{"id":1152,"date":"2014-02-03T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:38:14","slug":"being-in-a-club-or-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2014\/02\/03\/being-in-a-club-or-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Being in a club or society"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rebecca White<\/strong><\/p>\n

3rd\u00a0year BU Student, BSc (Hons) Archaeology<\/strong><\/p>\n

University is a great time to try new things and meet new people, so take advantage of everything you can. Membership to most societies is just \u00a35 or less, for the entire year. Many of them run a series of guest lectures or trips, which will be subsidised by the society with no cost to you. In your second year, try running for the committee of a society! I was Secretary of the Archaeology Society in my second year, which was a really good opportunity. I was part of the team that organised guest lectures, which meant I got to network with all sorts of people within my industry. Through this, I was offered a free preview of a museum before opening date, which was a very interesting experience and saved me the cost of a ticket! Being on the committee meant we took guest lectures out for dinner beforehand, where we could ask questions about what they did and how to get a job like theirs \u2013 advice I wouldn\u2019t have been able to get without the society!<\/p>\n

Not all societies are about guest lectures though. There\u2019s a society for almost everything you could think of. If you can think of something different, it\u2019s so easy to set up your own: it just takes five people, and under an hour to fill in the required paperwork, and you\u2019re off. Don\u2019t feel like you can only join things related to your degree. Despite being an archaeologist, I was offered a position on the student committee of the Institute of Directors at the university, which means I\u2019ve learnt a lot about the business world, which will help me whatever career I choose. There\u2019s plenty of sports clubs \u2013 for just \u00a35 you can join clubs like the netball or badminton club, and it\u2019s up to you if you want to play competitively or just have fun. A lot of them will even provide the equipment for you. If sport isn\u2019t your thing, then the university runs its own \u2013 free! \u2013 series of Conversation Clubs, with a range of languages and proficiency levels. You meet for an hour a week and chat in that language. Languages include French, Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, and Mandarin Chinese.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something for everyone within the university, whatever your interest, and participation in a society looks good on your CV. You\u2019ll meet people from other courses or schools, which will undoubtedly lead to friendships that you wouldn\u2019t have made just staying within your own school. \u00a35 isn\u2019t much for a year\u2019s membership, so make sure you take a good look round at Fresher\u2019s Fair and find something, even if it\u2019s just one club! Find out more on\u00a0the SUBU\u00a0(Students’ Union at Bournemouth\u00a0University)\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Rebecca White 3rd\u00a0year BU Student, BSc (Hons) Archaeology University is a great time to try new things and meet new people, so take advantage of everything you can. Membership to most societies is just \u00a35 or less, for the entire year. Many of them run a series of guest lectures or trips, which will… Read more » about Being in a club or society<\/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":[132,130,48,112,131,21,81],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-undergraduate","tag-activities","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-clubs","tag-membership","tag-rebecca-white","tag-societies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","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=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}