Your university needs YOU…!!

By Patricia Obawole 2nd year BU Student, LLB (Hons) Law Okay, so student loans, they are basically these god-sent gifts from the government that makes life just that little bit easier when you move off to university. They help you through thick and thin and will somehow become your best friend. So it’s all fine and… Read more » about Your university needs YOU…!!

Latest news from BU

New academic building on Talbot Campus We’re delighted to announce that planning permission has been granted for a new academic building on Talbot Campus. It’s due to open in 2016 and will feature seminar rooms, lecture theatres and learning spaces. To find out more about the new building, and see what it will look like… Read more » about Latest news from BU

Meeting new people…

By Sanita Lustika Third year BU student, BA (Hons) Digital Media Design There is no reason to worry about meeting new people when you come to university. I know that now, but back when I was about to move to Bournemouth it definitely didn’t feel that way. What I’ve learnt is that Fresher’s is the… Read more » about Meeting new people…

Better together in uni accommodation

I’m taking Msc Event Marketing. Now I’m in the second semester and it’s quite fun studying the core course, rather than the basic units in the last semester. Personally, I stay in a private flat with my Italian flatmate near Bournemouth square, but she isn’t a student. I found this place by searching on Gumtree.com…. Read more » about Better together in uni accommodation

My Experience of Living in a Unilet House

By Callum Stevens 2nd year BU student, BSc (Hons) Computing I can still remember being on the computer and waiting for the chance to input my accommodation choice, for my first year at Bournemouth. My first choice admittedly was halls, and second choice was Unilet. I got my second choice being a Unilet House, as halls… Read more » about My Experience of Living in a Unilet House

Applying for finance

By Michelle Lillywhite 2nd year BU Student, BA (Hons) Social Work Now that UCAS has been completed you need to think about student finance and making your application. The great thing about this is that you can get your finance agreed before you have accepted a place to study so you can get yourself organised… Read more » about Applying for finance

The gut-wrenching wait

By Louis Sherman 1st year BU student, BSc (Hons) Applied Geography The wait for your first response to your UCAS application is one of the most painful and anxious moments of your life, well that is what I thought anyway. Finally you have the relief of sending off your application and you don’t really think… Read more » about The gut-wrenching wait

The things I wish someone had told me before I came to uni

By Sanita Lustika Third year BU student, BA (Hons) Digital Media Design After making this important decision, how do you move and study in a new place, possibly very far from home? To some extent for me it felt almost surreal to take this step, which seemed so big and scary.  It, however, comes with… Read more » about The things I wish someone had told me before I came to uni