Written by Patricia Obawole, BU First Year Law LLB Student.<\/p>\n
Allow me to set the scene for you. You have taken the executive decision to go to university. Good. One of your choices could in fact be Bournemouth University. Great! All you\u2019re going to do is party all day and not do any of the work set. Let me stop you right there. Inasmuch as the activities within the University consist of Freshers, it\u2019s not ALL about freshers. Subtle difference.<\/p>\n
What do I need? How\u2019s the nightlife? Am I going to make friends? Questions I\u2019m sure are continually racing around your mind and I am undoubted that this will be followed by \u201cwhat, I am going to have to buy food for myself?!\u201d Well, I hate to be the one to break it to you but yes, after years of living with parents\/careers, it is time that you venture out from the nest to find your own little hut. This will be a comfortable, good quality home most likely to be University Halls. That\u2019s right, welcome to the \u201cHalls Experience\u201d a year entangled with meeting new people, seeing new things whilst simultaneously focusing on studies and trying to achieve your potential.<\/p>\n
I can guarantee that it will be an experience that you won\u2019t want to forget in a rush. Allow me to tell you of my own account:<\/p>\n
Counting down the sleeps before I was to leave was the longest segment of the process. All I could think was \u201cAHHH, I\u2019m going to university!\u201d when I arrived it was definitely not was I was expecting, it was better. In all honesty I was sceptical about the common phrase \u201cUniversity will be the best days of your life\u201d I wasn\u2019t one for clich\u00e9s. Nevertheless, the experience of moving away and starting afresh has been rather interesting. Chances are there will be times when you want to go home, that\u2019s okay and normal for everyone. But sometimes, change is good, and university is exactly that.<\/p>\n
Bournemouth has a wide range of activities for you to take part in. Try not miss the Freshers\u2019 Fair, it\u2019s good! The amount of free stuff they give out! And it\u2019s a great opportunity to join societies and to meet new people that have the same interests as you. So, I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure you can tell the kind of person I am by what societies I have joined, The Law Society and The Debating Society. The funny thing is, even the ones that seem boring (like mine) aren\u2019t, but obviously I would say that. I think it\u2019s the best way of finding people with similar interests to you. Try it out (it doesn\u2019t have to be the debate society!)<\/p>\n
The sporting facilities are immense as well, it seems that they have classes for anything that makes you move your body, this ranging from Kickboxing, to Pilates. So I\u2019m sure even the pickiest will be able to find something.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s the difference between College\/Sixthform and University? In a nutshell A LOT. You\u2019ve probably heard that a lot of work is done is done independently, but that doesn\u2019t mean your lecturers\/tutors won\u2019t help you if you need it, that\u2019s what they are there for, it just means that instead of giving you 90% of the information, they\u2019ll probably give you 50%. And no, it\u2019s not because they are mean or doing a Vicky Pollard and \u201caren\u2019t bothered,\u201d it\u2019s because they are preparing you for the World of Work (yes, it\u2019s real).<\/p>\n
That\u2019s probably enough for you to think about but I will leave with you my number one survival tip. University is about playing hard, but working harder, make sure that your priorities are in order.<\/p>\n
Good luck, and I hope to see you soon<\/p>\n
Patricia Obawole<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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