{"id":14345,"date":"2015-01-16T14:32:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=869"},"modified":"2015-01-16T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T14:32:11","slug":"taking-the-leap-from-ug-to-pg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/01\/16\/taking-the-leap-from-ug-to-pg\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Leap from UG to PG"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"alice-white\"<\/a>While I was studying Journalism BA at Bournemouth University I never ever considered going on to do a postgraduate course. In my na\u00efve young mind I thought I would graduate, become a news anchor on Channel 4 News, retire a millionaire at forty and that would be that.<\/p>\n

Very quickly after graduating (in the midst of the global financial crisis) I realized that it wasn\u2019t as easy as jumping straight to the top. And that turned out to be a really good thing. For four years after graduating I worked for a small online magazine. There were days that I loved the job and days that I hated it, but I now realize that I needed those years to discover what it really was that I was passionate about.It wasn\u2019t a conscious thing. I didn\u2019t sit there each day and think, \u201cHmm, what do I care about?\u201d It emerged naturally. Making videos and short films was the one thing I always seemed to have time to do. It never felt like work, it only ever felt like fun. This is want I want to do with my life.<\/em> *Light bulb moment*<\/p>\n

Now that I\u2019m on the course, I can say that the MA feels entirely different to the BA; perhaps it\u2019s the course structure, or a difference in my own mindset, or both, but it\u2019s a much more mature, self-motivating kind of learning environment.<\/p>\n

At first I was worried that \u2013 being an inherently lazy person \u2013 I would sink, but the passion my course mates and I have for filmmaking has meant that every moment (bar a couple of stressful all-nighters) has been enjoyable.<\/p>\n

I often remind myself that it\u2019s only for 12 months \u2013 sometimes to get me through that all-nighter, but mostly to remind myself that I need to seize every opportunity that the MA brings. I am lucky enough to be surrounded by brilliantly talented students and staff who are all equally passionate about the subject in a way that goes beyond what I ever experienced on the BA.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re considering doing a postgraduate course then that is fantastic, and if you\u2019re not then that is also fantastic. If you don\u2019t know what you want then that\u2019s ok too. I had to work to discover what I don\u2019t<\/em> want to do as much as what I do<\/em> want to do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

By Alice White<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I was studying Journalism BA at Bournemouth University I never ever considered going on to do a postgraduate course. In my na\u00efve young mind I thought I would graduate, become a news anchor on Channel 4 News, retire a millionaire at forty and that would be that. Very quickly after graduating (in the midst… Read more » about Taking the Leap from UG to PG<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,1663],"tags":[877,1696,448,130,48,108,2186,1028],"class_list":["post-14345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-alice-white","tag-applying","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-media-school","tag-postgraduate-study","tag-study"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14345","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\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}