By Sophie Wheeler<\/b><\/p>\n
1st year BU student, BA (Hons) Scriptwriting for Film and TV<\/b><\/p>\n
I have only been at university for one semester, but I can already confidently say to anyone that is considering applying\u2026 do it!<\/p>\n
I know it\u2019s an enormous financial decision and at 9k per year, many would argue whether it\u2019s actually even worth going. I would say that it probably still is; simply because you learn so much more than what your course can teach you.<\/p>\n
So here it is, my list of \u20184 Things I Have Learnt In My First Semester of University\u2019:<\/p>\n
I think this is just simply the law of being a student. And I guarantee it\u2019ll be the small things that go wrong, the minute catastrophes that won\u2019t necessarily ruin everything, but will make your life considerably more difficult. Such as, every computer on the entire campus breaking down and not liking you. Finding your entire project has been wiped from your memory stick. Or, if you\u2019re like me, your printer running out of ink the night before hand-in. So, what can you do to avoid these things, you ask? Nothing. Just accept your fate, maybe have a little cry and finish the job.<\/p>\n
Something I didn\u2019t expect and need to learn not to take for granted, is that knowing what job you want after you graduate is actually extremely rare. I know that when I leave university, I want to be a scriptwriter. I have no doubt that the majority of the Media School knows what they want to do \u2013 television producers, journalists, computer animators. But a lot of my friends do degrees like History, Mathematics, English and most of them have no idea what they are going to end up doing for the rest of their lives. Quite scary. But we\u2019re the lucky ones. Sure, we\u2019re terrified, uncertain and doubtful about our chosen career and where it\u2019ll lead us, but hey, we have <\/i>a chosen career.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n This is ridiculously clich\u00e9d, but I\u2019m sorry, it\u2019s true. When I first arrived, I had the initial \u2018oh God they\u2019ve left me all alone, I\u2019m never going to survive this.\u2019 Then there\u2019s that exhilarating \u2018hell yeah, I\u2019m all alone!\u2019, but I soon realised that I needed people when things went amiss and mum wasn\u2019t there. You can tell friends things you wouldn\u2019t dare tell your mum.<\/p>\n Firstly, and debatably most importantly, is food. Oh God, food is amazing. And when you struggle by for months on only soup and noodles, that first bite of Mum\u2019s homemade dinner is enough to make you want to stay home forever. But then you snap out of it and come to your senses and remember how awesome uni is.\u00a0<\/p>\n Secondly is sleep. As a student, there are two types of sleeping. There\u2019s the \u2018I\u2019m not even sure if I went to sleep last night\u2019 sleep, prompted by drunken nights out or infuriatingly loud flat-mates who refuse to turn their music down at 5am. Or there\u2019s the \u2018bedtime is all the time\u2019 period and well, that\u2019s pretty self-explanatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Sophie Wheeler 1st year BU student, BA (Hons) Scriptwriting for Film and TV I have only been at university for one semester, but I can already confidently say to anyone that is considering applying\u2026 do it! I know it\u2019s an enormous financial decision and at 9k per year, many would argue whether it\u2019s actually… Read more » about My First Semester of University<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1638],"tags":[83,82,120,40],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-undergraduate","tag-1st-year","tag-semester","tag-sophie-wheeler","tag-uni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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