li>200+ hours with Mark and Donal getting to grips with leadership, finance, law, marketing, economics.<\/li>\n<li>100+ hours with Stephen, Conall and Michelle talking about plagiarism, vocabulary, summaries and bibliographies.<\/li>\n<li>300+ pages of notes.<\/li>\n<li>6,000+ words of essays.<\/li>\n<li>2,000+ words of lab reports.<\/li>\n<li>10+ hours in a lab coat.<\/li>\n<li>50+ hours of practice exams and quizzes.<\/li>\n<li>1+ hours giving presentations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Those of you on the Grad Dip stream have been working hard as well&#8230;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>writing dozens of essays<\/li>\n<li>reading hundreds of articles<\/li>\n<li>listening to 200+ hours of classes and lectures<\/li>\n<li>trawling through libraries for your Literature Reviews<\/li>\n<li>preparing, practising and delivering\u00a0your presentations<\/li>\n<li>surveying, interviewing and questioning your research participants<\/li>\n<li>making up tables, bar charts and pie charts<\/li>\n<li>writing, checking and rechecking the 5,000+ words of\u00a0dissertations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long journey and we&#8217;ve been delighted to share it with you. Congratulations on getting this far and all of your hard work. Best of luck with the exams next week and hope you enjoy a well earned rest afterwards. We teachers will be staying here in Dublin so please feel free to cheer us up by sharing some nice photos of your holidays on Twitter (@difcireland), Instagram (@difcireland) or Facebook. Just use the hashtag #difcireland.<\/p>\n<p>All the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last classes took place today before final exams next week. Congratulations to all of our students for making it this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_custom_body_class":"","_custom_post_class":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[180,179,178],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.difc.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.difc.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.difc.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.difc.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.difc.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.difc.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.difc.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.difc.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.difc.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}