{"id":14423,"date":"2015-11-23T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T14:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2015-11-23T15:57:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T14:57:06","slug":"how-did-i-get-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/11\/23\/how-did-i-get-here\/","title":{"rendered":"How did I get here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI could make a joke about the awful road works on the A338, but we know that\u2019s not the type of journey you\u2019re interested in when you ask a Master\u2019s student, \u2018how did you get here?\u2019 However, the process of deciding to do a Master\u2019s degree is like a road trip: you will inevitably hit some traffic, get a bit lost, take a wrong turn or two, maybe even breakdown, or it could be green lights all the way.<\/p>\n<p>My A-levels in English literature, French and Drama lead me to go directly to the University of Birmingham to study English Literature. I graduated with a good degree and I thought \u2026 now what? What happens now? \u00a0I had little idea of what \u201cI wanted to do with my life\u201d. Deep down I knew I\u2019d love to work in radio but it seemed far too competitive, I thought I wouldn\u2019t stand a chance. I\u2019d only done one student radio show, and one voluntary work experience placement. I thought everyone else would be much further ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I took my first wrong turn in third year when careers advisors were piling on the pressure and friends were getting offers for schemes and placements for September. I jumped on this \u201csort my life out\u201d bandwagon and applied to a graduate scheme I didn\u2019t really want. I got a deferred place, meaning I would have a year between graduating and beginning a job. I worked for four months as a Teaching Assistant and then packed my bags and moved to Paris.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/files\/2015\/11\/Olivia-how-did-I-get-here.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1830\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/files\/2015\/11\/Olivia-how-did-I-get-here.jpg\" alt=\"Olivia-how-did-I-get-here\" width=\"700\" height=\"703\" \/><\/a>\n<p>It was easy to push the impending grad scheme to the back of my mind while I explored my beautiful new city, made friends, went to French class and worked as an English teacher.\u00a0 In class when we talked about our future plans I realised I was having to try really hard to sound enthusiastic. I decided there and then that I was going to change this. That day I searched online for radio courses and found one that looked ideal. After a friendly skype interview my place was confirmed, I had good enough grades and could demonstrate genuine interest in the subject. That was settled. I had the rest of summer to enjoy in Paris before coming here to Bournemouth (with only slight hold ups on the A338).<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Olivia Beazley<\/strong>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could make a joke about the awful road works on the A338, but we know that\u2019s not the type of journey you\u2019re interested in when you ask a Master\u2019s student, \u2018how did you get here?\u2019 However, the process of deciding to do a Master\u2019s degree is like a road trip: you will inevitably hit&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/11\/23\/how-did-i-get-here\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about How did I get here?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,1663],"tags":[130,48,2048,108,2133,2186,2206],"class_list":["post-14423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-masters","tag-media-school","tag-olivia-beazley","tag-postgraduate-study","tag-radio-production"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14423","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\/1447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}