{"id":14383,"date":"2015-05-15T09:14:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T09:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2015-05-15T09:14:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T09:14:35","slug":"i-did-my-first-degree-at-bu-and-stayed-to-do-my-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/05\/15\/i-did-my-first-degree-at-bu-and-stayed-to-do-my-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"I did my first degree at BU and stayed to do my Master’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"alice-white\"<\/a>There were many reasons why I stayed at Bournemouth University to study a Master\u2019s degree; it\u2019s a beautiful town, a great university, it is near enough to my house, and also the fact that I get a 25% fee reduction for being an alumni student sweetens the whole deal.<\/p>\n

I had four years of work between graduating and returning, and those four years were a big eye-opener: I was able to put into practice a lot of what I had learned on the BA, but it also indirectly taught me what I really wanted to be doing with my time \u2013 making films \u2013 and that I wanted to return to education.<\/p>\n

Coming back to BU was an odd experience; it felt like no time had passed yet those four years had led to a lot of transformation on campus – new buildings and refurbished rooms, extra facilities and of course new people to meet.\"media-1-ed\"<\/p>\n

The most noticeable change was the style of learning \u2013 postgraduate is much more self-motivated than undergrad, and this took some getting used to. I spent the first couple of months being very unsure of whether I was doing the right thing, but I quickly came to realise that it\u2019s not about being right or wrong, it\u2019s about exploring and experimenting with techniques and asking questions, not finding answers.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the familiarity of the university made the transition from work to PG study much easier and coming back to Bournemouth has been a breeze. Becoming a Course Rep and a Student Ambassador has also helped me to feel a part of the university, even more than during my undergrad course. Not so fortunately though, everyone on my course assumed I knew everything about the campus and where everything was from day one \u2013 I hope I haven\u2019t given any dodgy directions!<\/p>\n\"reps-cover-photo\"<\/a>\n

I\u2019m very pleased that I came back to Bournemouth \u2013 the course, the staff, the people, and the reputation has only improved since I first began my BA back in 2007. It\u2019s my home away from home and I\u2019m going to really miss it when I graduate this autumn.<\/p>\n

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

There were many reasons why I stayed at Bournemouth University to study a Master\u2019s degree; it\u2019s a beautiful town, a great university, it is near enough to my house, and also the fact that I get a 25% fee reduction for being an alumni student sweetens the whole deal. I had four years of work… Read more » about I did my first degree at BU and stayed to do my Master’s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,1663],"tags":[877,1696,130,48,2048,108,2186,424,1028],"class_list":["post-14383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-alice-white","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-masters","tag-media-school","tag-postgraduate-study","tag-student-rep","tag-study"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14383","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=14383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}