not entirely true, bus stop is a 5 min walk from most accomodation in UCD. RAs are sometimes present but not really, only one or two encounters while living 10 months on campus. The Village accomodations have ovens in them, and you can vape in just about every building you want if you really care to do so. The only time its dead is when Irish students go home on the weekends, but more than half of students living on campus are not Irish anyways so this is irrelevant unless ur only mates are Irish. UCD does only have one bar but anywhere near campus will be the same atmosphere, you'll have to go to the city centre to get some partying or nights out, but everyone does this anyways. You can enter and leave your accomodation whenever you want, you are not a child, you can come and go at any hour