{"id":17623,"date":"2021-08-02T15:55:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/?p=17623"},"modified":"2021-08-04T08:55:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T07:55:51","slug":"my-top-5-uni-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2021\/08\/02\/my-top-5-uni-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"My top 5 uni experiences\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Making friends in my accommodation\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Meeting my new flat mates in person for the first time after speaking on social media in the build up to starting university and\u00a0 making plans to go out to freshers events together,\u00a0 cook together, finding out about each other\u2019s courses and deciding what to bring for university was definitely one of the best experiences of being at BU. <\/span><\/p>\n

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    \"\"<\/a>Being given the opportunity to find your flat mates before you move in really helps to break the ice and is one of the reasons I was definitely less anxious to start university.\u00a0Reslife\u00a0played a big part in helping to form a social group outside of just my flatmates by encouraging me to participate in activities and meet new people from different flats and courses and helped me to feel at home in a place that clearly wasn\u2019t.\u00a0Reslife\u00a0definitely helped me to feel more comfortable about being away from home.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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    2. Joining the Reslife Team for second and third year\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Reslife\u00a0helped me so much\u00a0during\u00a0first year and all the resident assistants were friendly and really supported you to feel at home and less scared of the new found independence we had been given as a student. I enjoyed\u00a0reslife\u00a0events and appreciated the work they did for me and so when the opportunity\u00a0was\u00a0avaliable\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0applied to become a Resident\u00a0Assistant and help other undergraduate students in their transition into university. This was such a great experience as not\u00a0only\u00a0did I help first year undergraduate students to make\u00a0friends\u00a0but I also made friends myself and lots of great memories from events that we had organised for the students.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a> \u00a0<\/span>3. Freshers fairs and university activities\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Okay, so who doesn\u2019t love a good freebie. I feel like freshers fairs are not really talked about\u00a0when\u00a0it comes to the university experience but they were by far one of the best parts of\u00a0my\u00a0experience\u00a0and\u00a0I went to\u00a0the freshers fair\u00a0every year without fail (except\u00a0Covid- 19 pandemic year). As a student you learn that when you live independently the things you took for granted that were always in the house are no longer there when you need them. The realisation that nothing is\u00a0free\u00a0and you have to buy your own toilet paper and food is a shock to system. Freshers fairs gave you the opportunity to get freebies and my memory of Wilkinson coming every year to give me a new spatula, mini shower gel and other little bits that I promise you went to good use, will always be one of the greatest. One freshers fair I even got a toilet paper. Result!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Turning up to campus, you would also sometimes see companies like pot noodle,\u00a0jimmys\u2019, Deliveroo and other companies turn up to give out freebies throughout the year. Another favourite is when I got katsu chicken from Deliveroo!\u00a0<\/span>😊<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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    4. Summer Ball \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The event that\u00a0made the end of the university\u00a0year and was always very popular. SUMMER\u00a0BALL!.\u00a0Summer ball was the conclusion to your year at university and a time to go out\u00a0and enjoy the sunshine,\u00a0have fun with friends,\u00a0get\u00a0dressed up\u00a0in fancy dress\u00a0and listen\u00a0to music. Summer ball was held in \u2026\u2026. And was full of tents playing different types of music and had stalls with different food choices. It was a day long event and if you could make it everyone returned to Lansdowne to the beach to be in the photo for Summer Ball Survivors.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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    5. Nights out at Old Firestation and Lollipop\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a>I am not an avid drinker and when I do go out I like to get as many drinks as I can, for as little as possible. If this is also you, look no further. Lollipop was a student night organised by SUBU and held at the old firestation in Lansdowne. It was a cheap student night to get into and very popular because of the good vibes, student priced drinks and the close proximity to all of the student accommodations in town. Especially good if you or your friends drink a little bit too much. Lollipop was an event that most people made an effort to go to on a Friday night and tickets were regularly sold out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Making friends in my accommodation\u00a0 Meeting my new flat mates in person for the first time after speaking on social media in the build up to starting university and\u00a0 making plans to go out to freshers events together,\u00a0 cook together, finding out about each other\u2019s courses and deciding what to bring for university was definitely… Read more » about My top 5 uni experiences\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3395,"featured_media":17627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1639,19,12,704,1638],"tags":[90,1810,1096,2071,2679,592,187,1033,2680],"class_list":["post-17623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arrivals","category-featured","category-student-blogs","category-student-life","category-undergraduate","tag-accommodation-2","tag-clubs-and-societies","tag-making-friends","tag-meeting-people","tag-nights-outs","tag-student-life","tag-subu","tag-summer-ball","tag-uni-experiences"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623","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\/3395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17623"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17803,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623\/revisions\/17803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}