{"id":14535,"date":"2016-12-05T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2016-12-05T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T14:40:14","slug":"living-in-halls-as-a-pg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2016\/12\/05\/living-in-halls-as-a-pg\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in halls as a PG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/files\/2016\/11\/Desk-Living-in-halls-as-a-PG.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4624\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4624 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/files\/2016\/11\/Desk-Living-in-halls-as-a-PG-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"desk-living-in-halls-as-a-pg\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a>Living in halls in first year of an undergraduate degree\u00a0is something that nearly everyone who goes to university experiences. For me, I lived in the student village: quieter, close to campus, and basically sharing a house. Perfect. So I had never experienced living in a flat before. Nor living five stories up. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">So when I moved into my studio apartment in student accommodation halls this September just gone, \u00a0I had many concerns. Would I like it, would it be noisy, would there be tons of fire alarms, what should I do if there was a giant spider? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">All very valid concerns. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">What did I find: a hot room, with only a tiny breakfast bar as a table and work surface for the kitchen, and a chair that constantly tries to kill me every time I lean to far over to one side. And yet, it was mine. And that made it (and still makes it) great. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">True, I have to have a fan on constantly, but the room is w<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/files\/2016\/11\/Living-in-halls-as-a-PG.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4528\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4528 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/files\/2016\/11\/Living-in-halls-as-a-PG-1024x765.jpg\" alt=\"living-in-halls-as-a-pg\" width=\"313\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a>ell insulated, and has everything you need (beyond workspace for the kitchen). But I wouldn\u2019t be anywhere else. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Right by a bus stop, above a supermarket, with relatively quiet people either side. The res life team often run events (a wide variety, including movie trips, games nights, and more). People in the halls are really friendly, and the staff are fantastic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">In halls you can have as much or as little interaction with others as you like. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Add to that the great security, not having to worry about bills, and that stuff gets fixed pretty quickly. All in all, living in halls as a post grad is not that bad. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in halls in first year of an undergraduate degree\u00a0is something that nearly everyone who goes to university experiences. For me, I lived in the student village: quieter, close to campus, and basically sharing a house. Perfect. So I had never experienced living in a flat before. Nor living five stories up. So when I&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2016\/12\/05\/living-in-halls-as-a-pg\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Living in halls as a PG<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,1663],"tags":[90,1149,2172],"class_list":["post-14535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-accommodation-2","tag-postgraduate","tag-postgraduate-accommodation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14535","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\/1796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}